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Delphine Horvilleur, born on November 8, 1974 in Nancy, is a French writer 1 and rabbi who belongs to the liberal Jewish organization Judaism on the Move, which emerged from the Liberal Jewish Movement of France and the Liberal Jewish Union of France 2, 3.

She is a member of the Council of French-speaking liberal rabbis as well as managing editor of the Journal of Jewish Thought(s) Tenou'a.

Biography Delphine Horvilleur was born in Nancy. His paternal grandparents are from Alsace-Lorraine and his maternal grandparents come from the Carpathians, "survivors of the concentration camps , where they had each lost their spouse and children" , having then migrated to France and having founded a family 4 , 5.

One of his first teachers of Judaism was Haïm Korsia, when she was a child and he was Rabbi of Reims 6.

Delphine Horvilleur began studying medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, without completing them, during which time she was also a model 7 , then studied journalism at CELSA in Paris 8. She worked as a journalist at France 2 from 2000 to 2003, including at the France 2 office in Jerusalem with Charles Enderlin 9, then at RCJ from 2003 to 2008, in New York where she was a correspondent 10.

She joined the rabbinical seminary of the reform movement Hebrew Union College in New York. In May 2008, she received her rabbinical ordination ( semikha ) from there and became a rabbi of the Liberal Jewish Movement of France.

In her early days, she officiated there with rabbis Daniel Farhi, Stephen Berkovitz and Celia Surget. She has been working since 2019 today with rabbis Yann Boissière, Floriane Chinsky , Philippe Haddad, Jonas Jacquelin and Gabriel Farhi within Judaisme en mouvement.

Community activities In 2003, Delphine Horvilleur founded an interactive Jewish study circle, the Biblical Café. She joined the Liberal Jewish Movement of France 11 in December 2008. With Célia Surget, she organized Shabbat Alef offices (office for young children in the form of a musical tale) and Shabbat Zimra (musical office combining traditional melodies and contemporary creations).

With Yann Boissière, she produced a series of educational videos on Judaism, entitled PSSSHAT 12.

She is a founding member of KeReM, the council of French-speaking liberal rabbis 13.

Editorial responsibilities In 2009, she became editor-in-chief of the quarterly review of Jewish art, thought and creativity Tenou'a, published by the Tenou'a association since its empowerment from the MJLF where it had been founded in February 1981 by Rabbi Daniel Farhi. It makes it a reference magazine for liberal Jewish thought in France, where various religious sensitivities can be found around societal issues (feminism, environment, sexuality, migration policy, etc.).

Institutional functions By presidential decree ofApril 27, 2012, Delphine Horvilleur is the first female rabbi to be appointed to the National AIDS Council 14 , 15.

Media interventions and positions In the media Delphine Horvilleur takes part in the program La Source de vie by Josy Eisenberg on France 2. It participates in Akadem, an online Jewish digital campus 16. She published in Le Monde 17, Le Figaro 18 or Elle , which published two interviews with her in 2010 19 and in 2020, when her photo appeared on the cover of this magazine 20. From 2012 to 2014, she published a column in Le Monde des religions.

In March 2014, she was chosen by the magazine L'Express as one of the nine young French intellectuals constituting “the next generation” 21.

In 2015, a documentary film was dedicated to her, Delphine Horvilleur, Madame le Rabbi, directed by Elisabeth Lenchener.

In 2021, she appears as a female rabbi in a scene from the fiction feature film Rose directed by Aurélie Saada.

Position papers On the Veil “The Islamic veil is not the only one to imply that the uncovered body of women contaminates men. In all religions, fundamentalists seize on modesty, and more particularly that of women, in an attempt to contain them and restrict them to the borders of their bodies, as if their physiological functions entirely define them and must be placed under control, covered by law. » 22.

On Fundamentalism “Religious fundamentalism is this pathology of the gaze which makes it incandescent. Obscurantism refers precisely to study in the dark, that is to say without dialogue with the affairs of the world, and in contempt of those who plant and harvest. It is a withdrawal from the world that sets it on fire while paradoxically imagining that it is saving it. » 23 . “This is the essence of the fundamentalist discourse that locks up or mutilates its peers in the name of its fathers. That is to say, which seeks to restrict human experience to its vision of the world, in the name of an often fantasized past or of a practice re-invented as timeless. Such a religious project is "pharaonic" in the biblical sense of the term, since it attempts by force to build mausoleum-pyramids to enclose the remains of a deadly divinity. » 24 . On the dangers of literal interpretation "When some today still cite the indisputable writing, it is useful to remember that a text is sacred if we accept that its message is not closed by its primary meaning and if we refuse to instrumentalize. » 25.

On the controversy aroused by the decisions related to the Wailing Wall In July 2017, in a supplement entitled "The Kotel belongs to all Jews" in the magazine Tenou'a, Delphine Horvilleur condemns the decision of Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu , who reconsidered his commitment to create an egalitarian and mixed prayer space in Wailing Wall in Jerusalem 26.