Obituaries

Originally published in The Edinburgh Star, 55 (September 2006), pp. 32-3. Towards the end of the last year the Jewish Chronicle conducted a poll amongst its readers to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the return of the Jews to England in 1656 ... Continue Reading ➨

Address by Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg Shula Jacobs - Born Shulamit Lisagorska Rabbi Dr Louis Jacobs - Our Rabbi and Teacher Family, Ivor and Tirzah, Naomi and Sasson, David, Grandchildren, Daniel and Paula, Ziva, Noa and Michael, and ... Continue Reading ➨

Incorruptible and widely esteemed scholar whose career was abruptly derailed by the Chief Rabbinate July 17, 1920 - July 1, 2006 The final drama in the eventful life of Louis Jacobs came last December. He was told by the Jewish Chronicle, the ... Continue Reading ➨

Jewish Chronicle UK Jews mourn Rabbi Louis Jacobs by Simon Rocker British Jews from across the religious spectrum mourned the loss this week of Rabbi Dr Louis Jacobs, the community's greatest rabbinic scholar, and the subject of its biggest ... Continue Reading ➨

At the Memorial Service From the time I was a boy, it was always my ambition to stand in the pulpit and address a congregation with the words my Father often used - 'My Friends'. I never expected that my ambition would be fulfilled today, on such a ... Continue Reading ➨

At the Memorial Service There is a beautiful midrash that when Moses died, Joshua wept and mourned over him - saying "My father, my father, my master, my master. My father who raised me, my master who taught me Torah" - mourning so long and so ... Continue Reading ➨

Cosgrove at the Memorial Service Last week, a dear friend and colleague of Rabbi Jacobs, Dr. Byron Sherwin, shared with me that in generations to come, historians of British Jewry might very well conclude that "Louis Jacobs" could not possibly ... Continue Reading ➨

Louis Jacobs: A Theology For Our Day by Reuven Hammer - Jerusalem Post The Jewish world has recently lost one of its finest scholars and teachers of Judaism, Rabbi Dr Louis Jacobs, who passed away in London on July 1 at the age of 85. Rabbi Jacobs ... Continue Reading ➨

Distinguished but controversial minister at the centre of a theological dispute that split British Jewry by Michael Freedland and Rabbi Jonathan Romain Louis Jacobs, who has died aged 85, should be remembered as an outstanding Jewish theologian, ... Continue Reading ➨

July 2nd 2006 RABBI JONATHAN WITTENBERG delivered the Hesped at the New London Synagogue prior to burial at Cheshunt Family, Ivor (and Tirza), Naomi (and Sasson), David (and Maya) Grandchildren, Daniel and Paula, Ziva, Noa and Michael, and ... Continue Reading ➨

Delivered at the Shiva Ivor, Nomi, David. Thank you for inviting me to share some words of Torah and appreciation of your father. I was scheduled to give, this very evening, a lecture on the writings of Rabbi Jacobs and the notion that I instead ... Continue Reading ➨

Rabbi Louis Jacobs: Biblical scholar, preacher and sage who became an alternative leader of 'traditional' Judaism in Britain by John Cooper Louis Jacobs, rabbi: born Manchester 17 July 1920; Rabbi, Central Synagogue, Manchester 1948-54; Rabbi, New ... Continue Reading ➨

Rabbi Dr Louis Jacobs Place of Birth: Manchester Born: July 17, 1920 Died: London, July 1, 2006, aged 85 A reluctant revolutionary, Rabbi Dr Louis Jacobs was the eye of the storm which rocked Anglo-Jewry in the mid-1960s - the Jacobs affair, ... Continue Reading ➨