Published on October 7, 2024 at 09:53. / Modified on October 7, 2024 at 09:55.
“Believing in hope when everything is going well is easy. Defending hope and fraternity when things are bad is more important.” Haïm Korsia insists that he has not changed in a year. It would rather be the world around him that has been turned upside down, assures the Chief Rabbi of France at the start of October.
Surrounded by numerous portraits, some of his family, others of him in military uniform when he was an air force chaplain, but also some more symbolic like those of Commander Massoud or General de Gaulle, the head of the Jewish communities in France hold meetings in its fairly modest offices. It is accessed by passing through the armored doors and heavily armed police protection of the splendid European Center of Judaism, north of Paris. The religious repeats his perseverance to anyone who will listen. “There was worry, certainties collapsed, but hope is still there on my side. In a family, when we fight, we need words and gestures to get back together. We experienced it in interreligious dialogue, but we never gave up,” continues this figure of the community landscape in a country which has the largest Jewish and Muslim populations in Europe and where anti-Semitic acts have exploded for a year. year.
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