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NEW and BRILLIANT Upload!Originally published in Commentary Magazine, 1st April 2000. Beyond Reasonable Doubt by Louis Jacobs Littman Library of Jewish Civilization/Vallentine Mitchell. 267 pp. $39.50 Reviewed by David Singer The “Jacobs affair,” which took place ... Continue Reading ➨
Bradley Shavit Artson – Review of ‘God, Torah, and Israel’
Originally published in Conservative Judaism 45:1 (1992). God, Torah, Israel: Traditionalism Without Fundamentalism, by Louis Jacobs. Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1990, 99 pages. Rabbi Louis Jacobs has established himself as one of ... Continue Reading ➨
Questioning the scriptures – Review of ‘Helping with Inquiries’
Originally published in The Times, 29th July 1989. Jack Shamash on the torment of a rabbi exploring the roots of his religious faith Questioning the scriptures HELPING WITH INQUIRIES By Louis Jacobs Vallentine Mitchell, £19.50 When Rabbi ... Continue Reading ➨
John A. Cosgrove – Review of ‘Helping with Inquiries’
It was some 28 years ago in 1961 the year that I first went to University that the “Jacobs affair” first rocked British Jewry. This well written autobiography of Rabbi Dr. Louis Jacobs reveals to us all the background details surrounding the shabby ... Continue Reading ➨
Act Kosher, Think Treif – A Review of ‘Helping with Inquiries’
A selection from Alex Berlyne’s regular “Jerusalem Post” column, published in 1981, displays the following commendation on its dust cover: “This book should appeal to people of all ages, particularly if they were born in the Twenties in Manchester’s ... Continue Reading ➨
Fred Morgan – A Leisurely Journey through Judaism
Originally published in the Expository Times. A Leisurely Journey through Judaism Review Article By Rabbi Fred Morgan, North West Surrey Synagogue and Leo Baeck College Rabbi Dr Louis Jacobs is not only one of the most erudite of contemporary ... Continue Reading ➨
‘Jacobs book put on approved list’ – We Have Reason to Believe in the JC
Originally published in the Jewish Chronicle. Rabbi Dr Louis Jacobs’s controversial book, “We Have Reason to Believe,” is recommended as “a popular work on Jewish religious thought” in a new United Synagogue publication, “Your Jewish ... Continue Reading ➨
The Faith of Louis Jacobs – Review of ‘Faith’
Originally published in the Belfast Jewish Record: The Journal of the Jewish Community in Northern Ireland, 16:6 (February 1970). Louis Jacobs. Faith. Vallentine, Mitchell, 42s. It’s a great pity that, owing to the vagaries of History, no ... Continue Reading ➨
David Ariel – Review of ‘Jewish Mystical Testimonies’
Originally published in October 1979. JEWISH MYSTICAL TESTIMONIES. By Louis Jacobs. New York: Schocken Books, 1977. Pp. 270. Paper, $7.95. As this comprehensive anthology of “personal mystical testimonies” attests, there exists a wealth of ... Continue Reading ➨
Arthur Green – Review of ‘Jewish Mystical Testimonies’
Originally published in the Journal of Religion 59:2 (1979), pp. 253-4. Jacobs, Louis. Jewish Mystical Testimonies. New York: Schocken Books, 1978. 270 pp. $7.95 (paper). Jewish mystics are famous—or notorious—for their reticence in speaking ... Continue Reading ➨
‘Hasidism is not what you think it is’ – Review of ‘Hasidic Prayer’
Originally published in the National Jewish Monthly, May 1979. Hasidic Prayer by Louis Jacobs. Schocken Books. 195 pp. $3.95. In most of the major cities of the United States and in a good many college towns, Hasidim, sometimes in full dress, ... Continue Reading ➨
Jack Riemer – Review of ‘Beyond Reasonable Doubt’ in San Diego Jewish Times
Originally published in San Diego Jewish Times, 6th January 2000. “Jacobs Affair” Is Chronicled in New Book Beyond Reasonable Doubt, by Louis Jacobs, The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, London, England, distributed in America by ISBS, ... Continue Reading ➨
Maurice Edelman, M.P. – Types of Ecstasy
Tract on Ecstasy. By Dobh Baer of Lubavitch. Translated from the Hebrew with an introduction and notes by Louis Jacobs. Vallentine, Mitchell. 25s. Ecstasy, like death, is a private experience, whatever its company, and to communicate its nature ... Continue Reading ➨
Review of ‘Tract of Ecstasy’ in Zionist Record and S.A. Jewish Chronicle
Originally published in Zionist Record and S.A. Jewish Chronicle, 10th January 1964. TRACT ON ECSTACY: By Dobh Baer of Lubavitch: Translated from the Hebrew with an introduction and notes; by Louis Jacobs. Vallentine Mitchell, London: 25/-. The ... Continue Reading ➨
Review of ‘Tract on Ecstasy’ in World Jewry
Originally published in World Jewry 45:6, January 1964. Tract on Ecstasy. By Dobh Baer of Lubavitch. Translated from the Hebrew by Louis Jacobs. Vallentine, Mitchell. London. 25s. This remarkable Sefer by the son and disciple the founder of the ... Continue Reading ➨
The Teachings of the Lubavitcher
Originally published in Jewish Affairs, November 1964. While Charles Wesley was teaching Methodists in eighteenth-century England to sing of “love’s ecstatic height,” of “the glorious joy of unspeakable” and “the beatific sight,” which for him ... Continue Reading ➨
‘Moderate Book’
Originally published in the Jewish Chronicle. A critique of Rabbi Dr. Louis Jacobs’s philosophy, as expressed in his book, We Have Reason to Believe, is made in a four-page article in the June issue of Prism, an Anglican monthly. The writer, ... Continue Reading ➨
The Times Literary Supplement – Tract on Ecstasy
Originally published in The Times - Literary Supplement, 14th May 1964. Dobh Baer of Lubavitch: Tract on Ecstasy. Translated by Louis Jacobs. 195pp. Vallentine, Mitchell. 25s. Dr. Jacobs here translates for the first time into any European ... Continue Reading ➨
Acharei Mot-Kedoshim
Originally published in Judaism Today. The concept of chukat hagoy, found in the sidrah, has always been somewhat uncertain of application. In the context, the meaning would seem to be that the people of Israel are to reject utterly the sexual ... Continue Reading ➨
Don Cupitt, ‘The Sea of Faith: Christianity in Change’
Originally published in the Jewish Chronicle, 7th June 1985. The Sea of Faith: Christianity in Change. By Don Cupitt. British Broadcasting Corporation. £6.95. This is the book that accompanied the controversial BBC television series. The title, ... Continue Reading ➨