Tablet Magazine

03 June 2024

26 Iyar 5784

Ten years after bloody Islamist attacks sent thousands of French Jews fleeing to Israel, France feels surprisingly resilient—while American Jews fear what comes next

byMarco Roth

Tablet Goes to Paris

Why France suddenly matters

byThe Editors

The Jewish Question in French Politics

Former Prime Minister Manuel Valls and rising parliamentary star Benjamin Haddad sit down with Tablet to talk Islamic separatism, anti-Jewish hatred, rebuilding a Republican left, and whether the center can hold

byJeremy Stern

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Tablet Goes to Paris

Why France suddenly matters

byThe Editors

The Jewish Question in French Politics

byJeremy Stern

The Many Lives of Arielle Dombasle

Paris’ most enigmatic aesthete will welcome the Olympic torch to the city

byAni Wilcenski

Jacques Chirac (center) talks with Henri Hajdenberg (left), then-president of CRIF and of the European Jewish Council, Élysée Palace, Paris, 2000

Secrets of the CRIF

The annual dinner where the French state meets the Jews

byMarc Weitzmann

The French Rabbi of Brokenness

Delphine Horvilleur on death, empathy, and the new-old antisemitism of the left

byEmily Barton

Secrets of the CRIF

The annual dinner where the French state meets the Jews

byMarc Weitzmann

The French Rabbi of Brokenness

Delphine Horvilleur on death, empathy, and the new-old antisemitism of the left

byEmily Barton

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The Vanishing
The Jewish communities of America and France created liberal modernity, so it’s no accident they’re dissolving
BY MARC WEITZMANN
Israel on the Front Lines
The former prime minister of France explains that Israel fights in Gaza not only to defend itself, but to protect the values and security of a civilization under siege by an army of cowards and negationists
BY MANUEL VALLS
Israel’s French New Wave
The growing and distinctly western Mediterranean olim are a boon to Israel but a dark omen for the future of France
BY MATTI FRIEDMAN

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The Spirit of Shvues

Shavuot is about more than cheesecake and the Ten Commandments. It’s also about dybbuks.

byRokhl Kafrissen

Mob Education at the Ivies

Students at America’s top universities are learning the lesson Hamas has internalized

byAlexandra Orbuch

Why Gays (and Others) Should Still Read ‘Faggots’

Larry Kramer, Richie Bronstein, and the question of whether homosexuality is a heritage that should be handed down from generation to generation by scandalous Jew daddies, or proper, self-respecting homos

byBlake Smith