Thanks for having me here - it’s great to be here with the Oxford Chabad Society - and to see such a strong turnout. I know that the Chabad Society and other Jewish societies around Oxford are renowned for the wide range of welcoming events they offer, from the weekly Friday Night Dinners to the infamous end of term party, Jewbilation.
Here at Oxford, we have been blessed with a strong Jewish community for many decades, ever since Gladstone’s Universities Test Act in 1871 opened up the way for religious minorities to take up academic posts and student roles at universities.[1] One of the first academics to do so was the mathematician James Joseph Sylvester who served as a Professor of Geometry and came up with the matri… Read More »