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October-November 1962

Exchange with Abraham Jhirad about Indian YU Applicant and Budget (1962)

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1. Abraham Jhirad to R. Lamm

1. Abraham Jhirad to R. Lamm (Oct. 31, 1962)

1. Abraham Jhirad to R. Lamm (Oct. 31, 1962)

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Dear Mr. Jhirad: Due to my frequent absences from New York in the past two months, our correspondence has suffered somewhat and I apologize for the delay of my reply to your various letters. I met last Friday with Rabbi Lamm, before he left for his summer vacation. My reply accordingly also covers the correspondence directed to him. I shall endeavor to send you as soon as possible the books you requested in your letter of January 19th, directed to Rabbi Lamm, and in your letter of May 3rd, directed to me, at least all those which are immediately available. I am happy that the misunderstanding about your assumption of the duties of Executive Director has been cleared up. The details of your duties have been outlined to you in Rabbi Lamm’s communication of May 21st to which you have already replied. It was good to read of the success of the youth activities and the classes. I am perturbed, though, by your notion that you have to spend a part of your salary on fruits and soft drinks for the children. Likewise, in your letter of May 3rd you mention that you did not feel authorized to spend the necessary funds for the trip Rabbi Lamm had suggested to the outlying districts. Whenever such special expenditures not foreseen in the budget are necessary and no funds are available, please notify me and we here will try our very best to make the funds available to you.
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Dear Mr. Jhirad, It gives me great pleasure to inform you that the Joint Overseas Commission of the Orthodox Union, at its last meeting, discussed in great detail the various needs of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of India, as they are stated in the communications we received from your good self and Mr. Penkar during the last several months. It was decided to approve and support the following expenditures: (1) The continued publication of Mebasser.The continuation and the possible increase of the Hebrew classes you have arranged in cooperation with the Jewish Agency.The project which we would like to see enlarged to a greater number of participants.We would also very much like you to accept officially the position of the Director of the UOJCI, as discussed in your correspondence with Rabbi Norman Lamm.In order to facilitate the above, we shall send to the UOJCI the necessary funds which we estimate to be \$1,700 for the year 1961. Our first payment of \$500 is enclosed. It would be helpful if you could send us a brief budgetary statement containing the expected 1961 expenses for *Mebasser*, the classes, and the camp, also including your own remuneration. This statement should also contain the amount your organization expects to raise locally and the deficit to be defrayed by us.It was furthermore decided that we shall contact Mr. Joseph Grossman concerning the training of teachers in the Holy Land. Mr. Grossman has been in contact, by correspondence, with Rabbi Leo Jung concerning this matter, and our Commission has, in principle, agreed to pay the required travel expenses from India to Israel for at least three additional students. We want to enable the Jewish Agency to send three young men for training as teachers to Israel, in addition to the number for which the Agency’s India budget makes provision.It gives me also pleasure to inform you that the Traditional Educational Association, upon the request of Rabbi Norman Lamm, has mailed to the UOJCI on…
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