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The Louis Jacobs Conundrum

Posted on 4th October 2021

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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 ➨

What Can We Learn From Louis Jacobs?

Posted on 14th June 2021

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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 ➨

[VIDEO] Louis Jacobs – Life and Legacy

Posted on 22nd March 2021

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

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

Posted on 14th February 2021

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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 ➨

[VIDEO] Biography Q and A with Belsize Square Synagogue

Posted on 12th February 2021

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

From Rabbi Jeremy Rosen’s Opinions and Commentary

Posted on 2nd February 2021

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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 ➨

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

Posted on 5th January 2021

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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 ➨

Controversial rabbi explored, analysed in new book

Posted on 30th December 2020

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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 ➨

A tale of two legendary English rabbis

Posted on 15th December 2020

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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 ➨

[VIDEO] Rabbi Raphael Zarum and Dr Harry Freedman

Posted on 14th December 2020

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

Belief strengthened by evidence – Review

Posted on 8th December 2020

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

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

Posted on 7th December 2020

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 ➨

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

Posted on 30th 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 ➨

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

Posted on 29th November 2020

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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 ➨

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

Posted on 29th November 2020

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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 ➨

Review from Jewish News

Posted on 28th November 2020

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Review from Manchester Jewish Telegraph

Posted on 25th November 2020

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Review from Jwire Australia

Posted on 19th November 2020

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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 ➨

[VIDEO] Reason to Believe Book Launch

Posted on 16th November 2020

The Controversial Life of Rabbi Louis Jacobs book

Sunday, 15 November 2020 ... Continue Reading ➨

Interview with Harry Freedman 15th November 7.45am

Posted on 15th November 2020

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Mike Shaft from BBC Radio Manchester interview Harry Freedman ... Continue Reading ➨

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