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12th Louis Jacobs Annual Memorial

July 15th, 2018

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for Rabbi Cardozo ➨

Welcome to the official website of Rabbi Louis Jacobs

Read more about his life, thoughts and reviews. Watch videos of his teachings, subsequent and recent discussions.

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Siyyum to Celebrate a milestone in our Website!

25th November 2017

NEW VISITORS - Project Manager Ezra Margulies offers an excellent introduction to the site. Watch the videos of this event >

The Magnificent Exhibition

about Rabbi Louis Jacobs goes digital!

A virtual tour of the exhibition about Rabbi Louis Jacobs at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies is available online. Visit the digital exhibition ➨

Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo lecture and panel events

15th & 16th July 2018 | Henrietta Barnet School

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Readers Contributions
Your contributions most Welcome. Email us to submit.

NEW FIND – 37 AUDIOS!

Find One - 2017 - Several sessions at Leo Baeck College.
Latest Find - 2018 - A variety of exciting topics.

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Arguments for Heaven’s Sake! Symposium

Presented by The Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies with a London programme in conjunction with Friends of louisjacobs.org.

Oxford Seminar in Advanced Jewish Studies - Orthodoxy, Theological Debate and Contemporary Judaism: A Critical Exploration of Questions Raised in the Thought of Louis Jacobs.

Meet the Scholars ➨

Read the papers ➨

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The Editor's Blog and New Brochure

Our siyum marked the completion of the scanning, editing, and uploading of over 750 bibliographic entries on the website (check out the account of the process on Ezra's blog archive page). Our Project Manager, Ezra, has now moved on to further studies at Cambridge but will be keeping in touch and assisting with our work. His brilliant contribution to our project and the site structure is documented in our new brochure. Copies are available free of charge. Please email info@louisjacobs.org with your full postal address.

Ezra's blogs Archive

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Elie's new series - 7 Deadly Sins

Elie Jesner

Elie Jesner continues his lecture series on Theology (see below) with eight sessions titled 7 Deadly Sins taking place roughly every quarter from 2017 until 2019.

WATCH VIDEOS

Introductory Lecture
GREED – First of the 7 deadly sins

THE HONEST THEOLOGY PROJECT

1st Clearing Away the Rubble >
2nd What is God >
3rd Why might we keep halakha?>
4th Living with Israel >
5th Sexuality in Jewish thought >
6th What should we be teaching our children? >

STUDY GROUP VIDEOS

Simon Eder - Judaism - A Truth or The Truth >
Miracles - Study Group led by Simon Eder >
Towards a New Orthodoxy? >

A bibliography of scholarly writings of Rabbi Dr. Louis Jacobs (1920-2006)

Community & Controversy

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