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Michel Gurfinkiel


Michel Gurfinkiel is the founder and president of the Jean-Jacques Rousseau Institute and a contributing editor at the Sun. He served as editor-in-chief of Valeurs Actuelles from 1985 to 2006.

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  1. Response ·

    The Marcionite Offensive

    By Michel Gurfinkiel

    Eric Mechoulan’s essay on Europe’s intolerance for Jewish ritual slaughter combines thorough research and documentation—no pertinent angle has been forgotten—with lucid exposition and a deep underst...

    The Marcionite Offensive
  2. Response ·

    Jerusalem Is and Always Will Be Treated as a “Special” Case

    By Michel Gurfinkiel

    Eugene Kontorovich, Jeremy A. Rabkin, and Douglas J. Feith were kind enough not only to read my essay, “ The Mirage of an International Jerusalem ,” but to contribute their own acute reflections on th...

    Jerusalem Is and Always Will Be Treated as a “Special” Case
  3. Monthly Essay ·

    The Mirage of an International Jerusalem

    By Michel Gurfinkiel

    How the idea of Jerusalem's status as an “international city” became embedded in countless UN resolutions and foreign policies, and why it is utterly baseless.

    The Mirage of an International Jerusalem
  4. Observation ·

    A Captivating Tour of Jewish Life at the Moment before the Holocaust and Israel

    By Michel Gurfinkiel

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    A Captivating Tour of Jewish Life at the Moment before the Holocaust and Israel
  5. Response ·

    Why, Really, French Jews Are Leaving France

    By Michel Gurfinkiel

    By coincidence, on the same day “The Twilight of French Jewry, the Twilight of France” was published in Mosaic , I came upon some highly pertinent remarks by Christine Angot in Le Monde ’s weekly li...

    Why, Really, French Jews Are Leaving France
  6. Response ·

    The Ferment that Feeds Anti-Semitism in France

    By Michel Gurfinkiel

    A recent survey conducted by a British firm, ICM Research, and published on August 14 by the Russian press agency Rossiya Segodnia, tested European opinion toward the jihadist Sunni organization now k...

    The Ferment that Feeds Anti-Semitism in France
  7. Monthly Essay ·

    You Only Live Twice

    By Michel Gurfinkiel

    Vibrant Jewish communities were reborn in Europe after the Holocaust. Is there a future for them in the 21st century?

    You Only Live Twice