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Harvey Meirovich is currently Rabbi at Beth Tzedec Congregation in Toronto, Ontario and is on sabbatical leave as Senior Lecturer in Jewish Studies at the Schechter Rabbinical Seminary in Jerusalem. He is former Dean of the rabbinical school (2000-2005). His teaching focuses on exploring the significance and relevance of the Jewish classical tradition as it confronts the challenges of modernity, and interpreting the religious movements of Judaism in the modern period. |
Rabbi Meirovich received his rabbinic ordination from the Jewish Theologoical Seminary of America in 1974, and in 1986 was awarded his doctorate in Jewish Intellectual History. His dissertation was published by the Seminary under the title, A Vindication of Judaism: The Polemics of the Hertz Pentateuch (1998). He is also the author of The Battle for Tolerance and Pluralism (Jewish Agency, 1997), and The Shaping of Masorti Judaism in Israel (American Jewish Committee, 1999). His most recent publication is "Perceptions of Zion and America in the Etz Hayim Torah Commentary," Conservative Judaism 59 (Fall, 2006).
Rabbi Meirovich has served as Rabbi over a span of more that 25 years in several Canadian pulpits, as well as congregations in London, England and Melbourne, Australia ( as part of an intensive effort by the Conservative Movement to bring the spiritual and ideological relevance of Masorti Judaism to a wider public). He is certified by the Seminary and the Rabbinical Assembly of America as a 'messader gittin" - an expert in the theory and execution of Jewish divorce proceedings.
Harvey Meirovich is married to Cheryl who directed the Office of the President of the Supreme Court of Israel (1990-2006). They are the parents of four children: Danya, Ari, Elina, Batya and five grandchildren: Gil, Shai, Noa, Michal, Ophir, Yair, Eliya, Yael and Leo.
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