Rabbi Emanuel Rackman, a member of the executive of the Jewish Agency for Israel, has been appointed chairman of the newly-organized national advisory committee of the Jewish Agency’s department of education and culture, Dr. Neumann announced. Dr. Rackman, who is assistant to the president of Yeshiva University and rabbi of the Fifth Ave. Synagogue here, will head a committee of Jewish educators, academicians and laymen who will plan and review regularly the program and activities of the department, which is headed by Dr. Abraham P. Gannes. Rabbi Rackman is also a member of the JTA board of directors.
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