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The Second Annual Louis Jacobs Memorial Lecture by Arnold Eisen

Taking Hold of Torah By Arnold Eisen, Chancellor, JTS, New York 6 July 2008 It is certainly a great privilege for me to be here. It would be so in any case but certainly to represent JTS at this synagogue on this evening in memory of Louis Jacobs. ... Continue Reading ➨

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The First Annual Louis Jacobs Memorial Lecture by Marc Saperstein

Jewish Preaching on Social Justice By Marc Saperstein, Principal, Leo Baeck College 20 June 2007 I am deeply honoured to have been asked to be giving this lecture at the first Yahrzeit of Morenu ve-Rabbenu. Our association goes back more than 25 ... Continue Reading ➨

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UK Jews Mourn Rabbi Louis Jacobs

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 ➨

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Address by Ivor Jacobs

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 ➨

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Address by Rabbi Dr. Reuven Hammer

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 ➨

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Address by Rabbi Elliot

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 ➨

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Obituary – The Jerusalem Post

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 ➨

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Obituary – The Guardian

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 ➨

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Hesped by Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg

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 ➨

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Hesped by Rabbi Jeremy Gordon

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 ➨

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Obituary – The Independent

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 ➨

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Obituary – The Jewish Chronicle

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 ➨

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Byron L. Sherwin, ‘Man of Controversy, Scholar of Distinction’

Published in Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought, Vol. 28 No. 1 Winter Issue 1979. BYRON L. SHERWIN is associate professor of Jewish religious thought at Spertus College of Judaica, Chicago, Illinois. A solidly built man ... Continue Reading ➨

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New London Synagogue – Information Handbook

INFORMATION HANDBOOK NEW LONDON SYNAGOGUE March 1972 HISTORY AND OUTLOOK THE New London Synagogue came into being as the result of a controversy which none of its founders had sought. Two issues were involved: the theological issue of the meaning ... Continue Reading ➨

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The Jewish Tradition

Originally published in Frank Whaling (ed.), The World's Religious Traditions: Essays in Honour of Wilfred Cantwell Smith (T. & T. Clark, 1984), pp. 72-91. An inquiry into the relationship between faith and tradition in Judaism must begin with ... Continue Reading ➨

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Liberal Supernaturalism

Originally published in Ira Eisenstein (ed.), Varieties of Jewish Belief (1966), pp. 111-122. There are three different philosophies of Judaism among Jews today. These can be described as: 1. fundamentalistic supernaturalism; 2. liberal ... Continue Reading ➨

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The Study of Jewish Spirituality

Originally published in Cheslyn Jones, Geoffrey Wainwright & S.J. Edward Yarnold (eds.), The Study of Spirituality, pp. 491-497. OTHER RELIGIONS Judaism LOUIS JACOBS Classical works in Hebrew Alexander Süsskind of Grondo, Yesod ve-Shoresh ... Continue Reading ➨

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Lee I. Levine (ed.), ‘Ancient Synagogues Revealed’

Originally published in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 115:2 (1983). ANCIENT SYNAGOGUES REVEALED. Edited by LEE I. LEVINE. pp. [villi], 199, 4 pl. [Jerusalem], Israel Exploration Society, 1981. Over 100 ... Continue Reading ➨

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Leon Schwartz, ‘Diderot and the Jews’

Originally published in French Studies 37:4 (1983). Diderot and the Jews. By Leon Schwartz. (Sara F. Yoseloff Memorial Publications). London and Toronto: Associated University Presses. 1981. 206 pp. 7 ill. In some of his writings Diderot ... Continue Reading ➨

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Rivka Schatz-Uffenheimer, ‘Hasidism as Mysticism: Quieitstic Elements in Eighteenth Century Hasidic Thought’

Originally published in Antony Polonsky, Israel Bartal, Gershon Hundert, Magdalena Opalski, Jerzy Tomaszewski (eds.), Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, vol. 9. RIVKA SCHATZ-UFFENHEIMER, Hasidism as Mysticism: Quietistic Elements in Eighteenth ... Continue Reading ➨

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