Rackman admitted that one of his goals was to prod the rabbinical establishment out of its slumber on this painful issue, yet insisted that the Bet Din's technical solutions remained within the ...

Rabbi Emanuel Rackman, a leading Orthodox thinker and an early champion of women’s rights, died Dec. 1 in New York. He was 98. Tributes poured in from around the world last week, many of them praising ...

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Rabbi Dr. Emanuel Rackman passed away on Monday in New York at the age of 98. His funeral began in New York on Tuesday, and is scheduled to resume in Israel on Wednesday, at 2:00 PM at Eretz Hachayim ...

“Rabbi Rackman paid a high price for that, because his views were controversial, and solutions that he offered were deemed too radical by the Orthodox establishment, but he was really extremely brave, ...

Pioneering rabbi earned praise, and attracted controversy, in trying to ease the plight of agunot, “chained women” whose husbands denied them a writ of religious divorce. NEW YORK (JTA) — Rabbi ...