religion title background article_title name
conservative judaism rabbi , professor #ffa 500 mayer rabinowitz
 mayer rabinowitz
mayer rabinowitz

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 yom tov sheini in israel , the stunning and bolting of animals , homosexuality , and transsexuality .
on december 6 , 2006 , rabinowitz resigned from the committee after the acceptance of a paper by rabbis elliot dorff , daniel nevins and avram reisner on homosexual relationships and ordination of homosexual rabbis , while it upheld the biblical prohibition on male intercourse .
