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, the 41 members of Shalem’s first academic class marched in cap and gown into the plaza on the Kiryat Moriah campus this past Sunday, June 25th, marking the exuberant start of the Shalem College Inaugural Commencement…
Shalem has just announced that it is the recipient of $4.5 million in planned gifts from long-time college supporter Mrs. Barbara Newman of Salem, Massachusetts.…
Dr. Eli Schonfeld, the newest member of Shalem’s Department of Philosophy and Jewish Thought, was certain that, having led courses on Metaphysics and Continental Philosophy…
This April 3, Shalem students kicked off the 3rd Annual Shalem Conference on Policy and Society, the focus of which was economics. A project made…
Believe that Jewish peoplehood is an imperative? The Koret Foundation does, which is why it challenged Shalem College to build a bridge between Jerusalem and the San Francisco Jewish community. The students who traversed it discovered the diversity, richness and challenges of the most progressive Jewish community in the United States, and are determined to use what they’ve learned to enrich the future of the Jewish people…
Daniel Gordis’s Israel Wins National Jewish Book Awards’ Book of the Year
Dr. Daniel Gordis won the Everett Family Foundation Book of the Year Award on Tuesday for Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn, an ambitious attempt to examine the idea of the Jewish state as much as the remarkable historical events that shaped it…
Shalem’s second president Prof. Isaiah M. Gafni welcomed 53 new students to campus the first week of November…
Dr. Arik Sadan, a preeminent scholar of Arabic and an expert on ancient Arabic manuscripts, has just joined Shalem’s Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies…