LECTURES AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY CHABAD SOCIETY
Texts & Recordings
We are delighted to present here a list of some of the lectures hosted by the Oxford University Chabad Society.
Professor Abraham Steinberg
World's leading expert on Jewish medical ethics
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Jewish comedian Dave Schneider
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PoW Denis Avey, who smuggled himself into Auschwitz
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Maharal Seminar (d. 1609)
Rabbi Chaim Rapoport 'Maharal's Interpretation of the Bible'
Dr. Israel Sandman 'Maharal & Maimonides' Dr. Naftali Loewenthal 'Maharal & Hasidism'
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Dr. Joseph David 'Maharal & the laws relating to the Land of Israel' -
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Dr. Menachem Kallus 'Kabalistic depictions' -
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Sir Nicholas Winton, 100 years old
"How & Why I saved 669 Jewish children from the Holocaust"
Vera Gissing, Winton child
John Fieldsend, Winton child
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Sir Nicholas Winton at Oxford Union
Ruth Humphreys, Winton child on last Winton train
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Baruch Samuel Memorial Lecture
Rabbi Prof. Immanuel Schochet
Bible Criticism: Human Composition or Revelation?
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Sir Isaiah Berlin Centenary Memorial Lecture
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz
Is Judaism compatible with Western culture?
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Holocaust Survivor Margaret Acher
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The David Irving Trial and Its Implications
Mr. Richard Rampton QC
Richard Rampton QC is a leading British libel lawyer, who has been involved in several high profile cases, including his defence of Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Books against David Irving among the most famous. He also successfully represented George Galloway MP against the Daily Telegraph over claims he took £375,000 from Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime.
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Mr. Jack White
Leading expert on the Portugese Jewish Marranos, has visited and is active amongst the Marrano Jewish community in Porto, in northern Portugal
"Return of the Marranos to Judaism"
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Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar
"Jews of Russian: Past and Present"
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Guest of Honour Mr. Nathaniel Rothschild
Introduction by Professor Robert Service, director of the Russian studies centre, St Antony's College
Prof. David Deutsch, Father of Quantum Computers, Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford University
Fabric of Reality
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Delivered at the launch of the Samson Judaica library
Professor Laurence Dreyfus FBA
Magdalen College
Hermann Levi, Jewish Wagnerian
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Delivered at the launch of the Samson Judaica library
Arguments proving the existence of G‑d
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One of Australia's formost physicists
Science & Religion: The Dawkins' Delusion
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Professor Sir Michael Howard, War Historian
"Reflections on the Holocaust"
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Dr. Yoram Blachar, president of World Medical Association & Israel Medical Association
"Physicians' Dual Loyalties: Israel-Palestinian Conflict"
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Holocaust Survivor Solly Irving 
"Destined to Survive"
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Exclusive discussion with Oxford University Chabad Society at Inspire Conference, 2007.
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Lady Elaine Sacks, wife of Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks, at ground-breaking ceremony of Oxford Mikvah
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Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz
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Professor Irwin Cotler, former Justice Minister of Canada
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Former Chief Rabbi of Israel Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, youngest survivor of Buchenwald
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