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:
5th Annual Louis Jacobs Memorial Lecture:
Why Faith Matters
by David Wolpe
7th Annual Louis Jacobs Memorial Lecture:
Freud’s Moses and the Formation of the Jewish Psyche
by Lawrence Kaplan
9th Annual Louis Jacobs Memorial Lecture:
Fields of Blood – Religion and the History of Violence
by Karen Armstrong
12th Annual Louis Jacobs Memorial Lecture:
Halachic Courage, Bold Ideas and Religious Authenticity
by Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo of Jerusalem
13th Annual Louis Jacobs Memorial Lecture:
“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:
To mark the Yahrzeit of Rabbi Jacobs’s 100th Birthday