Newsroom:
Op-Eds and Profiles of IRAC Staff

  • The Forward
    September 15, 2022

    In Israel, funds for synagogue construction are channeled almost exclusively to the ultra-Orthodox. Read about the struggles of Reform congregations, with a focus on Yuval Gedera congregation, in this op-ed by IRAC Director Orly Erez-Likhovski.

  • Originally published in Maariv in Hebrew. Read an English translation here.
    September 8, 2022

    Itamar Ben Gvir’s invitation to speak to high school students at Blich High School constitutes a moral failure. The fact that he serves as a Member of Knesset does not warrant his invitation to a public school.

    Read about how Kahanist MK and leader of the right wing Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) party, Itamar Ben Gvir, serves as a threat to Israel’s democracy in this op-ed by IRAC Director Orly Erez-Likhovski.

  • Haaretz
    January 9, 2022

    Why is Israel still appeasing the ultra-Orthodox radicals who seek to erase and exclude women?

    Read about how the exclusion of images of women, including the defacement and erasure of images in the public domain, are a danger to the empowerment of women and girls in Israel in this op-ed by IRAC Director Orly Erez-Likhovski.

2022

  • Originally published in Hebrew in Haaretz. Read an English translation here.
    December 15, 2021

    Read LACO Attorney Noa Diamond’s op-ed about the problematic Ministry of the Interior trend of deporting Israeli children with their foreign mothers.

  • Originally published in Hebrew in Israel Hayom. Read the English translation here.
    November 3, 2021

    Read IRAC Director Orly Erez-Likhovski’s op-ed on radio broadcaster Irit Linur’s incitment against the Reform Movement on public Army radio station.

  • The Forward
    March 3, 2021

    Read Anat Hoffman’s op-ed about the recent Supreme Court ruling recognizing Reform and Conservative conversions performed in Israel.

2021

  • The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle
    March 2, 2020

    Anat Hoffman

    There are so many Internet photos of Anat Hoffman surrounded by angry people at the Western Wall, I do believe they now outnumber the number of people on TV saying Wisconsin is an important state. Meanwhile, polls tell us the sensibilities of the Israeli electorate are changing. The director of both the Reform movement’s Israel Religious Action Center and Women of the Wall, Hoffman and her allies are on an unprecedented path for Israel and the Jewish world.

2020

  • Haaretz
    December 11, 2019

    Orly Erez-Likhovski is a key warrior in the battle against extremism in Israel, including the ongoing struggle to secure an egalitarian prayer space at the Western Wall

    Read this profile of our own Orly Erez-Likhovski in Haaretz.

  • Canadian Jewish News
    April 23, 2019

    Read an interview with Anat Hoffman in the Canadian Jewish News.

2019