Delphine Horvilleur

Delphine Horvilleur (.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}French pronunciation: [dɛlfin ɔʁvilœʁ]; born 8 November 1974) is France's third female rabbi, and (as of 2024) editorial director of the quarterly Jewish magazine Tenou’a - Atelier de pensée(s) juive(s) (Tenou'a - Workshop on Jewish thought). She leads a congregation in Paris, and is currently co-leading the Liberal Jewish Movement of France, a Jewish liberal cultural and religious association affiliated to the World Union for Progressive Judaism, which she joined in 2008. She is also an author.

Horvilleur was born and raised in Nancy, then moved to Jerusalem at the age of 17 and studied life sciences at the Hebrew University. Five years later, she came back to Paris and worked as a journalist. She studied with well-known Jewish scholars, such as French philosopher Marc-Alain Ouaknin and ex-Chief Rabbi Gilles Bernheim, and eventually moved to New York and studied at Drisha Yeshiva. She was ordained at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York in 2008, and later returned to France. In 2016, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem awarded her a special commendation.

In 2009, Horvilleur became editor-in-chief of Tenou'a, a quarterly journal published by the Tenou'a association from the Liberal Jewish Movement of France. It is a reference magazine of liberal Jewish thought in France, where various religious sensibilities are found around societal issues (feminism, environment, sexuality, migration policy, etc.). As of 2024 Horvilleur was Editorial Director.

In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Horvilleur became known for her weekly online Zoom talks on Jewish texts. Her popular lectures were attended by a variety of people outside of the Jewish community.

Horvilleur is married to Ariel Weil, mayor of the Paris Centre arrondissement. They have three children.

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• Horvilleur, Delphine (2011). "Lifting the Curtain - The theatrical Kol Nidre". In Hoffman, Rabbi Lawrence A. (ed.). All these Vows. Jewish Lights Publishing. pp. 150–154.

• En tenue d'Ève : féminin, pudeur et judaïsme (in French). Grasset. 2013. ISBN 978-2757869666. OCLC 1024070980.

• Comment les rabbins font les enfants ? : sexe, transmission, identité dans le judaïsme (in French). Grasset. 2015. ISBN 978-2253186090. OCLC 993080865.

• Des mille et une façons d'être juif ou musulman (in French). Seuil. 2017. ISBN 978-2021349313. OCLC 1033520372. with Rachid Benzine,

• Réflexions sur la question antisémite (in French). Grasset. 2019. ISBN 978-2253820345. OCLC 1140368044. in English released as Anti-Semitism Revisited: How the Rabbis Made Sense of Hatred. MacLehose Press. 2021. ISBN 978-1529404753.

• Comprendre le monde (in French). Bayard Culture. 2020. ISBN 978-2227497993. OCLC 1163855144.

• Vivre avec nos morts (in French). Grasset. 2021. ISBN 9782246826941.

• Il n'y a pas de Ajar (in French). Grasset. 2022. ISBN 9782246831563.

• Tenou’a magazine