Steven M. Rabinowitz (born January 17, 1957) is a political image maker, media strategist, publicist, and event planner whose primary work is for progressive, Democratic, and Jewish causes.

And in 2020, he supported his colleague Aaron Keyak, who left their firm to work full-time for Joe Biden as his Jewish liaison on the presidential campaign and in the transition and since.

[14] He subsequently worked on the paid national staffs of the presidential campaigns of Jerry Brown, John Anderson, Gary Hart, Walter Mondale, Paul Simon, Michael Dukakis, Bob Kerrey, and Bill Clinton.

He also produced an East Room presidential signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), witnessed by three of Clinton's predecessors – Presidents George H. W. Bush, Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford.

[31] In 2016, Rabinowitz helped kick off and run Jews for Progress, a political action committee created to defend Hillary Clinton and persuade Jewish voters in swing states to support her.

[34] Rabinowitz also often volunteered alongside his former business partner Keyak, the Joe Biden Jewish liaison, where helpful, both on the 2020 general election campaign and in the subsequent presidential transition, to some extent.

[42] QRS NewMedia, a company Rabinowitz co-founded with Laura Quinn and Mark Steitz, handled satellite feeds and radio actualities for the 1996 Clinton-Gore campaign.

While most required discrete and only private communication, others were much higher profile – among them Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, which reportedly and innocently lost tens of millions of dollars in the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme investment scandal of 1998.

[45] Subsequent mini-crises involved Hadassah's agreement to pay $45 million in clawback claims,[46] the staggering $300 million debt and near bankruptcy of its legendary Jerusalem hospital on Mount Scopus,[47] its selling off of many of its properties in Israel and Manhattan, the spinning off of it youth group Young Judaea and their popular summer camps, and the considerable staff reduction and closing of 16 of its offices including the Washington, D.C.

[51] The pluralism wars in Israel took off with the conversion crisis over the status of non-Orthodox conversions in an Israeli Supreme Court case of 1996 and continued with the Ne'eman Commission on religious councils, a strengthening of the Law of Return, the fight for new egalitarian or pluralistic sections of the Kotel (Western Wall), the advent and growth of Women of the Wall, and with arguments over marriage, divorce, burial and the very question of Who is a Jew.

Through it all, Rabinowitz was a media advisor to both the Reform and Conservative movements of Judaism and to the Jewish Federations of North America, all major players in the debate, and often, all at the same time.

[61] Rabinowitz and his firm worked on another international forum on sports integrity in London several years ago, that, among other things, explored the propriety of how Russia and Qatar so unusually came to host the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup.

These included campaigns around fuel economy, clean and hybrid vehicles, global warming, John Bolton’s nomination for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and grass-fed beef and dairy cattle.

And he worked with the Wilderness Society to support a Clinton Administration initiative to put and keep one-third of national forest land off limits to new development.

[70] Active at Adas Israel Congregation in Washington, D.C., Rabinowitz was assistant treasurer, having served for years as vice president for membership and external affairs.

Rabinowitz and Moskowitz have co-hosted yearly kosher fundraising dinners for Sips & Suppers in support of DC Central Kitchen and Martha's Table.

[81] In August 2020, he discussed what synagogues planning on streaming their High Holiday services could learn from recent political party conventions operating during the COVID-19 pandemic.