Oxford University Chabad Society
SUMMER TERMCARD 2023
Welcome to Oxford University Chabad Society Summer Termcard '23! This term promises to be an exciting programme at the OU Chabad Society offering a wide variety of high profile and stimulating events, including world renowned speakers, delicious Friday night Shabbat dinners, stimulating classes, seminars and plenty of opportunities to meet other students and make new friends. Whether you’re looking for challenging discussions, classes in Judaism or a warm environment to hang out with friends over a delicious Shabbat dinner with plenty of drinks, the Oxford University Chabad Society has something to offer everyone. Looking forward to meeting you soon over the term!
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Weekly Friday Night Shabbat Dinner and Lunch
Delicious homebaked Challah, dips, salads, chicken soup and kneidlach, honey orange chicken, potato kugel, plus dessert and plenty of drinks – L’chaim
Every Friday, 7.30pm
Kabbalat Shabbat service, followed by dinner at 8pm
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St, Oxford, OX1 2BQ
RSVP: [email protected]
Looking forward to seeing you! Bring friends!
All are welcome!
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Shabbat Lunch
Every Saturday, 1.30pm
At Chabad House, 75 Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 1HR
All welcome!
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Week 1
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Welcome Back Drinks
Tuesday, 25 April, 8pm-9.30pm
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St, Oxford, OX1 2BQ
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Welcome back Shabbat Dinner
Friday, 28 April, 7.30pm
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St, Oxford, OX1 2BQ
All welcome!
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Week 2
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The First Joseph Raz Memorial Lecture
Professor Yossi Nehushtan
'The Meaning and Importance of Autonomy in a World in Which We Have no Free Will'
Prof Nehushtan, a former student of Joseph Raz, holds degrees from Striks Law School (LLB), the Hebrew University (LLM) and Oxford University (BCL, MPhil, DPhil). He is currently a Professor of Law and Philosophy at Keele University. In Keele, Yossi is the General Editor of the Keele Law Review, and Co-Director of the MA in Human Rights. Yossi’s areas of research are legal theory, political theory, public law, human rights law, and law and religion. Yossi was Visiting Research Fellow at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, Oxford University (2022); and held the HLA Hart Visiting Research Fellowship at the Oxford Centre for Ethics and Philosophy of Law (CEPL), University College, Oxford (2013).
Tuesday, 2 May, 8pm
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St, Oxford, OX1 2BQ
All welcome!
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Coronation Friday Night Shabbat Dinner
Professor Emanuel Tov FBA
'The prehistory of our traditional Masoretic Text of the Bible'
Emanuel Tov is currently Emeritus J. L. Magnes Professor of Bible Studies in the Department of Bible at the Hebrew University. Born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Emanuel Tov emigrated to Israel in 1961. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in biblical studies at the Hebrew University in 1973. Since 1986 Emanuel Tov has been a professor in the Dept. of Bible of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (since 1990 he holds the J.L. Magnes chair), from which he retired in 2009. He has been a guest professor at several Universities in Europe, the USA, Australia, South Africa, and Japan. He received several research awards, among them the Humboldt Research Prize, Germany the Emet Prize in Biblical Research and the Israel Prize in 2009. In 2006 he was appointed Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and in 2012 he was appointed member of the Israel Academy of Sciences. In 2008 he was given an honorary doctorate at Vienna University. Prof. Tov has specialized in various aspects of the textual criticism of Hebrew and Greek Scripture as well as in the Qumran Scrolls. Prof. Tov is involved in several research projects, but since 1990, most of his energy is invested in directing the Dead Sea Scrolls Publication Project. Under his guidance thirty-three volumes appeared in 1992-2008. He has written 16 books, edited more than fifty, and published more than 300 research papers.
Friday, 5 May, 7.30pm
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St, Oxford, OX1 2BQ
All are welcome!
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Week 3
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10th Annual OXFORD JEWISH FAIR - Lag B'omer
on Broad Street
Tuesday, 9 May, 12-5pm
Grand opening by The Lord Mayor of Oxford at 1pm
London Jewish Music Band 'SHIR' - Ivor Goldberg and Maurice Chernick - Klezmer, Israeli, Sephardi, Mizrahi, Ladino and Simcha music.
Oxford musician Matthew Faulk - including Yiddish music
Musician Joshua Getzler
Chazan Eliot Alderman
Musician Maanya Patel , St Peter's College, Oxford
Guitarist Joshua Freeman, Oriel College, Oxford - a Jewish student in computer science passionate about sharing music (4pm)
* Kosher Food Stand - hotdogs, shawarma, falafel, desserts - outdoor seating on Broad St
* Jewish Art - including locally made Oxford Judaica
* Kosher and Israeli wine tasting - with Steven Zimmer - Kedem Europe
* Kosher whiskey production demo - whiskey cask merchant Saul Kelly
* Books - Aisenthal Judaica bookshop
* Jewish History Exhibition
* Kosher cooking demo - pickle making
* Challah baking
* 'Kind to Bee' Kosher Honey stand
* Crafts - little “Dove of peace” book marks – (on wooden sticks ) - Oxford Jewish Congregation (OJC)
* Soft Archery - Oxford JSoc / Jewish Chaplaincy
* Scribal Art - with scribe Aryeh Freeman - including a Hebrew manuscript display of Torah scrolls from the British Library - 17th c. Kaifeng Torah Scroll - and the 17th c. Pusey House Oxford Torah Scroll.
Raffle: Koren Publishers set of books by Sacks, Hotel stay for two nights in Israel, Meal for two at a London Kosher restaurant.
For more info, to volunteer at the fair, to volunteer or become a sponsor, please email: [email protected]
This event is supported by Oxford City Council, Oxford University Chabad Society, Community Security trust (CST), Kedem Europe, Oxford Jewish Congregation, Oxford JSoc, Oxford Jewish Chaplaincy, Domus Negev Exceptional Hospitality, Aisenthal, Koren Publishing
All are welcome!
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'Judicial Reform Review in Israel'
Professor of Law, James J. Friedberg
Jim 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 for fifteen years directed the West Virginia University College of Law Immigration Law Clinic.Articles in the Columbian European Law Journal, the Duke Journal of International and Comparative Law, the WVU Law Review, the Ohio State Journal of Dispute Resolution, and the University of Pittsburgh Law Review reflect research into political and legal change on the European continent. His most recent publications have focused on democratic transition and human rights.
Dr. Ruvi Ziegler
Dr Reuven (Ruvi) Ziegler is Associate Professor in International Refugee Law at the University of Reading, School of Law, where he is the Director of Postgraduate Taught Programmes. Ruvi is an Associate Academic Fellow of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple; Research Associate of the Refuge Studies Centre, University of Oxford; Co-convenor of the Migration and Asylum Section of the Society of Legal Scholars; Senior Research Associate of the Refugee Law Initiative (Institute for Advance Legal Study, University of London) and Editor-in-Chief of its Working Paper Series; and a Researcher at the Israel Democracy Institute, analysing the treatment of asylum seekers in Israel as part of the ‘Democratic Principles’ project.
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St, Oxford, OX1 2BQ
Wed, 10 May, 8pm
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Friday Night Shabbat Dinner
With the newly appointed
Vice Chancellor of the University of Oxford
Professor Irene Tracey
Professor Irene Tracey, CBE, FMedSci, became Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford on 1 January 2023. She was previously Warden of Merton College, Oxford, her alma mater. She is also Professor of Anaesthetic Neuroscience in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences. Irene did her undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Oxford in Biochemistry under the supervision of Professor Sir George Radda. In 1997, Irene returned to Oxford and was a founding member of the Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain (FMRIB – now the world-leading Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging); she was its director from 2005 until 2015. Irene was tenured in 2001 at what is now the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics with Studentship at Christ Church. From 2007 until 2019, Irene held the Nuffield Chair in Anaesthetic Sciences with Fellowship at Pembroke College, where she is an Honorary Fellow. In the 2022 New Year’s Honours list, she was appointed by HM The Queen to a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to Medical Research.
Dr. Peter Claus
Access Fellow, Senior Research Fellow in History, Director of OxNet & CredOx, Pembroke College, Oxford
Friday, 12 May, 7.30pm
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St, Oxford, OX1 2BQ
All welcome!
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Week 4
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SPECIAL EVENT
Chief Rabbi of Ukraine Rabbi Moshe Reuven Azman
Rabbi Moshe Reuven Azman is the Chief Rabbi of Ukraine, Chief Rabbi of the Jewish community of Kyiv, and Kyiv great choral synagogue (aka “Brodsky shul”). Rabbi Azman has been at the forefront of efforts to support East-Ukrainian refugees in Kyiv and Ukraine and facilitated the evacuation of wounded people to hospitals in Israel. In 2015 he founded the project to resettle homeless Jews, the village of Anatevka.
Tuesday, 16 May, 8pm
Buffet reception 7pm
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St, Oxford, OX1 2BQ
RSVP: [email protected]
All are welcome!
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Friday Night Shabbat Dinner
Friday, 19 May, 7.30pm
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St, Oxford, OX1 2BQ
RSVP: [email protected]
All are welcome!
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Week 5
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Cheesecake in a Jar
Monday, 22 May, 7pm
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St, Oxford, OX1 2BQ
RSVP: [email protected]
All are welcome!
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Joseph Raz lecture
Professor Timothy Endicott
‘Autonomy and authority in the work of Joseph Raz’
Timothy Endicott is the Vinerian Professor of English Law, and a Fellow of All Souls College. He writes on Constitutional and Administrative Law and Jurisprudence, with special interests in law and language and legal interpretation. He was a Fellow in Law at Balliol College from 1999 to 2020, and served as the Dean of the Faculty of Law for two terms, from 2007 to 2015. He is the author of Administrative Law, 5th ed (OUP 2021) and Vagueness in Law (OUP 2000).
Professor Nicolaos Stavropoulos
Nicolaos Stavropoulos is Professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He teaches and supervises research in legal philosophy. His research interests are in legal and political philosophy and the philosophy of language. His book Objectivity in Law was published by the Clarendon Press. Stavropoulos completed the DPhil at Brasenose under the supervision of Ronald Dworkin.
'Raz and Political Perfectionism'
Tuesday, 23 May, 8pm
Buffet reception 7pm
At Slager Jewish student and community centre, 61 George Street, Oxford, OX1 2BQ
RSVP for buffet: [email protected] or click 'going' on this page.
All are welcome!
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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
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 Professor 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, Oxford
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
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
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
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/
The evening is kindly sponsored by the Reich Family in honour of their daughter's Bat Mitzvah.
All are welcome!
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2nd Night Shavuot Festival and Shabbat Dinner
Friday, 26 May, 10.30pm
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St, Oxford, OX1 2BQ
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Shavuot Festival Lunch
Friday and Saturday, 26-27 May, 1.30pm
At Chabad House, 75 Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 1HR
RSVP: [email protected]
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Week 6
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Professor Simon Hiscock
'Celebrating 400 years of the Oxford Botanic Garden: formerly the Oxford Medieval Jewish Cemetery'
Simon Hiscock received a Ph.D. in plant reproductive biology from the University of Oxford in 1992 and is currently Professor of Botany in the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford; and the Director of the Oxford Botanic Garden & Harcourt Arboretum. For many years he has been involved in plant evolution and plant reproductive biology research using as model system the genus Senecio (ragworts). He is Editor in Chief of Plants, People, Planet, Advisor to New Phytologist, Trustee of New Phytologist Foundation, Scientific Secretary of the Linnean Society of London, Scientific Advisor to The Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, and a long serving member of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Core Panel E.
The Garden’s founder, the first Earl of Danby, Henry Danvers KG wanted a ‘Physic Garden’ for teaching medical students about medicinal plants. He leased the five acre site from Magdalen College, formerly the site of the medieval Jewish cemetery, and, at 2pm on 25 July in 1621, the founding stone was laid by the University of Oxford’s Vice Chancellor. Over the next 20 years the level of the land, which sits within the flood plain of the River Cherwell was raised with “four thousand cart loads of mucke and dunge” and a wall with four gateways built to enclose the Garden. It was planted in the 1640s following the appointment of the Garden’s first Keeper Jacob Bobart the Elder in 1642. In 1648, Bobart created a catalogue of all the plants which he grew, now preserved as a treasured ancient manuscript at the Garden. The Physic Garden was renamed the Botanic Garden in the 1830s by Sherardian Professor Charles Daubeny to reflect its growing focus on experimental botany and taxonomy. In 1946 the Garden was expanded with the lease of a further three acres from Christ Church at the southern end adjacent to Christ Church Meadow. In 1963 the Botanic Garden expanded further by taking on the management of eight acres of pinetum at the University’s Nuneham Estate at Nuneham Courtenay which then expanded to become the 130 acre Harcourt Arboretum. Today the Botanic Garden and Harcourt Arboretum is a year-round oasis of biodiversity. It cultivates 5000 different plants used in research, teaching, conservation, and engaging with the public.
Tues, 30 May, 8pm
All are welcome!
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Friday Night Shabbat Dinner
Friday, 2 June, 7.30pm
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St, Oxford, OX1 2BQ
All are welcome!
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Week 7
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Symposium on Jewish Medical Ethics
Exploring the intersection between contemporary medical ethical dilemmas and religion
Programme:
7pm Buffet reception
7.45pm Rabbi Dr. Akiva Tatz
'Coercion and consent in Jewish medical law'
Rabbi Dr. Tatz studied medicine at the University of Witwatersrand, and is founder and Director of the Jerusalem Medical Ethics Forum. He is the author of the textbook Dangerous Disease and Dangerous Therapy in Jewish Medical Ethics – Principles and Practice. He has written a number of books on the subject of Jewish thought and philosophy: Anatomy of a Search, which documents the process of transition from secular to observant lifestyles among modern Jews, Worldmask, The Thinking Jewish Teenager’s Guide to Life, Living Inspired, Will, Freedom and Destiny, and most recently, As Dawn Ends the Night.
8.10pm Professor David Katz
Emeritus Professor of Immunopathology at University College London; Executive Chair, Jewish Medical Association UK and co-chair, Milah UK
8.35pm Professor Charles Foster
'Issues of identity in medical ethics'
Charles Foster is a Fellow of Exeter College, a member of the Oxford Law Faculty, a Senior Research Associate at the Uehiro Institute for Practical Ethics (within the Faculty of Philosophy), and a Research Associate at the Ethox Centre and the Helex Centre (both within the Faculty of Medicine). His research is primarily a search for a legal anthropology. Recent books include Cry of the Wild, Being a Human, Being a Beast (which is a New York Times Bestseller and won the IgNobel Prize for Biology), The law as a moral agent: Making people good, Human thriving and the law, Identity, Personhood and the law , Medical Law: A Very Short Introducion, Human Dignity in Bioethics and Law and Choosing LIfe Choosing Death: The Tyranny of Autonomy in Medical Law and Ethics. There is a complete list of publications at www.charlesfoster.co.uk
8.50pm Nechama Tatz-Wieder
Nechama is a DPhil Candidate in Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, and is fellow at the Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics. She uses computational methods to research non-coding variants role in rare disease. Nechama gained a BSc in Biomedical Sciences (Genetics) at Brunel University London and then an MRes at UCL in Biosciences (Genetics).
9.05pm Dr. Alberto Giubilini
'Freedom of conscience and medical professionalism: an impossible marriage?'
Healthcare professionals' conscientious objection to providing certain medical services is often defended by appealing to a principle of freedom of conscience or freedom of religion. However, sometimes such objections clash with professional expectations and responsibilities. More often than not, conscientious objections are motivated by religious views. This raises the question of whether there is some space for physicians' personal moral and religious views in the exercise of their profession, and whether it is possible to separate one's moral conscience and one's professional conduct. I will briefly explore some of the philosophical and practical challenges that this situation creates.
9.20pm Dr. Brian D. Earp
'Should doctors perform religious rituals? The new debate on 'female circumcision'
Brian is a Senior Research Fellow in the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford, Associate Director of the Yale-Hastings Program in Ethics and Health Policy at Yale University and The Hastings Center, and Associate Editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics.
9.35pm Closing remarks
Tuesday, 6 June, 7pm
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George Street, Oxford, OX1 2BQ
All are welcome!
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Summer lectures
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Dr Yaacov Falkov
'The Holocaust in Latvia: Its Eve, Figures, Characteristics, Reaction of the Allied Powers, and Post-War Memory'
Dr. Yaacov Falkov is an Israeli-Latvian historian of WWII. He is a former visiting fellow of the OCHJS and Massada Fellowships Programme (Worcester College), a lecturer in history at the Tel-Aviv University, and a scientific advisor to the Ghetto Fighters Museum (Israel) and The Riga Ghetto Museum (Latvia). Falkov published two books: Forest Spies. The Intelligence Activity of the Soviet Partisans 1941-1945 Jerusalem, Magnes Press and Yad Vashem, 2017 (in Hebrew); Between Hitler and Churchill. Two Jewish Agents and the Effort Made by British Intelligence to Prevent Secret Polish-Nazi Collusion Jerusalem, Magnes Press, 2021 (in Hebrew); and co-authored the book: Fighters Across Frontiers. Transnational Resistance in Europe, 1936-48 Manchester, Manchester UP, 2020. Currently, Falkov is completing a new study on Soviet intelligence knowledge of the Holocaust.
Monday, 4 July, 8pm
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85975263394?pwd=Rm1pQnNnbVc5SExicENHVkdQLzgwUT09
Meeting ID: 859 7526 3394
Passcode: 709345
The lecture will be online via Zoom and also viewable in person at: At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George Street, Oxford, OX1 2BQ
All are welcome!
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Oxford University Chabad Society invites you to a special in-person lecture commemorating Tisha B'Av - the Fast of the Ninth of Av
Randol Schoenberg
'The Recovery of the Klimt Paintings from Austria'
Randol Schoenberg was the co-founding partner of Burris, Schoenberg & Walden, LLP, where he handled a number of complex business litigation matters, specializing in cases involving looted art and the recovery of property stolen by the Nazi authorities during the Holocaust. Randol graduated from Princeton University in 1988 with a bachelor of arts degree in mathematics and a certificate in European cultural studies. In 1991, he received his juris doctor degree from the University of Southern California. During the past decades, he has litigated several prominent cases, including the Republic of Austria v. Altmann case, in which he sought return of six famous Klimt paintings to his client. In 2007, he received the California Lawyer Attorney of the Year award for outstanding achievement in the field of litigation. He also received the 2006 Jurisprudence Award from the Anti-Defamation League and the Justice Louis D. Brandeis Award from the American Jewish Congress. Randol served as president of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust from 2005 to 2015. He resides in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, with his wife, Pamela Mayers Schoenberg. They have two sons and a daughter.
Thursday, 27 July, 8pm
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George Street, Oxford, OX1 2BQ
All are welcome!
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Maia Elsner
Dante Elsner (1920-1997) was a Holocaust refugee, who survived the Second World War in hiding in the forests of East Poland after his parents and brother were killed in two different death camps, and later found in making pots and paintings a reason to live. He learned how to paint at Krakow Art School, and then fled the increasingly authoritarian Soviet regime in Poland to seek asylum in Paris, where he lived for ten years, drawing individual stills for early animated films. There, he continued his art training by going to view the works in the Parisian museums and found a spiritual philosophy, following the teachings of George Gurdieff, which was inextricable from his art practice. One day, on the point of suicide, he came across Rembrandt's portrait of Hendrickje Stoffels, and he said later that this painting saved his life: he saw the love with which Rembrandt had painted this woman, and it convinced him that there was something in life worth fighting for. He came to London to marry in 1958, and taught himself to make pots, first in stone-ware and porcelain, then exclusively in Raku. Because he never lost his mistrust of authorities and institutions, he never showed his work to anyone. Until very recently, hundreds of paintings and thousands of pots have remained stored in my parents' house.
Tues, 29th August, 8pm
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George Street, Oxford, OX1 2BQ
All are welcome!
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Former MP and UK Government Minister
Brooks Newmark
Prior to arriving at Oxford to do a DPhil at Kellogg College, Brooks was a Member of Parliament in UK Government and Minister of Civil Society. Before entering politics Brooks was a Senior Partner at Apollo Management LP a leading Private Equity Firm. Brooks was educated at Oxford University where he received an MSc in Education and Harvard University where he received a BA in History at Harvard College and an MBA in Finance at Harvard Business School. Brooks founded an education charity in Rwanda ten years ago called A Partner in Education (www.apartnerineducation.org) and has built a school for 300 children and a teacher training centre in Kigali. Brooks Masters dissertation focused on Fine Motor Proficiency in Seven Year Old Children in Rwanda as a predictor of academic achievement. His doctorate will be focusing on seeking to explore the drivers of education policy in Rwanda through the lens of politicians with a view to better understanding the formal and informal influences on policymaking.
'Tea with a Tyrant'
Date to be confirmed
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CLASSES AND COURSES
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Talmud Class
Join us to study subjects in Judaism's all-important 6th century legal work of the Talmud that shapes Jewish law and thought up until today.
Every Sunday, 7pm
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George Street, Oxford, OX1 2BQ
All are welcome!
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Parsha Class
Join us for a weekly Parsha class for the Torah portion of Emor online with Rabbi Eli, exploring the Torah portion through the classic commentaries and Oxford Hebrew manuscripts of Rashi's commentary.
Every Wednesday, 7pm
For Zoom info and handout in advance: [email protected]
All welcome!
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Jewish mysticism class
Every Thursday, 7-8pm
Please email [email protected] for Zoom info and handout to be sent to you before the class.
Looking forward to seeing you!
All are welcome!
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The Tajtelbaum Jewish Study Hall
The Tajtelbaum Jewish Study Hall is open daily for you to study with a fully stocked Judaica library, wireless internet and FREE coffee and refreshments on offer.
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St, Oxford, OX1 2BQ
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Oxford Kosher Cafe and Oxford Kosher Deli @ 61 George St
Enjoy a full stock of delicious Kosher food - frozen and dry - situated in our spacious Slager Jewish student centre, including lounge, diverse Judaica library with over 4200 interesting titles. Drop by for soups, deluxe sandwiches, bagels, salads, schnitzel, soft drinks and a range of delicious pastries.
OPEN daily: 12pm-2pm
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St, Oxford, OX1 2BQ
Info: call/text 07772 079 940 or email: [email protected]
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Sign Up
If you or a friend would like to sign up to the
Oxford University Chabad Society, please email:
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Oxford Chabad Society Committee
Boruch Epstein (Linacre) - President, Jake Masters (St John's) - Secretary, Herbie Rimerman (Christ Church) - Treasurer, Simon Ravid (Brookes), Tzivia Lish (Linacre), Jozef Kosc (Green Templeton), Trevor Stern (St Cross), Michael Kaye (LMH), Aaron Beaudin (St Hugh's), Topher Colby (Jesus), Andreas Halner (St John's), Sophie Cardin (Brasenose), Anke Halner (St Annes), Leora Shlasko (St Antony's), Josh Lasri, Maanya Patel (St Peter's), Rachel Ramaglia (Psychology)
Senior Member: Prof. Nir Vulkan (Worcester)
To join the committee, email: [email protected].
Directors
Rabbi Eli & Freidy Brackman
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Looking forward to seeing you soon!
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