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Summer Interns from Top Universities and Colleges World-Wide Join Shalem
Seven students from Columbia, Northwestern, Cornell, Hampshire College, Georgetown Law School, and the School of Oriental & African Studies at the University of London joined Shalem this past week for an 8-week research internship. They will be working with Daniel Gordis on his forthcoming book on nationalism, with Daniel Polisar on his research on the philosophy of higher education, and with Amichai Magen on democracy and the rule of law. Click here to read more about the Shalem Summer Internship.
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Shalem Senior Fellow Lifshitz’s Secret of the Sabbath Published by Shalem Press
“The traditional Jew dedicates a seventh of his life in recognition of God’s having rested on the seventh day of creation,” writes Senior Fellow Yosef Isaac Lifshitz, “yet the Bible offers no explanation as to why God rested.” In Secret of the Sabbath, published this spring by Shalem Press, Lifshitz explores one possible explanation. “The theology embedded in the Sabbath is based on integration between the active and the passive…in which a rhythmic balance is discovered.” Click here to read an earlier essay on the same topic in English, and here for purchasing information (in Hebrew):
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Shalem's Daniel Gordis presents a new reading of the Tower of Babel narrative
In the 40th issue of Azure, Shalem Senior Vice President Daniel Gordis demonstrates that the concept of nationality—that is, of a distinct group identity based on common language, culture, ethnicity, and land—was not a modern European innovation, but rather an integral part of the Jewish tradition from its very beginnings. Moreover, he concludes, it is an argument in favor of the ethnic-cultural state as an indispensable condition for human freedom and flourishing. Click here to read the full essay.
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Shalem Founder Hazony's latest "Jerusalem Letters"
In his most recent edition of “Jerusalem Letters,” Shalem Provost Yoram Hazony reviews a recently published book by Harvard Professor Eric Nelson. “Nelson offers a refreshingly bold reinterpretation according to which the Hebrew Bible and rabbinic texts in fact had a massive impact on the thought of the 17th century,” writes Hazony. Click here to read more about Eric Nelson’s book, and here to read Hazony’s assessment of it in “Jerusalem Letters”:
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