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Subsequent Scandals

Saga Over Jacobs’s Granddaughter’s Admission at JFS

In 1986, Paula Jacobs applied to study at the Jewish Free School. The school leadership and United Synagogue handled her application very poorly, leading to the following correspondences with the family. Click on the picture to read the ... Continue Reading ➨

The Garnethill Controversy

In June 1966, the Garnethill Hebrew Congregation in Glasgow gathered its members to vote on the synagogue's affiliation to the United Synagogue, in a hope to severe its connection and join instead Louis Jacobs's New London Synagogue as an ... Continue Reading ➨

The golden calf that Orthodoxy must slay

Originally published in The Jewish Chronicle, 18th October 2013. It’s time to say goodbye to the belief that the Torah we have was a word-for-word version from heaven. Rabbi Dr Solomon is the author of Torah from Heaven; the Reconstruction of ... Continue Reading ➨

Rejoinder to Rabbi Schochet

Originally published in Masorti Matters, March 1995, pp. 1-4. “I challenge the Chief Rabbi to state clearly and unambiguously that he believes Moses to have written every word of the Chumash at the dictation of God and that he rejects totally all ... Continue Reading ➨

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