Between AI and Melakha: When Artificial Intelligence Meets Halakha
Herzog Academic College hosted a Science & Halakha Symposium about the challenges of keeping Shabbat in a world of smart homes and artificial intelligence. On Sunday May 10, Herzog Academic College hosted a symposium about the encounter between Jewish law and artificial intelligence and smart technology. Researchers, rabbis, and scientists gathered to discuss how the […]
Herzog College Welcomes New President
Professor Avishalom Westreich is the new President of Herzog Academic College. He brings to the role his rich academic experience at various institutions, including Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Hebrew University. His research work strives to integrate Torah and academia, and recently he has also engaged in the fields of teaching, society, […]
New Online MA Program in English
Herzog College has opened its first English-language Master’s degree in Teaching Tanakh & Parshanut, with the opening online lecture given by Dr. Yael Ziegler. 20 graduate students are registered for the course, logging in from Israel, the United States and the Netherlands. They will take 14 hybrid and asynchronous courses in English over two years, […]
Sharing the Tanakh in Spanish with Jews Worldwide
Campaign to Memorialize Argentinian Lone Soldier Ariel Cohen z”l Ilan Cohen made Aliyah from Argentina alone and served as a Paratrooper. He was killed in Gaza during the Iron Swords War. His family and friends have joined with Herzog College to complete our Spanish Tanakh website in his memory. His friends say: “Ilan’s love of […]
Herzog College Wins European Research Grant
Herzog College has won an important 5-year research grant from the European Union’s Horizon Fund to investigate how music therapy can be used to treat addicts suffering from Substance Abuse Disorder. This ground-breaking international study involves a consortium of 14 centers in 8 European countries. In Israel, the project will be led by Herzog College […]
New M.A. in Teaching Tanakh
For over 30 years, Teaching Tanakh has been the flagship educational degree program at Herzog College, equiping thousands of teachers for Israel’s religious schools with B.Ed degrees and teaching certificates. Our new M.A. degree in “Teaching Tanakh and Parshanut” takes this program to a higher level for teachers in Israel and around the world, raising […]
How are Jewish School Children Responding to October 7?
“Children should not be involved in wars” say Jewish children in America, who are also experiencing nightmares about children held hostage in Gaza. Leading academics convened last week to discuss the challenges facing Jewish educators in Israel and the Diaspora following October 7. Entitled “Navigating Challenges in Jewish Values Education”, the conference was hosted by […]
Herzog-UnitEd Brings Jewish Day School Principals to Israel
Principals from 20 Jewish day schools around the world came to Israel in April 2024 for a transformative learning journey organized by Herzog College and UnitEd. The Herzog-UnitEd Fellows Program was initiated in September 2023 in recognition of the critical necessity to support the Heads of Jewish day schools, in order to strengthen Jewish education […]
Megadim Journal of Biblical Studies – 3rd Bilingual Issue
The third bilingual issue of the Herzog College Megadim Journal has been published in English and Hebrew, containing articles by Biblical Studies academics from Israel and the United States. This is the 62nd Hebrew issue of the Megadim Journal of Biblical Studies published by Herzog College’s Tvunot publishing house over the past 37 years, and […]
Herzog’s Pop-Up School in Jerusalem
Education experts from Herzog College decided to create a new school for children relocated from Sderot to a hotel in Jerusalem and it opened next day. This Jerusalem Post article explains how an ad hoc group of teachers and volunteers made it happen! Read about it here: https://m.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/gaza-news/article-773544 Photo: Marc Israel Sellem Article: Alan Rosenbaum