Anat Hoffman
Chair of the Board
Anat Hoffman is a founding member of Women of the Wall, an organization aimed at achieving gender equality, religious pluralism, and tolerance at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site.
She served for twenty years as the Executive Director of the Israel Religious Action Center, the legal and advocacy arm of the Reform Movement in Israel. Prior to that, she held a seat on the Jerusalem City Council, where for fourteen years she challenged the policies of the city’s right-wing and ultra-Orthodox administration. She has dedicated herself to repairing Israeli society following the Jewish principle of Tikkun Olam - repairing the world.
Tammy Gottlieb
Vice Chair of the Board
Tammy Gottlieb lives in Jerusalem, and is originally from Rehovot. She was raised and educated in a Conservative home, and is a long-time member and current board member at Adath Shalom Emanual in Rehovot. Gottlieb works in the Masorti Movement.
Linda Avitan
Board Member
Linda Avitan lives in Rehovot, has a BA in Psychology from Rutgers University in NJ, and an MSW from Columbia University, NY. She was raised in the Conservative movement and has been active in the Masorti movement since making aliyah to Israel in 1982. Today, she is a board member of Adath Shalom-Emanuel Community in Rehovot. Avitan works with children and families, bth in the public, Welfare Ministry framework as well as privately. She joined Women of the Wall in 2010 when police began to arrest women at the Kotel.
Ronit Boytner
Board Member
Ronit Boytner has prayed with WOW since August 2016. She was raised in a traditional Jewish home in Ramle, by parents who were Holocaust survivors. Today she lives in Modi'in, where she is an active member of the Reform community "YOZMA," a board member of the Reform Movement, and on the oversight committee of Modi'in-Rochester partnerships. Ronit is a passionate activist in areas of Jewish and Israeli identity, pluralism, equality, and tolerance.
Ronit is married to Guy, and mother of Yarden, Nadav, and Dana. In addition, she raises a dog and two cats.
Rachel Cohen Yeshurun
Board Member
Rachel Cohen Yeshurun was schooled at Bais Yaakov of Montreal and was active with Beth Ora Synagogue youth. Rachel made aliyah in 1989 but took 22 years to discover Women Of the Wall! She received a Bsc. in Mathematics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is currently studying towards a second degree in Computer Science. Rachel works as a computer programmer and is chair of Kehilla Masortit Ma’aleh Adumim.
Dina Greenberg
Board Member
Dina Greenberg is director of projects for incorporating information systems at EPRP-Priority. She was born is Israel and raised in Moshave Nave Yerek. Dina joined WOW in 2013 looking for a worthy and just community for True Judaism.
Batya Kallus
Board Member
Batya Kallus has been involved with WOW since she moved to Israel in 1991. She is the Israel Advisor to the Fohs Foundation, a private American foundation that funds organizations which advance shared society and equality between Arab and Jewish citizens in Israel, and Program Officer for the Moriah Fund. Kallus has a B.A. from the University of Massachusetts-Boston in community planning, and a Master’s in Human Service Management from the Heller School at Brandeis University.
Irina Lutt
Board Member
Irina made aliyah from Russia in 2003 with her daughter Sasha, who was a 1 year old baby. Sasha was the first girl to have a Bat Mitzvah with the Women of the Wall with a Torah Scroll at the Western Wall. Irina served the director of the Russian-speaking Women's Association "Kesher Project". She was trained to be a volunteer in the Sexual Assault Crisis Center (MASLAN), a group facilitator and founder of a Reform congregation for Russian speakers in Be'er Sheva.
Irina joined Women of the Wall in 2013 as a supporter and in 2017 became a board member.
Dafna Peled
Board Member
Dafna has been praying with Women of the Wall since 2013. Born in Jerusalem and today she lives in Modi'in, and is a member of the Conservative Synagogue "Shalhevet Hamaccabim". She holds a BA in philosophy and computer science from Bar-Ilan University, a master's degree in geography from Akron University in Ohio, and an MBA student from the Open University. She trains financially and effectively for families and individuals. Married with three children.
Bonnie Riva Ras
Board Member
Bonnie Riva Ras made aliyah in 2010 and lives in Jerusalem. She has been involved in Jewish communal service as a professional and lay leader for most of her life. She worked in communications/PR and as a writer and editor for a Jewish nonprofit. In the US, she was an educator in synagogue schools for over 20 years and she previously worked as a journalist for Jewish newspaper. Bonnie is currently working as a freelance writer and book editor.
Riki Shapira-Rosenberg, Adv.
Board Member
Riki is a Legal consultant for Kolech, a lawyer at the Israel Religious Action Center, and a lecturer at the Academic College of Kiryat Ono. Previous she served as Director of the Clinic for women’s rights and worker’s rights at the College of Management, Shaarei Mishpat College. Riki served a legal internship in the Supreme Court under Justice Daliah Derner and a post-internship at the Knesset Legal Offices.
Rabbi Susan Silverman
Board Member
Rabbi Susan Silverman is an author, teacher and activist. She is the founder of JustAdopt, promoting adoption in Jewish communities in order to radically increase the numbers of orphans in permanent, loving families — with the added bonus of supportive social contexts. She is an advocate for social justice, pluralism and making Israel the place where Jews can be their conceivable best. Her book, Casting Lots: Creating a Family in a Beautiful, Broken World, will be published in May, 2016, by Da Capo Press.
Rabbi Dana Sharon
Board Member
Rabbi Dana Sharon holds a degree in Literature from the Hebrew University, and was ordained by the Israeli Rabbinic Program of the Hebrew Union College (HUC). A prominent religious and feminist activist, she has served as the Chairperson of the Jerusalem House for Pride and Tolerance and volunteered for the Jerusalem Rape Crisis Center. She was also the Social Media Manager at IRAC for six years. She is currently the congregational rabbi of the Reform congregation of Gedera and teaches in the Israeli Rabbinic Program at HUC. She lives in her hometown of Kibbutz Nachshon with her life partner Shay, her cat, and twins.
Rabbi Sandra Kochmann
Board Member
Rabbi Sandra Kochman was born in Paraguay and immigrated to Israel in 2005. She was ordained by the Rabbinical Seminary in Latin America in 2000 and holds a Bachelor's Degree in nonprofit management from Bar Ilan University in Argentina. She was the first female rabbi to serve the ARI community in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Sandra currently serves as the coordinator of the Conservative community in Beit HaKerem, Jerusalem and deals with the issues of marriage, conversion, and the Kotel’s egalitarian section, Ezrat Yisrael, for the Masorti movement.
Yochi Rappeport
Executive Director
Yochi was born in Safed and raised in the Orthodox environment. Served IDF as a commander in the Nativ Military Course - teaching Judaism and Zionism to new immigrants and non-Jewish soldiers. Following her military service, Yochi studied Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies at Bar Ilan University. Yochi joined Women of the Wall in 2016 as Director of Education and Community Outreach and in 2019, was appointed Executive Director of the organization. Yochi's identity as an Orthodox woman and feminist shows that a woman may indeed possess both attributes. Married and the mother of two girls, Yochi strives to make Jerusalem and Israel more tolerant places for her daughters' generation and beyond.
