Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz Visits Oxford to Debate Contemporary Western Society
By Daniel Lowe
Renowned speaker and thinker Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz visited Oxford's Chabad Society this week to deliver a lecture in honour of Sir Isaiah Berlin, considered by many to be one of the most prominent liberal thinkers of the twentieth century.Not just content with simply presenting a lecture, the indefatigable Israeli rabbi and a group of students toured Jewish sites of interest in the world-famous university city, including the location where it is thought that Haggai of Oxford - a 13th century convert to Judaism - was executed by edict of the Church. There they prayed the afternoon mincha service with the traditional mourner&rsquo… Read More »
The Oxford University Chabad Society organised one of the first formal pilgrimages in a few centuries to the site of Osney Abbey, where Robert of Reading, who changed his name to Haggai of Oxford, was burnt alive for his Jewish faith in 1222AD.
The Oxford University Chabad society inaugurated a new annual lecture in honour of the centenary of Oxford Jewish philosopher Sir Isaiah Berlin. The Isaiah Berlin memorial lecture on Jewish philosophy was delivered by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz at the David Slager Chabad Jewish student centre in Oxford in the presence of about 100 people.