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04 June 2024

27 Iyar 5784

Why the Western Rebellion Against the Jews Produces Bad Art and Bad Politics

Julia Kristeva on Céline

byBlake Smith

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Why France suddenly matters

byThe Editors

Tablet Paris: An Introduction

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

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Tablet Goes to Paris

Why France suddenly matters

byThe Editors

Tablet Paris: An Introduction

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

Sculptures at the Musée Nissim de Camondo

In the Mansion of the Camondos

An object lesson about the rewards and limitations of Jewish assimilation in France

byLiel Leibovitz

An Optimist Who Won’t Be Fooled

Gilles Kepel, France’s greatest expert on Islamist politics, sees French scholarly values and savoir faire as a bulwark against the mediocrity of Judith Butler and the antisemitic replacement theology of the global south

byArmin Rosen

The Fifth Republic is not perfect, but it’s a very good synthesis of our history. It synthesizes the old regime with what came out of the Revolution.

—Benjamin Haddad

An Optimist Who Won’t Be Fooled

byArmin Rosen

The Fifth Republic is not perfect, but it’s a very good synthesis of our history. It synthesizes the old regime with what came out of the Revolution.

—Benjamin Haddad

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France’s Great Debate Over the Sources and Meaning of Muslim Terror
A rivalry between the country’s two most prominent ‘Islamologists,’ Olivier Roy and Gilles Kepel, holds the key to understanding the existential and geopolitical tensions in France’s bloody reality
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