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May 1992

Letter from Prof. Koppel to Dr. Gurock about Inaugural Higayon Conference (1992)

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Torah Umadda Speech (1992)

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Exchange between Dr. Gurock and Prof. Koppel about Speaking Schedule at Inaugural Higayon Conference (1992)

Dear Professor Gurock, I’ve finally finished a month of miluim and am back to work on the Higayon conference. The schedule is now set and invitations are being mailed out. You will receive the complete schedule in the mail some time next week. The opening session will take place on the campus of the Gruss Institute at 7:30 in the evening on Monday October 26. The speakers will be Dr. Lamm and Adin Steinsaltz. I am assuming that Dr. Lamm will be speaking on “Torah u’Mada” in Hebrew for a period of 45 minutes to an hour. If this is unsatisfactory please notify me at once. On another issue, I have clarified with the legal experts here that it would be far better for Yeshiva to pay the stipends of speakers flying in from the States directly to the speakers rather than via our account. This is because money which passes through our hands is subject to a 15% currency-exchange surcharge and is conceivably taxable as well. At the very least, we would expect that those speakers who are employees of Yeshiva (Levine, Rosensweig, Shindman) be paid directly by Yeshiva (with the $3000 then deducted from the $7000 to be sent to us). Please get back to me on this. Best regards, Moshe Koppel
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Letter from Prof. Koppel about Inaugural Higayon Conference (1992)

Dear Rabbi Lamm, 7 Iyar 5752 May 10, 1992 We are very pleased that you have tentatively agreed to participate in the First International Higayon Conference on the use of modern concepts for the understanding of Talmudic ideas. The conference will take place from 29 Tishrei to 1 Cheshvan 5753 (October 26–28, 1992) in the auditorium of Beit Midrash L’Torah in Bayit Vegan, Jerusalem. A special closed session will be held at the estate of Mr. Meir Brachfeld in Motza on the afternoon of the third day. There will be a total of about thirty presentations, each allotted 25–30 minutes; if you feel this is inadequate, we can allot you extra time or schedule parallel sessions. Because the invited speakers have not yet submitted titles, it is hard at this stage to give a precise picture of the direction the conference will take. The fields of those who have tentatively agreed to attend are distributed roughly evenly among philosophy, economics, science, mathematics, and rabbinics. They include: Rabbanim: Norman Lamm (Yeshiva U.), D. Berkovich (Elul), M. Feldman (Bar-Ilan), N. Rabinovich (Birkat Moshe), S. Spero (Bar-Ilan), N. Taylor (Bar-Ilan), E. Zini (Technion); Philosophy: Y. Gellman (Ben-Gurion), A. Sagi (Bar-Ilan), D. Schwartz (Bar-Ilan), Z. Shteinfeld (Bar-Ilan), Y. Silman (Bar-Ilan), M. Steiner (Hebrew U.); Mathematics: Y. Aumann (Hebrew U.), Y. Choueka (Bar-Ilan), G. Ehrlich (Bar-Ilan), S. Epstein (Seton Hall), A. Fraenkel (Weizmann), E. Merzbach (Bar-Ilan); Economics: S. Gottesman (Columbia), N. Leff (Columbia), A. Levine (Yeshiva U.), Y. Lieberman (Bar-Ilan); Science: M. Kaveh (Bar-Ilan), Z. Mendlowitz (Howard U.), M. Schwartz (Jerusalem Torah College), M. Sprecher (Bar-Ilan). We urge you to confirm your participation in the conference as soon as possible. Please submit a tentative title and a brief abstract, and include any special requests you may have regarding the length and timing of your lecture, special equipment, etc. Sincerely, Moshe Koppel Department of Mat…
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