Shalem has just announced a $1 million gift to the college by Dr. Andrew James Viterbi of San Diego. Viterbi, creator of the Viterbi Algorithm, is the co-founder of Qualcomm Corporation and the presidential chair professor of electrical engineering at the University of Southern California (USC)’s Viterbi School of Engineering.
While putting together the itinerary for the annual Koret Foundation-sponsored student mission to San Francisco, Shalem Director of Citizenship and Service Gila Rockman squeezed in a visit to 826 Valencia. “The focus of the mission is principally to introduce Shalem students to the richness and unique challenges of the North American Jewish experience,” explained Rockman, “ but I wanted to include a few, innovative projects that weren’t strictly Jewish, but which I thought might get them thinking.”
When you’re a new recruit in the army, says Shalem junior Shmuel Herenstein, you learn to put up with a lot, even some pretty absurd-seeming…
When the students from the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies decided to hold a conference, there was one, driving principle they all shared:…
When asked why Lebanon features so prominently in his research, Dr. Yusri Hazran, the newest addition to Shalem’s Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Department, answers…
As reported in today’s Times of Israel, Shalem College in Jerusalem has just received a five-year, $16 million challenge grant from the Tikvah Fund, the foundation established by businessman and philanthropist Zalman C. Bernstein and Shalem’s longstanding and most significant investor. The gift surpasses Tikvah’s previous grant of $12.5 million, designated for the college’s first four years,…
It’s Official: Shalem Receives Accreditation from the Council of Higher Education
In a move that Shalem President Isaiah Gafni called “deeply gratifying, and a wonderful start to the new year,” the Government of the State of Israel announced this past week that it has ratified the Council for Higher Education’s July decision to recognize Shalem College as an accredited institution of higher education. This step enables Shalem to award its graduates a dual-major Bachelor of Arts in both its innovative Program in Humanistic Studies and either the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies or the Department of Philosophy and Jewish Thought.
To the brisk, proud tempo of the Zionist marching song “Here in the Land of Our Forefathers,” and accompanied by the cheers of a five-hundred-plus-strong crowd…