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Matching Jerusalem Schools and Cultural Institutions, Shalem Student Opens New Avenue for Educational Enrichment
Earl Shorris, who pioneered the teaching of a humanities curriculum to impoverished adults, once explained how he came upon the idea: When interviewing a female…
Shalem Answers Call for Humanitarian Relief with Student-Led Mission to Serbia
In articulating the vision of Israel’s first liberal arts college, Shalem’s founders sought to prepare graduates to “address the challenges facing their nation, and those…
Shalem’s Arabic-Studies Program Gives “Immersive” New Meaning
According to British memory champion Ed Cooke, the closer learning feels to a game, the more quickly information is assimilated. No doubt he’d approve of…
Painting Menachem Begin in Shades of Gray
Watch Daniel Gordis, author of the new biography Menachem Begin: The Battle for Israel’s Soul, discuss Begin’s life, political vision, and legacy at the Tikvah Center in New York City, and read a passage from the book’s introduction.
The One Song Project
How do you get a Hassidic yeshiva student, an IDF officer, an Israeli Arab, and a Russian immigrant to speak the same language? Put them all in a recording studio, said the Shalem College students whose community-engagement initiative brought singers and performers from across Jerusalem’s ethnic, religious, and social spectrum together—and proved that one song can indeed harmonize the melodies of a diverse and often divided city.
Introducing Guy Levitsky, ’17
Age 23, Herzliya Soon after Guy Levitsky, then three-years-old, moved with his family from the Ukraine to Israel, he was tapped as a promising…
Shalem English-Language Program “Views Proficiency as Just the Beginning”
With the hire of Annie Kantar Ben-Hillel, a poet, translator, and instructor of creative writing in both the United States and Israel, Shalem College has launched a unique English Language Program, designed to ensure fluency and influence in an interconnected world. Viewing proficiency as just the beginning, the program will demand thoughtful engagement with the seminal works of the English literary canon, as well as cultivate critical skills in English rhetoric and writing.
Princeton Students Visit Shalem to Explore Israeli Culture and Intellectual Life
This December, Shalem students hosted a student delegation from Princeton University during a winter-break tour of Israel with former ambassador Daniel C. Kurtzer. Over dinner…
Shalem Press Releases the First Full Translation of Hume’s “Treatise on Human Nature”
Shalem Press has just released David Hume’s classic of Western philosophy, A Treatise on Human Nature, bringing a work that shaped the ideas of thinkers…
Shalem Students Awarded Schusterman Grant for Innovative Community-Service Initiative
Two Shalem students have received a Make It Happen grant from the Schusterman Philanthropic Network, awarded to enterprising young Jews around the world who seek…