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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1992
855-5887
ases keep coming
before the city's bet
din, Jewish court of
law, though no one has been
chosen to succeed the late
Rabbi Leizer Levine as pres-
ident of the Council of Or-
thodox Rabbis.
"A city without a presi-
dent of its Vaad Harabonim,
(religious council), is like a
corporation without its
CEO," said Rabbi Elimelech
Silberberg of Bais Chabad of
West Bloomfield.
The Council consists of 25
Orthodox rabbis of syn-
agogues and yeshiva day
schools. Its executive com-
mittee consists of Rabbi
Chaskel Grubner, menahel,
or executive director; and
Rabbis Elimelech Goldberg,
Leo Goldman, Shlomo Irons,
Silberberg, and Shaiall
Zachariash.
Replacing Rabbi Levine,
who was widely regarded as
the spiritual leader of the
Detroit Orthodox commun-
ity, is a sensitive political
and religious decision. The
head of the bet din, a court of
three rabbis, sets standards
for the Orthodox community
on matters of kashrut,
divorce, adoption and con-
version. The nasi, or presi-
dent, also presides over civil
and business disputes, and is
empowered to set and en-
force fines.
Rabbi Levine, 96, died Jan.
19 of kidney failure at Sinai
Hospital. He presided over
the council as head of the bet
din in all religious matters
and over the religious edu-
cation committee he formed
at Yeshiva Beth Yehudah.
"I think it's safe to say
there is no one in the city
who can match the gadlus,
(greatness) of a Rabbi Levine
— not in his level of scholar-
ship, not in the forcefulness
of his personality," said
Rabbi Silberberg. "He was
completely devoted to the
Vaad. He was also 35 years
older than the oldest rabbi
on the council."
Rabbi Levine was able to
pull the community together
and keep all factions of Or-
thodoxy in check, the rabbi
added. "Since his death,
there is a spiritual void that
needs to be filled."
To fill the void, it has been
proposed that a presidium,
or triumvirate, consisting to
Rabbis Goldberg, Silberberg
and Zachariash, be estab-
lished to head the bet din.
The council has not yet voted
on this proposal.
"Meanwhile, the executive
committee is handling all
disputes," said Rabbi
Silberberg. "People depend
on us in emergency situa-
tions. Rabbi Grubner
handles the fund-raising and
day-to-day running of the
Vaad. He calls the rabbis for
the bet din."
Under Rabbi Grubner, the
Vaad recently re-hired
Rabbi Beryl Broide, product
specialist, and Rabbi Yosef
Krupnik, new director of
kashrut.
Kashrut is the single most
pressing area for which the
council is called, said Rabbi
Silberberg. "The Vaad
oversees kosher catering
in the community," he
said. "Even Conservative
"A city without a
president of its
Vaad Harabonim is
a corporation
without at CEO."
Elimelech Silberberg
shuls are under the strict
supervision of the Vaad."
Still, questions arise. In
the last two weeks, a dispute
involving the standard of
kashrut supervision at one
Farmer Jack supermarket
came before the council.
"We had a problem with
Farmer Jack rotating its
personnel to get rid of one of
our full-time mashgichim
(kashrut supervisors)," said
Rabbi Silberberg. "This is
unacceptable since the Vaad
adheres to strict Halachah
(Jewish law), which calls for
a full-time mashgiach, who
is shomer Shabbat (Sabbath
observant)."
The civil courts view the
religious court as they do
any private arbitration pro-
cess, said Rabbi Shlomo
Sperka, a former judge and
current director of the Mich-
igan Employment Relations
Commission.
Today, battei dinim, Heb-
rew for houses of judgment,
still refer to ecclesiastical
courts dealing with the same
matters they did hundreds of
years ago.
The establishment of battei
dinim goes back to biblical
times. The Torah records
that Moses sat as a
magistrate among the peo-
ple, and on the advice of his
father-in-law, Jethro, dele-
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