Menachem Friedman

Menachem Friedman (Hebrew: מנחם פרידמן; born 1936 – 16 March 2020) was an Israeli Emeritus Professor of sociology at Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan.

His expertise was religion and the confrontations between religious and secular Judaism in modern history.

Friedman was born and raised in Bnei Brak, British Mandate of Palestine to Jewish parents.

Before entering the academic world, Menachem Friedman was a student at Yishuv Hehadash yeshiva in Tel Aviv.

Friedman was also criticised for not disclosing that he had served as an expert witness against the rebbe in a lawsuit involving ownership of the Chabad library, which invited suspicion of bias.,[3] whereas Rapaport is a rabbi closely associated with the Lubavicher sect.