Emanuel Rackman

Rabbi (Menachem) Emanuel Rackman ( ''Menachem 'immanuel Raqman''; June 24, 1910 in Albany – December 1, 2008) was an American Modern Orthodox Rabbi, president of the RCA, vice-president of Yeshiva University. President of Bar-Ilan University from 1977 to 1986. He held pulpits in major congregations and helped draw attention to the plight of ''Refuseniks'' in the then-Soviet Union and attempted to resolve the dilemma of the ''Agunah'', a woman who cannot remarry because her husband will not grant a ''Get'', the required religious divorce decree that would free her to remarry under ''Halacha''. Provided by Wikipedia