Ariela Gordon-Shaag

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Jun 5, 2025, 7:38 AM

Higher Education in a Time of Service

Scholarship ceremony at my office

It’s a perennial rite around graduation season for my friends in Israel as well as my former classmates from Ida Crown Jewish Academy in Chicago: We flood our WhatsApp groups with photos of our children in caps and gowns. This...

May 23, 2025, 9:06 AM

Yom Yerushalayim on Campus: A Real City, Real Hope

A few weeks after moving to Jerusalem from the US, I knew I’d made the right decision. It was 1991 — around this time of year, as the city prepares for Yom Yerushalayim. I was on a local bus...

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About Me

Professor Ariela Gordon-Shaag is president of Jerusalem Multidisciplinary College, where she has also served as chair of the Department of Optometry.