Ask Not Why My People : Selected Writings of a Known Jewish Activist

Shifra Hoffman is a renowned Jewish journalist, activist, founder of the International Organization - VICTIMS OF ARAB TERROR (VAT) and Executive Director of SHUVA - 'Return", The Israel Emergency Aliyah Movement. Born in New York City she and her late husband, Ralph (Reuven), emigrated to Jerusalem, Israel in 1986.

They are the parents of two sons, Steven (Shmuel Natan Chain), and Barry, (Baruch Leib Z"l). of Blessed memory. While living in the United States, Shifra Hoffman hosted and moderated a popular radio program, JEWISH NEWS AND VIEWS with thousands of listeners who tuned in weekly to hear her erudite commentary and in depth interviews with famous personalities on crucial issues which affect the Jewish people in Israel and throughout the world. For 25 years, Hoffman was a contributing columnist to the JEWISH PRESS, America's largest independent Jewish newspaper which earned her a huge and loyal following and many honors . After emigrating to the Jewish State, with G-D's help the dedicated activist founded the ''Victims of Arab Terror'' International, (VAT) the original support and consciouness raising organization on behalf of the innumerable Jews who are murdered and wounded in horrendous Arab terrorist attacks in Israel. For more than three decades she travelled across the United States on lecture tours, often appearing on major media to spotlight the tragic stories of the innocent Jewish men, women and children who are killed in bestial Arab terror attacks and the suffering of their bereaved families that is largely ignored by the world. Shifra Hoffman presently continues to broadcast from JERUSALEM weekly on Israel News Talk Radio ( Sound Cloud).

She is currently working on a forthcoming book entitled 'EVERY STEP OF THE WAY' that details her lifelong commitment to TORAH values and Jewish activism which please G-D will be published in the near future.