Faber, Salamon

Salamon Faber was the Rabbi of the Kew Gardens Anshe Sholom Jewish Center in Queens, and Chair of the Queens Bet Din. He died in 1998. The Vaad Harabonim of Queens, the Board of Rabbis, was founded in 1960 by several rabbis from congregations in Queens in order to unite the Orthodox Jewish community and to provide religious services, including kosher certification standards, a chevra kadisha (Jewish burial) society, a bet din religious court to handle legal disputes and process Jewish divorces, and a forum for debate and discussion of religious issues that affect the community. The Vaad Harabonim of Queens now includes rabbis from all over Queens and Long Island who serve on a voluntary not-for-profit basis.

A bet din is a religious court that hears Jewish legal disputes and processes Jewish divorces. As with legal disputes, special guidelines are in place to ensure the impartiality of the member rabbis in divorce proceedings. Jewish law requires a Jewish bill of divorce, a get, in order to dissolve a Jewish marriage. The hope is that a standard get procedure is non-adversarial and does not require litigation. No grounds are needed for a divorce and no personal questions are asked when there is mutual consent. According to Jewish law, neither party may remarry until the get is given and accepted.

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