Mayer Rabinowitz

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Mayer Rabinowitz is a Conservative rabbi and a professor of Talmud at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He is a respected authority on Jewish law and served for 25 years on the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the Rabbinical Assembly. His halakhic writings cover topics such as the ordination of women as rabbis, the observance of Yom Tov Sheini in Israel, how animals are slaughtered, homosexuality, and transgender issues. On December 6, 2006, Rabinowitz resigned from the committee after a paper by Rabbis Elliot Dorff, Daniel Nevins, and Avram Reisner on homosexual relationships and the ordination of homosexual rabbis, while the biblical prohibition on male intercourse was upheld. His work also addresses sensitive questions like sex reassignment surgery and the status of transsexuals.