{"id":535951,"date":"2010-04-20T10:20:08","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T14:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.rj.org,2010:\/rac\/\/2.2680"},"modified":"2010-04-20T10:25:11","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T14:25:11","slug":"anat-hoffman-talks-equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/535951","title":{"rendered":"Anat Hoffman Talks Equality"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Anat.jpg\"<\/span>Womenetics<\/em>, a new media platform that dedicated to connecting, inspiring, and ultimately, empowering women, this month profiled our colleague Anat Hoffman<\/a>, Director of the Israel Religious Action Center and co-founder of Women of the Wall<\/a>. In recent months, Anat made news when she wore a tallit<\/i>, or prayer shawl, at the Western Wall, carrying a Torah and praying aloud with Women of the Wall. She was detained by Israeli police and questioned about breaking the Regulation on Holy Places, which prohibits individuals from performing religious acts at the Western Wall that upset others. <\/p>\n

Womenetics<\/em> asked Anat, “What are the biggest issues for females in Israel today?”<\/strong> Her response is quite fitting today, which is Equal Pay Day<\/a> here in the United States: a day that symbolizes how far into 2010 women must work to earn what men earned in 2009 (you can write to Congress about this injustice<\/a> now). Anat answered:<\/p>\n

<\/blockquote>\n

First, equal pay for equal work. In some institutions,
\nlike insurance and banks, women get 90-percent less than men. That’s an
\nextreme case, but there are many instances, like in the municipalities,
\nwhere women get 40-percent less. This doesn’t come from base salaries,
\nbut perks that are very male oriented, like extra hours. Pensions are
\nmore equal because there are no perks, but if a woman works extra
\nhours, she usually doesn’t get paid; it’s considered volunteer. Yet, on
\naverage, women are more educated and more loyal. The second issue is
\nfreedom to get divorced because of the religious courts. There is no
\ncivil marriage (or divorce) in Israel. A woman can’t grant herself a
\ndivorce; the man has to grant it. Third is coercion of religion against
\nwomen. We see this in what is happening at the Western Wall (where
\nwomen’s rights to pray are limited), and the segregated (by sex) buses
\nand sidewalks, and the enforcement of modest dressing. The fact is that
\nthe two groups most under-represented are women and minorities. The two
\ngroups that are over-represented are immigrants (primarily Russian
\nimmigrants who are more right wing) and the ultra-Orthodox.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For
\nmore of Anat’s answers on Israel’s “macho society,” her arrest at the
\nKotel, and how American women (and men!) can help secure equal rights
\nfor women in Israel, visit Womenetics <\/i>for the whole
\ninterview<\/a>. You can further your support by visiting the Israel
\nReligious Action Center online at www.irac.org<\/a> or by following them on Facebook<\/a>,
\nwhere they regularly showcase IRAC in the media and ask Jews across the
\nworld to send their photos and messages of solidarity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Womenetics, a new media platform that dedicated to connecting, inspiring, and ultimately, empowering women, this month profiled our colleague Anat Hoffman, Director of the Israel Religious Action Center and co-founder of Women of the Wall. In recent months, Anat made news when she wore a tallit, or prayer shawl, at the Western Wall, carrying a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}