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Of all the revelations about Israel’s establishment in Koret Distinguished Fellow Dr. Daniel Gordis’ newest book, the most astonishing is surely that its founders “did…

How a chance encounter in a Singapore synagogue led to Mordy Miller ’18’s creation of the world’s most authoritative collection of books on the city’s Jewish history.

This year, the annual Zalman C. Bernstein Memorial Lecture was a serious and civil conversation about the most challenging issue facing Israel today: the proposed judicial reform and its ramifications.

Since 2015, the storied Israel Trail has been the site of 18 “Trail Libraries,” established by Shalem College to enrich the journey’s individual and collective dimensions and strengthen travelers’ Israeli identities.

Shalem’s tenth academic class is very similar to the ones that came before: Namely, a group of exceptionally accomplished and motivated young people from every part of the country, and all manner of backgrounds.

In the Mishnaic tractate Ethics of the Fathers, a disciple of the great sage Hillel said to “turn the Torah over and over, because everything is in it.” That, perhaps more than anything, is the lesson that Hebrew Bible scholar Dr. Hillel Mali seeks to teach students.

Remepy—a combination of “remedy” and “therapy,” or the merging of the chemical and the digital for a more powerful approach to fighting disease—is an innovative health platform co-founded by Shalem graduate Or Shoval last year.

The Asper Foundation, one of Canada’s largest private foundations and a leading force in Jewish philanthropy, has partnered with Shalem for the establishment of a multi-faceted Center for Zionist Education.

A pilot program will bring four outstanding young doctoral students to Shalem this fall in an effort to expose tomorrow’s leading Israeli scholars to the college’s singular approach to pedagogy.

For those of us facing big, fork-in-the-road decisions, from what to study to whom to marry or whether to have another kid, the Hoover Institution economist and president of Shalem College Russ Roberts has a surprising claim…