Mayer Rabinowitz

Mayer Rabinowitz
Mayer Rabinowitz
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Mayer Rabinowitz is a Conservative rabbi and a professor of Talmud at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Rabinowitz is a recognized authority on Jewish law who served on the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the Rabbinical Assembly for twenty-five years. His halakhic papers have dealt with the ordination of women as rabbis, the observance of in Israel, the stunning and bolting of animals, homosexuality, and transsexuality.^[1] On December 6, 2006, Rabinowitz resigned from the committee after the acceptance of a paper by Rabbis Elliot Dorff, Daniel Nevins and on homosexual relationships and ordination of homosexual rabbis, while it upheld the biblical prohibition on male intercourse.^[2]

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^ "JTS bio". Retrieved 2021-03-07.
^ Ben Harris (2006-12-06). "Conflicting Conservative opinions expected to open the way for gays". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Archived from the original on December 11, 2006. Retrieved 2006-12-07. Roth and , along with Rabbis Mayer Rabinowitz and , resigned from the law committee to protest its endorsement of the liberal Dorff paper.

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[1] "JTS bio". Retrieved 2021-03-07.

[2] Ben Harris (2006-12-06). "Conflicting Conservative opinions expected to open the way for gays". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Archived from the original on December 11, 2006. Retrieved 2006-12-07. Roth and , along with Rabbis Mayer Rabinowitz and , resigned from the law committee to protest its endorsement of the liberal Dorff paper.

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