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St. Louis Jewish Light

A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

Women of the Wall

Women of the Wall

Hadas Parush/Flash90Published January 11, 2017

Orthodox Jews try to prevent a group of American Conservative and Reform rabbis and the Women of the Wall movement members from bringing Torah scrolls into the Western Wall compound during a protest march against the government’s failure to deliver...

Anat Hoffman, director of the Israeli Religious Action Center and chair of Women of the Wall, served as scholar-in-residence recently at Shaare Emeth.  View video from the interview at stlljewishlight.com/multimedia. Photo: Eric Berger

In St. Louis visit, activist Anat Hoffman talks about fight for equality at Western Wall

By Eric Berger, Staff WriterPublished June 15, 2016

Anat Hoffman, one of the leading proponents for changes at the Kotel, wants Jews in St. Louis and other parts of the world to push for breaking down walls at the Western Wall. The director of the Israeli Religious Action Center, an organization that...

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