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Maryland Permanent on Reisterstown Road amends its bylaws to
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FRIDAY, AUGUST_24, 1990
ashering a bank is
not what Va'ad
HaKashrus is most
well-known for. But with the
opening in June of a new
"glatt kosher" bank on
Reisterstown Road, that is
essentially what was done
by the Orthodox kosher cer-
tification agency.
Maryland Permanent
Bank and Trust Co. has in-
corporated clauses into its
bylaws to bring its practices
into conformity with Jewish
laws prohibiting the charg-
ing of interest on loans made
between Jews.
There are no Kosher banks
in Michigan.
The additions were pro-
posed almost a year ago to
Warren Klawans, the bank's
chairman of the board, by a
friend, Stanley Rochkind, a
local Orthodox real estate
owner. Klawans then agreed
to meet with Rabbi Moshe
Heinemann, rabbinic ad-
ministrator of Va'ad
HaKashrus, to consider the
feasibility of such a change.
Rabbi Heinemann of the
Park Heights Agudath
Israel Synagogue described
his views on the interest
problem in the Sukkot 1986
issue of Kashrus Kurrents
magazine.
"There is a question [in
Jewish law] as to whether
one may deposit money in a
bank whose owners are
either wholly or in part
[Jews]," since essentially the
Jewish depositor is lending
money to the bank to be
Tzvi Dole is a staff reporter for
our sister newspaper, the
Baltimore Jewish Times.
repaid with interest, Rabbi
Heinemann wrote.
To solve the problem, a
document called a heter
iskav is signed by both par-
ties, declaring their inten-
tion to be business partners
as opposed to borrower and
lender. Once the transaction
ceases to have the legal sta-
tus of a loan, the payment of
"There is a
question [in Jewish
law] as to whether
one may deposit
money in a bank
whose owners are
either wholly or in
part [Jews]."
M. Heinemann
interest is no longer a prob-
lem in Jewish law since it is
then merely an arrangement
between business partners,
according to Rabbi
Heinemann.
Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, a
respected Jewish scholar,
argued a few years ago that
bank deposits do not require
such a document because the
individual depositor would
be getting interest from a
corporate entity rather than
a single person. His position
is not universally accepted,
and even he acknowleged in
his responsa [Jewish legal
opinion] that bank loans re-
main a problem.
Since Rochkind's request
implied no change in the ac-
tual operation of Maryland
Permanent, and 17 of the 18
board members are Jewish,
the amendment to the
bank's bylaws was easily
approved. With additional