The False Messiah to Come
Spit hurled at priests, nuns being beaten, statues of Christ smashed: Gabriel Abensour, reporting from Jerusalem, refuses to view these as mere “excesses” of the...
Gabriel Abensour
Gabriel Abensour est historien, titulaire d’un doctorat du département d’histoire juive de l’Université hébraïque de Jérusalem. Il est chercheur à l’Académie Polonsky de l’Institut Van Leer á Jérusalem et chercheur associé au Centre de recherche Kogod pour la pensée juive contemporaine de l’Institut Shalom Hartman.
Articles by Gabriel Abensour
Eric Zemmour, or the Nationalization of Anti-Judaism
It had vanished long ago, and no one missed it. That old strain of Catholic anti-Judaism, presumed buried in history, resurfaces in Éric Zemmour’s latest...
Macron and Israel: by the Grace of Nations
Emmanuel Macron's quip about Israel's original debt to the international community demonstrates the persistence of an outdated image of Jews and their relationship with nations....
A sense of disarray hangs in the air—reflections on contemporary French Judaism
Gabriel Abensour believes that Franco-Judaism has forgotten its spiritual heritage. Deploring the adoption of an ultra-Orthodoxy that rigidifies practices and minds, and criticizing the lack...