Delphine Horvilleur

Delphine Horvilleur (born 1974) is France's third female rabbi, and (as of 2012) editor-in-Chief of the quarterly Jewish magazine Revue de pensée(s) juive(s) Tenou'a. ^[1][2][3][4] 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. ^[5][6] 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. ^[1]

She was born and raised in Nancy, but moved to Jerusalem at the age of 17 and studied life sciences at the Hebrew University. ^[1] Five years later, she came back to Paris and worked as a journalist. ^[1] She studied with well-known Jewish scholars, such as French philosopher Marc-Alain Ouaknin and ex-Chief Rabbi Gilles Bernheim, and eventually moved to New York and studied at Drisha Yeshiva. ^[1] She was ordained at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York in 2008, and later returned to France. ^[6]

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