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December 1963

Exchange with Isaac Koenigsberg about Senator Javits' Contribution to Springfield Hebrew Day School (1963)

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1. R. Lamm to Isaac Koenigsberg

1. R. Lamm to Isaac Koenigsberg (Dec. 5, 1963)

1. R. Lamm to Isaac Koenigsberg (Dec. 5, 1963)

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Exchange with Isidore Strick about Senator Javits' Speech at Springfield Hebrew Day School Dinner (1963)

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Letter to Senator Javits about His Contribution to Springfield Hebrew Day School (1963)

My Dear Senator Javits: Permit me to extend to you my personal thanks for all that you have done for the Springfield aro Day School of Mass., with which school I was intimately associated for a for a number of years before my returning to New York City. All the reports I have received from Springfield about your appearance on December 1st at their Annual Banquet were extremely laudatory about how much you accomplished for the school and for the cause of Jewish education. I am especially grateful to you for the high-minded generosity which you manifested in making so substantial a contribution to the school. Were you not a man who is obviously so very busy with so many terribly important projects of national and international concern, I would explain to you in detail the far-reaching significance of your gesture. I shall spare you, forever, all these perticulars and merely state that you have, by your kindness, accomplished a great deal more than the sum on the check. I am extremely gratified and delighted that my approach to you through out mutual friend, Mr. Isaac Koenigsberg of New York City.has been successful, and that you have responded with a warm Jewish heat. I have told, and will continue to tell, all my dear friends in New York that they can truly be proud of a Senator who is not only a great American but also a magnanimous Jew.May the Almighty grant you and your family many years of health and happiness and continued success in both vocations.Sincerely yours, Rabbi Norman Lamm
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