Anat Hoffman

The author is the Chair of Women of the Wall.

WOMEN OF THE WALL chairwoman Anat Hoffman addresses a press conference at the Western Wall in 2016.

Is Israel the most important Jewish project of our lifetime?

A charming moment by the Kotel.

What’s the big deal with the Western Wall?

Women of the wall

In defense of provocation


An open letter to the prime minister

During the course of this year, despite unceasing harassment by the Western Wall rabbi, Women of the Wall continued praying at the Western Wall.

MEMBERS OF 'Women of the Wall' including the author (second from right) speak to the media following the Israeli government's decision last year

A tectonic shift

Women of the Wall invites Israeli society to dream of a new reality at the Western Wall.

Women of the wall.

An open letter to Rabbi Rabinowitz, administrator of the Western Wall

Brother, it has been 27 years since Women of the Wall began to pray at the Kotel with a Torah. Let’s get used to each other.

Women of the Wall carry a Torah scroll into the women's section of the Western Wall plaza

Davka

‘Mom, I also want a bat mitzva at the Kotel’

(Left) Male haredi worshipers heckle members of Women of the Wall during a Rosh Hodesh service next to the Western Wall Plaza in July 2013.

A letter to my sister, ‘on the fence’

The rabbi and others want you, as a non-ultra-Orthodox woman, to go pray at Robinson’s Arch, and not at the Kotel, where Am Yisrael has prayed for thousands of years.

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Where is our Jewish GPS?

Our rabbis are so busy remembering Amalek as a center piece of their Jewish teaching, they are forgetting Hillel’s "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor."

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We are with you Naomi Chazan

Naomi Chazan, you and your work with the NIF make me proud to be an Israeli.


Seek the Lord, ye humble of the earth

Reality has taught me that the demand for the total and absolute "right" never comes true.

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