[Jewish] "A Panoply of Summer Programs"

[Natalie Lewis Bernstein]

Hi everyone!

Just thought I would forward around some incredible Jewish summer opportunities
for grad and undergraduate students alike, offered by the Tikvah Fund:

Summer Seminars

The Tikvah Fund sponsors and produces a variety of academic seminars every
summer. You will find them listed below. Students may apply to and (if the
timing permits) attend multiple Tikvah summer seminars.



Jewish Thought and Enduring Human Questions at Princeton.

·      Program Dates: July 24 - August 4.

·      Academic Director: Leora Batnitzky

·      Contact: gwertman at princeton.edu

·      Eligible: All undergraduates at U.S., Israeli, and international colleges
and universities, including current undergraduates who will have completed their
undergraduate degrees by the time the program takes place.

·      Students from universities in North America, Israel and elsewhere around
the world convene in Princeton for two weeks in the summer to study Jewish
texts, Jewish thought, and Jewish perspectives on the great questions of human
life. Students read and discuss classic Jewish and Western texts, hear lectures
by renowned professors, and have opportunities for advising sessions with
visiting faculty. A brief description of past programs can be found on the left
side of this page. For more details, and information on the 2011 program, click
the link above.



Tikvah-Hertog Summer Institute on Law and National Security at Columbia
University.

·      Program Dates: July 31 - August 10.

·      Academic Director: Philip C. Bobbitt

·      Contact: tikvahlaw at tikvahfund.org

·      Eligible: Students pursuing J.D. degrees at U.S. law schools; students
pursuing undergraduate or graduate law degrees at Israeli universities;
students pursuing graduate or undergraduate degrees at other international
institutions. Class of 2011 or later (including entering students).

·      Rising national security threats are creating new tensions among the
right to self-defense and the right to freedom. Western nations need legal
scholars and practitioners who are educated in the law, philosophical
principles, and policy considerations that must inform the ways we understand
and deal with such tensions. The aim of the Tikvah Institute on Law and
National Security, which takes place from July 31 - August 10, is to help meet
this need. For more details, click the link above.



Tikvah-Hertog Summer Institute on Economics and the Human Good at Columbia
University.

·      Program Dates: July 31 - August 10.

·      Academic Directors: James Otteson, Charles Calomiris, Stephen Haber

·      Contact: tikvahecon at tikvahfund.org

·      Eligible: All undergraduates at U.S., Israeli, and international colleges
and universities, including current undergraduates who will have completed their
undergraduate degrees by the time the Institute takes place.

·      This summer institute seeks to understand how the basic facts of economic
history and philosophy illuminate historical and current questions about human
social life, and how these facts can guide our thinking about deep and enduring
questions of material well-being, moral virtue, and the human good. It takes
place at Columbia University from July 31 - August 10. For more details, click
the link above.



The Tikvah Summer Institute on Religion and Politics at Oxford.

·      Program Dates: August 12 - 26

·      Academic Director: Suzanne Stone

·      Contact: tikvah at ochjs.ac.uk

·      Eligible: All undergraduates at UK, European, Russian, and North American
colleges and universities, including current undergraduates who will have
completed their undergraduate degrees by the time the Institute takes place.

·      What does religion have to do with politics and politics with religion?
The question is as old as civilization itself and lies at core of today's
greatest governmental and leadership challenges. An international group of
outstanding students will gather at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish
Studies to learn with a cohort of world renowned scholars how the great texts
of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam address both the enduring and timely
questions of Religion and Politics. For more details, click the link above.



The Tikvah Program in Political Leadership at the Interdisciplinary Center,
Herzliya, Israel.

·      Program Dates: August 23 - September 21.

·      Academic Director: Peter Berkowitz, Alisa Rubin Peled

·      Eligible: All Israeli undergraduates, including current undergraduates
who will have completed their undergraduate degrees by the time the program
takes place.

·      The Tikvah Program in Political Leadership aims to educate the future
leaders of Israel in the realms of political thought and political leadership.
It takes place at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, over four weeks in
August. For more details, click the link above.



The Tikvah Israel Fellows at Ein Prat, Israel.

·      Program Dates: June 20 - July 26.

·      Academic Director: Micah Goodman

·      Contact: tikvahisraelfellows at tikvahfund.org

·      Eligible: Undergraduates, post-graduates and graduate students from the
U.S., Canada, and the UK.

·      The purpose and meaning of the State of Israel lie at the center of one
of the world's most passionate debates. For five weeks in the summer of 2011, a
select group of undergraduates, post-graduates and graduate students from the
U.S., Canada and the UK will gather at the Israeli Academy for Leadership at
Ein Prat for intensive study of this topic. Drawing on the canonical texts of
Judaism and the great works of Western civilization, the Fellows will explore
the origins of Zionism, the challenges facing the Jewish State, and a range of
visions for Israel's future. For more details, click the link above.



Tikvah Seminar on Philosophy, Economics and Strategy at Bar Ilan University,
Israel.

·      Program Dates: September, 2011

·      Academic Director: Ran Baratz.

·      Eligible: Israeli graduate and Ph.D. students.

·      Description and website forthcoming.



Tikvah Seminar on Jews and the American Ethos at the University of Pennsylvania.

·      Program Dates: August 14 - 26.

·      Academic Director: Jack Wertheimer

·      Eligible: Currently enrolled American rabbinical students

·      Description and website forthcoming.