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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- Continued on Page 18