Oxford University Chabad Society is delighted to invite you to celebrate the
FESTIVAL OF SHAVUOT
Commemorating the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai over 3,300 year ago
PROGRAMME:
We warmly invite you to celebrate the
FESTIVAL OF SHAVUOT
'Shavuot Cheesecake and Blintzes Buffet, Tikkun Leyl Shavuot Lectures and Festival Dinner
Commemorating the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai around 3300 years ago
Thursday, 25 May, 7pm
7pm Shavuot Cheesecake and Blintzes Buffet
Tikkun Leyl Shavuot lectures part I
8pm Professor Joshua Getzler
'Idolatry in the Ten Commandments'
Joshua Getzler is Professor of Law and Legal History at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Hugh's College, Oxford. He completed his first degrees in law and history at the Australian National University in Canberra, and his doctorate in Oxford, as a member of Balliol and Nuffield Colleges. He serves on the editorial board of the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies and the Journal of Equity and is co-editor of the new OUP monograph series Oxford Legal History.
8.20pm Dr. Ros Abramsky
'Triangulation of Judgement'
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.
8.40pm Dr. Peter Bergamin
'Paul Goodman and Anglo-Jewry'
Peter Bergamin is a Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, and at Mansfield College, Oxford. He completed his DPhil in Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford in 2016. A monograph 'The Makings of a Zionist Revolutionary: Abba Ahimeir’s Ideological Genesis, 1921-1934' was published by I.B. Tauris, in 2019.
9pm Dr. Netanel Dagan
'Narrative as law: Capital punishment and remorse in Jewish law'
The Institute of criminology, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and visiting fellow at the Law faculty, Cambridge
9.20pm Rabbi Eli Brackman, Oxford University Chabad Society
‘Cancel culture and the tradition of argument in the Torah’
9.40pm Boruch Epstein, Linacre College, Oxford
'Models and Monarchy and Governance in Judaism'
Boruch is a PhD student with Weatherup Group. He completed his MChem at the University of Manchester, studying Chemistry. His previous research experience is with the Popelier Group and Walton Group, both at Manchester.
10pm Festival evening service and Shavuot dinner
Tikkun Leyl Shavuot lectures - part II
11pm Yonatan Reich
'Shattered Dreams: Why Are We Celebrating the Broken Luchot?'
Yonatan Reich is a New York-based woodworker and attorney. He studied at Yeshivat Har Etzion, Yeshivat Hamivtar, and the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies, and holds degrees in political science and law from Columbia University.
11.20pm Josh Lasry, Worcester College, Oxford
'The Ten Commandments: Layers of meaning'
Josh is an MPhil Law Candidate at Oxford University, serving also as an editor of the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal.
11.40pm Miryam Greenwood, Oxford
12am Jojo Sugarman, St Hilda's College, Oxford
12.20am Meir Wachs, former theology student, Oxford
12.40pm Maayna Patel, St Peter's College, Oxford
'Women in the Torah: tricksters or prophetesses?'
Late night study
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St, Oxford, OX1 2BQ
If you wish to present a talk at the Tikkun Leyl Shavuot, please email: [email protected]
For more info about the holiday visit: www.oxfordchabad.org/
RSVP: click here or just come along anytime.
The evening is kindly sponsored by the Reich Family in honour of their daughter's Bat Mitzvah. Mazal tov!
All are welcome!
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Shavuot Morning Services & Reading of the Ten Commandments
1st day of Shavuot, Friday, 26 May
Followed by dairy kiddush and lunch
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George Street, Oxford, OX1 2BQ
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2nd Day of Shavuot / Shabbat, 27 May, 10am
Followed by dairy kiddush and lunch
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George Street, Oxford, OX1 2BQ
All are welcome!
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Friday Night Shabbat Dinner - 2nd Night Shavuot Festival
Friday, 26 May, Kabbalat Shabbat 7.30pm, Shabbat and chag dinner 8pm
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George Street, Oxford, OX1 2BQ
RSVP: click here.
All are welcome!
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1st day Shavuot Dairy Lunch
Friday, 26 May, 1pm
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George Street, Oxford, OX1 2BQ
RSVP: click here.
All are welcome!
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2nd day Shavuot and Shabbat Dairy Lunch
Shabbat, 27 May, 1pm
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George Street, Oxford, OX1 2BQ
RSVP: click here.
All are welcome!
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End of Shabbat and Shavuot - cholent and schnitzel shaleshudos
Sat, 27 May, 7pm
At Chabad House, 75 Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 1HR
All are welcome!
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Looking forward to seeing you!
Oxford University Chabad Society