LETTERS

LETTERS from page 5

Where Is The
Rabbinic Support?

Kol hakavod [all the honor]to

Conservative Rabbi David Nelson for
having the guts to take it upon him-
self to become the mashgiach for
Dexter-Davison Meats ("Supervised!"
July 20, page 28).
But where are other Conservative
and Reform rabbis, who should be
giving Rabbi Nelson their backing?
For too long, the Vaad Harabonim
[Council of Orthodox Rabbis of
Greater Detroit] in this area has had
sweeping control over kashrut stan-
dards in the Jewish community.
It is time for the Conservative reli-
gious leaders to stand up and give
their congregants a kosher certifica-
tion service and a place where we, as
Conservative Jews, can feel good
about keeping kosher.
Bernard A. Schiff

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According to Hank Greenberg: The
Story of My Life, written with Ira
Berkow, it was not a 1934 World
Series game that Hank Greenberg
skipped in order to attend Yom
Kippur services at Congregation
Shaarey Zedek ("Hank Greenberg:
Detroit's Hero," July 27, page 32),
but a regular season game on Yom
Kippur, Sept. 18; the pennant race
was still going on. (But he had
played, with some regret, on Rosh
Hashanah, nine days before.)
It wasn't until 31 years later that a
Jewish ball player, pitcher Sandy
Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers,
skipped a World Series game
because of Yom Kippur, the opening
game of the 1965 World Series. The
Dodgers lost that game to
Minnesota and, I think, the Tigers
lost the 1934 game that Greenberg
skipped.
Edgar Guest wrote a poem in
honor of Greenberg's act, the last
two lines of which read: "We shall
miss him on the infield and shall .
miss him at the bat, But he's true to
and I honor him for
his religion
that!"
Leon H. Warshay

Detroit

