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Shalem Announces $16 Million Challenge Grant from the Tikvah Fund
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.
Making History: Shalem Celebrates its Inaugural Commencement
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…
“An Expression of Foresight and of Extraordinary Dedication”: Shalem Announces $4.5 Million in Planned Gifts
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.…
Jewish Philosophy Scholar-to-Watch Dr. Eli Schonfeld Joins Shalem Faculty
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…
Where Critical Thinking and Real-World Impact Meet: The 3rd Annual Student Conference on Policy and Society
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…
Building Bridges: Koret Sponsors a Student Delegation to San Francisco
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…
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…
Fourth Academic Class Continues “Tradition of Excellence”
Shalem’s second president Prof. Isaiah M. Gafni welcomed 53 new students to campus the first week of November…
Arik Sadan Joins Shalem’s Full-Time Faculty
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…