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Emanuel Rackman

5 articles by Emanuel Rackman

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The State of Jewish Belief

by Jacob B. Agus, Eugene Borowitz, Emil L. Fackenheim, Marvin Fox, Solomon B. Freehof, Mordecai M. Kaplan, Jacob Neusner, Jakob J. Petuchowski, Chaim Potok, Emanuel Rackman, Herman E. Schaalman, Seymour Siegel, Ezra Spicehandler and Herbert Weiner

The State of Jewish Belief - A symposium

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From Synagogue Toward Yeshiva: Institutionalized Cult or Congregations of the Learned?

by Emanuel Rackman

The boom in synagogue building is perhaps the most striking feature of the postwar American Jewish scene.

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The Spirit of Jewish Law, by George Horowitz

by Emanuel Rackman

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Can We Moderns Keep the Sabbath?Neither Fundamentalism Nor Evasion Offers an Answer

by Emanuel Rackman

The Sabbath, that day of peace, now wages a war for survival. In an advanced technological society, her regulations are…

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Orthodox Judaism Moves with the Times:The Creativity of Tradition

by Emanuel Rackman

Can there ever be anything new in Orthodoxy? Does not Orthodoxy believe that what was, should always be?