SHULA JACOBS,
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A Tale of Two Rabbis: On Jonathan Sacks and Louis Jacobs
By Prof David Newman Rabbi Lord Sacks And Rabbi Jacobs' Dialogue In Heaven One week after the untimely passing of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, the British Jewish community meets, in what will probably be the first of many such gatherings ... Continue Reading ➨
A Personal Reflection by Simon Eder
Director - Friends of LouisJacobs.org Rabbi Lord Sacks And Rabbi Jacobs' Dialogue In Heaven Words this week have poured forth in memory of the late Rabbi Lord Sacks z''l who passed away last Shabbat. They have come from all sections of ... Continue Reading ➨
Personal Notes from Author and Publisher
Harry Freedman "Louis Jacobs was born 100 years ago this year. He remains the greatest intellect and most accomplished scholar British Jewry has ever produced. Yet, up to now nobody has written his biography. He did write an ... Continue Reading ➨
TEYKU: The Insoluble Contradictions in the Life and Thought of Louis Jacobs
BRILLIANT Upload! Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove's thesis ... Continue Reading ➨
2020 Memorial Lecture on Zoom
Since the Jacobs Affair in the 60's the Orthodox world, especially in the UK has steered well clear of the challenges of Biblical authorship. In the last few years TheTorah.com website has published hundreds of articles, mostly by Orthodox ... Continue Reading ➨
Louis Jacobs 14th Memorial Lecture
Jewish Critical Biblical Studies: Past, Present, and Future Dr Edward Breuer & Professor Marc Brettler WHEN Sunday 21st June 2020 Time 5.30 to 7.30 London time VENUE Zoom online meeting. Log On details to be sent to all bookings. ... Continue Reading ➨
Launch of booksof.louisjacobs.org event
Judaism Unbound The launch of BooksOf.LouisJacobs.org took place on 23rd February 2020. Click here to watch the videos of this memorable event > Previews of all Rabbi Jacobs books are available without registration. This site contains ... Continue Reading ➨
Judaism Unbound – Launch of booksof.louisjacobs.org
Quest For Judaism's Future Launch and Navigation This video is copied from Part Two and shows the launch and finding a way around the site. First Part Video Introduction Simon Eder – Director, Friends of LouisJacobs.org. Chair for the ... Continue Reading ➨
Being Jewish Today
Rabbi Tony Bayfield in conversation with Simon Eder When: Sunday 15th December, 5pm Where: Bigwood Hall, Bigwood Road, NW11 ... Continue Reading ➨
Rabbi Francis Nataf and Rabbi Chaim Weiner
This event was cancelled. ... Continue Reading ➨
How The Talmud Downgraded the Pillar of Cloud.
21st June 2019 - Dr Harry Freedman - When the cloud rose from the tabernacle the Israelites would set out; and at the place where the cloud settled, there the Israelites would make camp. It’s well known that, as the Israelites journeyed through the ... Continue Reading ➨
The Bible’s Property Laws- Aspiration not Legislation
24th May 2019 • Dr. Harry Freedman • The Torah does not recognise the idea of land ownership in the way that we do today. Indeed, its attitude to land is so idealised that it seems unlikely that the system it mandates was ever put into ... Continue Reading ➨
When Biblical Names Tell a Story.
17th May 2019 • Dr. Harry Freedman • The Bible frequently talks about the Children of Israel (or 'Israelites' as the old English translators would have it). In only two places does it refer to an 'Israeli'. The Book of Samuel (II Sam 17,25), speaks ... Continue Reading ➨
Be Ye Holy, for I the Lord your God am Holy.
10th May 2019 Kedoshim • Rev Dr Isaac Levy • Copy of a sermon from the early 1960's • Could any command affecting life and conduct be more puzzling than this? Surely the first question which comes to mind is how does one achieve this state of ... Continue Reading ➨
The House is On Fire.
3rd May 2019 • Simon Eder • I was struck last week by Greta Thunberg's address to the Houses of Parliament. The 16 year old climate change activist reminded us with a prophetic warning that environmental concern is the supreme issue of the day. "Our ... Continue Reading ➨
The Hagaddah and the Triumph of Hope.
18th April 2019 • Simon Eder • Steven Pinker's recent book, Enlightenment Now urges us to step back from the prophecies of doom and negative headlines plaguing the world and to a realisation that this is in fact the best time in human history to be ... Continue Reading ➨
The Hagaddah and Radical Inclusiveness.
18th April 2019 • Simon Eder • Much has been made in recent years of the intellectual and social bubbles that we construct in order to shelter us from the ideas that don't conform to our own points of view. We tend to gravitate toward the comfortable ... Continue Reading ➨
Noah’s quarantine. How biblical themes and motifs keep repeating.
12th April 2019 • Harry Freedman • Among the many inspirational passages in the Bible there are some, quite a few in fact, that seem to be exceedingly dull. Chapter 14 of Leviticus appears to be about as uninspiring as any. It deals with the ... Continue Reading ➨
A Spiritual Disease
5th April 2019 • Harry Freedman • The skin condition which is poorly translated as leprosy in English versions of the Bible is no ordinary disease. Sufferers from the disease are not only quarantined, as we might expect; they are also declared ... Continue Reading ➨