Delphine Horvilleur

Delphine Horvilleur (French pronunciation: [dɛlfin ɔʁvilœʁ]; born 8 November 1974) is France's third female rabbi, and (as of 2012) editorial director of the quarterly Jewish magazine Revue de pensée(s) juive(s) Tenou'a. 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. In 2013 her book En tenue d’Eve. Féminin, Pudeur et Judaïsme (In a Birthday Suit: Feminism, Modesty and Judaism), which discusses the representation of nudity and modesty in the Bible, was published

Quotes

• “Human suffering derives from abuse. This abuse derives from belief—that is, from everything we have had to swallow, everything we have had to believe.”
  • https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/elsa-cayat-eulogy
• “So many here have the impression that when people want to express their religion, it’s just that we want halal meats or that we don’t want exams on Shabbat. But it’s not that at all,”
  • https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/in-secular-france-a-woman-rabbi-dares-to-bring-religion-into-public-life/2017/11/18/006f8066-ca0a-11e7-b506-8a10ed11ecf5_story.html