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Publications Articles & Reviews
This section contains articles and sermons by Rabbi Jacobs in an alphabetical order
Rabbi Jacobs wrote hundreds of articles and we are working on republishing as many articles as possible on this website. Some articles appeared in well circulated journals but others were published in fairly closed circulation periodicals and have not been generally available. Many of these articles are of great significance to the study of Judaism and it is hoped that their availability will help readers in their own quest.
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- Alexander Altmann (1906-1987)
- Are Birthday Celebrations Un-Jewish?
- Aspects of Scholem's Study of Hasidism
- Aliyot
- A Synthesis of the Traditional and Critical Views
- Bible Times Roundtable
- Claude Montefiore (1858-1938)
- Converting the Converted
- Creative Judaism - A Manifesto
- Divine Foreknowledge and Human Free Will
- Faith
- Extract from Beyond Reasonable Doubt
- Extract from We Have Reason to Believe
- Eating as an Act of Worship in Hasidic Thought
- Four Rabbinic Positions in Anglo-Jewry
- Greater Love Hath No Man...: The Jewish Point of View of Self-Sacrifice
- God
- How much of the Babylonian Talmud is Pseudepigraphic?
- Holy Places
- Hasidism and the Dogma of the Decline of the Generations
- 'Honour Thy Father': A Study in Hasidic Psychology
- Halacha and History: Separate Realms
- Holiness according to Jewish Tradition
- Is there a Jewish Theology?
- Is There a Specific Jewish Ethic?
- Jewish Cosmology
- Jewish Theology
- Jewish National Consciousness in Anglo-Jewry
- Judaism and Membership
- Montefiore and Loewe on the Rabbis
- Medical Ethics and Judaism
- Manchester Yeshiva
- Misplaced Emphases in Present-day Jewish Life and Thought
- Man's Religious Quest
- Mordecai Kaplan (1881-1983)
- Objectivity and Subjectivity in Jewish Legal Discourse: The Debate on AID
- New West End Induction Sermon
- Pesach and the Exodus in the Thought of Two Hasidic Masters
- Revelation
- Solomon Schechter (1847-1915)
- Religion and the Individual
- The Rabin Assassination
- The Economic Conditions of the Jews in Babylon in Talmudic Times Compared with Palestine
- The Philosophy of the Mitzvot
- The Jewish Attitude to Artificial Insemination
- The Kabbalah
- The Chosen People
- The Problem of Plaques
- There is no Problem of Descent
- The Problem of Evil in Our Time
- Torah and the Personal Life
- The Concept of Hasid in the Biblical and Rabbinic Literatures
- The Sources of Jewish Law
- The Body in Jewish Worship
- The Relationship Between Religion and Ethics in Jewish Thought
- The Human Element in Divine Revelation
- The Problem of the Akedah in Jewish Thought
- The Nature of Hasidic Prayer I
- The Nature of Hasidic Prayer II
- The Concept of Power in the Jewish Tradition
- The Leisure Problem
- The 'As If' Concept
- Time and Eternity
- The Modern Synagogue
- Tobacco and the Hasidim
- World Jewish Fundamentalism
- What We Stand For
- Where, actually, is God?
- When Magicians Get in a Pickle Over Cucumbers
- Zecharias Frankel (1801-1875)
- Zionism After 100 Years
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