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A Weekend With...
anat Hoffman
March 17, 18, 19, 2006
Pluralism, Equality, and Social Change in the Land of Israel
Please join us for what will be a profound and
inspiring weekend of learning with Anat
Hoffman. She will examine current Israeli
society through the lens of an untiring warrior
for justice and equality. Ms. Hoffman, who has
dedicated her adult life to the Jewish principle
of Tikkun Olam, will be helping us to learn how
to do the same. These sessions will create an
image of where we are, where we’ve been, and
where we hope to go.
Friday, March 17
Erev Shabbat Service, 7:30 pm
Oneg Shabbat Presentation, following services:
“The Search for Cracks in the City of Stone:
An Anatomy of the Struggles for Pluralism
in Modern Jerusalem”
Saturday, March 18
Shabbat Morning Minyan, 10:15 am
Text Study, 12:00 pm, “How do you say
“Tikkun Olam” in Hebrew?”
Lunch, 1:00 pm (To register, at a $12 fee, please
call the Clergy office at (212) 535-8008, ext.
264).
Afternoon Lecture and Discussion, 2:00 pm
“Women Of the Wall: A Feminist’s View of
Contemporary Israeli Society”
Sunday, March 19
Bagel Breakfast, 9:30 am
Concluding Lecture and Discussion, 10:00 am
“Call Us When You’re Right”: Working for
Social Change in Israel
Anat Hoffman became
Executive Director of the
Israel Religious Action
Center in 2002. Previously,
Ms. Hoffman served as a
Jerusalem City Council
woman for 14 years. Her
life demonstrates a
commitment to social action
and justice which has
formed her career.
In a city where women are
traditionally consigned to a subordinate role, Ms.
Hoffman led in the battles for the right of women to
pray at the Western Wall and for women’s equal
pay for equal work. Ms. Hoffman pushed relentlessly
for the provision of adequate municipal services for
the more than 200,000 Palestinian citizens of
Jerusalem. She has fought long and hard to see that
the powerful Orthodox bloc in the City Council does
not dictate lifestyle choices for the secular population
of Jerusalem. Significantly, too, in a city driven by
religious differences, she has fought tirelessly for
religious pluralism. Ms. Hoffman represented the
Civil Rights and Peace Movement on the Jerusalem
City Council. She specialized in attending to the
details of municipal administration, where big
decisions are often hidden away in the fine print. In
doing so, she became a familiar figure in the Supreme
Court, as she pursued her quest for information that
the bureaucracy preferred to keep secret.
In recent years, Anat has become a sought-after
lecturer, addressing audiences in Israel and in the
United States on subjects close to her heart: social
justice, religious pluralism, Jewish-Arab coexistence,
and equal rights for women and minorities.
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