Summer programme @ Oxford Chabad Society
********
Weekly Friday night Shabbat dinner
Friday, 7.30pm
Kabbalat Shabbat 7.30pm, Shabbat dinner 8pm
At Chabad House, 75 Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 1HR
RSVP: [email protected]
Suggested donations: www.oxfordchabad.org/donate
All are welcome!
********
Shabbat Lunch
Sat, 1.30pm
At Chabad House, 75 Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 1HR
RSVP: [email protected]
Suggested donations: www.oxfordchabad.org/donate
All are welcome!
********
David Selis
'For Salvation is Near: The Miracle of Samaritan Passover 1968'
David Selis is the Leon Charney Doctoral Fellow at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies. He is Assistant Curator of The Samaritans: A Biblical People, a traveling exhibition organized by the Israelite Samaritans project of the YU Center for Israel Studies. His research focuses on modern Jewish culture and the history of the Jewish book.
Monday, 27 June, 8pm
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St, Oxford, OX1 2BQ
All are welcome!
********
Deborah Thompson
Jewish History and Culture, PhD Candidate, Harvard University
Tuesday, 5 July, 8pm
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St, Oxford, OX1 2BQ
All are welcome!
********
Dr. Nahum Ben Yehudah
"When Abraham Isaac HaKohen Kook and Abraham Joshua Heschel Meet"
Rabbi Nahum Ben-Yehuda is a graduate of the Harry Fischel Institute in Jerusalem, where he received his semikhah. He is a disciple of HaRav Shelomo Min-HaHar z"l and HaRav Nachum Rabinowitz z"l. Nahum has served as a community rabbi and Rosh yeshiva. Today he teaches adult education in the fields of Tanakh, Talmud, Halakha and Jewish thought. He is also active in the International Organization for Targumic Studies. In parallel, Nahum – a fellow of the Manchester-based Textile Institute – researches publishes and lectures in the field of textiles and garments of the Tanakh, Talmud and Rabbinical literature. The forthcoming publication Textiles of Medieval Iberia (Boydell Press) of which he is co-editor, features his chapter: "Silk as Reflected in Medieval Iberian Jewish Literature".
Monday, 25 July, 8pm
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St, Oxford, OX1 2BQ
All are welcome!
********
Professor Adam Cohen'Making and Using the Kennicott Bible'
Tues, 30 Aug, 8pm
Considered "one of the finest Hebrew manuscripts in existence,” the Bodleian Library’s Kennicott Bible has been admired and studied for generations. In this talk, I offer some new thoughts about the structure and decoration of this Tanakh and the implications for how the reader-viewer was meant to experience the book. In particular I re-examine the tantalizing suggestion that at an early stage the bible was owned and re-organized by a Christian owner.
Dr. Adam S. Cohen is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Toronto. He received his Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University and is a specialist in the history of European illuminated manuscripts from the Middle Ages. He has written and edited numerous books and articles on Christian and Hebrew subjects. For the general public, he has written Signs and Wonders: 100 Haggadah Masterpieces (Jerusalem: Toby Press, 2018), a history of the illustrated haggadah from the Middle Ages to the present. With Jill Caskey and Linda Safran, he is the author of Art and Architecture of the Middle Ages: Exploring a Connect.
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St, Oxford, OX1 2BQ
All are welcome!
********
Professor Berel Dov Lerner
'Why Humans are Better than Angels: The Moral Psychology of R. Meir Simha of Dvinsk'
Berel Dov Lerner received a BA in social and behavioral sciences from Johns Hopkins University, an MA in philosophy from the University of Chicago, and a PhD in philosophy from Tel Aviv University. He also studied Judaism at Yeshivat HaKibbutz HaDati. Berel is currently an associate professor of philosophy at the Western Galilee College in Akko and also teaches at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya. He is the author of many articles in philosophy and Jewish studies and of the book Rules, Magic, and Instrumental Reason (Routledge 2002).
Thursday, 1 Sep, 8pm
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St, Oxford, OX1 2BQ
All are welcome!
********
Shabbat dinner
Dr. Ari Engelberg
Dr. Ari Engelberg, a lecturer at the Hadassah Academic College in Jerusalem, is a sociologist and anthropologist who deals extensively with the issue of continuing singlehood in religious Zionism.
'Israeli Society'
Friday, 16 Sep, 7.30pm
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St, Oxford, OX1 2BQ
All are welcome!
********
For more info, email [email protected] or call 07772 079 940.