About this Event
How does a rabbi and public intellectual address his/her congregants when global events upend their understanding of the world? In her latest book published in October, “Sermons sous les décombres” (Sermons Under the Rubbles), Rabbi Delphine Horvilleur has assembled a collection of sixteen of her weekly sermons, delivered at her synagogue from September 2023 to October 2025. The sermons offer a blend of personal memoir, political commentary, and spiritual reflection about the contemporary nature of Judaism, the global rise of antisemitism, the geopolitical realities of Israel, and the political responsibilities tied to using military force, providing a religious reflection on the ability of language to make sense of a world in collapse and on how fractured societies can find ways to restore dialogue in order to heal.
Delphine Horvilleur
Delphine Horvilleur is a rabbi and prominent public intellectual in the realms of Jewish culture and religion. She’s the author of several best-sellers in France, and the Editorial Director of Tenoua, an independent online media outlet and platform for contemporary Jewish thought. Since 2018, the Tenoua Workshops (“Ateliers Tenoua”) conducted in Paris and many other european cities have attracted a very large audience. She has authored ten books, some of them available in English: How Isn’t It Going? Conversations after October 7 (Europa Editions, 2025), Living With Our Dead, Stories of Loss and Consolation (Europa Editions, 2024), Anti-Semitism Revisited: How the Rabbis Made Sense of Hatred (MacLehose, 2021).
Her book Vivre avec nos morts (Living With Our Dead, Stories of Loss and Consolation), has inspired the HBO Max series “Reformed.”
Her most recent book, Sermons sous les décombres (Sermons Under the Rubbles Olivier Nora Editions) is a Jewish reflexion on trauma, language and polarization.
Abigail Pogrebin
Abigail Pogrebin is a respected author, journalist, and podcaster, and an expert in Jewish identity and culture.
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NYU Hemmerdinger Hall, 100 Washington Place, New York, United States
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