Shalem Center
The Shalem Center was founded in Jerusalem in 1994 'with the aim of developing ideas capable of sustaining and unifying the Jewish people, and enriching and strengthening the State of Israel.'[1]
Contents
History
Current activities
Views
Research units and departments
- Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies | Institute for the Archaeology of the Jewish People | Institute for Economic and Social Policy | Institute for Law and Constitution | Institute for Middle East and Zionist History | Institute for Philosophy, Political Theory & Religion
People
Shalem Foundation Board
Yair Shamir, Chairman of the Board | Isaac Applbaum | Jed Arkin | Yoram Hazony | Howard Jonas | Leon Kass | Barry Klein | William Kristol | Ronald S. Lauder David Messer | Daniel Polisar | Allen Roth | Aliza Sharon | Jacob Z. Schuster[2]
Shalem Center Senior Management
Daniel Polisar, President | Yoram Hazony, Provost | Daniel Gordis, Senior Vice President | Jonathan Mensh, Vice President for Finance | Suzanne Balaban, Vice President for Communications | Elana Ben-Haim, Director of Strategic Development at Shalem | Shai Porath, Vice President for External Relations[3]
College Planning Team
Rhanan Har-Zahav, Legal Council for Shalem College[4]
Scholars and Faculty
Ran Baratz
Joshua Berman
David Gelernter
Daniel Gordis
Eric Gould
Ofir Haivry
Yossi Klein Halevi
Yoram Hazony
Yagil Henkin
Ido Hevroni
Pini Ifergan
Meirav Jones
Martin Kramer
Yosef Isaac Lifshitz
Ami Linder
Amichai Magen
Zeev Maghen
Julia Magnet
Eilat Mazar
Arie Morgenstern
Avi Nov
Daniel Polisar
Assaf Sagiv
Dan Schueftan
Yiftah Shalev
Joshua Weinstein
Michael Widlanski[5]
Ehud Ya’ari
Funding
In 1991 Hazony, Polisar and Weinstein obtained the initial funding of a few thousand dollars, from Barry Klein, to set up the Shalem Center Association.[6]In May 2005 the Las Vegas-based Adelson Family Foundation announced that the Shalem Center in Jerusalem was to receive a $4.5 million grant to enable creation of the Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies, which Sharansky heads and in which Ya'alon is a "distinguished fellow."[7][8]Klarman Family Foundation of Boston and George and Pamela Rohr of New York each made a commitment of $1 million in support of establishing a liberal arts college at the Shalem Center.[9]
Publications, Contact, Resources and Notes
Publications
Contact
- Address:The Shalem Center
- 13 Yehoshua Bin-Nun Street
- Jerusalem
- 93102
- Israel
- Telephone: (+972) 2-560-5500.
- E-mail: inquiries@shalem.org.il.
- Website:http://www.shalemcenter.org.il/
- Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Shalem-Center/63364750961
- LinkedIn:http://www.linkedin.com/companies/shalem-center
Resources
- Wikipedia Shalem Center
- Ofri Ilani 'New college will turn out 'Zionist' graduates' Haaretz, Last update - 12:12 19/04/2009
- Na'ama Lanski and Daphna Berman Storm in a neo-con teapot Haaretz, Last update - 00:00 30/11/2007
- Richard Silverstein Shalem Center: Making Academia Safe for Right-Wing Zionism Tikun Olam, 20 April 2009
Notes
- ↑ Shalem Center Our History, accessed 24 May 2012
- ↑ Shalem Center Shalem Center Leadership, accessed 21 August 2009
- ↑ Shalem Center Shalem Center Leadership, accessed 21 August 2009
- ↑ Shalem Center Shalem Center Leadership, accessed 21 August 2009
- ↑ Shalem Center Scholars and Faculty, accessed 21 August 2009
- ↑ Na'ama Lanski and Daphna Berman Storm in a neo-con teapot Haaretz, Last update - 00:00 30/11/2007
- ↑ Foundation Centre Adelson Family Foundation Awards $4.5 Million to Shalem Center in Jerusalem Posted on May 3, 2007, accessed 21 August 2009
- ↑ Shalem Center [1]
- ↑ Tzvee Teaneck Shalem Center to Become a Liberal Arts College in Israel Tzvee's Talmudic Blog 6.25.2008, accessed 21 August 2009
