NEWS
How Have Shalem Students Helped in the Fight Against the Coronavirus? Answer: In Many Different Ways
When Israel declared a national state of emergency in mid-March on account of the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Union of Israeli Students was ready. To help, that is…
A Home for Ideals and an Ideal Home: Shalem Completes Construction on New College Building
In the light-filled first-floor lounge, a few are cocooned in chair swings with books, while others spread out with laptops on oversized sofas. A group of four sit deep in discussion, sipping coffee around a long work table, while still another plays a solo on the piano by the wall. No, it’s not a tech hub…
Esteemed Legal Scholar and New Shalem Lecturer Prof. Yedidia Stern on Democracy, Division, and the Jewish State
“Israel is a Jewish and a democratic state. Both adjectives are equally essential to its future.” And with that, Prof. Yedidia Z. Stern, former chairman of the National Committee…
Grad Pride: Michael Schwartz ’18, Strengthening Peoplehood Through Education
In the second installment of “Grad Pride,” a video series that follows Shalem alumni as they contribute to their country and people through professions in a range of fields…
You Can Do It, Too: Life After Shalem, From Those Who Know It Best
“It usually happens around the second semester of their third year,” explains Ron Toledano, Shalem’s coordinator of alumni affairs, one night this past November.
The 2019 Year in Review
Here at Shalem, we have a kind of informal motto: “The best is yet to come.” (Thanks, Frank Sinatra!) But no matter how forward-thinking and future-focused, how busy with the work of planning, building, and leveraging our gains to achieve still more ambitious goals—we think it’s important to take a moment, at the end of the year, to reflect on all that we’ve accomplished together.
Grad Pride: Fekade Abebe ’18, The Practical Philosopher
Introducing “Grad Pride,” a video series that follows Shalem alumni as they pursue professions in a range of fields, with the goal of making an impact on their country…
Reframing Israel’s Story: Shalem Grads Help Found a Beit Midrash for Mizrahi Culture
In his 2014 article for Mosaic magazine, “Mizrahi Nation,” the author Matti Friedman begins by explaining that “the story of Israel, as most people know it,” is one of a blond…
Humanities Program for Outstanding High-School Students Picks Up Steam Throughout the Country
With few exceptions, young people generally find the work of deciphering poetry a fairly tedious chore. Which is precisely why the sight of a dozen or so tenth graders animatedly…
The Koret Jewish Peoplehood Project at Shalem College
For Israelis, the sight of busloads of group-t-shirt wearing, water-bottle toting American Jews crisscrossing the country has for decades been part of the landscape…