Hilary Termcard '23

 

Oxford University Chabad Society

HILARY TERMCARD 2023

 

Welcome to Oxford University Chabad Society HILARY 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 and lunch weekly, 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, the Oxford University Chabad Society has something to offer everyone. Looking forward to meeting you over the coming term!

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Weekly Friday Night SHABBAT DINNER & LUNCH 

Oxford Chabad is delighted to offer Jewish students and community weekly delicious Shabbat Dinners and Lunch every Shabbat throughout the year

Friday Night Shabbat dinner

Kabbalat Shabbat service at 7.30pm

Shabbat dinner at 8pm

At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St, Oxford, OX1 2BQ

Click here to RSVP

Shabbat Lunch at 1.30pm

At Chabad House, 75 Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 1HR

Click here to RSVP

All are welcome! 

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Week 1

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Welcome Back shawarma and drinks evening

We're delighted to invite you to join us for a welcome back shawarma and drinks 

Tues, 17 Jan, 7pm-9pm

At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St, Oxford, OX1 2BQ

All are welcome!

 

 

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In person buffet and lecture screening 

Professor Elliot R. Wolfson

'Mysticism and the Quest for Universal Singularity: The Light of Infinity in the World of Finitude'

Elliot R. Wolfson, a Fellow of the American Academy of Jewish Research and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is the Marsha and Jay Glazer Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies and Distinguished Professor of Religion at University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of many publications including most recently The Duplicity of Philosophy’s Shadow: Heidegger, Nazism and the Jewish Other (2018); Heidegger and Kabbalah: Hidden Gnosis and the Path of PoiÄ“sis (2019); Suffering Time: Philosophical, Kabbalistic, and Ḥasidic Reflections on Temporality (2021); The Philosophical Pathos of Susan Taubes: Between Nihilism and Hope (2023).

Thursday, 19 January, 6.30pm, buffet 6pm

The buffet and lecture screening will take place

At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St, Oxford, OX1 2BQ

RSVP for buffet: [email protected]

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89256948058?pwd=allyK3QyS1k4WUg3REkwOXBWa0QvUT09

Meeting ID: 892 5694 8058
Passcode: 570010

Hosted as part of 'Demystifying Jewish Mysticism' series

All are welcome!

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Friday Night Shabbat Dinner

Friday, 20 Jan, 7.30pm

At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George Street, Oxford, OX1 2BQ 

Click here to RSVP.

All are welcome!

Shabbat Lunch

Sat, 21 Jan, 1.30pm

At Chabad House, 75 Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 1HR

Click here to RSVP.

All are welcome!

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Week 2

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Holocaust Memorial Lecture

Holocaust Survivor Dr Agnes Kaposi MBE

Born in Hungary, in 1932, Agnes survived the Debrecen ghetto and labour camps in Austria. She worked as a child labourer in the agricultural and armament camps of Austria. She returned to Hungary to live under the Stalinist communist regime. In 1956, she graduated from the Technical University of Budapest with a degree in electrical /electronic engineering. She contributed to the development of the Hungarian TV broadcasting infrastructure. After the 1956 Uprising against Communist rule, she escaped from her native Hungary and obtained a labour permit to work in England as an industrial researcher in the Telecommunication and Computer industries. She obtained a PhD in Computer Aided Design and worked as a lecturer, researcher and consultant in academic institutions and in the Telecommunication and Computer Industries in Britain. In 2020 she published her autobiography Yellow Star-Red Star. She was appointed MBE in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to Holocaust Education and Awareness.

Monday, 23 Jan, 8pm

Buffet reception 7pm

At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St, Oxford, OX1 2BQ

RSVP for buffet: [email protected]

The lecture will be in person and also viewable via ZOOM:

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83327766441?pwd=ems3K3BROWxjM1RPQ0dyaGxKVFhHZz09

Meeting ID: 833 2776 6441
Passcode: 440049

All are welcome! 

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Book Launch Event

Roland Brandman

'The Sapphire Mind: Jewish Meditation's Treasures for Life'

Roland Brandman is the author-editor of Sapphire Mind, a new synoptic philosophy and major anthology of Jewish meditation. He lectures and writes about traditional sources for Jewish contemplative thought and practice. Roland is the Chairman of HaMakom (the leading Jewish-meditation charity), a chazan (TheEnglishCantor.co.uk), a property lawyer, and a member of the Athenaeum Club. 

Roland will be discussing aspects of his recently published book, Sapphire Mind, touching on a range of ideas for meditative thought and life based on Jewish mystical traditions ancient and modern (such as the nature of and our relationship to consciousness, reality, suffering and spiritual practice). He will also comment and take questions on the status quo of Jewish meditation in Britain. We will also try practising a specific meditation technique from one of the Kabbalistic sources, suitable for beginners and advanced practitioners alike.

Tues, 24 Jan, 8pm

At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St, Oxford, OX1 2BQ

The lecture will be in person and also viewable via ZOOM:

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82356482403?pwd=dlJQR0NMejBmNVBYR0ZZWXlwOTQ0UT09

Meeting ID: 823 5648 2403
Passcode: 243830

All are welcome!

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Shabbat Dinner

John Bowers QC

'Growing up in Grimsby, Becoming Head of House and a miracle connecting the two'

John Bowers QC is the Principal of Brasenose College, University of Oxford, and a leading human rights and employment lawyer. He sits as a Deputy High Court Judge. He is an approved counsel for the Equality and Human Rights Commission, and has written numerous books on human rights and employment law, including standard texts on whistleblowing and industrial action.

Friday, 27 Jan, 7.30pm

At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St, Oxford, OX1 2BQ

Click here to RSVP.

All are welcome!

Shabbat Lunch

Sat, 28 Jan, 1.30pm

At Chabad House, 75 Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 1HR

Click here to RSVP.

All are welcome!

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Week 3

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Professor Emily M. Rose

'Little Hugh of Lincoln, Ritual Murder and King Henry III'

Emily Rose, MBA, PhD, Visiting scholar at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish studies is a scholar of Medieval and Early Modern Europe whose work has been hailed as ‘a model of thoroughgoing historical scholarship presented to a general audience and should be studied by scholars who wish to bring the humanities to the public square’. A graduate of Oxford with an Honours degree in Modern History, she has been a Research Associate at the Department of History, Harvard University for the past two years and, before that, taught at five universities. Her book, The Murder of William of Norwich: The Origins of the Blood Libel in Medieval Europe (Oxford University Press, 2015), was named one of the ‘Ten Best History Books of the Year’ by the Sunday Times of London and described by the Wall Street Journal as ‘a landmark of historical research’. 

Wednesday, 1 Feb, 8pm

At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St, Oxford, OX1 2BQ

Lecture will be in person and also viewable via Zoom:

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87269404535?pwd=M0xDZ3FMRmp3Y2pJRE5JN0tickw2QT09

Meeting ID: 872 6940 4535
Passcode: 714220

All are welcome! 

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Friday Night Shabbat Dinner

Friday, 3 Feb, 7.30pm

At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George Street, Oxford, OX1 2BQ 

Click here to RSVP.

All are welcome!

Shabbat Lunch

Sat, 4 Feb, 1.30pm

At Chabad House, 75 Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 1HR

Click here to RSVP.

All are welcome!

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Week 4

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Dr. Rebecca Wolpe

‘Working with Holocaust Documents: A Personal Perspective’

Rebecca Wolpe has a BA in Hebrew from Wadham College, Oxford, and an MA and PhD in Yiddish from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has worked at Yad Vashem for around nineteen years in various capacities, including guiding in the museum and translating/editing various books. She has also translated documents from the Ringelblum Archive as well as other private memoirs. 

About the lecture: Over the years I have had the privilege of working with a lot of Holocaust documents, including some in Yiddish that have only now been translated. I would like to share some of the amazing stories I've encountered, including a look at the original Yiddish manuscripts, some difficulties we've encountered and some startling coincidences. 

Tues, 7 Feb, 8pm 

Buffet reception 7pm

At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St, Oxford, OX1 2BQ

Lecture will be in person and also viewable via Zoom:

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87844683848?pwd=d295OTNWWHkydkdOUmQxSE1YSkh4Zz09

Meeting ID: 878 4468 3848
Passcode: 124562

All are welcome! 

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Friday Night Shabbat Dinner

Friday, 10 Feb, 7.30pm

At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George Street, Oxford, OX1 2BQ 

Click here to RSVP.

All are welcome!

Shabbat Lunch

Sat, 11 Feb, 1.30pm

At Chabad House, 75 Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 1HR

Click here to RSVP.

All are welcome!

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Week 5

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Professor Michael Yudkin

'Amnesty International and the Jewish Question'

Michael Yudkin was tutor in Biochemistry at University College, Oxford, until 1993, after which he moved to Kellogg College. He then taught in the Department for Continuing Education until retiring from his Professorship in 2005. He was active for many years in the campaign for Jews to be allowed to emigrate from the Soviet Union to Israel, and he continues to work against the boycott of Israeli academics.

Tues, 14 February, 8pm

Buffet reception 7pm

At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St, Oxford, OX1 2BQ

Lecture will be in person and also viewable via Zoom:

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88107308392?pwd=K3dqd1RPb2p0MXlDTGNkZ1hPTUFsZz09

Meeting ID: 881 0730 8392
Passcode: 547169

All are welcome! 

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Raphael Rutman

Executive Vice Chairman of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Ukraine

Thursday, 16 Feb, 8pm

At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St, Oxford, OX1 2BQ

Lecture will be in person and also viewable via Zoom:

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88107308392?pwd=K3dqd1RPb2p0MXlDTGNkZ1hPTUFsZz09

Meeting ID: 881 0730 8392
Passcode: 547169

All are welcome! 

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Friday Night Shabbat Dinner

Friday, 17 Feb, 7.30pm

At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George Street, Oxford, OX1 2BQ 

Click here to RSVP.

All are welcome!

Shabbat Lunch

Sat, 18 Feb, 1.30pm

At Chabad House, 75 Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 1HR

Click here to RSVP.

All are welcome!

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Week 6

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Online lecture

Rabbi Professor Alan Brill 

'Rabbi on the Ganges: A Jewish Hindu Encounter' 

Rabbi Prof. Alan Brill is the Cooperman/Ross Endowed Chair for Jewish-Christian Studies at Seton Hall University, where he teaches Jewish studies in the Jewish-Christian Studies Graduate Program. Brill received his B.A., M.A. and Ordination from Yeshiva University and his Ph.D. from the Department of Theology at Fordham University.  He specializes in interfaith theology, Jewish mysticism, modern Jewish thought, and contemporary Jewish Orthodoxy. Dr. Brill is also the author of Judaism and World Religions: Christianity, Islam, and Eastern Religions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), Judaism and Other Religions: Models of Understanding (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) and Thinking God: The Mysticism of Rabbi Zadok of Lublin (Y. U. Press, 2002). He has been blogging since 2009 at https://kavvanah.blog/. Prof Brill was a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award for research and teaching at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh in India. This research produced his recent volume Rabbi on the Ganges: A Jewish Hindu Encounter (Lexington Books, 2019). He is currently working on a book on a Jewish view of religious diversity.  

Tues, 21 February, 8pm

Buffet reception 7pm

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83139955860?pwd=N1dSZFVBa2haWXlOQmxlZ1JUZ2d6Zz09

Meeting ID: 831 3995 5860
Passcode: 995800

The lecture will be on Zoom and also viewable in person:

At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St, Oxford, OX1 2BQ

All are welcome! 

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Friday Night Shabbat Dinner

Friday, 24 Feb, 7.30pm

At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St, Oxford, OX1 2BQ

Click here to RSVP.

All are welcome! 

Shabbat Lunch

Sat, 25 Feb, 1.30pm

At Chabad House, 75 Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 1HR

Click here to RSVP.

All are welcome!

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Oxford University Chabad Society cordially invites you to 

PRE-PURIM SEMINAR IN JEWISH STUDIES - YOM LIMMUD

Exploring Purim and Jewish thought through philosophy, history, mysticism, law and spirituality

Sunday, 26 February, 2pm - 5pm

2pm Rabbi Eli Brackman (Oxford University Chabad Society)

'Purim and the 17th century English Sephardic controversy involving Amsterdam Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Ashkenazi (1656-1718)'

2.20pm Professor Ignacio Carbajosa (University of Madrid / Oxford)

'A curious megillat Esther, or how to find a needle in a haystack'

Ignacio Carbajosa is Full Professor of the Hebrew Bible at San Dámaso University (Madrid). He completed his PhD at the Pontifical Biblical Institute (Rome, 2005) with a dissertation entitled The Character of the Syriac Version of Psalms. A Study of Psalms 90-150 in the Peshitta (Leiden: Brill, 2008).

2.40pm Trevor Stern (University of Oxford)

Trevor Stern received The Keasbey Scholarship to study at University of Oxford 2022-3, previously studied at Haverford College. Trevor is doing a Masters in Religion.

3pm Dr. Naftali Loewenthal (UCL)

'Early Hasidic Teachings on Purim and Communal Leadership'

Naftali Loewenthal is a Lecturer (Teaching) at the Dept of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, UCL. He is author of Communicating the Infinite: the Emergence of the Habad School (Chicago, 1990) and his most recent book is Hasidism beyond Modernity, Studies in Habad Thought and History (Littmann Library).

3.20pm Dr. Ros Abramsky (Oxford)

'Trunk cable'

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.

3.40pm Herbert Rimerman (University of Oxford)

Herbert holds a BA in Classics from Columbia University, where he studied Hebrew and Aramaic in addition to Greek and Latin. He received a Laidlaw Undergraduate Research Scholarship, which he used to study the production and circumscription of Jewish identity in Palestine throughout the Hellenistic period. In Oxford, he is pursuing an MPhil in Judaism and Christianity in the Graeco-Roman World. 

4pm Dr. Israel Sandman (British Library)

'A medieval Jewish embrace of and critique of philosophy: Judah ha-Kohen's Midrash ha- Ḥ okma '

Israel Sandman is a Fellow at the Hebrew & Jewish Studies Department at University College London and an expert on medieval Jewish philosophy and manuscripts.

4.20pm Dr. Daniel Rand (University of Oxford)

4.40pm Josh Lasry (University of Oxford)

Josh is an MPhil Law Candidate at Oxford University, serving also as an editor of the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal. He previously studied law at McGill University.

At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St, Oxford, OX1 2BQ

RSVP for lunch and/or to receive handouts in advance:  [email protected].

Participants are welcome to attend all or any part of the seminar.

All are welcome!

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Book Launch Event

Emeritus Professor Kate C.M. Loewenthal

‘Trauma and religious faith’

Introduction by 

Dr. Joanna Collicutt

CM Loewenthal is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London, Professor of Abnormal Psychology, New York University in London, and Visiting Professor at Glyndwr University, Wales and Heythrop College, London University. She is author of Religion, Culture and Mental Health (2006), An Introduction to Psychological Tests and Scales (2001, 2nd edition), Mental Health and Religion (1994), and The Psychology of Religion: A Short Introduction (2000), among numerous other influential works in the field of psychology of religion. Her most recent book is: ‘Trauma and religious faith.’

Joanna Collicutt studied Experimental Psychology and (later) Theology at Oxford University, and Clinical Psychology and (later) Christianity and the Arts at King's College, London. She is a chartered clinical psychologist and registered specialist neuropsychologist. After many years working in the British National Health Service, she moved into the field of psychology of religion and was director of the MA programme in psychology of religion at Heythrop College, University of London, moving back to Oxford in 2010 to take up posts as Lecturer in Psychology and Spirituality at Ripon College Cuddesdon, and Older People’s Adviser for the Diocese of Oxford until 2020. 

Tuesday, 28 February, 8pm, buffet reception, 7pm

At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St, Oxford, OX1 2BQ

RSVP for buffet reception: [email protected]

Lecture will be in person and also viewable via Zoom:

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82031452828?pwd=UUhmbmNGSmtEY3lRUzZ0MElJeE52QT09

Meeting ID: 820 3145 2828
Passcode: 835835

All are welcome! 

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Friday Night Shabbat Dinner

Friday, 3 March, 7.30pm

At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George Street, Oxford, OX1 2BQ 

Click here to RSVP.

All are welcome!

Shabbat Lunch

Sat, 4 March, 1.30pm

At Chabad House, 75 Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 1HR

Click here to RSVP.

All are welcome!

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Week 8

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PURIM in the Wild West

Megillah reading and party

Monday, 6 March, 8pm 

At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St, Oxford, OX1 2BQ

Click here to RSVP

All are welcome! 

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Megillah - Scroll of Esther - reading:

Monday, 6 March, 7pm, 9pm, 11pm

Tuesday, 7 March: 9am, 11am, 1pm, 3pm, 4.30pm

At the Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St, Oxford, OX1 2BQ

Click here to RSVP

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Dr. Judith Weiss

Dr Judith Weiss is a Senior Lecturer at the Goldstein-Goren Department for Jewish Thought at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. She studies Kabbalah, with special focus on medieval Kabbalah and Renaissance Christian Kabbalah. She published three books on the Kabbalistic thought of Guillaume Postel, as well as articles on Jewish and Christian Kabbalah. Her current project deals with the non-Jewish context in which early Sefirotic theology evolved.

Professor Tzahi Weiss

Tzahi Weiss is a Professor of Jewish Mysticism and Hebrew Literature at the Open University of Israel and the former Dean of Research at the university. He is the author of numerous studies including four books: Sefer Yeṣirah and its Contexts: Other Jewish Voices (Penn Press 2018); Cutting the Shoots: The Worship of The Shekhinah in the World of Early Kabbalistic Literature (The Hebrew University Magnes Press: Jerusalem 2015); Letters by which Heaven and Earth were Created: The Origins and the Meanings of the Perceptions of Alphabetic Letters as Independent Units in Jewish Sources of Late Antiquity (Bialik Press 2014 ); and The Death of the Shekhinah in S.Y. Agnon’s Oeuvre (Bar Ilan University Press 2009). He is the head of the ‘Commentaries to the Ten Sefirot’ research project, funded by the Israeli Science Foundation. His coming book will be dedicated to the historical contexts of the emergence of the Sefirotic Literature (Kabbalah) in the early 13^th century.

Wednesday, 8 March, 8pm

At the Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St, Oxford, OX1 2BQ

All are welcome!

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Professor David Aberbach

'The Environment and Literature of Moral Dilemmas'

David Aberbach wrote his D.Phil. at Oxford and taught at Oxford, Cornell, and McGill Universities.  His books on Hebrew literature include studies of Mendele Mocher Sefarim, C.N. Bialik, and S.Y. Agnon;  Imperialism and Biblical Prophecy 750-500 BCE;  Revolutionary Hebrew, Empire and Crisis; and The Bible and the ‘Holy Poor’: from the Tanakh to Les Misérables.   Since 2019, he has been affiliated with the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford, where he has recently published a book on environmental moral dilemmas in literature from the Hebrew Bible to the present.  

Thursday, 9 March, 8pm

At the Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St, Oxford, OX1 2BQ

All are welcome!

 

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Friday Night Shabbat Dinner

Jake Wallis Simons

Jake Wallis Simons is an award-winning British journalist and novelist. In December 2021, he was appointed Editor of the Jewish Chronicle, where he has become known for publishing a number of world exclusives about the Mossad, including the inside story of the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh and a major three-part sabotage operation in Iran. In addition, he is a writer for the Spectator, a commentator for Sky News and a broadcaster for BBC Radio 4 and the World Service. Previously he was Associate Global Editor for the Daily Mail Online, and a features writer for the Sunday Telegraph. He has also worked for the Times, the Guardian, CNN, the BBC and other outlets. Jake has written four novels, including the bestselling The English German Girl, which tells the story of the Kindertransport. It won the Fiction Uncovered prize and received widespread critical acclaim. Jake holds a First in English from St Peter’s College, Oxford and a PhD in Creative Writing from UEA, and has lectured at Oxford and elsewhere. He is a judge for the Reuters News Fixer Award, and a Visiting Fellow at Bournemouth University.

Friday, 10 March, 7.30pm

At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George Street, Oxford, OX1 2BQ 

Click here to RSVP.

All are welcome!

Shabbat Lunch

Sat, 11 March, 1.30pm

At Chabad House, 75 Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 1HR

Click here to RSVP.

All are welcome!

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Rabbi Danny Goldstein

'Keys to a happy marriage'

Rabbi Danny Goldstein graduated and received Rabbinical ordination from the Talmudical Institute of Upstate New York, and recently studied at the Viktor Frankl Institute of Logotherapy. Rabbi Goldstein is a high school principal, educator and executive director at the Talmudical Institute. His teaching ranges from teaching kindergarten students, high school students, advanced Talmudic studies to post high school students, the daily daf of Talmud to community laymen and a course in the fundamentals of Kabbalah. 

Sunday, 12 March, 8pm

At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George Street, Oxford, OX1 2BQ 

All are welcome!

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Jewish Country Houses Exhibition

14-31 March, 2023

Country houses are powerful symbols of national identity, evoking the glamorous world of the landowning aristocracy and its feudal origins. By contrast, this project focuses on a hitherto unidentified group of country houses in the UK and continental Europe: those owned, renewed and sometimes built by Jews and those of Jewish origin. Some are now museums of international importance, attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors each year; many more have been demolished or repurposed. A few are modern ruins, hovering still between memory and oblivion.

Individually, these palaces, villas and country houses tell a story of social forgetting and the problematic place occupied by even the most spectacular ‘Jewish’ country houses within nationally constructed heritage cultures. Taken together they illuminate the transformative impact of Jewish emancipation on modern European politics, society and culture. Many have extraordinary art collections and gardens. Some were stages for lavish entertaining, others provided inspiration to the European avant garde. All were beloved homes that bear witness to the remarkable achievements of newly emancipated Jews across Europe - and to a dream of belonging that mostly came to a brutal end with the Holocaust, a trauma that changed the world of the Anglo-Jewish elite in more subtle ways.

This project, which emerges from close partnerships with the heritage sector, is the first attempt to write these houses and their owners back into British, European and Jewish history and to establish their importance as sites of European – and Jewish - memory.

Launch lecture, 21 March, 8pm

Exhibition will be open daily, Monday, Thursday, 12-2pm

At the Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St, Oxford, OX1 2BQ

All are welcome!

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CLASSES AND COURSES

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Sinai Scholars Course – ‘Think Jewish: Jewish Wisdom for Modern Life’

Explore the foundations of Judaism in 8 interactive sessions 

Stipend offered by Sinai Scholars Society: $350 / £260

To apply: click here.

For more info, email  [email protected]

The course covers the following topics: 1. Perspectives on Jewish Identity in the Modern World, 2. Foundational Elements of the Jewish Ethos, 3. Significance and Meaning of Jewish Observances, 4. An Oasis in Time: The Gift of Shabbat, 5. The Jewish secrets of Love and Marriage, 6. Jewish Ethics: Ancient System, Modern Applications, 7. An Overview of Jewish Mysticism, Kabbalah, and Chasidism, and 8. Forward Thinking: Examining Our Past to Forge Our Personal and Collective Future. 

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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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Lunch 'n' Learn 

Join us for a weekly delicious Lunch & Learn on a variety of contemporary stimulating topics in ethics and philosophy.

Every Monday, 1pm

Brasenose College, LRVII

RSVP for lunch: [email protected]

All are welcome!

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Lunch & Learn at Brookes University

Every Wednesday, 12pm

The Forum

RSVP: [email protected]

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Pizza and Parsha

Join us for an in-depth study of the weekly Torah portion with Rabbi Eli while enjoying some delicious fresh home-baked Pizza.

Wednesdays, 7pm 

At Chabad House, 75 Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 1HR or on Zoom

All are welcome!

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Hebrew for Beginners Course

For 6 consecutive weeks 

At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St, Oxford, OX1 2BQ

Course: £36 for the course / non students £40

Booking: [email protected]

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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

Enjoy a full menu of delicious Kosher food, which is situated in our spacious lounge with internet wireless connection, Wii, Jewish newspaper and satellite TV, in addition to our well stocked and diverse Judaica library with over 2000 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

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Sign Up

If you or a friend would like to sign up to the Chabad Society, please email:

[email protected]

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Oxford University 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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