A collection of 11 letters pertaining to Kosher supervision in New York, Cleveland, Washington and Passaic. Including:
1. Announcement on the letterhead of the visiting Rabbinical Delegation. Concerning central supervision of Kashruth (see background below) with ten signatures of important Rabbinical figures, including the visiting Rabbis Abraham Isaac Kook, Chief Rabbi of Eretz Israel, Abraham Duber Shapiro, Chief Rabbi of Kovno and Moshe Mordechai Epstein, Dean of Slabodka Yeshiva and Rabbi of Slabodka. Plus the senior Rabbis Moshe Zevulun Margolioth (Rama”z), Gavriel Zev Margolioth, Joseph Rosen (head of Va’ad HaRabanim), Menachem Yehudah Guzik (head of committee), Alter Saul Pfeffer, Raphael Weiner (Bronx), Eliezer Predmesky (Bronx, Assistant Head Vaad HaRabanim). Erev Rosh Chodesh Menachem Av, 1924.
2. A similar announcement, signed by the above visiting Rabbis, strengthening the Vaad Harabanim in their actions concerning Kashruth and other matters. 5th Menachem Av, 1924.
3. A further announcement signed by R. Gavriel Zev Margolioth on his letterhead, that all Kashruth supervision of meat markets and factories that need supervision must be approved by the Vaad Harabanim. 6th Menachem Av, 1924.
4. Secretarial letter on the stationery of Rabbi Joseph Rosen of Cong. Shomre Emunah of Boro Park, in the name the visiting Rabbinical Delegation written to Rabbi Moshe Zevulun Margolioth inviting him to attend a meeting together with the other senior Rabbis addressing the conditions of Kashruth. 7th Tammuz, 1924.
5. Part of an announcement on the stationery of Rabbi Joseph Rosen of Cong. Shomre Emunah of Boro Park in Yiddish and Hebrew and signed by R. Gavriel Zev Margolioth on the same topic. Plus additional material against unscrupulous individuals only interested in making money who call themselves “Rabbis” and provide kosher certification on unsupervised meats and even pork.
6. Two Autograph Letters Signed, on the stationery of Rabbi Dr. Hillel (Philip) Klein of Cong. Ohab Zedek to R. Joseph Rosen, on the above matters.
7. Two Autograph Letters Signed, on the stationery of Rabbi Haim Fishel Epstein of Cleveland to Rabbi Joseph Rosen, inviting him to come to Cleveland with Rabbi Eliezer Silver and Rabbi Alter Saul Pfeffer to bring order to the chaotic Kashruth conditions in Cleveland.
8. An announcement in the hand of Rabbi Joseph Rosen with nine clauses pertaining to Kashruth supervision in Washington with secretarial signatures of Rabbis Joseph Rosen, Alter Saul Pfeffer, Yehuda Leib Seltzer and Yeshaiah Karlinsky.
9. Autograph Letter Signed by Rabbi Eliezer Silver to Rabbi Joseph Rosen, concerning his signature on an announcement together with R. Moshe Soloveitchik and others. 1934.
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Est: $4,000 - $6,000
The Vaad HaRabonim Rabbinical organization in New York played a central role concerning many religious issues facing American Jewry. Kashruth supervision in the 1920’s in the United States was chaotic with many unscrupulous individuals endorsing and supervising questionable food-establishments and their products. The senior American Rabbis of the Vaad HaRabanim met with the great Rabbis of the visiting Rabbinical delegation, i.e. Rabbis Abraham Isaac Kook, Chief Rabbi of Eretz Israel, Abraham Duber Shapiro, Chief Rabbi of Kovno and Moshe Mordechai Epstein, Dean of Slabodka Yeshiva and Rabbi of Slabodka. They resolved that Kashruth supervision must not be administered through individual Rabbis, but only by a central committee of expert Rabbis under the auspices of the Vaad HaRabanim.
