It's been a tough week. Thanks to all of you who bore with the rather ominous message I sent out last Monday and wrote back with your comments and questions. I was grateful for the chance to talk about the...
Today is Rosh Chodesh Sivan, the beginning of the Hebrew month of Sivan. Throughout the year, we have been supporting and keeping you updated on the Women of the Wall (WOW), a progressive prayer group that meets monthly at the...
Today is Yom Ha'atzmaut, Israeli Independence Day, which marks the establishment of the modern state of Israel in 1948. Around the world, we celebrate this holiday on the 5th of the Hebrew month of Iyar. Below, I have compiled 62...
Womenetics, a new media platform that dedicated to connecting, inspiring, and ultimately, empowering women, this month profiled our colleague Anat Hoffman, Director of the Israel Religious Action Center and co-founder of Women of the Wall. In recent months, Anat made...
A day after Anat Hoffman, chairwoman of the Women of the Wall prayer group, was detained for holding a Torah scroll at the Kotel, the Knesset Lobby for Civil Egalitarianism and Pluralism held a preplanned discussion Tuesday on the freedom of all Jewish streams to pray at the Western Wall.
The chairman of the Women of the Wall was banned from the Western Wall for 30 days after being arrested for holding a Torah scroll at the site. Jerusalem police arrested Anat Hoffman on Monday morning following the monthly women's Rosh Chodesh prayer service. She was taken in for questioning and held for five hours before she was released, the organization said.
An Israeli embassy effort to address the concerns of non-Orthodox Jewish leaders regarding the treatment of some worshippers at Jerusalem's Western Wall has instead inflamed many of them.
Recording of Anat Hoffman at Pro-Zion event held with Southgate Reform Synagogue on Thursday 26th November - Anat talks about the arrest of Nofrat Frankel and the history of Women of the Wall as well as the work of IRAC.
As we join together in announcing and blessing a new month, we stand with the Women of the Wall and all those working for religious pluralism and civil equality in Israel.
I am saddened and dismayed by recent events at the Western Wall. These events are a tragedy -- a blow to the State of Israel and to the unity of the Jewish people.
In recent months, Israeli police have increased pressure on Women of the Wall, a progressive monthly prayer group that meets at the Western Wall. In response to the interrogation of group leader Anat Hoffman, Rabbi Yoffie issued this statement.
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