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Shalem College Receives $1 Million Founding Gift to Match Tikvah Fund Grant
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The Shalem Center has received an anonymous $1 million Founder’s Gift for Shalem College. The donors, from New York, are committed advocates for Israel and Jewish causes and long-time Shalem friends and supporters. Their unrestricted gift will match the Tikvah Fund’s $12.5 million challenge grant for Shalem College, announced in May 2011. “Tikvah’s transformational gift to Shalem reflects confidence in the importance and viability of our vision for developing a generation of ideas-driven leadership,” said Daniel Polisar, Shalem Center President. “This generous matching Founder’s Gift will help translate that vision into a new future for the Jewish state and the Jewish world.”
For more information about this gift and other giving opportunities, please contact Yael Brygel at yaelb@shalem.org.il. |
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Scholar Spotlight: Meet Professor Joshua Berman
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An author dedicated to engaging a broad audience in his scholarship, Dr. Joshua Berman is a professor of Bible at Bar-Ilan University and an associate fellow at The Shalem Center. Sponsored by a research grant from the Shalem Center, he wrote his third book, Created Equal: How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political Thought (Oxford, 2008), which was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. The book traces the birth of a range of modern political ideals in the Pentateuch—a product of The Shalem Center’s ongoing commitment to exploring the interaction between classical Western and Jewish sources. An avid diver, Berman lives in Beit Shemesh with his wife and four children.
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Shalem Scholar Micha’el Tanchum Speaks at Middle East Conference
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Dr. Micha’el Tanchum, post-doctoral fellow in Shalem’s Department of Middle East and Islamic Studies, participated in an international conference on “The Middle East in Transition” held on January 10-11 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The conference opened with a keynote address by Martin Indyk, vice-president of the Brookings Institution and former U.S. ambassador to Israel. Dr. Tanchum, in a presentation entitled “Islamist Movements and the Competition for a New Political Order in the Region,” addressed the question of whether a “moderate” Islamism will emerge from the Arab Spring as newly elected Islamist parties begin to form governments in the region. Specifically, he outlined the challenges that Tunisia’s newly installed, Ennahda-led government faces from its more radical Salafist rivals as this “moderate” Islamist party seeks to navigate between its own electoral rhetoric about democracy and the Islamist sensibilities of its core constituency.
For more information, contact Dr. Micha’el Tanchum at michaelr@shalem.org.il. |
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