Letter from R. Goss about South Africa Education Committee Progress and Tradition Subscription (1964)

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Exchange with R. Goss about RIETS Recommendation for South African Student (1964)

My dear Rabbi Lamm, I am once again writing to you in connection with a young student of the Rabbi J. L. Zlotnik Seminary named [redacted]. He will be completing his teacher’s course at the Seminary at the end of this year but he wishes to pursue further Rabbinical studies at the Rabbi Yitzchak Elchanan Yeshivah University. He is a very fine young man with a sterling character and a great desire to learn, and anything that you could do to help him would be greatly appreciated by me. If you have time I should like to hear from you. Meanwhile may I wish you and yours everything of the best. Sincerely yours, Rabbi Isaac Goss, Director

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Exchange with R. Goss after South Africa Trip (1964)

Dear Rabbi Goss: It is barely a week that I have returned from South Africa, but I wish to hasten to thank you for all your friendship and guidance during the time that I spent in your community. I feel that knowing you and speaking with you as I did has immeasurably broadened my own horizons. Whatever little I might have contributed to the community, I believe I gained much more especially as a result of knowing you. I do hope that you have long recovered from the illness which kept you in bed during my last day or two in Johannesburg. Please convey my very fondest regards to Mrs. Goss and to all our friends. I do hope and pray that the time will not be long that you will be visiting New York and I will have the opportunity to reciprocate in some measure your kindness towards me. Cordially yours, Rabbi Norman Lamm. P.S. I have taken the liberty of sending you some reprints of a number of articles and talks I recently gave.

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Letter to Relatives of R. Lamm Describing His South Africa Itinerary (1964)

The Itinerary for Rabbi Lamm is as follows: Leaving New York on Feb. 1st at 10:00 P.M. by El Al, Flight #272. On Feb. 2nd from 10:00 A.M. to 10:30 P.M., he will be staying in Paris at the Lutetia Hotel - 43 Boulevard Raspail; he is to leave Paris via UAT French Airlines, arriving in Johannesburg at 11:25 A.M. Feb. 3rd. On Feb. 10th and 11th, he will be at the Krueger National Park; Wed, Feb. 19th at Pretoria; Thursday, Feb. 20th - Durban; Sunday, Feb. 23rd - Port Elisabeth. His return trip calls for him to leave Johannesburg on Feb. 25th via UAT, and to spend the evening of Feb. 25th in Paris, leaving February 26th at 10:00 A.M. via Air France and arriving in New York at noon that day. Please note the following time difference: Paris is five hours later than New York and South Africa is six hours later than New York. His address in Johannesburg will be: Rabbi Norman Lamm, Wynton-Joy Hotel, Catherine Avenue Corner Kapteijn Street, Hillbrow, Johannesburg, Union of South Africa. In case of emergency, the following address may also be used: Mr. A. Misheiker, South African Board of Jewish Education, 301/6 Zionist Centre, Corner Banket and De Villiers Streets, Johannesburg, South Africa; or Rabbi A. Lapin, 20, Young Avenue, Houghton Estate, Johannesburg, South Africa. Sincerely, Mrs. Florence Fine, Rabbi Lamm's Sec'y

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