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.'

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

• Natan Sharansky

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

Shalem Center Senior Management

Daniel Polisar, President and co-founder | Yoram Hazony, Provost and co-founder | 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

College Planning Team

Rhanan Har-Zahav, Legal Council for Shalem College

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 | 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.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."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.

Publications, Contact, Resources and Notes

Publications

The Shalem Centre publishes the quarterly journal Azure: Ideas for the Jewish Nation launched in 1996 and issued in Hebrew and English. Notable contributors have included former Shalem Center fellows such as Israeli Ambassador to the US Michael Oren, jurist Ruth Gavison and Hillel Neuer of UN Watch.

In 1997 a publishing house Shalem Press was established which specialises in translating "classics from the Western tradition" into Hebrew. Its first translation was The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek, known for being a major proponent of free market economics. Other titles it has translated include Samuel Huntingdon's Clash of Civilizations which became a bestseller in Israel.

In 2004 a peer-reviews journal "dedicated to reevaluating the nature and scope of the Jewish contribution to the core ideas of Western civilization", Hebraic Political Studies was founded.

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