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	Rabbi Dr Louis Jacobs \| Obituaries \| Guardian Unlimited
		Louis Jacobs, who has died aged 85, should be remembered as an outstanding Jewish theologian, preacher, teacher and communicator.
		The problem was that in 1957 Jacobs had written We Have Reason to Believe - a book intended to demonstrate his faith as an Orthodox rabbi and as a Jew exposed to biblical study, who had noted the results of theological criticism over the years.
		Jacobs had been born in Manchester, the son of a worker in a raincoat factory.
	www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,,1812646,00.html (1596 words)

	MyJewishLearning.com - Ideas & Belief: Rabbi Louis Jacobs
		Jacobs agreed to leave the New West End Synagogue and accept the position of Moral Tutor, on the understanding that he would become Principal as soon as the Chief Rabbi gave the go-ahead.
		In terms of theology, Jacobs and his followers believed they were fighting for the survival of the open, tolerant Anglo-Orthodox heritage in the face of their opponents' desire to impose a more insular and stringent type of religiosity.
		Jacobs responded that he carried out these ceremonies according to the letter of the halakha and that the Jewish status of all those involved was unimpeachable.
	www.myjewishlearning.com /ideas_belief/About_Jewish_Thought/About_Ideas_TO/About_Phil_Jacobs/AboutIB_ModernPhil/LouisJacobs.htm (1417 words)

	Jacobs Brothers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		The reputation was born of an episode, now legendary, whereby Louis Jacobs presented the owners of the Detroit Tigers with a $12,500 check after a particularly profitable year selling concessions.
		The Jacobs were part of a local group which purchased the failing Bison franchise and built Offerman Stadium in 1921.
		Today, CEO Jeremy Jacobs carries on a proud family tradition begun by his father Louis and his uncles, and he hopes his company remains forever as a part of the national sports landscape.
	www.buffalosportshallfame.com /Class_of_1997/Jacobs_Brothers/jacobs_brothers.html (527 words)

	Jewish Review: British Jews mourn passing of Rabbi Louis Jacobs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Jacobs was banned by United Synagogue, a move that barred him from the pulpit of dozens of Orthodox synagogues.
		The incident, which became known as the "Jacobs affair," is considered a turning point in the development of the modern British Jewish community, as it spurred Jacobs to veer away from traditional Orthodox Judaism and start a new community.
		Jacobs and his supporters founded the New London Synagogue, which is considered the first Conservative congregation in Britain and is now affiliated with the Assembly of Masorti Synagogues and the World Council of Conservative Judaism.
	www.jewishreview.org /Archives/Article.php?Article=2006-07-15-2474 (533 words)

	Rabbi Louis Jacobs \| Obituaries \| News \| Telegraph
		Rabbi Louis Jacobs, who died on July 1 aged 85, was the enfant terrible of Anglo-Jewry - a brilliant scholar whose highly promising career was derailed by his espousal of views that were undoubtedly heretical to Orthodoxy.
		Jacobs and his supporters duly left NWES to form their own synagogue, the New London Synagogue, located in Abbey Road, St John's Wood.
		To his supporters, Jacobs was once again subjecting Sinaitic obscurantism to the spotlight of his brilliant Enlightenment reasoning; indeed, in 2005 a Jewish Chronicle poll deemed him the greatest British Jew of all time.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/07/07/db0702.xml&DCMP=EMC-new_07072006 (964 words)

	JTA NEWS
		LONDON, July 9 (JTA) — Controversial during his lifetime, Rabbi Louis Jacobs, a scholar and founder of the British Conservative movement, is being remembered in death as a towering figure in modern British Jewish history.
		Jacobs died of cancer July 1 at age 85, and was buried the next day.
		Jacobs was born in 1920 into a working-class family in Manchester.
	www.jta.org /page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=16794&intcategoryid=2 (127 words)

	Independent Online Edition > Obituaries
		Louis Jacobs, rabbi: born Manchester 17 July 1920; Rabbi, Central Synagogue, Manchester 1948-54; Rabbi, New West End Synagogue 1954-60; Tutor, Jews' College 1959-62; Director, Society for Study of Jewish Theology 1962-64; Rabbi, New London Synagogue 1964-2006; CBE 1990; married 1944 Shula Lisagorska (died 2005; two sons, one daughter); died London 1 July 2006.
		Jacobs was offered the position but the Chief Rabbi would only give his approval to Jacobs's return if he signed a letter recanting his previous views.
		Louis Jacobs had been a child prodigy - his was a colossal talent, vastly under-utilised by his community; and in retrospect the petty slights of his detractors served to diminish their stature rather than his.
	news.independent.co.uk /people/obituaries/article1171399.ece (1071 words)

	'Greatest British Jew' fell foul of the chief rabbi - Obituaries - smh.com.au
		RABBI LOUIS JACOBS was a renowned scholar of Judaism whose path to the post of chief rabbi of the British Commonwealth was blocked by the Orthodox establishment more than 40 years ago.
		Jacobs, who has died of cancer in London at 85, wrote more than 50 books on subjects ranging from theology, the Talmud, Kabbalah, ethics, and Hasidism, to holidays, and was praised for his clarity.
		Louis Jacobs was born into a working-class Jewish family in Manchester.
	www.smh.com.au /news/obituaries/greatest-british-jew-fell-foul-of-the-chief-rabbi/2006/07/21/1153166580531.html (624 words)

	Amazon.ca: Reviews for Beyond Reasonable Doubt: Books: Louis Jacobs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		The strenght of Louis Jacob's theology is that he moves beyond the "Do it because I told you God said so" approach so popular among the Orthodox.
		Louis Jacobs is trying his best to defend the obviously untenable position of having-the-cake-and-eating-it-too, by offering another book to explain the Jewish Conservative movements "Liberal Supernaturalist" view.
		The core of Jacobs' argument is that Biblical Criticism is a scientific fact.
	www.amazon.ca /Beyond-Reasonable-Doubt-Louis-Jacobs/dp/customer-reviews/1874774587 (831 words)

	Rabbi Louis Jacobs (July 27, 2006)
		In 1961, Rabbi Jacobs was barred from his post at the New West End Synagogue and from preaching at any affiliated congregations of the orthodox United Synagogue by then chief rabbi, Israel Brodie, in what came to be known as the “Jacobs Affair”.
		For this reason, Jacobs will remain for me a “doogma” (a model) – not just of Conservative/Masorti Judaism, but for those who believe, like me, that the Jewish world is stronger when respect is given to all its constituent parts and pieces; that at each end of the spectrum reside truth, wisdom and passion.
		Rabbi Jacobs’ life should remind Jews that being respectful of our differences and our unique strengths can result in a much tastier fruit, that Torah knowledge is not the exclusive purview of any one type of Jew and that modernity and antiquity can and must co-exist.
	www.ajn.com.au /news/news.asp?pgID=1235 (430 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Louis Jacobs, the rabbi who founded the Masorti movement in the UK has died, just weeks before his 85th birthday.
		Born in Manchester, Louis Jacobs shook up the Jewish establishment by suggesting that aspects of Orthodox Judaism needed to come to terms with the modern age.
		Despite his orthodox upbringing and commitment to the community, in 1961, Chief Rabbi Israel Brodie refused to grant him permission to be head of Jews' College due to Jacobs' published views.
	www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3271516,00.html (201 words)

	Amazon.de: Hasidic Prayer (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization): English Books: Louis Jacobs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Louis Jacobs bases himself principally on the works compiled by rebbes themselves and records preserved by their disciples.
		This is a reprint of Louis Jacobs' 1972 classic on the history and techniques of Hasidic prayer.
		One technique that is not discussed here is the hisboddidus prayer of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov (Bratzlav), where the individual goes into solitude and speaks spontaneously to God in his or her own words, as a spontaneous "stream of consciousness" prayer.
	www.amazon.de /Hasidic-Prayer-Littman-Library-Civilization/dp/1874774188 (711 words)

	PALEONTOLOGIST LOUIS JACOBS NAMED PRESIDENT OF INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY
		A member of the SMU faculty since 1983, Jacobs will continue serving as professor of geological sciences in Dedman College and director of the Shuler Museum of Paleontology at SMU in addition to filling new responsibilities as ISEM president.
		Jacobs has conducted extensive field research in Pakistan, Mexico, Kenya, Cameroon, Malawi and Yemen, as well as Texas and other parts of the United States.
		Jacobs received his Ph.D. in geology from the University of Arizona in 1977.
	www.smu.edu /newsinfo/releases/99172.html (558 words)

	j. - Rabbi Louis Jacobs, started Britainâs first Conservative congregation
		Controversial during his lifetime, Rabbi Louis Jacobs, a scholar and founder of the British Conservative movement, is being remembered in death as a towering figure in modern British Jewish history.
		Jacobs was subsequently banned by United Synagogue, a move that barred him from the pulpit of dozens of Orthodox synagogues, including the New West End Synagogue.
		Jacobs and his supporters founded the New London Synagogue, considered the first Conservative congregation in Britain and now affiliated with the Assembly of Masorti Synagogues and the World Council of Conservative Judaism.
	www.jewishsf.com /content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/29747/format/html/displaystory.html (401 words)

	Rabbi Dr Louis Jacobs-Comment-Obituaries-TimesOnline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Jacobs won nearly twice as many votes as the runner-up, the l9th-century philanthropist Sir Moses Montefiore, and was well ahead of Benjamin Disraeli, who came only sixth.
		Jacobs, with his charisma, easy oratory, deep learning and prodigious intellect, was the rising star in its rabbinate.
		For daring to challenge that view with scholarship, Jacobs was deemed by Brodie and the rabbis around him as unfit either to run Jews’ College or to return to his Bayswater pulpit, as he was invited to do.
	www.timesonline.co.uk /tol/comment/obituaries/article682446.ece (1140 words)

	Amazon.com: A Jewish Theology: Books: Louis Jacobs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Jacobs is a great scholar with a mastery of the traditional literature.
		Jacobs certainly has a point of view - I would say he is a mainstream Conservative, generally endorsing traditional practice to a much greater extent than most Reform Jews, but not necessarily for the same reasons that traditional Jews would endorse.
		Louis Jacobs shows that this is not entirely correct, and provides the source material behind recurring attempts to define the tenets of Jewish faith.
	www.amazon.com /Jewish-Theology-Louis-Jacobs/dp/0874412269 (1583 words)

	Obituary: Louis Jacobs, Jewish minister and academic \| News \| The North West Enquirer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		LOUIS Jacobs, who has died aged 85, was the distinguished but controversial minister at the centre of a theological dispute that split British Jewry.
		Jacobs denied the charge but Silverman informed the chief rabbi, Sir Israel Brodie, who prevented Jacobs from taking up the post.
		The resulting row, known as the Jacobs affair, rumbled on for years but eventually supporters of Jacobs set him up in a new synagogue and the Masorti movement was born.
	www.nw-enquirer.co.uk /news/obituaries/obituary:_louis_jacobs,_jewish_minister_and_academic_200607141441.html (342 words)

	Louis Jacobs \| www.somethingjewish.co.uk
		Accolades have been rightfully heaped upon Rabbi Dr Louis Jacobs in death (in stark contrast to the scandalous way most of Anglo Jewry treated him when he was alive).
		Rabbi Jacobs was regarded in the 1950s as the outstanding rabbi/scholar of the Anglo Jewish world.
		Louis was no fighter but he allowed himself to be used by William Frankel the Editor of the Jewish Chronicle whose agenda was to highlight the hypocrisy of the United Synagogue and win it over to the American Jewish Conservative Movement.
	www.somethingjewish.co.uk /articles/1947_louis_jacobs.htm (1008 words)

	DinoDatabase.com :: Appendix \| Cretaceous Airport
		Jacobs, who has led and participated in expeditions around the world in search of dinosaurs, has been instrumental in working with local museums, the Dallas Paleontological Society, and amateur fossil collectors to organize a survey of the fossil history of the DFW Metroplex.
		Pull down the Database menu, select Sound Effects and A Visit with Louis Jacobs, Ph.D. A former visiting scholar at Harvard, Professor Louis Jacobs teaches at Southern Methodist University, in Dallas, Texas, and serves as director of the Shuler Museum of Paleontology at SMU.
		Louis Jacobs doesn't fit the popular image of the tweedy, pipe- smoking professor.
	www.dinodatabase.com /dinoapnd02.asp (527 words)

	Rabbi Louis Jacobs
		This book, the main cause of the 'Jacobs Affair' in which the author's appointment to an Orthodox Rabbinic position was vetoed, suggests that the doctrine Torah Min Ha-Shamayyin (The Torah is from Heaven) needs to be reinterpreted so as not to be in conflict with modern knowledge.
		Rabbi Jacobs, with sixty years' experience of pulpit work to his credit, provides a number of homilies for each weekly portion of the modern sermon and for the chapters of Ethics of the Fathers.
		It can now be disclosed that the author of the replies was Rabbi Louis Jacobs who, without refraining from expressing his own, occasionally controversial views, presented fairly the Orthodox position as well as that of Reform and Liberal Judaism where this differed from Orthodoxy.
	www.vmbooksuk.com /acatalog/Rabbi_Louis_Jacobs.html (937 words)

	Jacobs - Tree of Life
		Now revised and expanded, Louis Jacobs's fascinating study shows how halakhic rulings through the ages have been influenced by social, economic, theological, and even political factors as well as by consideration of the wider ideals and demands of Judaism.
		Halakhic responses to changed social considerations, particularly regarding women and questions of personal status, new technologies and discoveries, and attitudes to non-Jews are all considered in depth.
		Louis Jacobs, founding rabbi of the New London Synagogue, is a renowned scholar with an international reputation as a lecturer.
	www.littman.co.uk /cat/jacobs-tree.html (155 words)

	:: Jewish Chronicle - UK Jews mourn Rabbi Louis Jacobs by Simon Rocker :: New London Synagogue ::
		British Jews from across the religious spectrum mourned the loss this week of Rabbi Dr Louis Jacobs, the community’s greatest rabbinic scholar, and the subject of its biggest religious controversy.
		Manchester-born and Gateshead-educated, Rabbi Jacobs had been many people’s favourite to become Chief Rabbi nearly half-a-century ago until controversy erupted over his theological views that, in effect, questioned the meaning of Orthodoxy in the 20th century.
		The so-called “Jacobs Affair” of the early 1960s led to his exile from the United Synagogue and the eventual creation of the Masorti movement.
	www.newlondon.org.uk /articles/?article=36 (611 words)

	Amazon.com: The Jewish Religion: Books: Louis Jacobs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		`Rabbi Dr Louis Jacobs is not only one of the most erudite of contemporary students of Judaism, he is also one of the most versatile.
		Louis Jacobs is one of the most elegant and knowledgeable Jewish writers of our times' Leslie Giffiths, Methodist Recorder
		Rabbi Louis Jacobs was a man of immense Jewish learning and understanding.
	www.amazon.com /Jewish-Religion-Companion-Louis-Jacobs/dp/0198264631 (1378 words)

	:: Biography for Rabbi Dr. Louis Jacobs C.B.E.:: New London Synagogue ::
		Our Founder Rabbi, Dr. Louis Jacobs z"l was one of the world's most distinguished rabbinic scholars and authors.
		He wrote more than fifty books and was widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest authorities on all major aspects of Jewish Studies including Mishnah, Talmud, Midrash, Responsa, Liturgy, Hasidism, Mysticism, Kabbalah, Philosophy and Theology.
		During the yrear of mourning for Rabbi Jacobs, groups in London and throughout the world are reading and discussing the books of Rabbi Jacobs.
	www.newlondon.org.uk /rabbis/?biography=1 (522 words)

	Menachem Mendel: Louis Jacobs-Greatest British Jew Ever (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		At Hirhurim I saw that Louis Jacobs was voted as the greatest British Jew ever by a Jewish Chronicle poll.
		Louis Jacobs has single-handedly brought Conservative/Masorti Judaism to England.
		While our identification with Rabbi Jacobs' theological and halakhic opinions is much stronger than the postings and comments at both Hirhurim and Bloghead, primarily the former, they are both interesting reads.
	menachemmendel.blogspot.com /2006/01/louis-jacobs-greatest-british-jew-ever.html (142 words)

	Louis Jacobs Blog - Ethiopia Project - SMU
		Louis Jacobs Blog - Ethiopia Project - SMU
		Louis Jacobs is a professor and president/director of the Institute for the Study of Earth and Man at SMU.
		He is a vertebrate paleontologist who is utilizing the fossil record to understand the interrelationships of biotic and abiotic events through time.
	www.smu.edu /smunews/ethiopia/blog-louis-jacobs.asp (234 words)

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