As President of the RA, Rank sat as an ex-officio member of the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards (CJLS), during a time when halakhic questions surrounding homosexuality were contentiously debated and the CJLS adopted the practice of requiring 20 of its 25 members to vote in favor of a "teshuvah" deemed a "takkanah", a procedure that Rank was assigned to explain to the membership of the RA.