Women of Rodef Sholom Opening Event:

Saturday, September 29th

A Shabbaton with

Anat Hoffman

This event is co-sponsored by Women of Rodef Sholom, Congregation Rodef Sholom and the Osher Marin JCC Center for Jewish Peoplehood

Anat Hoffman is Executive Director of the Israel Religious Action Center (IRAC), and is a founding member and Chairwoman of Women of the Wall.

Before she became Executive Director of the Israel Religious Action Center in 2002, Anat served as a Jerusalem City Councilwoman for 14 years. She became known as an inexhaustible warrior for justice and equality. She worked to ensure that the powerful Orthodox bloc in the City Council did not dictate lifestyle choices for Jerusalem's secular population; she fought for women's equal pay for equal work; she sought to guarantee adequate municipal services for the Palestinian residents of Jerusalem; and even in this city divided by religious disagreement, she has struggled for recognition of religious pluralism. Anat specialized in attending to the details of municipal administration, where big decisions are often hidden away in the fine print. She became a familiar figure in the Supreme Court, as she pursued her quest for information that the bureaucracy preferred to keep secret.  

Anat was born in Jerusalem and in her teens was an Israeli swimming champion. After army service, she received her BSc in Psychology at the University of California in Los Angeles and pursued graduate studies at Bar Ilan University.  She served on the Boards of the Israel Women’s Network, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, and many other Israeli organizations for social change.

Anat is a sought-after lecturer, addressing audiences in Israel and in the United States on subjects close to her heart: gender segregation in the public sphere and the struggle for Jews to be able to practice a broad spectrum of Judaism in Israel, social justice, and equal rights for women and minorities.  Anat guides IRAC in its work to promote Jewish pluralism, tolerance, and equality, and to combat racism and religious coercion. Anat expanded IRAC’s mission to go beyond the courts and the Knesset, and to engage in helping people directly through social action.

• Anat Hoffman is Haaretz's Person of the Year 2013, garnered close to 70 percent of the vote.
• Anat Hoffman listed on Huffington Post's 50 Powerful Women Religious Leaders, March 2014
• Anat Hoffman ranks fifth in the Jerusalem Post's Top 50 Most Influential Jews 2013 
• Anat Hoffman listed among CIJA's 10 Jewish Women Inspiring Change
• Anat Hoffman receives  Women of Reform Judaism’s Jane Evans Pursuit of Justice Award at the Union of Reform Judaism’s Biennial, December 2013
• Anat Hoffman Dares to Take On Israel’s Orthodox Establishment, Moment Magazine 
• Anat Hoffman ranks eighth in the Jerusalem Post's Top 50 Most Infulential Jews  2017

Members of Rodef Sholom Social Justice Trip to Israel with Rabbi Stacy Friedman visit with Anat Hoffman at the IRAC/Women of the Wall office, Jerusalem, October, 2017

        PROGRAM:

3:00 Welcome, nosh and beverage

4:00 Shabbaton with Anat Hoffman

5:30 Havdallah service

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