Michael Lonsdale: "Witness of the Invisible" 

Michael Lonsdale.

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By: Geneviève Delrue

2 min

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Actor and comedian

Michael Lonsdale

passed away on September 21, 2020, at the age of 89, after a career as long as it was eclectic.

Sound archives from various meetings at his Parisian home shed light on the Christian faith that inhabited this unclassifiable, enigmatic actor, whose most beautiful role will remain that of Brother Luc, in Xavier Beauvois's film 

Des Hommes et des Deux,

 on the monks of Tibhirine.


Of artists, this mystic liked to say that they were "the witnesses of the Invisible".

The bitter taste of the Jewish holidays 2020


Like Rosh Hashanah,

Kippur

which begins on Sunday evening (September 27, 2020) will have, this year, the bitter taste of the Covid with closed synagogues and small committee meals.

The testimonies of

Catherine Dupeyron

, freelance journalist in Jerusalem, and

David Meyer,

rabbi in Canada. 

The “Jews from elsewhere” with Edith Bruder


Contrary to popular belief, not all Jews are Ashkenazi or Sephardic.

There are scattered small communities around the world that date back to Antiquity or, on the contrary, have emerged in recent decades.

These communities can be found in unlikely places: in the Caucasus Mountains, India, China, the Caribbean, Cape Verde, Southern Africa, Cameroon, Nigeria, etc.

For the first time, these communities are brought together in the book

 Jews from elsewhere, forgotten diasporas, singular identities

(Albin Michel).


It is the ethnologist Edith Bruder, specialist in African Judaism, who edited this collective work of nearly 500 pages which leads to question the usual vision of Jewish identity.

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