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Beyond Tamar Review

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Louis Jacobs, Beyond Reasonable Doubt. London: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 1999.267pp. Beyond Reasonable Doubt is intended as a sequel to We Have Reason to Believe, a book written 40 years ago that provoked the well-known Jacobs ... Continue Reading ➨

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The Louis Jacobs Conundrum

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By Neville Teller Harry Freedman's 'Reason to Believe' sheds light on the controversial British rabbi who struggled to reconcile modern scholarship with unquestioning faith. Britain's Anglo-Jewish community dates its formal birth from a ... Continue Reading ➨

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What Can We Learn From Louis Jacobs?

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By Steven Gotlib In the preface to his autobiography, Louis Jacobs (1920-2006) voiced strong doubts that the details of his “rather uneventful life would have been worth recording had it not been for the so-called Jacobs Affair”[1] for which he ... Continue Reading ➨

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[VIDEO] Louis Jacobs – Life and Legacy

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Jewish Book Week 2021 - Harry Freedman, Rabbi Michael Harris, Richard Bolchover ... Continue Reading ➨

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Harry Freedman— Reason to Believe: The Controversial Life of Rabbi Louis Jacobs

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by Rabbi Alan Brill, Ph.D. on his blog Dr. Alan Brill is the Cooperman/Ross Endowed Chair for Jewish-Christian Studies at Seton Hall University, where he teaches Jewish studies in the Department of Religion and the Jewish-Christian Studies ... Continue Reading ➨

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[VIDEO] Biography Q and A with Belsize Square Synagogue

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Claire Walford with Dr. Harry Freedman ... Continue Reading ➨

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From Rabbi Jeremy Rosen’s Opinions and Commentary

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Any Anglo Jew from the 1960s will be familiar with the “Jacobs Affair” that divided the Jewish community more than any other religious debate in its history. There were other conflicts, between Sephardi and Ashkenazi, Reform and Traditional. But none ... Continue Reading ➨

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[VIDEO] Reason to Believe – Limmud 29th December 2020

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Ivor Jacobs chairs this session where Harry Freedman joins Miri Freud-Kandel, whose new book 'Louis Jacobs and the Quest for a Contemporary Jewish Theology' will be published in 2021. They discuss Rabbi Jacobs’s life and the lessons he can teach Jews ... Continue Reading ➨

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Controversial rabbi explored, analysed in new book

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Reconciling modern scholarship with unquestioning faith By NEVILLE TELLER   Britain’s Anglo-Jewish community dates its formal birth from a declaration in 1656 by the then-autocratic ruler of England, Oliver Cromwell ‒ the man who instigated and ... Continue Reading ➨

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A tale of two legendary English rabbis

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COLIN SHINDLER reflects on Rabbi Louis Jacobs, a prodigy from the world of the yeshiva, whose legacy was the elephant in the room for many in Rabbi Sacks’ United Synagogue THE SUDDEN DEATH of the respected former Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks ... Continue Reading ➨

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[VIDEO] Rabbi Raphael Zarum and Dr Harry Freedman

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Under the auspices of Central Square MInyan, discussing "Reason To Believe." ... Continue Reading ➨

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Belief strengthened by evidence – Review

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Simon Rocker considers a life of a reluctant controversialist. ... Continue Reading ➨

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[VIDEO] Dr. Miri Freud-Kandel – The Sherman Lecture

Dr Miri Freud-Kandel, hosted by the Manchester Jewish Representative Council, on December 3rd 2020 gave the Sherman Lecture - "Spades and Shovels: Louis Jacobs, Northern Grit and the reshaping of British Jewry."  Miri's talk contends that the ... Continue Reading ➨

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[VIDEO] Reason To Believe Panel at NNLS 28th November 2020

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Dr. Harry Freedman, Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg interviewed by Rabbi Zahavit Shalev. A more personal event than the book launch. ... Continue Reading ➨

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[PART 2] Rabbi Louis Jacobs: the battle of ideas explodes

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The second of a two-part series based on a new biography of the minister. This week, the events that led to the community’s greatest-ever schism. In 1962, Louis Jacobs was out of a job. Two years earlier he had given up his pulpit at the New ... Continue Reading ➨

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[PART 1] Louis Jacobs: the rabbi who rethought British Jewish life

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The first of a two-part series based on a new biography of the minister, whose search for a synthesis between liberalism and Orthodoxy contributed towards the community’s greatest-ever schism. Louis Jacobs was appointed Minister of the New West ... Continue Reading ➨

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Review from Jewish News

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Review from Manchester Jewish Telegraph

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Review from Jwire Australia

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Reason to Believe: The Controversial Life of Rabbi Louis Jacobs by Rabbi Jeffrey Cohen It seems strange that I received this book on the day I heard about the death of Jonathan Sacks, the Emeritus Chief Rabbi of the United Synagogue of the ... Continue Reading ➨

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[VIDEO] Reason to Believe Book Launch

The Controversial Life of Rabbi Louis Jacobs book

Sunday, 15 November 2020 ... Continue Reading ➨

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