Biographical portraits & details

Originally published in NorthWest Magazine, July 2000, pp. 16-17. A Man of Reason On the eve of his retirement from the New London Synagogue, Maggie Currey talks to Rabbi Louis Jacobs about his controversial career. For many in St John’s ... Continue Reading ➨

One of the ironies of life is that when one is living through history one does not always realise that it is history and likewise one can be in the presence of a Tsaddik without always realising that one is in the presence of a Tsaddik. One may not ... Continue Reading ➨

Originally delivered as a session at Limmud Conference 2007. As I write it’s almost a year since Rabbi Jacobs died. I miss phoning him with my questions on halakhah, philosophy and theology. I miss his teaching, his humour and his anecdotes about ... Continue Reading ➨

Originally published in Jewish Quarterly, Autumn 2006, pp. 23-5. A VERY BRITISH JEW Elliot Cosgrove assesses the lifetime achievement of Rabbi Louis Jacobs. Over a lifetime of achievement, Rabbi Dr Louis Jacobs juggled the multiple profiles of ... Continue Reading ➨

Originally published in the New York Times, 8th November 1987. At Harvard, the author began a dialogue between his Jewish beliefs and the religious ideas he encountered. In the first days of the 1985-86 school year at Harvard, the course called ... Continue Reading ➨

Originally published on 22 May 2004. For reasons which will become evident momentarily, this morning I would like to give a different sort of drasha. Today I want to introduce you to an underappreciated Jewish scholar of our time—a Rabbi by the ... Continue Reading ➨

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 ➨

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 ➨