1.0Jewish Telegraphic Agencyhttps://www.jta.orgadminhttps://www.jta.org/author/adminEmanuel Rackman, Leading Orthodox Thinker, Dies at 98 - Jewish Telegraphic Agencyrich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="YWyoXchAV9"><a href="https://www.jta.org/archive/emanuel-rackman-leading-orthodox-thinker-dies-at-98-2">Emanuel Rackman, Leading Orthodox Thinker, Dies at 98</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.jta.org/archive/emanuel-rackman-leading-orthodox-thinker-dies-at-98-2/embed#?secret=YWyoXchAV9" width="600" height="338" title="“Emanuel Rackman, Leading Orthodox Thinker, Dies at 98” — Jewish Telegraphic Agency" data-secret="YWyoXchAV9" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript">
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Rabbi Emanuel Rackman, a leading Orthodox thinker and an early champion of women’s rights, died Monday in New York. He was 98. Tributes poured in from around the world this week, many of them praising Rackman for being an Orthodox pioneer in trying to ease the plight of agunot — women whose recalcitrant husbands denied […]https://www.jta.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/jta-long-logo-bw.jpg600315