Letter from R. Miller to Rabbinic Alumni about Lecture on Mixed Pews (1959)

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Dear Colleague: Now that our highly successful Mid-Winter Conference is over, our Executive Committee is ready to meet again and take up important matters pertaining to our annual program and calendar. Accordingly, our next executive committee meeting will take place on February 19, 1959, at 10 A. M. in Klein Hall, P.G. The agenda will include: 1. Chag Hasmicha 2. Report on Mid-Winter Conference 3. Report on Alumni Fund 4. Standing committees - report and activitations. Please be prompt so that we may conclude our business meeting with dispatch and start our cultural program by 11:30 A. M.

The address will be given by Rabbi Norman Lamm, Associate Rabbi of The Jewish Center, New York, who will speak on ore of the most important problems facing us these days - "The Orthodox Position on Family Pews: Interpreting it to the Laity.”

Sincerely yours,

RABBI ISRAEL MILLER

President Rabbinic Alumni

Letter to R. Newman Attached to Copy of Mixed Pews Lecture (1958)

My dear Rabbi Newman: Upon the advice of Rabbi Leo Jung of the Jewish Center of New York, I am sending you enclosed a copy of my talk, "Separate Pews – A Mark of Jewish Dignity." I hope it can be of some assistance to you and our fellow-Jews in South Africa. If any references are made to it in any printed matter, or if by chance the article should be reprinted in whole or in part, please be kind enough to make available to me several copies of the same.With best wishes once again,Sincerely yours,Rabbi Norman Lamm

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Letter from R. Fabian Schonfeld to Rabbinic Alumni about Lecture on Mixed Pews (1959)

Dear Friend: On February 19, 1959, there will be an Executive Committee meeting of the Yeshiva University Rabbinic Alumni at 10 A.M. in Klein Hall. Following this meeting, we will have the pleasure of listening to our distinguished colleague, Rabbi Norman Lamm, Associate Rabbi of The Jewish Center, who will speak to us on "The Orthodox Position on Family Pews: Interpreting it to the Laity." If you remember, we had originally scheduled Rabbi Lamm’s paper to be read at our last annual Convention in Lakewood. Since, however, Rabbi Lamm was unable to attend, we had postponed his lecture until further notice. We are now very happy to be able to enjoy Rabbi Lamm’s address at our next executive meeting.In accordance with our resolution passed at the Convention, we are engaging on an enlarged schedule of cultural programs for this coming year. One of the resolutions called upon the Rabbinic Alumni to arrange various work-shops and seminars in the field of Practical Rabbinics. As a result, I am happy to inform you that arrangements have been made for us to visit the 999 Real Kosher Sausage Co., on 15 Rivington Street, New York City, on Monday, February 9, 1959. Incidentally the factory is owned by Rabbi David H. Hill, an alumnus of our Yeshiva.This visit will commence at 10 A.M, and we will have an opportunity to watch the preparation of meats in accordance with Halachic requirements. We assure you that you will find this most enlightening, and an experience which will be worth your while in the field of Kashruth. Please be good enough to fill out the enclosed card indicating your intention to be present.Very sincerely yours,RABBI FABIAN SCHONFELD, Chairman CULTURAL PROGRAM

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Letter from R. Haskel Lookstein on Separate Pews (1958)

Dear Rabbi Lamm, Thank you very much for your congratulations and wonderful wishes. It was really very nice of you to have taken the time to express them. By the way, my father showed me your speech on mixed pews (not in mixed pews) and I thought it was literally out of this world – in the right direction, of course. I read it, reread it, tried to memorize the arguments, and then put it in my file cabinet in case I shood forget its contents. I think that it is far and away the best treatment I have seen or heard on the subject. Congratulations! I hope you can keep doing this sort of work. It’s really excellent, Sincerely, Haskel. Regards to the rebbetzin

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