Miscellaneous

Lord Neuberger discusses why Jews get into law, recounts his ups and downs on the way to the UK Supreme Court, and reveals his life advice. David Edmond Neuberger, Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury was appointed President of the Supreme Court in 2012, the second person to hold that office since 2009 when the Court replaced the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords. He previously held the post of Master of the Rolls from 2009. Lord Neuberger was educated at Westminster School, later studying Chemistry at Christ Church, Oxford.

Everything you needed to know about Professor Albert Einstein.

Kerstin Hoge is the Yiddish Lector at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and was appointed as University Lecturer in German Linguistics in 2008. She teaches German and General Linguistics to students across the university. Her current work focuses on the cross-linguistic properties of causal interrogatives. She is the review editor of the Journal of Linguistics.

Official Fellow and Tutor in English, Fellow for Libraries and Keeper of the Archives, St John’s College, University of Oxford. His first two books focused on modern fiction, and considered questions about literary value in contrasting ways. The first, J.M. Coetzee and the Novel (2010), Philip Roth: Fiction and Power (2014). His recent work is Beyond the Ancient Quarrel (2018)—a collection of essays by a range of contemporary philosophers and literary critics.

Stephen Fry is an English actor, with Jewish heritage, screenwriter, author, playwright, journalist, poet, comedian, television presenter, film director and all-round national treasure. Fry has written and presented several documentary series, contributed columns and articles for newspapers and magazines, appears frequently on radio, reads for voice-overs and has written four novels and three volumes of autobiography, Moab Is My Washpot, The Fry Chronicles and his latest, More Fool Me.

Jonathan Sacerdoti is a journalist and commentator with a broad focus on global affairs, culture, and society. With over 15 years of experience reporting on Israel and the Middle East, he has covered wars, politics, and culture, including as the UK correspondent for Israeli TV channel i24news. He is a regular commentator on international news channels, and has contributed to a wide range of outlets, including Fox News, BBC, Sky News, Talk TV, Channel 4, i24news, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Daily Express, The Spectator, and the Jewish Chronicle. As the son of a Holocaust survivor, Jonathan is passionate about tackling antisemitism and racism.

Daniel Johnson attended state schools and Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating with a First in Modern History in 1978. As a foreign correspondent for the Daily Telegraph, covering Germany and Eastern Europe, and is an acknowledged expert on German history and culture. At The Times he was Literary Editor and Comment Editor, then Associate Editor of the Telegraph. He is now Editor and co-founder of the online platform The Article, for which he has written some 800 leading articles in the past three years. He is the author of White King and Red Queen: How the Cold War was fought on the Chessboard (2007).

Elad Uzan, Ph.D. is a candidate in International Law & Philosophy at Tel-Aviv University's Buchmann Faculty of Law.

Daniel Johnson attended state schools and Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating with a First in Modern History in 1978. As a foreign correspondent for the Daily Telegraph, covering Germany and Eastern Europe, he participated in the fall of the Berlin Wall and is an acknowledged expert on German history and culture. At The Times he was Literary Editor and Comment Editor, then Associate Editor of the Telegraph. He is now Editor and co-founder of the online platform The Article. He is the author of White King and Red Queen: How the Cold War was fought on the Chessboard (2007).

James Connelly is an Emeritus Professor of Political Theory at the University of Hull. After taking his PhD at the University of Southampton and several years running a secondhand book shop he taught at Southampton Solent University until 2006. He then moved to the University of Hull where he taught political theory, electoral systems, and environmental politics. His research focuses on environmental politics and ethics, and the philosophy of the British Idealists.

Shalom Sabar is Professor of Jewish Art and Folklore at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Among his books are: Ketubbah: Jewish Marriage Contracts of the Hebrew Union College Skirball Museum and Klau Library (1990); Mazal Tov: Illuminated Jewish Marriage Contracts from the Israel Museum Collection, Jerusalem (1994); Jerusalem - Stone and Spirit: 3000 Years of History and Art (with Dan Bahat; 1997); The Life Cycle [of the Jews in the Lands of Islam; 2006].

How the Nuremberg trials set legal present for prosecuting crimes against humanity. James Friedberg is Posten Professor of Law, West Virginia University. He received a J.D. from Harvard in 1975 and a Diplôme in International Human Rights from Strasbourg in 1989. He founded and directed the West Virginia University College of Law Immigration Law Clinic for fifteen years.

Jamie Metzl is a technology and healthcare futurist, geopolitical expert, novelist, social entrepreneur, media commentator, Senior Fellow of the Atlantic Council, Singularity University faculty member, and the Founder and Chair of the global social movement OneShared.World. In 2019, he was appointed to the World Health Organization expert advisory committee on human genome editing.

The Jewish Ethics of Designing Babies. Dr. Robert Klitzman is a Professor of Clinical Psychiatry in the College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Joseph Mailman School of Public Health and the Founder and Director of the Masters of Bioethics Program at Columbia University.

Professor Karen Lang has taught at the California Institute of Technology, the University of Southern California and the University of Warwick. The editor of The Art Bulletin during the journal's centenary year, she has been a Leverhulme major research fellow, a Paul Mellon fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, a Getty scholar, Rudolph Arnheim Visiting Professor at the Humboldt University Berlin, and Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the University of Warwick.

Roger Griffin is widely acknowledged to be one of the world's foremost experts on the socio-historical and ideological dynamics of fascism, as well as the relationship to the modernity of violence stemming from various forms of political or religious fanaticism, and in particular contemporary terrorism. In particular, his theory of fascism as a revolutionary form of ultranationalism driven by ‘palingenetic’ myth has had a major impact on comparative fascist studies since the mid-1990s. In May 2011 he received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Leuven in May 2011 in recognition of his services to the comparative study of fascism.

Ritchie Robertson is Taylor Professor of the German Language and Literature, Fellow of The Queen’s College, University of Oxford. He is interested in a wide range of authors and topics in the period from 1750 onwards, notably Kafka; Heine; Schiller; Austrian literature; and the Enlightenment as an international movement.

Peter Hacker is the leading Wittgenstein scholar at Oxford. He studied philosophy, politics, and economics at The Queen's College, Oxford from 1960–63. In 1963–65 he was senior Scholar at St Antony's College, Oxford, where he began graduate work under the supervision of Professor H. L. A. Hart. His D.Phil thesis "Rules and Duties" was completed in 1966 during a Junior Research Fellowship at Balliol College, Oxford. Since 1966 Peter Hacker has been a fellow of St John's College, Oxford, and a member of the Oxford University philosophy faculty. Hacker is Emeritus Research Fellow of St John's College, Oxford, and is presently Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kent.

Fate and destiny in the thought of Rabbi J.B. Soloveitchik.

Tova Forti is professor at the Department of Bible, Archaeology, and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.

Ros Abramsky is an Oxford researcher who studied Crystallography at Birkbeck, where she taught Science Communication, as well as at Imperial College. She completed her PhD in Information Science from Loughborough University.

Jewish New Year reflections on an Oxford college coat of arms. as based on Psalm 42.

Adele Berlin is Professor Emerita of Biblical Studies at the University of Maryland. She is co-editor of The Jewish Study Bible, with Marc Zvi Brettler. She has written several commentaries of her own, including one on the book of Esther, published in English by the Jewish Publication Society and in Hebrew in the Miqra le-yisrael series.

Piergabriele Mancuso received his doctoral degree in Jewish Studies from University College London, 2009. He was a fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies as a Phd student fellow and at the Warburg Institute, London. In 2001 he received a degree in music at the music academy in Adria, Venice and since 1999 he has been an active member of Laboratorio Novamusica, a contemporary music ensemble based in Venice. His research interests include early medieval southern Italian Judaism, Jewish astronomical and astrological tradition, Hebrew and Latin paleography, Jewish music and ethnomusicology, 17th-19th century Italian Jewry, as well as Venetian and Florentine history.

A series of talks responding to a new book on the Rebbe's social vision. Hosted by the Chabad Society at Oxford University, a group of renowned scholars offer thoughts and reflections on Social Vision: The Lubavitcher Rebbe's Transformative Paradigm for the World, by Professor Philip Wexler.

Dr. Shaun Henson teaches and researches at Oxford University’s Faculty of Theology and Religion. He works at the intersections of science, philosophy, and religion, teaching in areas like science and religion. Shaun has recently collaborated on an international research project based at the London School of Economics investigating G-d’s Order, Man’s Order, and the Order of Nature.

How the Chief Rabbinate of Israel can be effective in bridging the gap between religious and non-religious through a full understanding of its vitally important role.

Dirk van Miert is assistant professor of Early Modern Cultural History at the Faculty of Humanities, Utrecht University. He is editor-in-chief of Lias - Journal of Early Modern Intellectual Culture and Its Sources, and chair of the Dutch-Belgian Society for the History of Science and Universities. His latest book is entitled The Emancipation of Biblical Philology in the Dutch Republic, 1590-1670 (Oxford: OUP, 2018).

Professor John Broome is Emeritus White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford and Honorary Professor at the Australian National University. He works on normativity, rationality and reasoning, and also on the ethics of climate change. He was Lead Author of the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He is author of Rationality Through Reasoning, Climate Matters: Ethics in a Warming World, Counting the Cost of Global Warming, among other works.

Micah Mackay is a graduate student studying for a Masters of Philosophy in English Studies (Medieval Period) in the Faculty of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford.

Alan Silman is Professor of Musculoskeletal Health in the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedic and Senior Research Fellow at Green Templeton College, Oxford. He was formerly the Medical Director of Arthritis Research UK. He has published over 500 scientific papers and a number of books.

3500 years ago Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt, instructing them to ‘Remember this day on which you went out of Egypt.’ Does the retelling of the Exodus and the Passover story have relevance to contemporary events in the UK and Europe in terms of forming national identities and developing different concepts of freedom?

Joseph Schear grew up in San Francisco, California, attended UC San Diego for his undergraduate studies, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He is currently Associate Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy.

Dr. Mark Klamberg holds the Stockholm Centre Oxford Fellowship 2018/2019 at the Institute for European and Comparative Law. He is affiliated with Christ Church. MarkKlamberg obtained his Ph.D. from Stockholm University in April 2012 and is since 2015 an Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in Public International Law at the Stockholm University.

Ghil‘ad Zuckermann (D.Phil., Oxon.) is Chair of Linguistics and Endangered Languages at the University of Adelaide, Australia. He is the author of the seminal bestseller Israelit Safa Yafa (Israeli – A Beautiful Language; Am Oved, 2008), Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew (Palgrave Macmillan, the first online Dictionary of the Barngarla Aboriginal Language (2016) and more. He is President of the Australian Association for Jewish Studies (AAJS) and was President of AustraLex in 2013-2015, Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Fellow in 2007–2011, and Gulbenkian Research Fellow at Churchill College Cambridge in 2000-2004.

Professor Ritchie Robertson is the Taylor Professor of the German Language and Literature, Fellow of The Queen’s College.

Daniel Mark is the Chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and a professor of political science at Villanova University, where he teaches political theory, philosophy of law, American political thought, and politics and religion.

Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid is Professor of Law at Fordham University, School of Law, Visiting Professor CLIP, Senior Fellow, AI-IP Research Project, Fellow, Yale Law School, ONO Academic Law School, Israel (OAC) and The Founder and the Academic Director of the Shalom Institute of Comparative Law, OAC.

Patti B. Saris is Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts since January 1, 2013. She served as Chair of the United States Sentencing Commission from 2010 to 2017 and previously held a number of public appointments, including staff counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, Assistant U.S. Attorney and Chief of the Civil Division for the District of Massachusetts, U.S. Magistrate, and Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court. She was appointed a U.S. Federal Judge in 1993. She was President of the Harvard Board of Overseers in 2006 and has served in visiting committees at Harvard University.