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Bernard-Henri Lévy bares his Jewish soul

Jonathan Kirsch, Jewish Journal, January 11, 2017

Philosophers only rarely achieve the celebrity of a rock star or a sports hero, but Bernard-Henri Lévy, who has been described as “France’s greatest philosopher,” is an exception.

Bernard-Henri Lévy’s Fierce New Testament

Liel Leibovitz, Tablet, November 19, 2021

The French thinker’s latest book offers a global vision in which national pride and universal ideals can powerfully coexist.

Farewell to Claude Lanzmann

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, July 12, 2018

Like Orpheus, Lanzmann was an untamed poet for whom the verses were steel rails, birch forests, silences, names.

Standing at the Twilight of Democracy

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, September 05, 2018

Jeremy Corbyn threatens to lead Britain into a ‘Dark Internationale’ hastening the demise of democracy.

The New Jerusalem Is Crumbling

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, February 21, 2019

From the Pilgrim founders to Donald Trump, ‘a belief in the exceptional role of an American nation’.

How to Stop Erdogan

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, October 09, 2020

Turkey’s authoritarian president poses an active danger to Western interests. He must be contained.

Ukraine’s Hero President Z.

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, February 28, 2022

The funnyman who became a warrior and founded a new Europe.

Ukraine and the Jews

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, March 14, 2022

Unlike official Russia, Ukraine is an example of mourning and redemption done right.

Requiem for Syria

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, February 28, 2018

It is fashionable to second-guess the cost of interventions that did not deliver on all of their promises, but what we’re witnessing now is far more bloody and disastrous than timely intervention could possibly have been.

Trump, Jerusalem, and the Jews

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, December 19, 2017

Was it cheap politics or historical concern and fellow-feeling that motivated the president to declare his allegiance to the millennial capital?