Aaron Leibowitz (Hebrew: ארון ליבוביץ) is an American-born Israeli rabbi, noted educator,^[1] and local politician. In 2006 he founded and headed Yeshiva Sulam Yaakov.^[1] In 2015 he became a councilor on the Jerusalem Municipality for the Yerushalmim party.^[2] In 2012 he started Hashgacha Pratit, a kosher certification independent of the Israeli Chief Rabbinate.^[3]

In 2018 he handed over the kosher certification to the larger organization, Tzohar, remaining CEO. The organization began officiating weddings outside of the Chief Rabbinate, despite this being illegal ^[3] in Israel.

Following the handover in 2018, Leibowitz founded Chuppot, an organization that performs Orthodox weddings outside the control of the Chief Rabbinate.^[4]

He criticized the Chief Rabbinate as "racist" because of their views on who is a Jew, and their use of DNA testing to determine Jewish status.^[5]

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