Recording of lectures hosted at the Oxford University Chabad Society during 2026
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Prof. Frank Griffel
'Reading Maimonides in the Context of Islamic Philosophy: His 7th Reason for Contradictions in Books Reconsidered'
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Professor Pinchas Roth
'Newly discovered Rabbinical responsa from medieval England'
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Dr. Ros Abramsky
'I believe in miracles'
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Brian Deutsch
‘The four sons in the
Haggadah according
to the interpretation of
R. Joseph Ber Soloveitchik’
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Dr. Naftali Loewenthal
'Communicating Maimonides'
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Rabbi Eli Brackman
‘Passover in the
commentary of
R. Elijah Menachem Chalfan
(Oxford MS. Opp. 722)’
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Dr. Israel Sandman
'The Lubavitcher Rebbe
deconstructs the
first law in
Maimonides' legal code'
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Pre Passover seminar:
Rabbi Professor Naftali Rothenberg
'Passover as a Preparation
for the Coming Redemption'
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Rabbi Levi Shmotkin
'Retreat to Defeat:
Patterns
in the Lubavitcher Rebbe's
Counseling'
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Moshe Tzvi Wieder
'The ancient form and
purpose of
"Baruch HaMakom'
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Prof. Meron Piotrkowski
'Passover and Exodus
traditions among the
Jews of Egypt in the
Second Temple period'
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Professor Eshbal Ratzon
'One time the fourteenth of
Nissan fell on the Sabbath:"
The Appointment of Hillel
and the sectarian dispute'
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Lord David Neuberger - Former President of the Supreme Court 'Jews, Gentiles and Justice'
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Dutch Holocaust Survivor Hans MouwesClick here to view the lecture.
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Professor Malden Popovic'How old are the Dead Sea Scrolls?'
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Professor Eshbal Ratzon'The Dead Sea Scrolls: Their discovery and significance'
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Rabbi Prof. Abraham Steinberg'Physician Assisted Suicide and Jewish Law'
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President of the Board of Deputies Phil Rosenberg
'A brighter future for Anglo-Jewry'
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Prof. Jane Caplan'From 'The Final Solution' to 'The Holocaust'
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Professor Timothy Williamson
'Becoming a philosopher'
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Profess
or Sebastian Brock
'Jewish tradition in Syriac Literature'
Rabbi Yona Reiss
'The Purim Piyyut "Shoshanat Yaakov"'
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Rabbi Daniel Aaron Glauberman
'Was it hard to schedule a Bar Mitzvah in Mordechai's Synagogue in Shushan?'
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Dr. Lea Cohen
'The Tree that he had prepared for him'
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Rabbi Eli Brackman
'A good heart always feasts: The Lubavitcher Rebbe's commentary on Rashi on Proverbs 15:15'
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Dr. Israel Sandman
'Interpretive Rendition of Rabbi Shneur Zalman's Discourse "Mordechai went forth from before the king'
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Neria Bares
'Three stories about fables and morals: between the shell and the fruit'
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Rainbow Chang
'Uncertainty Within Certainty - Esther, Responsibility, and the Collective Promise'
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Dr. Luz Evelia Martin del Campo
'Mapping The Lacandon Maya Identities and Jewish Narrative'
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Dr. Alberto Paganini
'Esther, Who?'
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Dr. Ros Abramsky
'Cutting cards with the dark side'
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Solomon Summer
'Drinking on Purim'
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Zev Bar Eitan
'Don Isaac Abravanel: A remarkable Biblical Commentator'
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