TISHA B'AV - FAST OF AV
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We present a selection of lectures delivered at the Oxford University Chabad Society relating to the saddest day in the Jewish calendar - Fast of Av - Tisha B'Av, marking the destruction of the Jerusalem Temples.
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The Temple Mount: Rabbinic Texts and Archaeology Dr. David Gurevich Hebrew University Click here to view the lecture. |
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'Building Blocks of Redemption: The purpose of the soul's journey from on high into this world' Dr. Israel Sandman University College London Click here to view the lecture |
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The Jewish moral code and the reason for the destruction of the Second Holy Temple. Haim Perlmutter Bar Ilan University Click here to view the lecture. |
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Auschwitz Holocaust Survivor Victor Greenberg 'A Child of Majdan' Click here to view the lecture |
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'The Temple Mount in International Law: The complex legal history of Judaism's holiest site' Dr. Leonard Hammer Professor of Modern Israel Studies at the University of Arizona Click here to view the lecture |
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'Tragedy in Jewish Thought: How should we react when faced with tragedy?' Rabbi Eli Brackman Oxford University Chabad Society Click here to view the lecture |
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'The Causes of the Bar Kokhba War Revisited' Jeremy Lieberman Oxford University Click here to view the lecture |
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Expurgating Josephus in the High Middle Ages? Exploring a Case of Medieval French Censorship Anthony Ellis University of Bern (Switzerland) Click here to view the lecture |
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Vicarious Trauma: Jewish Identity Among British Jews Dr. Christina Fuhr Random House Scholar, University of Oxford. Her thesis is on 'The Creation of Jewish Identity in Contemporary Britain'. Click here to view the lecture |
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Latvian Holocaust Survivor Professor George Schwab The Holocaust Comes to Libau: The rise of anti-semitism in Latvia, and the personal story of George Schwab Click here to view the lecture |
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Pharisees and Sadducees in the Temple in Jerusalem: How tolerant were Jews in the first century? Professor Martin Goodman Professor of Jewish Studies, University of Oxford Click here to view the lecture |
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The "Protection" of the Jews in England, 1190-1290: How royal protection shaped the legal status of the Jews and led to their expulsion Professor Paul Brand
Oxford University Click here to view the lecture |
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Digging Up Jewish Communal Life: Ancient Synagogues of Northern Israel
Dr. Haim Ben David Kinneret College on the
Sea of Galilee, Israel Click here to view the lecture. |
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The Promised Land: Religious and historical perspectives Professor Guy Stroumsa Martin Buber Professor Emeritus of Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and former Professor of the Study of the Abrahamic Religions at Oxford. Click here to view the lecture |
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