Averroes! I did my MTS at BU and ALMOST did it at Harvard, and I ran with the UU club there for a while. I still live in Cambridge most of the time. Lovely, lovely spot.
Does your name mean you do Jewish studies?
I do religion and science, so I'm working with Donovan Schaefer and Alister McGrath. The concentration is kind of new at oxford, I get to be one of its first graduates!
That's a great question. I've only met with each of my POIs once, but one of them told me that the two of them had a meeting - the "heads" for the religion and science concentration, to review the candidates and sort of rank them. They sent the applications along with notes of 'strong recommendation' (for me, hah!), or other I'm assuming less enthusiastic ones, to the final admissions committee. I gather the final committee has the job of balancing the requests of all of the different concentrations and allocating colleges and funds. They also send the emails out mid-end March. From what I gather talking to people here and at the school its pretty easy to get information about the process from them, you simply have to ask.