The Shalem Center is an academic research institute in Jerusalem established in 1994 with the goal of developing the ideas needed to guide and sustain the Jewish people in the coming decades. Plato is credited with the inception of academia: the body of knowledge, its development and transmission across generations. ... A research institute is a establishment endowed for doing research. ... For other uses, see Jerusalem (disambiguation). ... The word Jew (Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or a member of the Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ...

Best known for books like Michael Oren's best-selling history books "Power, Faith and Fantasy" and Six Days of War, and publishing Natan Sharansky's A Case for Democracy in Hebrew, the Shalem Center has educational programs for graduate and undergraduate students from Israel and abroad, scholars writing books about Zionist history and ideas, the history of the Jewish people, Biblical archaeology, Jewish moral and political thought, and strategic studies. It is also houses an institute promoting a free market agenda in Israel. Michael Oren (born in 1955) is an Israeli historian and writer. ... Natan Sharansky (Hebrew: נתן שרנסקי, Russian: Натан Борисович Щаранский; born January 20, 1948) is a notable former Soviet anticommunist, Zionist, Israeli politician and writer. ... The word Hebrew most likely means to cross over, referring to the Semitic people crossing over the Euphrates River. ... A graduate school or grad school is a school that awards advanced degrees, with the general requirement that students must have earned an undergraduate (bachelors) degree. ... In some educational systems, undergraduate education is post-secondary education up to the level of a Bachelors degree. ... A bilingual poster in Romanian and Hungarian promoting a film about Jewish settlement in Palestine, 1930s. ... Biblical archaeology involves the recovery and scientific investigation of the material remains of past cultures that can illuminate the periods and descriptions in the Bible. ... A free market is an idealized market, where all economic decisions and actions by individuals regarding transfer of money, goods, and services are voluntary, and are therefore devoid of coercion and theft (some definitions of coercion are inclusive of theft). Colloquially and loosely, a free market economy is an economy...

Notable scholars and fellows

The Shalem Center has affiliated with it scholars such as Eilat Mazar, Michael Oren, Martin Kramer, Meirav Jones, journalist Yossi Klein Halevi and author Yoram Hazony. Prominent public figures who are distinguished fellows at the Shalem Center include Natan Sharansky, Moshe Ya'alon and Daniel Schueftan. [1][2] Dr. Eilat Mazar Eilat Mazar is a third-generation Israeli archaeologist, specializing in Jerusalem and Phoenician archaeology. ... Michael Oren (born in 1955) is an Israeli historian and writer. ... Martin Kramer (b. ... Natan Sharansky (Hebrew: נתן שרנסקי, Russian: Натан Борисович Щаранский; born January 20, 1948) is a notable former Soviet anticommunist, Zionist, Israeli politician and writer. ... General Moshe Yaalon, Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (2002-2005) Lieutenant-General Moshe Yaalon (often nicknamed Boogie) (born 1950) was the 17th Chief of Staff (רמטכל) of the Israeli Defence Force. ... Daniel Schueftan or Dan Schueftan is a senior Israeli academic and deputy director of the National Security Studies Center at the University of Haifa, where he also serves as a senior lecturer in the School of Political Sciences. ...

Journals and publications

The Center is home to the quarterlies Azure and Hebraic Political Studies, the latter a peer-reviewed scholarly journal.

The Center's publishing house, Shalem Press, publishes classic Western democratic thought in Hebrew translation, as well Jewish thought in English, which include new editions of classic works, as well as the works of theologian Eliezer Berkovits]. Eliezer Berkovits (1908, Nagyvarad - 20 August 1992), was a rabbi, theologian, and educator. ...

External links

• The Shalem Center Homepage

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