Communauté Juive Libérale d'Île-de-France (CJL) is a Jewish community led by the Rabbi Pauline Bebe, the first woman rabbi in France. The community belongs to the Reform movement. The CJL is part of the World Union for Progressive Judaism which unites more than 1000 communities worldwide.
The Israelite Central Consistory of France is an institution set up by Napoleon I by the Imperial Decree of 17 March 1808 to administer Jewish worship and congregations in France. He also directed the establishment of regional Israelite Consistories, subordinate to the Central Consistory, across France. The consistories were ranked as établissements publics du culte. Given Napoleon's political emancipation of the Jews, he wanted a representative body that could deal with his government.
David Feuerwerker was a French Jewish rabbi and professor of Jewish history who was effective in the resistance to German occupation the Second World War. He was completely unsuspected until six months before the war ended, when he fled to Switzerland and his wife and baby went underground in France. The French government cited him for his bravery with several awards. After the war, he and his wife re-established the Jewish community of Lyon. He settled in Paris, teaching at the Sorbonne. In 1966, he and his family, grown to six children, moved to Montreal, where he developed a department of Jewish studies at the University of Montreal.
Antoinette Feuerwerker was a French jurist and an active fighter in the French Resistance during the Second World War.
Gilles Uriel Bernheim is a French-Israeli rabbi who was formerly the Chief Rabbi of France. Born in Aix-les-Bains, Savoie, in 1952, he was elected by the general assembly of the Central Consistory chief rabbi of France on 22 June 2008, for a seven-year mandate starting from 1 January 2009. Until then, he had been rabbi of synagogue de la Victoire, the main synagogue in Paris, since 1 May 1997. The Chief Rabbi of France was respected as a scholar not only in the Jewish community but in the wider academic world. However, he resigned as chief rabbi in April 2013 before his term had ended, amid revelations of plagiarism and deception about his academic credentials.
Women rabbis are individual Jewish women who have studied Jewish Law and received rabbinical ordination. Women rabbis are prominent in Progressive Jewish denominations, however, the subject of women rabbis in Orthodox Judaism is more complex. Although Orthodox women have been ordained as rabbis, many major Orthodox Jewish communities and institutions do not accept the change. In an alternative approach, other Orthodox Jewish institutions train women as Torah scholars for related Jewish religious roles. These roles typically involve training women as religious authorities in Jewish Law but without formal rabbinic ordination, instead, alternate titles are used. Yet, despite this alteration in title, these women are often perceived as equivalent to ordained rabbis. Since the 1970s, over 1,200 Jewish women have been ordained as rabbis.
Pauline Bebe is the rabbi of Communauté Juive Libérale, a Progressive Jewish congregation in Paris. She was the first female rabbi in France, and the first female rabbi to lead a synagogue there. As of 2018 France has only four women rabbis, Bebe, Célia Surget, Delphine Horvilleur. and Floriane Chinsky.
The Liberal Jewish Movement of France or MJLF is a Jewish liberal cultural and religious association affiliated with the World Union for Progressive Judaism. Founded in 1977, the movement promotes Jewish religious and cultural life through its two synagogues. The MJLF was created in June 1977 by fifty families under the leadership of Rabbi Daniel Farhi, first President Roger Benarrosh and Colette Kessler, head of education. Many rabbis have contributed to the development of MJLF, including Daniel Farhi(1977-2009)Stephen Berkowitz,, Oren Postel, Pauline Bebe (1990-1995), Gabriel Farhi (1995-2007) and Célia Surget. Three rabbis currently provide the leadership for the movement:Floriane Chinsky, Yann Boissière and Delphine Horvilleur.
Célia Surget is France's second female rabbi. She grew up in Geneva and was ordained at Leo Baeck College in 2007. She then joined Paris's Reform synagogue and the Mouvement Juif Liberal de France, and was a driving force in the creation and development of the Reform youth movement Netzer France. She joined the Radlett and Bushey Reform Synagogue in the United Kingdom in 2012.
Delphine Horvilleur is France's third female rabbi, and editorial director of the quarterly Jewish magazine Revue de pensée(s) juive(s) Tenou'a. 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. In 2013 her book En tenue d’Eve. Féminin, Pudeur et Judaïsme, which discusses the representation of nudity and modesty in the Bible, was published.
This article details events from the year 2005 in Belgium. Major events include the holding of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Belgium, and the appointment of Belgium's first female rabbi.
This is a timeline of women rabbis.
Michèle Kahn is a French writer who later lived in Strasbourg and currently in Paris. She first wrote books for the young, and mainly addressed the adult public from 1997. Her novels, strongly anchored in history and very documented, often inspired by the adventures of the Jewish people, draw readers around the world.
Esther Benbassa is a French-Turkish-Israeli historian and politician. She is the author of many books of Jewish studies. She serves as a member of the French Senate, where she represents Paris. After several reports in the French press accusing her of bullying several of her parliamentarian assistants and trainees, in September 2021 Esther Benbassa was excluded from her group, the Greens, where she was a Vice-president.
The Yeshiva of the Students of Paris is a seminary of rabbinical studies that was founded in 1987 by the Rabbi Gerard Zyzek. His objective was the learning of the Jewish traditions and the Babylonian Talmud.
The Israelite Seminary of France also known as the Central Rabbinical School of France , is a Rabbinical school that trains Orthodox rabbis in France. Founded in Metz in 1829 as the Central Rabbinical School of Metz, it moved to Paris in 1859, where it is based in the city's 5th arrondissement. The school is connected with the Israelite Central Consistory of France, one of the major bodies of Orthodox Judaism in France.
Élie-Aristide Astruc was a French Rabbi, essayist, and the Grand Rabbi of Belgium from 1866–1879.
Keren Or Synagogue is a Reform Jewish Synagogue which serves as the synagogue for the Liberal Jewish Community of Lyon. It is located at 15 Rue Jules Vallès in Villeurbanne.
Adath Shalom Synagogue is a Masorti Jewish Synagogue located on 8 Rue Georges-Bernard-Shaw in Paris' 15th arrondissement.
Daniel Farhi was a French liberal rabbi.
