JOURNALIST.

Editor in Chief of :
- Valeurs Actuelles (Paris), the French conservative journal.

Member of the Editorial Board of :
- Commentaire (Paris), the French political quarterly founded by Raymond Aron.
- Outre-Terre (Paris), the French review on geopolitics edited by Michel Korinman. 




Contributor to :
- Le Figaro (Paris).
- Le Spectacle du Monde (Paris).
- The Times (London).
- The Wall Street Journal (New York).
- The Wall Street Journal Europe (Brussels).
- The New York Sun (New York).
- Commentary (New York).
- The Middle East Quarterly (Philadelphia).
- The Weekly Standard (Washington).
- The Jerusalem Post (Jerusalem).
- Azure (Jerusalem).
- Nativ (Tel Aviv).

Editorialist and regular guest on :
- the French TV and radio,
- the BBC,
- the Deutsche Welle.


WRITER.

Latest books :
- La Cuisson du Homard (Cooking the Lobster), an essay on the present crisis between Israel and the Arab world (Michalon, Paris, 2001) ;
- Le Retour de la Russie (The Return of Russia), a comprehensive study on Russian history and the post-communist regime (Odile Jacob, Paris, 2001).

Soon to be published :
- Geopolitics of the Future , an essay about the world in the 21st century.
- It all started there, an essay on Russian Jewry.


CITIZEN.

Civic activities :
- Chairman of the Jean-Jacques Rousseau Institute (JJRI), a think-thank on democratic international relations.
- Member of the Institut de Stratégie Comparée (ISC), the interdisciplinary strategic academy at the French School for Advanced Studies (EPHE).
- Member of the Executive Committee of the France-Israel Association (AFI).

Religious and Community activities :
- Former Governor (1989-1997) of the Consistoire de Paris (Acip) and the Consistoire central israélite de France (CCIF), the central religious organizations of France's Jewry.
- Member of the Political Committee of the Representative Council of French Jewish Organizations (Crif).
- National Chairman of Bnei Akiva France.
- Special advisor to the French and European Jewish communities on political affairs and interfaith relations.

Civic distinctions :
- Knight in the French Order of Merit.