{"id":74355,"date":"2015-09-11T12:16:22","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T20:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=74355"},"modified":"2015-09-11T12:16:22","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T20:16:22","slug":"is-delphine-horvilleur-the-female-rabbi-who-will-save-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=74355","title":{"rendered":"IS DELPHINE HORVILLEUR THE FEMALE RABBI WHO WILL SAVE FRANCE?"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Tabletmag.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The \u2018secular rabbi,\u2019 who gained notoriety in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks, skillfully negotiates the borders of \u2018la\u00efcit\u00e9\u2019 in a republic that remains on edge<\/p>\n

…While her progressivism has made her a darling of secular society, she is not tender with the French model, in its current form at any rate. The stringent secularism that has spread in the past two decades has sown the very community divisions it allegedly seeks to head off, she says, creating a class of so-called \u201ccommunitarian\u201d offenders out of what were, previously, innocuously, individual Muslims or Jews. Muslims and Jews have, in turn, come to think of themselves increasingly as communities, with collective interests that may conflict with those of society at large.<\/p>\n

…Only in the 1990s\u2014as social tensions rose over Muslim girls wearing headscarves, and as religious practice in general was increasingly viewed as incompatible with a full life in society\u2014did the notion of a \u201cJewish community\u201d enter the public discourse. \u201cThis was a term that didn\u2019t exist,\u201d she said. Whether it was first used by French Jews or non-Jews she does not know, but in any case it is not an expression she endorses. \u201cAs if all that identified me were my Jewishness, as if this were the only component of my identity,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Still, despite herself, her Jewishness has lately come to the fore. After the January attack at a kosher market, she no longer brings her children grocery shopping; she has caught herself remarking to friends that men with peyos are \u201ccourageous\u201d to ride the M\u00e9tro in Paris. As much as she detests the \u201ccompetition for victim-status\u201d in which the French tend to engage, jockeying for recognition from the entitlement state\u2014this is \u201cthe great French malady,\u201d she said\u2014she finds herself reassured by the soldiers who have been assigned since the killings to guard synagogues and other Jewish sites throughout the country. And yet she worries that protection will be viewed by some non-Jews as yet another symbol of Jewish privilege, reinforcing notions of a \u201cJewish community.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s normal that the state protect us,\u201d Horvilleur said, using the first-person-plural in what seemed an unconscious confirmation of her fears. \u201cBut at the same time, the more they protect us, the more they weaken us.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course Jews, Muslims and other minorities have group interests that clash with other group interests. That’s as true for Jews and Muslims in France as it is for minority groups such as Gypsies and Chinese around the world. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Tabletmag.com: The \u2018secular rabbi,\u2019 who gained notoriety in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks, skillfully negotiates the borders of \u2018la\u00efcit\u00e9\u2019 in a republic that remains on edge …While her progressivism has made her a darling of secular society, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-france","category-jews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74356,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74355\/revisions\/74356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}