SHULA JACOBS,
NEW and BRILLIANT Upload!Truth in Faith by Joel Yor PRINCIPLES OF THE JEWISH FAITH: An Analytical Study. By Louis Jacobs. Basic, N.Y. xii & 473 pp. $9.50. At the heart of the tempestuous controversy that has been raging within Great Britain’s Jewish community in ... Continue Reading ➨
Student dissertation – ‘The Theology of Rabbi Louis Jacobs: a Controversy in British Judaism in the 1960s’
Undergraduate dissertation, presented by the author to the Department of Theology of the University of Britsol in 1987. The Theology of Rabbi. Louis Jacobs: a Controversy in British Judaism in the 1960s A Dissertation presented to the Department of ... Continue Reading ➨
Robert H. Saltzer – The Kabbalah: A Discussion with Rabbi Louis Jacobs
The author wrote this paper for a course in Kabbalah at the New School for Social Research (New York), submitted on 9 January 1979. The Kabbalah - A Discussion with Rabbi Louis Jacobs by: Robert H. Saltzer for: Rabbi Herbert Weiner ... Continue Reading ➨
Shalom Coleman – Dr. Jacobs’ Search For a “Middle Way”
This review was cut from a newspaper. A handwritten note reads "AJN - 1.1.1965". DR. JACOBS’ SEARCH FOR A “MIDDLE WAY” Controversial English rabbi and scholar, Dr. Louis Jacobs has recently published a book “Principles of the Jewish Faith - An ... Continue Reading ➨
Brenda Forster, ‘Critique: Louis Jacobs’ A Jewish Theology’
Editor's note: This essay was written by a student in December 1986 - probably as a course paper. The name of the student has been removed, for privacy reasons. The teacher's notes, handwritten at the end of the essay (and transcribed here), suggest ... Continue Reading ➨
The Haberman Interview
Originally published in Joshua O. Haberman, The God I Believe In: What Jews Still Believe (New York, 1994), pp. 63-74. Rabbi Louis Jacobs combines the qualities of a great rabbi, scholar, preacher and theologian. Born in Manchester, England, he ... Continue Reading ➨
Constitution of the New London Synagogue – May 1965
Constitution adopted at the first Annual General Meeting 23rd May, 1965 ------------ New London synagogue 33 ABBEY ROAD, LONDON, N.W.8 Preamble to Constitution “That the members of the New West End Synagogue here assembled reaffirm their ... Continue Reading ➨
Statement by Sir Isaac Wolfson, President of the United Synagogue – April 1964
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED SYNAGOGUE SIR ISAAC WOLFSON BT. FRS. Hon.LLD (London); Hon. LLD (Glasgow); Hon. FRCP Hon. DCL (Oxford) TO THE COUNCIL OF THE UNITED SYNAGOGUE AT A SPECIAL MEETING HELD ON 23rd April 1964 — 11th Iyar ... Continue Reading ➨
William Frankel – “In the Eye of the Storm: Reflections on the Jacobs’ Affair”
Manuscript written by William Frankel, former editor of the Jewish Chronicle, c. 2000. The tumult and the shouting over, the so-called Jacobs affair, which deeply divided Anglo-Jewry some 40 years ago, have long since died, though the echoes ... Continue Reading ➨
Ignaz Maybaum, ‘The Jacobs Affair: Anglo-Jewry in Crisis’
Originally published in Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought, (Fall) 1964. Ignaz Maybaum, formerly Communal Rabbi of the Berlin Jewish Congregation, is Minister Emeritus of the Edgware and District Reform Synagogue in England. ... Continue Reading ➨
Sefton Temkin, Letter to the Editor of Tradition about the Jacobs Affair
Originally published in Tradition 8:3 (Fall 1966). Jacobs Affair To the editor of TRADITION: In the course of his eminently readable account of the situation in Anglo Jewry published in the summer issue of TRADITION, Mr. Norman Cohen honors ... Continue Reading ➨
The Captive In Our Midst?
New London News - APRIL 1972 Vol. 3. No. 1. Rabbi Jacobs-with that complete loyalty which he gives us-would deny that this description fitted him. Yet I wonder if he has not sometimes' in his private thoughts' felt a little disappointed with ... Continue Reading ➨
Neil Gilman on Louis Jacobs
Underrated 20th Century Jewish Thinkers Conservative Judaism Summer 2003 INTRODUCTION by Martin S. Cohen It is a very sobering experience to peruse a list of Nobel Prize winners and to realize how many of these individuals-men and women ... Continue Reading ➨
Points from Sermons (Part 2)
Originally published in Venture 2.1 (June 1957), pp. 17-18. Searching for the Torah The Rabbis noted that the two middle words of the Torah are larosh darash, meaning 'he diligently inquired.' It is a mistake to think of Judaism as a static faith ... Continue Reading ➨
The Lion Interview
A magazine of St Marks Parish, Hamilton Terrace, NW8 Volume 3 No 5 March-May 2000 Maggie Currey talks to Rabbi Louis Jacobs Rabbi Louis Jacobs, 79, has been in charge of the New London Synagogue in Abbey Road since 1964 and his retirement later ... Continue Reading ➨
The Library of Rabbi Louis Jacobs
The Leopold Muller Memorial library of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies Article written by Piet van Boxel and originally published in "The Annual Report of the Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies 2006" Reproduced with the kind ... Continue Reading ➨
The Levin Interview
1966 TV Transcript BERNARD LEVIN Dr. Jacobs, what I want to talk to you about, to ask you about, is in its broadest aspects, Judaism in the modern world. Now I want to talk to you particularly about this because without meaning any kind of ... Continue Reading ➨
Stonesetting Feb. 25th 2007
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 ➨
Obituary in The Times
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 ➨
The Third Annual Louis Jacobs Memorial Lecture by Michael Melchior
Israel's Future By Michael Melchior, Member of Knesset 28 June 2009 Rabbi Jeremy Gordon: I want to welcome Rabbi Melchior to New London Synagogue. Rabbi Melchior is the seventh generation to serve as Chief Rabbi in Scandinavia in his family. He ... Continue Reading ➨