 Members of the Adas Yeshurun community constantly attempted to delegitimize Rabbi Hoffman.Rabbi Hoffman’s lifelong espousal of the philosophy of Jewish peoplehood also explains his deep involvement with the Zionist and Religious Zionist movements (Mizrachi), which were not popular with German Orthodoxy.In fact, Rabbi Hoffman’s predecessor, Rabbi Nobel, though an ardent Zionist, was quite low-key about his Zionist activities.