Oxford University Chabad Society

HILARY TERMCARD 2026

Welcome to Oxford University Chabad Society HILARY Termcard '26! 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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Thanksgiving.jpgWeekly 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, at 7pm - Kabbalat Shabbat, followed by dinner - at Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George St, Oxford, OX1 2BQ

Shabbat Lunch at 1.30pm at Chabad House, 75 Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 1HR

RSVP: [email protected]

All are welcome! 

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Week 1

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Medieval Jewish Walking Tour

Visit the site of the first and second medieval Jewish cemeteries on the site of Magdalen College and Botanic Garden, Dead Man's Walk, Copin of Worcester's synagogue on the site of Christ Church, house of Moses of Oxford and Moses of Wallingford and his son Deulecresse (part of Pembroke College), home of David of Oxford (Town Hall), the first Oxford college, bought from a Jewish landowner (Merton College), Europe's first Coffee House opened by Jacob the Jew, the site of the burning of the Deacon who converted to Judaism in 1222 (Osney Abbey), amongst other fascinating sites of Jewish heritage.

Sunday, 18 January 1.30pm

Meet at Botanic garden

RSVP: click here.

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Welcome Back Shawarma & Drinks
 
Come by for shawarma and drinks welcome-back evening and chill out with new and old friends.
 
Tues (week 1), 20 January, 7-9pm
 
At Slager Jewish student centre, 61 George Street, Oxford, OX1 2BQ
 
RSVP: click here.
 
All are welcome!

 

 

 
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Friday Night Shabbat Dinner

Prof. David Enoch

'Autonomy in belief and action'

David Enoch is the newly inaugurated Professor of the Philosophy of Law at the University of Oxford. He does primarily moral, political, and legal philosophy. David studied law and philosophy at Tel Aviv University, then clerked for Justice Beinisch at the Israeli Supreme Court. He pursued a PhD in philosophy at NYU (2003), and has been a faculty member at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem ever since, on a joint appointment in philosophy and law. He started at Oxford as the Professor of the Philosophy of Law in 2023 and has his inauguration on 1st Nov, 2024.

Friday, 23 January, 7.30pm

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

RSVP: click here.

All are welcome!

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Week 2

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Oxford University Chabad Society invites you to

Holocaust Memorial Lecture

Dutch Holocaust Survivor Hans (Jochanan) Mouwes

‘How I survived the Holocaust in the heart of Nazi occupied Amsterdam’

Hans (Jochanan) Mouwes was born into a Dutch Jewish family in 1941. In 1942, when the Nazis intensified anti-Jewish policies and prepared mass deportation of the Jews, Hans' parents left him in the care of a non-Jewish family in the heart of Amsterdam, who took him in at great risk. Refusing any remuneration, besides keeping his Dutch name, they have been honoured as righteous among the nations. Mr. Mouwes will tell the story of his family, how he survived the war, and the heroism of his non-Jewish foster parents, who saved his life.

Tuesday, 27 January, 8pm

Buffet reception 7pm

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

Click here to RSVP.

All are welcome!

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Professor Jane Caplan

'What’s in a Name? From ‘The Final Solution of the Jewish Question’ to ‘The Holocaust’'

Jane Caplan FRHistS is a leading historian specialising in Nazi Germany and the history of the documentation of individual identity. She is Emeritus Fellow at St. Antony's College, University of Oxford, currently Visiting Professor at Birkbeck, University of London, and Visiting Professor of History at Gresham College. She is author of Gabriele Herz, The Women's Camp in Moringen; A Memoir of Imprisonment in Germany 1936-1937 (New York/Oxford Berghahn Books 2006); Nazi Germany (OUP 2008); Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany. The New Histories with Nikolaus Wachsmann (Routledge, 2010).

Wednesday, 28 January, 8pm

Buffet reception 7pm

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

Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 831 3306 2954
Passcode: 621625

All are welcome!

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Friday Night Shabbat Dinner

Professor Timothy Williamson

'Becoming a Philosopher'

Timothy Williamson has been Senior Research and Teaching Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Oxford since 2023, Fellow of New College Oxford since 2000, Whitney Griswold Visiting Professor at Yale University since 2018, and part-time Professor at the Università della Svizzera italiana (Lugano) since 2022. From 2000 to 2023 he was the Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford. Previously he was the Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at Edinburgh University (1995-2000), Fellow of University College Oxford (1988-1994), and Lecturer in Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin. He has also held visiting professorships at MIT, Princeton, the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), UNAM (Mexico City), and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and visiting positions at the Australian National University (Canberra), the University of Canterbury (Christchurch), and the Centre for Advanced Study (Oslo). He received his BA in Mathematics and Philosophy (1976) and DPhil in Philosophy (1981) from the University of Oxford. TW’s books include Identity and Discrimination (1990), Vagueness (1994), Knowledge and its Limits (2000), The Philosophy of Philosophy (2007), Modal Logic as Metaphysics (2013), Tetralogue: I’m
Right, You’re Wrong (2015), Doing Philosophy: From Common Curiosity to Logical Reasoning (2018), Suppose and Tell: The Semantics and Heuristics of Conditionals (2020), Debating the A Priori (with Paul Boghossian, 2020), Overfitting and Heuristics in Philosophy (2024), and Good as Usual: Anti-Exceptionalist Essays on Norms, Values, and Action (2025). A film version of Tetralogue is currently under production. TW is a fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, member of the Academia Europaea and the Institut International de Philosophie, foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, international honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy. He was awarded the 2024 Lauener Prize for an Outstanding Oeuvre in Analytical Philosophy.

Friday, 30 January, 7.30pm

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

RSVP: Click here.

All are welcome!

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Week 3

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Tu B'Shvat - Birthday of the Trees

Fruit and chocolate fondue

Sunday, 1 February, 7pm

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

All are welcome!

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Lord David Neuberger

David Edmond Neuberger, Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury was appointed President of the Supreme Court in 2012, the second person to hold that office since 2009 when the Court replaced the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords. He previously held the post of Master of the Rolls from 1 October 2009. Lord Neuberger was educated at Westminster School, later studying Chemistry at Christ Church, Oxford. After graduating he worked at the merchant bank, N M Rothschild & Sons from 1970-1973 until he entered Lincoln's Inn and was called to the Bar in 1974. Lord Neuberger was made a Queen's Counsel (QC) in 1987 and became a Bencher for Lincoln's Inn in 1993. His first judicial appointment was as a Recorder from 1990 until 1996 when he was appointed a High Court judge in the Chancery Division and was then the Supervisory Chancery Judge for the Midland, Wales and Chester and Western Circuits 2000 - 2004. Since 1999 Lord Neuberger has been Chairman of the Advisory Committee on the Spoliation of Art (in the Holocaust). Between 2000 to 2011 he was governor of the University of Arts London and from 2013 to 2014 Chairman of the Schizophrenia Trust. In 2014 he became a patron of MHUK. In January 2004 he was appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal. He also led an investigation for the Bar Council into widening access to the barrister profession. In 2007 he was made a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and created a life peer as Baron Neuberger of Abbotsbury in the County of Dorset.

Tuesday, 3 February, 8pm

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

Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 894 6492 2463
Passcode: 729327

All are welcome!

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Challah Bake

Breast cancer awareness week

Monday, 5 February, 7pm

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

All are welcome!




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Friday Night Shabbat Dinner

Sir Tim Hitchens

Sir Tim is President of Wolfson College, Oxford. He came to Wolfson in 2018 after 35 years in the British Diplomatic Service. He studied English at Christ’s College Cambridge. His last overseas posting was as British Ambassador to Tokyo. Before that he was Africa Director. His postings took him to Pakistan, Afghanistan, France and Japan. For four years he was Assistant Private Secretary to The Queen.

Friday, 6 February, 7.30pm

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

All are welcome!

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Week 4

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Dr Sebastian Brock FBA

'Jewish traditions within Syriac literature'

Emeritus Reader in Syriac Studies, University of Oxford, and Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. Born 1938 to James Brock (archaeologist) and Ursula Brock (nee Cooper, silk weaver). 1966, married to Helen M.C.Brock (nee Hughes; archaeologist). Educated at Eton College (King's Scholar), and Trinity College Cambridge (Classics and Oriental Languages [Hebrew and Aramaic]); DPhil Oxford 1966. Assistant Lecturer, then Lecturer, University of Birmingham (Department of Theology) 1964-1967; Lecturer in Hebrew, then Lecturer in Hebrew and Aramaic, Cambridge University, 1967-1974; Lecturer in Aramaic and Syriac, then Reader in Syriac Studies, Oxford University, 1974-2003; 2003- Emeritus Reader in Syriac Studies and Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford.

Tuesday, 10 February, 8pm

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

Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 862 7063 6613
Passcode: 344533

All are welcome!

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Week 5

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Phil Rosenberg

'A Brighter Future for the UK Jewish Community - An evening with Board of Deputies President Phil Rosenberg'

Phil Rosenberg is the 49th President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews. At 38, he became the youngest ever President in the Board’s 264-year history. Phil is the Deputy for Brondesbury Park Synagogue. A consultant specialising in government relations, media, faith and diplomacy, he has served as an elected local councillor in the London Borough of Camden and was previously Director of the Faiths Forum for London. Phil is married to Frances.

Tuesday, 17 February, 8pm

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

All are welcome!

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Week 6

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Pre-Purim Seminar in Jewish Studies - Yom Limmud 

Exploring the holiday of Purim through Jewish philosophy, mysticism, ethics, liturgy and law 
 
Sunday, 22 February, 1-5pm 

Programme:

7pm Buffet lunch

Dr. Israel Sandman, University College London

Israel Sandman is a Fellow at the Hebrew & Jewish Studies Department at University College London and an expert on medieval Jewish philosophy and manuscripts.
 
Rabbi Eli Brackman, Oxford University Chabad Society

‘The commentary of the Lubavitcher Rebbe on Rashi on Proverbs 15:15: A cheerful heart has a continual feast

Zev Bar Eitan

'Abravanel's world'

A Bible educator, Zev Bar Eitan has been lecturing and sharing Don Yitzchak Abravanel's Bible commentary to audiences around the world. Bar Eitan is presently writing Abravanel’s World of Torah. Upon completion (2017), this will comprise a multi-volume set of Don Yitzchak Abravanel ’s commentary to the Five Books of Moses and the Prophets. Genesis (Beresheit) has been printed three times since it was published in 2012. Widely acclaimed by leading Rabbis, Educators, and book critics, the book makes Abravanel accessible to contemporary readers. Bar Eitan provides students of Bible as well as those interested in learning more about Judaism a solid footing of Abravanel's thought and approach to so many important and fascinating topics.

Rabbi  Daniel Glauberman

'Was It Hard to Schedule a Bar-Mitzvah in Mordechai's Shul in Shushan?'

Rabbi Daniel Aaron Glauberman learned in the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem, and later attended shiurim by Maran Rav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv ztz"l and the Rishon L'Tziyon Rav Mordechai Eliyahu ztz"l. He has edited tens of Torah seforim, and himself written Sefer Avnei Torah. As son of the mathematician Professor Yaakov (George) Glauberman, he also has become an expert in calculations related to the Jewish calendar and halachic times of day, implementing, devising, and publishing advanced scientific methods that have raised the standard for such calculations. He and his rebbetzin and their six children live in Israel.

Dr. Luz Evelia Martin del Campo

David Walker Memorial Fellow in Early Modern History at the Bodleian Libraries-Special Collections -The University of Oxford

Maxwell Benster, Oriel college, Oxford

'Philo'

RSVPinfo@oxfordchabad.org

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

More speakers to be confirmed. To deliver a talk , please email: [email protected]

All are welcome!

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Prof. Rabbi Avraham Steinberg

'Physician Assisted Suicide and Jewish Law'

One of the world’s greatest experts in Jewish medical ethics, Rabbi Prof. Avraham Steinberg is the author of the seven volume Encyclopedia of Jewish Medical Ethics, for which he was awarded the Israel Prize. A senior pediatric neurologist and medical ethicist at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, he is also the Director of Yad HaRav Herzog and the head of the editorial board of the Talmudic Encyclopedia, a monumental project begun in 1942 which aims to summarize the halachic topics of the Talmud in alphabetical order. The encyclopedia is due to be completed in 2024.

Tuesday, 24 February, 7pm

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

Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 899 3065 2344
Passcode: 934368

All are welcome!

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Prof. Eshbal Ratzon

The Dead Sea Scrolls: Their Discovery and Significance?

Eshbal Ratzon is an Associate Professor at the Department of Jewish Philosophy and the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at Tel Aviv University. She specializes in Jewish Studies, with a focus on Second Temple literature and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Her research examines ancient science, especially calendars and astronomy, combining historical and philological approaches with Digital Humanities methods.

Wed, 25 Feb, 8pm

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

All are welcome!

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Pre-Purim Persian Cuisine Shabbat Dinner

Friday, 27 February, 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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GRAND PURIM PARTY

DOWN UNDER - AUSSIE STYLE CELEBRATION 

Enjoy a lively Aussie-themed BBQ-style Purim party with juicy beef burgers, sausages, chicken skewers, and grilled veggies, served with classic sides like coleslaw, potato salad and a range of delicious other salads and drinks, as well as traditional Purim treats with an Aussie twist, like pavlova and great Aussie beers. Great food, great vibes, drinks, dancing and plenty of Purim fun — Aussie style! 

Monday, 2 March, 7pm - until midnight

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

All are welcome!

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Grand PURIM Feast for the whole community 

Classic Purim feast cuisine with bouncy zone, crafts and face painting for the whole community, serving traditional Purim cuisine.

Tuesday, 3 March, 3pm - 5pm

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

All are welcome! 

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Megillah - Scroll of Esther - readings:

Monday, 2 March, 7pm, 9pm, 11pm

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

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

All are welcome!

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Rabbi Dr. Michael Baris

'Norms of Doubt: A Maimonidean Perspective on the Threshold of Doubt'

Rabbi Michael Baris, a member of the Israeli Bar, holds a PhD from Bar-Ilan and degrees in law from Hebrew University, and teaches Jewish Law, Philosophy of Law and Labour Law at the Sha'arei Mishpat Academic Center in Hod Hasharon. A former Rosh Kollel in Ofra, and Rabbi (Ram) at the Yeshivat Hesder in Karnei Shomron, he is currently the Rabbi of the Synagogue founded in Tel Aviv by the late Chief Rabbi of Israel and the IDF, Rabbi Shlomo Goren.

Wednesday, 4 March, 1pm

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

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84454192407?pwd=TZmIVIaYKoo6UZYDF6rNuHks9DDiMd.1

Meeting ID: 844 5419 2407
Passcode: 568420

All are welcome!

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Week 8

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Professor Mladen Popovic

Professor of Old Testament and Early Judaism at University of Groningen

‘How old are the Dead Sea Scrolls?’

Mladen Popović studied at the University of Groningen, the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and Yale University. As of September 2017, he has been appointed as the dean of the Faculty of Religion, Culture and Society. Popović conducted archaeological research in Megiddo and Jerusalem. He is former head and dean of the Qumran Institute of the University of Groningen, which has a leading role within the Netherlands in the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls. In 2013, Popović was curator of the unique exhibition of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the Drents Museum. In 2014 Popović was awarded an ERC Starting Grant of €1,5 million that he used to further develop his pioneering research on the Dead Sea Scrolls. Together with Lambert Schomaker, scientific director of the Artificial Intelligence Institute of the RUG, Popović wanted to develop a new method to analyze the Dead Sea Scrolls known as ‘Digital palaeography’ using artificial intelligence and carbon dating in combination with palaeography (the study of ancient and historical handwriting). They believe that with highly advanced techniques for pattern matching and image processing, the individual writers of the manuscripts can be identified. This knowledge will provide a better understanding of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the culture from which they originated. In 2021, through analysis of the manuscript with artificial intelligence, Popović, Schomaker and PhD student Maruf Dhali succeeded to conclude that the famous great Isaiah scroll was written by two writers. In 2025, many Dead Sea Scrolls were found to be older than always assumed. An international research team, led by Popović, combined radiocarbon dating, palaeography and artificial intelligence into a more accurate date prediction model: Enoch. Since 2024 Mladen has been a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. 

Tuesday, 10 March, 8pm

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

Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 827 9279 1162
Passcode: 537179

All are welcome!

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Future events

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Professor Pinchas Roth

'Newly discovered responsa from medieval England'

Pinchas Roth (PhD, Hebrew University, 2012) is an associate professor in the Talmud Department at Bar-Ilan University. He studies the history of Jewish law (Halakhah) in medieval western Europe.

Monday, 20 April, 8pm

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

All are welcome! 

 

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Dr. Jonathan Romain MBE

'Assisted Dying debate'

Dr Romain MBE is a writer and broadcaster. He has a PhD in the history of British Jewry. He writes for The Times, The IndependentThe GuardianThe Huffington Post, and The Jewish Chronicle and appears on radio and television. He is chaplain to the Jewish Police Association, and until 2018 chaired the Accord Coalition, which he helped found as an alliance of religious and non-religious groups committed to campaigning against religious discrimination in state-funded faith schools. In 2014 he established Inter-faith leaders for Dignity in Dying (IFDiD), an inter-faith group of clergy, now numbering 50 leaders of many religious affiliations who support the aims of Dignity in Dying. The group calls for a change in the law that would allow terminally ill, mentally competent adults the choice of an having themselves die. He is author of Assisted Dying – Rabbinic Responses.

Tuesday, 28 April, 8pm

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

All are welcome! 

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Prof. Frank Griffel

'Reading Maimonides in the Context of Islamic Philosophy: His 7th Reason for Contradictions in Books Reconsidered'

Frank Griffel is Professor of the Study of Abrahamic Religions at Oxford University and Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall. He has published widely in the fields of Islamic philosophy and theology as well as Muslim intellectual history. After working on apostasy in Islam and on the leading theologian and philosopher al-Ghazālī (d. 1111), Griffel turned his interest toward the history of philosophy in Islam and Judaism, particularly during Islam’s post-classical period after the 11th century. He publishes in English and in German and his books have been translated into Turkish and Arabic. Griffel is also the Louis M. Rabinowitz Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at Yale University. 

Tuesday, 12 May, 8pm

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

All are welcome! 

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Rabbi Dr. David Sher

'Jewish Treasures from the John Rylands Library'

Tuesday, 19 May, 8pm

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

All are welcome! 

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John Bowers KC

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. He was the Founding Editor of Blackstones Employment Law Practice and the Transfer of Undertakings Encyclopaedia. He is a former Chair of the Employment Law Bar Association. He is most recently author of “Downward Spiral: Collapsing Public Standards and How to Restore Them” (Manchester University Press).

Friday, 29 May, 7pm

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

All are welcome! 

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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 at 7pm, Monday at 5.30pm and Thursday at 5.30pm 

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 topics in Jewish ethics and philosophy.

Every Monday, 1pm

Brasenose College, Platnauer Room

RSVP: [email protected]

All are welcome!

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Parsha class

Join us for an in-depth study of the weekly Torah portion on Zoom with Rabbi Eli 

Wednesdays, 7pm 

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

All are welcome!

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Oxford University Chabad Society invites you to join a new course 

'Medieval Jewish Philosophy'

Dr Israel M. Sandman

Using primary texts in English translation, we shall explore the development of the conceptions of G‑d, the human, the world, and the purpose of our existence through classic  Jewish texts from the Hebrew Bible, Greek philosophical sources, and Persian / Arabic Islamic philosophers (Al-Farabi and Avicenna).  Jewish philosophers include Maimonides, Solomon Ibn Gabirol, Judah Ha-Levi, Gersonides and Hasdai Crescas.  Works of Kabbalah include the Zohar, Meir Ibn Gabbai, Moses Cordovero, and Isaac Luria.  Ḥasidic sources include the Baal Shem Tov, the Maggid of Mezritch, and ḤaBaD works, as well as R. Levi Isaac of Berditchev and R. Naḥman of Breslov.

Thursdays at 5.30pm.

To sign up to the course: click  here.

All are welcome!

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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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Hebrew for Beginners Course

For 6 consecutive weeks 

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

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: 12.30pm-2pm

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

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Sign UpWrite - Subscribe

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

 

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Oxford Chabad Society Committee 2025-6

Grace Steinberg (LMH) - President, Jake Masters (St John's) - Secretary, Effi Dahlen (Keble) - Vice President/Treasurer, Aviad Sadeh (Brookes Chabad Society President), Marshall Gould (Genomics), Carli Cooperstein (Corpus), Alexandre Bismuth (St Annes), Hannah Brosh (St Annes), Emanuel Bor (St Peter's), Joelle Solowiejczyk (St Peter's), Zach Berkowitz, Jordan Rothschild, Max Pushkin (Trinity), Roy Rosman (St Hugh's), Luc Cazanave, Kyle Geinstein.

Senior Member: Dr. 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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