2017 Issues of the Pluralist

January 9
Modesty Signs Defeated Again

Tags: Modesty signs, gender discrimination, gender segregation, Ashdod, supermarket, Bet Shemesh, Anat Hoffman

January 17
Thank You

Tags: Thank you, Anat Hoffman

January 23
Indict the Racist Now

Tags: Racism, Lehava, Bentzi Gopstein, violence, Facebook, Anat Hoffman, incitement, jobs, march

January 30
IRAC Oppposes Orwellian Rabbis

Tags: 1984, George Orwell, IDF, Israeli Defense Forces, soldiers, gender discrimination, Rabbi Yigal Levinstein, LGBTQ, Anat Hoffman, Kotel, Western Wall

February 6
Another IRAC Court Victory

Tags: Peru, Morocco, convert, conversion, mikvah, ritual bath, LACO, Legal Aid Center for Olim, Ministry of the Interior, immigrant, immigration, Anat Hoffman, Nicole Maor Supreme Court

February 9
Lehava Assaults IRAC Staff

Tags: Lehava, racism, violence, attack, demonstration, mob, Rabbi Noa Sattath

February 13
Taking the stand against racism

Tags: Derech Chayim, employment, racism, jobs, segregation, Hebrew Labor, Avodah Ivrit, Mossawa, education, Anat Hoffman

February 20
IRAC Fights for LGBT Equality

Tags: Adoption,marriage, LGBTQ, Rabbi Noa Sattath

February 28
IRAC Fights Israel's "Kosher Monopoly"

Tags: Kashrut, kosher, Chief Rabbinate, Kotel, Western Wall, Torah, tax, converts, conversion, Israel Hotel Association, Anat Hoffman

March 6
IRAC Denounces US Anti-Semitism

Tags: America, David Ben Gurion, anti-Semitism, Anat Hoffman, Rabbi Noa Sattath, Knesset, Benjamin Netanyahu

March 14
IRAC Debuts "Heroes of Health" Report in Knesset

Tags: Heroes of Health, healthcare, hope, racism, shared society, coexistence, Rabbi Noa Sattath

March 20
IRAC Confronts Fake News

Tags: Yated Ne’eman, education, Moshe Gafni, Shas, core curriculum, Rabbi Gilad Kariv, Knesset, schools, Rabbi Noa Sattath

March 27
IRAC Testifies in the Knesset about Gender Equality

Tags: Gender equality, Knesset, Kol Barama, Bezalel Smotrich, Rabbi Noa Sattath

April 3
Stop Censoring Smurfette

Tags: Smurfs, Smurfette, advertisement, gender discrimination, censorship, IKEA, Heroes of Health, Anat Hoffman

April 10
IRAC's Modern Day Moses

Tags: Dr. Maurit Beeri, Heroes of Health, Moses, Pesach, Passover, Kol Barama, Anat Hoffman

April 23
IRAC's Post-Passover Cleaning

Tags: Pesach, Passover, chametz, water, matzah, milk, sewage, Anat Hoffman

May 1
IRAC's Prayer for Israel

Tags: Yom Ha’atzmaut, Independence Day, Zionism, Harvey Mark Krueger, Anat Hoffman

May 8
IRAC Defends Women's Choices About Their Bodies

Tags: Fertility, married, marriage, gender discrimination, Chief Rabbinate, hospitals, LACO, Legal Aid Center for Olim, WUPJ, World Union for Progressive Judaism, Ministry of Health, Rabbi Noa Sattath

May 16
"Who is a Jew?" - IRAC Defends Israel's Law of Return

Tags: Law of Return, immigrant, immigration, Aliyah, olim, Rabbi Gilad Kariv, Supreme Court, Nicole Maor, Chief Rabbinate, Knesset, Anat Hoffman

May 19
IRAC and WUPJ Make History at the Kotel

Tags: WUPJ, World Union for Progressive Judaism, Kotel, Western Wall, Torah, Anat Hoffman, Rabbi Noa Sattath

May 22
IRAC Fights for Conversion Rights

Tags: Law of Return, Knesset, Chief Rabbinate, convert, conversion, Anat Hoffman

May 29
IRAC defends girls and their mothers against ultra-Orthodox harassment

Tags: Bet Shemesh, preschool, school, flight, airplane, El Al, gender discrimination, gender segregation, Anat Hoffman

June 19
IRAC Invites You to Our Shabbat Table

Tags: Missionary, Shabbat, Kotel, Western Wall, Rabbi Yosef Elitzur, The King’s Torah, Torat Hamelech, Batim Yehudim, Jewish Homes, Ministry of Religious Affairs, subsidies, Anat Hoffman

June 26
IRAC and WUPJ Make History at the Kotel

Tags: WUPJ, World Union for Progressive Judaism, Kotel, Western Wall, Torah, Anat Hoffman, Rabbi Noa Sattath

July 3
Revolution

Tags: Conversion Bill, converts. Chief Rabbinate, Lehava, racism, Anat Hoffman

July 10
IRAC Fights Against Lehava

Tags: Gender discrimination, racism, Lehava, Bentzi Gopstein, Conversion Bill, Jamal Joulani, lynch, attack, violence, Anat Hoffman

July 17
IRAC's Victory Against El Al

Tags: Renee Rabinowitz, gender discrimination, El Al, adoption, LGBTQ, Western Wall, Kotel, airplane, flight, airport, Anat Hoffman

July 24
IRAC fights for equal adoption for the LGBT community

Tags: Adoption, LGBTQ, Association for Israeli Gay Fathers, homophobia, Ministry of Welfare, rally, Rabbi Noa Sattath

July 31
IRAC fighting for Pluralism in the Knesset

Tags: Knesset, Conversion Bill, Kotel Agreement, Nation-State Bill, America, Rabbi Noa Sattath

August 7
IRAC at the Jerusalem March for Pride and Tolerance

Tags: LGBTQ, Jerusalem March for Pride and Tolerance, Western Wall, Kotel, Rabbi Noa Sattath

August 14
IRAC struggles with fighter's fatigue

Tags: Pride, Jerusalem March for Pride and Tolerance, Anat Hoffman

August 21
IRAC Introduces the Racism Crisis Center

Tags: Racism Crisis Center, RCC, minorities, victims, attacks, violence, discrimination, Anat Hoffman

August 27
Like a Drimia

Tags: Drimia, Kehilat Yonatan, Hod Hasharon, Judge Menachem Finkelstein, synagogue, Anat Hoffman

August 28
Harassment at the Wall

Tags: Western Wall, Kotel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Torah, body searches, tallit, URJ, Union for Reform Judaism, Association for Reform Zionists in America, ARZA, Women's Rabbinic Network, Anat Hoffman, Rabbi Noa Sattath

September 4
Victory in Court

Tags: Supreme Court, Kotel, Western Wall, Knesset, Benjamin Netanyahu, Anat Hoffman, Rabbi Noa Sattath

September 10
IRAC takes on gender segregation in public libraries

Tags: Library, gender segregation, gender exclusion, Eliezer Rauchberger, gender discrimination, Rabbi Shlomo Amar, holocaust, holocaust deniers, Anat Hoffman

September 17
Shana Tova from IRAC

Tags: Shana Tova, Rosh Hashanah, El Al, airplane, flight, gender discrimination, Anat Hoffman

September 25
Anat Hoffman on JPost's list of most influential Jews

Tags: Rosh Hashanah, The Jerusalem Post, Benjamin Netanyahu, Rabbi Rick Jacobs, Rabbi Noa Sattath

October 16
Victory Against Discrimination

Tags: King David Hotel, Aliyah, olim, Avodah Ivrit, Hebrew Labor, racism, segregation, exclusion, Mossawa Center, kosher, kashrut, Anat Hoffman

October 23
Breaking News! Bentzi Gopstein Arrested!

Tags: Lehava, racism, Bentzi Gopstein, arrest, Telegram, Supreme Court, Anat Hoffman, Rabbi Noa Sattath

October 30
All Hail the Chief

Tags: Esther Hayut, Supreme Court, Chief Justice, Bentzi Gopstein, Western Wall, Kotel, Rabbi Noa Sattath

November 6
Three Weddings and a Statement

Tags: Marriage, Chief Rabbinate, wedding, Western Wall, Kotel, Women of the Wall, Temple Emanu-El, New York, Anat Hoffman, Rabbi Noa Sattath

November 13
Meet Valentine and Elizabetha

Tags: Russia, marriage, wedding, convert, conversion, LGBTQ, Temple Emanu-El, New York, ARZA, The Association of Reform Zionists of America, Anat Hoffman, Rabbi Noa Sattath

November 16
Violence at the Western Wall

Tags: Kotel, Western Wall, IMPJ, the Israel Movement for Progressive and Reform Judaism, Rabbi Rick Jacobs, Hebrew Union College, Rabbi Noa Sattath, Anat Hoffman

November 21
IRAC's Victory Against Lehava

Tags: Avichai Mandelblit, Rabbi Noa Sattath, racism, Lehava, Bentzi Gopstein, incitement, obstruction of justice

November 23
Meet Ori and Alona

Tags: LGBTQ, marriage, wedding, Temple Emanu-El, New York, Anat Hoffman, Rabbi Noa Sattath

November 28
Support IRAC this #GivingTuesday

Tags: ARZA, The Association of Reform Zionists of America, Anat Hoffman, Rabbi Noa Sattath, Bentzi Gopstein, Lehava, El Al, Rabbi Yosef Elitzur, Avodah Ivrit, Hebrew Labor kashrut, kosher, Racism Crisis Center, RCC

November 30
Meet Alon and Gali

Tags: Chief Rabbinate, marriage, wedding, Temple Emanu-El, New York, Anat Hoffman, Rabbi Noa Sattath

December 4
Three Weddings and a Statement

Tags: Wedding, marriage, LGBTQ, Chief Rabbinate, Temple Emanu-El, New York, Anat Hoffman, Noa Sattath

December 7
Breaking News: Victory for the Women of Bet Shemesh

Tags: Bet Shemesh, Supreme Court, gender discrimination, gender segregation, modesty signs, Orly Erez-Likhovski, Anat Hoffman

December 11
Support IRAC in 2018

Tags: Renee Rabinowitz, Dana Cohen-Lekach, El Al, airplane, flight, gender segregation, gender discrimination, wedding, Anat Hoffman

December 18
Support IRAC in 2018

Tags: Kotel, Western Wall, Bet Shemesh, modesty signs, Anat Hoffman

December 25
You Make Change Happen

Tags: Benjamin Netanyahu, modesty signs, Bet Shemesh, Anat Hoffman