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 ...

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 ...

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“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, ...

With the passing of Rabbi Professor Menachem Emanuel Rackman, we have lost an exemplary scholar and an inspirational, broad-minded leader, one who, with feet planted firmly on the ground, nevertheless ...

David Rackman left Slutzk in Byelorussia (Belarus) for the US, where he settled and married. Brought up in a religious and academic family, Emanuel was given responsibility early. From the age of 10 ...

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 ...