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:
Sunday, 1 June, 7pm
Cheesecake and Blintzes Buffet, Tikkun Leyl Shavuot Lectures and Festival Dinner
Shavuot Cheesecake and Blintzes Buffet, Tikkun Leyl Shavuot Lectures and Festival Dinner
Sunday (week 6), 1 June, 7pm
7pm Shavuot Cheesecake and Blintzes Buffet
Tikkun Leyl Shavuot (part 1)
8pm Prof. Martin Goodman
'Shavuot and Pentecost'
Martin Goodman is a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College and Emeritus Professor of Jewish Studies. He has published widely on both Jewish and Roman history. His numerous books include Rome and Jerusalem (2007) and A History of Judaism (2017), and his biography of Herod the Great will be published by Yale University Press in the Jewish Lives series in March 2024.
8.30pm Professor Josh Getzler
'Naomi's Enigmatic Silence'
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
9pm Dr. Ros Abramsky
'The exception proves the rule'
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.
9.20pm Dr. Peter Bergamin
'Between G‑d and Dictatorship: Abba Ahimeir between Jabotinsky and Betar 1928-1930'
Peter Bergamin is Lecturer in Oriental Studies at Mansfield College, University of Oxford, and Visiting Scholar of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. His The Making of the Israeli Far Right: Abba Ahimeir and Zionist Ideology (I.B. Tauris) will be published in November 2019. His current research looks at Britain’s withdrawal from the Palestine Mandate
9.40pm Yonatan Reich
'Chag Shavuot as the Apex of Emunah'
10pm Evening Service & Festive Dinner
Tikkun Leyl Shavuot (part 2)
11pm Rabbi Eli Brackman
‘Michelangelo’s statue of Moses at Magdalen College: His face was radiant when he came down the mountain’
'Three Meditations and the Festival of Shavuot'
11.30am Jacob Mausberg
'Why cheesecake on Shavuot?'
Jacob Mausberg from Toronto, Canada. Reading for MSc in Mathematics and Foundations of Computer Science
12am Dr. Daniel Rand
12.20pm Lea Cohen
‘Two Loaves of Bread’
Dr. Lea Cohen is a postdoctoral researcher in the university of Oxford
12.40am Juda Groenewoudt
'On the topic of free will'
1am Charlie Woods
‘Harold Bloom and the Torah’
1.30am Solomon Summer
'Judaism's take on Time'
Solomon Summer is an undergraduate studying chemistry at Exeter College, University of Oxford
2am Boruch Epstein
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.
2.30am Effi Dahlen
'Why isn't there a Jewish Ontological Proof of G‑d?'
Effi Dahlen is an undergraduate student studying philosophy at Keble College, University of Oxford
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.
Celebrating the Bar Mitzvah of Gabriel Lewin
All are welcome!
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Second Night Shavuot Dinner
Monday. 2 June. 10pm
At Chabad House, 75 Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 1HR
RSVP: click here.
All are welcome!
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Shavuot Morning Services & Reading of the Ten Commandments
1st day of Shavuot, Monday, 2 June, 10am
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 morning service
Tuesday, 3 June, 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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1st day Shavuot Dairy Lunch
Monday, 2 June, 12.45pm
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
Tuesday, 3 June, 12.45pm
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George Street, Oxford, OX1 2BQ
RSVP: click here.
All are welcome!
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End of Shavuot dinner & songs
Tues, 3 June, 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