{"description":"For Louis Jacobs, the process of engaging with and thinking about Jewish faith was a lifelong pursuit \u2013 and one that remains relevant almost two decades after his death.\n\nIn the 1960s, amid general religious crises, he offered a model of an observant but intellectually curious Judaism that empowered individual seekers to address challenges to faith, sparking the widespread controversy in British Jewry known as the \u2018Jacobs Affair\u2019 and the founding of the New London Synagogue.\n\nMiri Freud-Kandel, Modern Judaism lecturer at Oxford, joins us online to unpack the building blocks of his thought with the first book-length analysis of his model, Louis Jacobs and the Quest for a Contemporary Jewish Theology in conversation with Dr Harris Bor","height":360,"html":"<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%\"><iframe src=\"https://skiv.com/embed/NW1FgBA\" style=\"width:100%;height:100%;position:absolute;left:0;top:0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"fullscreen\" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>","provider_name":"Skiv","provider_url":"https://skiv.com","thumbnail_height":198,"thumbnail_url":"https://cdn.skiv.com/u/MkG8VMM/6e1eb250f13bdf088256546a3ebf70fc1291bb5c96303bbf04bb4bc04d17963a/thumbnails/thumbnail.jpg","thumbnail_width":352,"title":"Louis Jacobs' Quest: Book Week 24 online event","type":"video","url":"https://skiv.com/v/NW1FgBA","version":"1.0","width":640}