The entire Shalem team gathered recently to celebrate Michael Oren’s journey from a fellow who joined us 11 years ago to the soon-to-be-appointed Ambassador to the United States. We would like to share his remarks with you.
Click here to watch Michael’s moving tribute to Shalem: | Jacob L. Wright, Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible at Emory University, has been notified by James A. Leach, Chairman of the US National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), that he has been awarded a prestigious NEH Faculty Fellowship. With more than 1300 applications, the NEH is one of the most selective fellowships for American academics. The fellowship will support Wright as he carries out research on the role of war as a catalyst for change in ancient Israelite society. As a visiting fellow at Shalem during the 2009-2010 academic year, Wright is completing a book for Oxford University Press on war commemoration and national identity in ancient Israel and early Jewish history.
Click here to read more about Jacob Wright. | For generations of British Arabists, T.E. Lawrence remains a symbol of British understanding of and support for the Arab cause. Virtually unknown, however, is his support for Jewish national aspirations in the same era. In an article in the current issue of Azure, Sir Martin Gilbert, Winston Churchill’s official biographer, writes that Lawrence marveled at the "skill and capital" of the Jews, and hoped that the settlement of Palestine would be done in a way that would be “beneficial to the Arabs….” T.E. Lawrence died at the age of only forty-seven, writes Gilbert. “The accomplishments of his short life have assured his place in the pantheon of modern Arab history. Perhaps it is now time that modern Jewish history paid him homage as well.”
Click here to read the article. | Jerusalem Letters, founder and Shalem provost Yoram Hazony’s first regular appearance on the web, will comment on new books and old ones, important trends in academic research and public life, and an occasional film too. “These dispatches are a response to the growing demand for serious engagement between things Jewish and the world of ideas, especially among scholars, students, and educated lay people,” says Hazony. “But I’ll try to keep the scope broad. This isn’t for specialists. It isn’t just for Jews, either. It’s for people looking to take part in a broader conversation.”
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