Rackman, Emanuel.

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Dates:
Birth 1910-06-24
Death 2008-12-01
Americans,
Yiddish, Hebrew, English,

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Rabbi Emanual (Menachim) Rackman (1920-2008) was an American Jewish scholar and theologian. For twenty years he served as Rabbi at Congregation Shaarey Tefila, then in Far Rockaway, Queens, and then at the prominent Fifth Avenue Synagogue in Manhattan. He wasd an outspoken advocate of a more inclusive, intellectually open Orthodox Judaism, including supporting the right of agunot (women whose husbands will not or cannot grant them an official bill of divorce, known as a get ) to remarry.

From the guide to the Emanuel Rackman Manuscripts, before 1967, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries)

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  • Cohanim
  • Jewish scholars
  • Jewish socialists
  • Judaism
  • Judaism
  • Orthodox Judaism
  • Philosophy and religion
  • Rabbis
  • Siddur

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