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June 1973

Exchange with Sidney Eisenshtat about Visit to Brandeis and R. Wasserman's Messianic Writings (1973)

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1. Sidney Eisenshtat to R. Lamm

1. Sidney Eisenshtat to R. Lamm (June 11, 1973)

1. Sidney Eisenshtat to R. Lamm (June 11, 1973)

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Dear Rabbi Lamm, I am enclosing a copy of My Broadside, and also an article I was asked to do for the North American Newspaper Alliance in connection with it. You must be in Israel by now. I envy you. I hope this package follows you there; I will try to affix postage enough to allow for overseas forwarding. Thank you for the three articles you sent me recently. I hope you will continue to include in your mailings whenever you have reprints of your talks or articles. Invariably they contain ideas which I find enlarging, which I am compelled to make my own, and which I would not want to have done without. Forgive me if I say also that your piece on Ecology, in particular, displays an excellence of literary style that I don’t remember noticing a few years ago. It may be that in the past I have been so immersed in considering the import of the content that I did not notice the style. But this article particularly joins a cutting edge and a light touch with serious indignation and concern in a most effective way. The secret, I think, is to write as you would speak. A point you make in your address on Education reminds me of a conversation I had recently in Sharon. Someone suggested that we propose in the Town Meeting that motorboats be banned from the lake, since its bathing beaches are one of the town’s most important attractions, and the accumulation of motor oil on the water’s surface is beginning to be a nuisance. It was pointed out that realistically such a proposal could not be voted through, since many residents have invested in places created out of boards which they moor in the lake. When I suggested that if the proposal failed, we propose as a compromise that the motorboats at least be banned on the Sabbath, my Jewish neighbors were unable to take me seriously. Sincerely, Myron S. Kaufmann
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