Announcements

The Oxford Seminar on ‘Orthodoxy, Theological Debate and Contemporary Judaism: A Critical Exploration of Questions Raised in the Thought of Louis Jacobs’ opened with an international symposium focused on ‘Orthodox Judaism and Theology in the Twenty-first Century’. It was introduced by Dr Miri Freud-Kandel from Oxford and Dr Adam Ferziger of Bar-Ilan University, in the 

We are delighted to announce the appointment of five new Governors of the Centre – three of them women:   Dr Sondra Hausner Dr Sondra Hausner is University Lecturer in the Study of Religion at Oxford. Her primary teaching interests are social and cultural theories of religion, and her primary research interests are religion in 

When Piet van Boxel, then Curator of the Bodleian Library’s Hebrew Collection and Director of the Centre’s Muller Library, mounted ‘Crossing Borders: Hebrew Manuscripts as the Meeting Place of Cultures’ in 2008 in Oxford, he assembled a display of some of the world’s most important Hebrew manuscripts. The exhibition tells the story of how Christian 

Honorary Fellowships have been conferred on two senior scholars who have been associated with the Centre for many years: Professor Emanuel Tov and Professor Geza Vermes. Professor Geza Vermes was born to an assimilated Jewish family in Hungary, was baptized with his parents in 1931 at the age of six, and later became a member 

Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank, a member of the Board of Governors of the Centre, has recently been appointed Field Marshal after a long and distinguished career in the Army. This is the highest possible rank, senior to that of a General, and is held currently by just eight people, three of them members of the