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Scholars and Faculty
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Joshua Berman is a lecturer of Bible at Bar-Ilan University in Israel and an Associate Fellow in the Department of Philosophy, Political Theory and Religion. He is the author, most recently, of Created Equal: How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political Thought (Oxford University Press, 2008).
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Daniel Gordis is Senior Vice President of the Shalem Center and a Senior Fellow in the Department of Philosophy, Political Theory and Religion, as well as in the Department of Government, Law and Diplomacy. The author of numerous books on Jewish thought and currents in Israel, his most recent book is Saving Israel: How the Jewish State Can Win a War That May Never End (Wiley, 2009) won the 2009 National Jewish Book Award.
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Ofir Haivry is Shalem's Director of Studies and an Associate Fellow in the Department of Philosophy, Political Theory and Religion. Haivry is the Founding Editor of Azure, a quarterly journal of Jewish ideas. His next book is on John Selden and the Western Political Tradition (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press).
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Yoram Hazony serves as Provost of the Shalem Center and a Senior Fellow in the Department of Philosophy, Political Theory and Religion (PPR). He is presently working on two books, The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture: An Introduction (Cambridge, 2012), and Hume and the Science of Mind.
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Meirav Jones is an Associate Fellow in the Department of Philosophy, Political Theory and Religion, and is completing her dissertation on "The Image of Israel and the Development of Political Ideas in England, 1640-1660." She is managing editor of the quarterly journal Hebraic Political Studies.
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Menachem Kellner, Professor of Jewish Thought at the University of Haifa, and Senior Fellow at the Department of Philosophy, Political Theory and Religion. He is author of several books on Jewish philosophy, most recently Maimonides' Confrontation With Mysticism (Littman Library of Jewish Civilizaton, 2006) and Science in the Bet Midrash: Studies in Maimonides(Academic Studies Press, 2009).
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Martin Kramer is President-designate of Shalem College (in formation) and a Senior Fellow in the Department of Middle East and Islamic Studies. He is author of the best-selling monograph Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America. Kramer is also a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
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Eric Lawee is appointed to the Department of Humanities at York University in Toronto, where he teaches teaches religious and Jewish Studies. Lawee's research centers on medieval and early modern Judaism, with an emphasis on thought. During academic year 2010-2011 he is a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Philosophy, Political Theory and Religion.
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Joseph Isaac Lifshitz is a Senior Fellow in the Department of Philosophy, Political Theory and Religion. His next books are
R. Meir of Rothenburg and the Foundations of Jewish Political Thought (Cambridge University Press) and Free Market and Jewish Law (Acton Institute).
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Ze'ev Maghen, a Senior Fellow in the Department of Middle East and Islamic Studies, and Professor of Persian Language and Islamic History at Bar-Ilan University. Maghen's areas of expertise include Revolutionary Iran, Islamic Fundamentalism, Islamic Law, and Jewish-Muslim relations.
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Daniel Polisar is President of the Shalem Center and a Senior Fellow in the Departmant of Government, Law and Diplomacy. His areas of research include democratization in the Arab world, Israeli constitutional law, and the history and philosophy of higher education.
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Assaf Sagiv is an Associate Fellow in the Department of Philosophy, Political Theory and Relgion and the editor in chief of Azure. His areas of research include the philosophy of law, the philosophy of Judaism, contemporary European thought, Israeli culture, and theology.
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Suzanne Last Stone is Professor of Law at Cardozo School of Law and Director of Yeshiva University's Center for Jewish Law and Contemporary Civilization. She is a Senior Fellow in the Shalem Center's Department of Philosophy, Political Theory and Religion and in the Department of Government, Law and Diplomacy.
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Joshua Weinstein is an Associate Fellow in the Department of Philosophy, Political Theory and Religion at Shalem, and an instructor in classical philosophy at Ben-Gurion University. He is working on a book on Plato's theory of the soul entitled The Spirit of the Republic.
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Rona Yona is a doctoral candidate in Jewish history at Tel Aviv University, and academic director of Shalem's Rimon program for high school students. Her areas of research include the underground Islamic culture of the Moriscos (Muslim Conversos) in 16th century Spain and the Zionist "Pioneer Movement" in Poland and Israel.
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Post-Doctoral Fellows
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Hannah Hashkes ia a post-doctoral Fellow in the Department of Philosophy, Political Theory and Religion.
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Micha'el M. Tanchum is a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Middle East and Islamic Studies. He has conducted comparative research on issues of religion, national identity, state ideology, and governance. He is writing a book on the ideals of republicanism in the Zionist vision of David Ben Gurion.
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Tzahi Weiss ia a post-doctoral Fellow in the Department of Philosophy, Political Theory and Religion. He is author of Death of the Shekhinah in S. Y. Agnon’s Oeuvre: a Reading in Four Stories and their Sources (Bar-Ilan University Press, 2009) [Hebrew].
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