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Renee Rabinowitz

Israeli-American psychologist and lawyer · Belgium · On the map · Lawyers · Lived 1934 to 2020 · aged 86

Renee Ginsburg Rabinowitz Wagner was an American-Israeli psychologist and lawyer. She was born to an Orthodox Jewish family in Antwerp, Belgium, but fled with her family to the United States in 1941, following the outbreak of World War II, and grew up in New York City.

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Awards

BBC 100 Women2016

About this person

Her parents were Max Charles Ginsburg and Helena Zimmet. She had one brother named Herbert "Herbie" Ginsburg. She earned a doctorate in educational psychology at the University of Chicago, and a Juris Doctor degree at the University of Notre Dame. She taught psychology at Indiana University, and later served as in-house legal counsel at Colorado College. In 2016, Rabinowitz was included in the BBC 100 Women list of most influential women. In 2017, she successfully sued El Al, after the airline forced her to move her seat on a Newark-Tel Aviv flight at the request of a Haredi Jewish man who refused to sit beside her due to his religious beliefs.

Country
Belgium
Category
Lawyers
Type
Lawyer
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1934 to 2020 · aged 86