Commemoration Shabbat dinner in memory of the Toulouse Jewish victims OBM
By French Jewish student, Joachim Behar, Balliol College, Oxford
As a French Jewish student living in Oxford, I have been asked to say a few words about the recent tragic events that occurred in France as a way of commemorating the Jewish victims of last week’s terrorist attack in Toulouse. Last Monday, a professor of Jewish studies - a rabbi - and three children were killed in the morning in front of a Jewish high school in Toulouse. A young man aged 17 was also seriously injured and his condition is critical. This attack followed a similar attack directed towards three soldiers … Read More »
Oxford Chabad Society had the honour of hosting during February Daniel Cohn-Bendit, a Franco-German Jewish politician, famous for being a student leader during the unrest of May 1968 in France. During that time he was known as Dany le Rouge (French for "Danny the Red", because of both his politics and the color of his hair). He is currently co-president of the group European Greens–European Free Alliance in the European Parliament, becoming "Dany le Vert" (French for "Danny the Green", because of his new fight for ecology), and co-chair of the Spinelli Group, a European parliament intergroup aiming at relaunching the federalist project in Europe. In 2010, he was involved in founding JCall, a European advo… 
Dr. Charlotte Knobloch, Vice President of World and European Jewish Congress and former President of Central Council of Jews of Germany, gave last week the Edward Ross memorial lecture at the Oxford University Chabad Society, on ‘Challenges facing Jewish life in Germany after the Holocaust’.