The Oxford Chabad Society has organised for eight Jewish students from Oxford and London to represent the UK at the International Chabad on Campus Shabbaton weekend in New York City this week. The students will be amongst close to a thousand Jewish students from over 100 colleges throughout the United States, North America and Europe.
The UK group consists of mostly Oxford students, as well as students from London School of Economics and University College London, including one who is on the UCL Student Union board.
The students will spend Friday night Shabbat dinner with the family of Rabbi Chaim and Chani Miller, author of the Gutnick Torah commentary, and will join a huge gathering of students for a late Friday ni… Read More »
The lecture took place at the Slager Jewish student centre in central Oxford in front of a capacity audience of around 120 students and faculty. All were keen to take advantage of this rare opportunity to hear Professor Steiner, currently Extraordinary Fellow at Churchill College at the University of Cambridge, formerly Professor of Comparative Literature and Fellow at the University of Oxford, and widely recognised as one of the greatest literary minds living today.