NEWS

As part of its rolling admissions process, Shalem has enrolled more than 95 percent of its inaugural class, filling its ranks with students noted for exceptional academic, extracurricular, and personal strengths.

An increasing number of individuals and foundations are partnering in Shalem’s innovative vision of providing an elite, broad-based education to Israel’s best and brightest young minds. This spring alone, gifts totaling nearly $3 million significantly advanced the Campaign for Shalem College as the institution gears up for its opening on October 6, 2013.

Israel-Prize winning philosopher Asa Kasher will be teaching “Introduction to Philosophy” as part of Shalem’s Core Curriculum, a first-of-its-kind program integrating the study of Western philosophy, Jewish thought, the natural and social sciences, and the humanities, primarily by means of small, text-based seminars.

The Annual Zalman C. Bernstein Lecture in Jewish Political Thought will be held on Wednesday, August 28 at 7 pm, at Shalem College in Jerusalem. Register now.

As part of its goal of graduating citizens who can think critically, communicate persuasively, and write effectively, Shalem has hired a Director of the College Writing Center, the first such program of its kind in Israeli higher education.

Lief Dov Rosenblatt, a more than thirty-year veteran of Wall Street and noted Jewish philanthropist, recently announced a $1 million commitment for unrestricted support of the college. This gift, part of the Campaign for Shalem College, will advance the goal of providing a broad-based, interdisciplinary education to the future leaders of the Jewish state.

Shalem College is delighted to announce that Dr. Stephen Hazan Arnoff will be joining its team as director of the Office of Culture, Community, and Society in August. 

Shalem Press has just released the first-ever Hebrew translation of Friedrich Hayek’s Constitution of Liberty, one of the twentieth-century’s seminal works of political philosophy.

This winter, Shalem College hosted two leading ambassadors of the American Great Books model, part of its ongoing series of encounters between college faculty and renowned figures in liberal education from abroad.

“These students will be Israel’s new pioneers,” says Martin Kramer, President of Shalem College. “They will open a new chapter in the remarkable project that is the Jewish state, by studying at a college founded in its service.”