Rackman Center Under Attack?
According to this post, copies of the poster below were hung at the Bar-Ilan University Law School. (hat tip) The poster criticizes the Ruth and Emanuel Rackman Center for the Advancement of Women’s Status and claims that its activities lead intermarriage and supports the Reform Movement and the Israeli Radical Left.
A right-wing student group at Bar-Ilan University, הפורום למען ארץ ישראל, is behind the poster. From this news report there seems to be some tension between them and the university over the scope of their activities.
March 28th, 2011 at 10:13 am
I dont undersand. Are you implying there is anything wrong with what the Bar Ilan group is doing? Anything or any gropup affiliated with someone like Rabbi Rackman is indisputably left wing. Consequently, it is going to be opposed by those on the right wing. Perhaps you might disagree with some of their statements, but doubtless were I to read the left wing group’s propoganda I would disagree with some of their statements, too. Not sure what you saw post-worthy about this.
March 28th, 2011 at 12:15 pm
The Bar-Ilan group can criticize the Rackman Center as much as they want, but from what I have seen their criticism is based upon the Rackman Center joining with the New Israel Fund and other organizations in opposing a bill to expand the power of Rabbinical Courts. I am not sure why opposing this bill is “left-wing” or why anything else done by the Rackman Center is “left-wing.”
March 28th, 2011 at 9:48 pm
I think you’re being a little disingenous here. You know very well Rabbi Rackman was very much a left winger, so much so that there are many who will say the man was not even orthodox, at least in his latter years. And here there is a feminist organization, named after him. Whether this is a worthy organizatio can be eternally debated, but the left wing identity of it cannot. or do you not think think feminsim is a left-wing idea? If that is what you think, then I am curious how you define the terms right wing and left wing. You yourself used the term “right wing” in your own post, so clearly you recognize there is a divide in human thought.
March 28th, 2011 at 10:05 pm
The group criticizing the Rackman Center is on the right-wing of the political spectrum and their criticism is focused on the what they understand to be left-wing political, not religious, activity of the center. It doesn’t have to do with women in Judaism, it has to do with what they perceive to be left-wing Israeli groups with whom the Rackman Center is working.
March 29th, 2011 at 12:13 pm
Can anyone confirm or deny the charge of “encouraging” intermarriage? I searched the Rackman website and couldn’t find anything on the subject one way or the other. Perhaps this refers to the issue of the Brit Zugiyut legislation?
March 29th, 2011 at 2:47 pm
Well, listen, I wont belabor it. My point was simply that the Rackman center is named after a left wing individual and promotes a left wing cause, and as such, it should be expected that its activities would be opposed by a right wing group.