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Teaching Zionist History, His Way
Assaf Inbari begins his course on Zionist history at Shalem with a challenge, presented as a comment on the apparent distance between today’s Israeli youth and the founders of the Jewish state…
Playing a Small Part in Promoting the Giant of Innovation: Interning at Start-Up Nation Central
Hadas Ofir, Shalem student, is an intern at Start Up Nation: “I’m helping to put Israel’s best foot forward by ‘translating” the amazing technological innovations happening here…”
Palter Family Makes $2.5 Million Gift to Create New Academic Hub
Long-time Shalem board members and passionate supporters Gilbert and Elisa Palter of Toronto, along with their children Dani, Adam, and Syd, have made a $2.5 million gift to Shalem College. Their generous contribution will be recognized with the renovation and naming of a state-of-the-art, 50-seat smart classroom at the heart of Shalem’s main academic building. Palter Hall…
$1.5 Million Koret Foundation Grant Establishes Program in Western Political Thought at Shalem
A consistent and visionary supporter of Shalem, the Koret Foundation has just made a $1.5 million grant to the college to establish the first Interdisciplinary Program in Western Political Thought and Engagement at an Israeli institute of higher education…
Eran Lerman, Former Deputy Chief of Israel’s National Security Council, Joins Shalem’s Faculty
Now in its third academic year, Shalem continues to make good on its promise to recruit faculty members capable of creating a singularly rich intellectual community—most recently, with the help of the Fund for Faculty Excellence, which seeks to attract innovative thinkers and scholar-practitioners for key teaching and mentorship positions…
Daniel Polisar Article on “What Palestinians Want” Shapes Conversation about Recent Wave of Terror in Israel
What do Palestinians want? Shalem Provost Daniel Polisar has a pretty good idea. Over the past year, he conducted a comprehensive, first-of-its-kind analysis of Palestinian public opinion, the initial findings of which were published this past November in a groundbreaking article for Mosaic Magazine…
A College Course to Change Minds and Lives
From the seemingly endless stream of articles about social entrepreneurship and charitable start-ups in one’s newsfeed, one could get the impression that changing the world – or even one problematic corner of it – is just a crowdfunding post away…
From India to Israel, Planting the Liberal-Arts Tradition on Foreign Soil
Dr. Shalom first “caught the India bug,” in her words, during her travels through the sub-continent after her army service. It was then that she decided to study the religions, philosophy, and culture of one of the world’s most ancient civilizations, which she did, first as a student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and then at Oxford University, where she earned her doctorate by producing a new interpretation of the final sections of the epic Sanskrit poem the Mahabharata.
$5 Million Gift More than Doubles College Endowment in its Second Year
Shalem has recently received a $5 million gift to endow two academic chairs. The gift, which more than doubles the college’s endowment just two years into its operations, was made by two anonymous donors, and represents “an enormous vote of confidence in the sustainability of this institution,” said Shalem Provost Daniel Polisar.
Daniel Gordis Biography of Menachem Begin an Israeli Bestseller
It could be expected that a biography of the man many Israelis consider their country’s most controversial prime minister would itself spark soul-searching in the pages of its literary reviews. This is exactly what happened with this summer’s publication, in Hebrew, of Daniel Gordis’s Menachem Begin: The Battle for Israel’s Soul.