Late on the night before Rosh Hashanah, Chana Kehat went with her family to Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox Har Nof neighborhood to wish her parents well on the new year. The house was full of people. On weekdays, her father, ultra-Orthodox Rabbi Shlomo Fischer, one of the heads of the prestigious Itri Yeshiva in the city, lives on the yeshiva premises, surrounded by his hundreds of books. On Thursday nights and the eves of holidays, when he returns to his apartment, his children, his students and others who are welcome at his home make a pilgrimage to converse with him and consult him until the wee hours of the morning. For Kehat, the outgoing chairwoman of the religious feminist organization Kolech, the nighttime trip from her home in Neveh Daniel in Gush Etzion in the West Bank, the bastion of religious Zionism, to the house of her parents is always a kind of symbolic journey.
