THE ARTHUR FRIED FELLOWSHIP
Named in honor of the late philanthropist and devoted supporter of Shalem College, the Arthur Fried Fellowship brings some of Israel’s most outstanding doctoral students to campus for a one-year program aimed at exposing them to the college’s singular approach to pedagogy.
Featuring participation in a weekly, great-books style seminar led by Dean of the Faculty Prof. Leon Kass; attendance in Core Curriculum courses taught by Shalem master teachers; and opportunities for supervised teaching experience and expert critique, the Arthur Fried Fellowship offers exceptional young scholars the chance to become exceptional teachers while completing their dissertations.
About Arthur Fried z”l
Arthur Fried z”l retired in 1981 as a managing director and CFO of Lehman Brothers to become the CEO of the Rothschild Foundation, Jerusalem/Geneva, a position he held until November 1999. He then served until 2012 as chairman and CEO of the AVI CHAI Foundation, a philanthropic enterprise funded by the Estate of Zalman C. Bernstein. Under Fried’s leadership, AVI CHAI became the platinum standard for strategic investment in Jewish education, and Jerusalem’s Beit AVI CHAI was established as a leading cultural institution in Israel.
Throughout his tenure at AVI CHAI, and in his longstanding support for Shalem College, Fried worked tirelessly to realize the foundation’s mission of “strengthening Judaism, Jewish literacy, and Jewish tradition; promoting mutual understanding among Jews of differing religious orientations; and sustaining, enlarging, and enriching Jewish commitment to the State of Israel.”
The 2023-2024 Arthur Fried Fellows
Amit Aizenman
Dissertation: Skeptical Philosophy as a Political Problem: The Political Thought of the Aberdeen Enlightenment Thinkers
Hodaya Bonen-Alek
Dissertation: Ethical Viewpoints in the Novels of David Grossman Be My Knife, Until the End of the Land, A Horse Walks into a Bar
Moriah Chriki
Dissertation: Edition and Comprehensive Commentary on the Chapter of ‘Elu Ne’emarin’: Bavli Sotah Chapter Seven
Israel Cohen
Dissertation: The Nature of Halakha: Philosophical Investigations
Anaël Malet
Dissertation: The Worldliness of the Shabbat: 20th-century Jewish Theology and Philosophy of the Shabbat in the Light of Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition
Noam Oren
Dissertation: Prayer: Philosophical Inquiry
Omri Shareth
Dissertation: “Fiery Flames His Servants”: Divine Intermediating Beings in the Temple Personnel in the Hebrew Bible, Compared to the Religions of Mesopotamia and Iran
David Wietchner
Dissertation: G-d and Revelation: Between Phenomenology and Theology in Jean-Luc Marion’s Thought