Letter to Deborah Lipstadt about Their Meeting and "The (Guilty) Conscience of a Conservative" by R. Schiller (1978)

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Letter to Dr. Frank and Ruth Frank about Their Friendship and Sending Article for Alan Dershowitz (1964)

Dear Ruth and Zev: I do not know how to thank you for the pleasure you afforded me those several hours this past Sunday. It was a true delight being able to renew our friendship and to meet your wonderful children. Please let me know if your hopes for the Fulbright materialized. I am enclosing a mimeographed copy of an article I wrote (the reprints have all been distributed and I have only one left) which may be of interest to your friend, Dershowitz, the law clerk for Justice Goldberg. Mindy and the children all send their best. Be well.Cordially yours,RABBI NORMAN LAMM

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Letter to the Lipstadt Family upon Their 25th Wedding Anniversary (1969)

Dear Friends: On the premise that "better late than never," I would like to put into words my warmest wishes to you on your recent celebration of your Silver Anniversary. The first time I came into contact with the Lipstadts was one that all of us, I suppose, prefer not to remember – when Mrs. Lipstadt called me from Far Rockaway to visit her critically ill husband in the hospital. When I say that we all prefer not to remember that incident, I refer to the medical circumstances only. But the attitudes of the both of you, revealed to me so poignantly and dramatically, will always remain with me as a shining example of courage and devotion. I am so very pleased, therefore, that a number of years later my wife and I can join the two of you and your children in this delightfully happy occasion of your twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. Because I feel close to you, I know that any hyperbole on my part would just diminish the genuineness of my expression to you. Extravagance is unnecessary amongst close friends. You know how much my wife and I cherish your friendship, and we hope that the Almighty will grant our families many, many years of undisturbed health and happiness to enjoy each other's company and the company of our children and to strive for the realization of those dreams and visions which unite us at the Center and in the Torah community throughout the world.Cordially yours, Rabbi Norman Lamm

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Letter to R. Yitz Greenberg about Fee for His Lecture (1974)

Dear Yitz, I am pleased to enclose a check for $360, the fee for your splendid talk that last Sunday night. You were, as I stated publicly, exceedingly stimulating. There is much, very much, that I have to add to what I said publicly about the substantive points of your position. However, I suppose that will have to wait for another occasion. Mindy joins me in affectionate regards to Blu. Cordially, Rabbi Norman Lamm

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