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Annual Memorial Lectures

The Annual Louis Jacobs Memorial Lecture takes place every year in June/July, marking the yahrzeit of Rabbi Dr. Louis Jacobs. On this occasion, we invite distinguished scholars or communal leaders to address a matter of relevance to contemporary Jews, recalling in a way Jacobs’s own invitation to his followers to continue their “quest” with intellectual integrity. See below the texts or recordings of each Lecture, by year:

1st Annual Louis Jacobs Memorial Lecture:

Marc Saperstein

Jewish Preaching on Social Justice

by Marc Saperstein

2nd Annual Louis Jacobs Memorial Lecture:

Arnold Eisen

Taking Hold of Torah

by Arnold Eisen

3rd Annual Louis Jacobs Memorial Lecture:

Michael Melchior

Israel’s Future

by Michael Melchior

4th Annual Louis Jacobs Memorial Lecture:

Norman Solomon

Making Talmud Make Sense

by Norman Solomon

5th Annual Louis Jacobs Memorial Lecture:

rabbi david wolpe

Why Faith Matters

by David Wolpe

6th Annual Louis Jacobs Memorial Lecture:

Jonathan Wittenberg

An Agenda for the Masorti Movement

by Jonathan Wittenberg

7th Annual Louis Jacobs Memorial Lecture:

Lawrence Kaplan

Freud’s Moses and the Formation of the Jewish Psyche

by Lawrence Kaplan

8th Annual Louis Jacobs Memorial Lecture:

Jeremy Gordon

The Agenda of Masorti Judaism

by Jeremy Gordon

9th Annual Louis Jacobs Memorial Lecture:

Karen Armstrong

Fields of Blood – Religion and the History of Violence

by Karen Armstrong

10th Annual Louis Jacobs Memorial Lecture:

Jeremy Rosen

Religious Authority and Individualism

by Jeremy Rosen

11th Annual Louis Jacobs Memorial Lecture:

Benjamin Sommer

What Really Happened At Sinai?

by Benjamin Sommer

12th Annual Louis Jacobs Memorial Lecture:

Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Halachic Courage, Bold Ideas and Religious Authenticity

by Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo of Jerusalem

13th Annual Louis Jacobs Memorial Lecture:

Rabbi Shai Held

“Love Your Neighbour”: Jews, Christians, and the Meaning of a (Very) Elusive Commandment

by Rabbi Shai Held. Ph.D. from New York

14th Annual Louis Jacobs Memorial Lecture:

14th annual lecture speakers

To mark the Yahrzeit of Rabbi Jacobs’s 100th Birthday

Approaching the Torah with Honesty:
Torah Min Hashamayim from Hertz to TheTorah.com

by Professor Edward Breuer and Professor Marc Zvi Brettler

15th Annual Louis Jacobs Memorial Lecture:

Giles Fraser

An Anglican Priests Jewish Quest

by Giles Fraser

16th Annual Louis Jacobs Memorial Lecture:

Yehuda Kurtzer

Is Jewish Pluralism Dead?

by Yehuda Kurtzer
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