Letter to Joseph Schiff about Concerns of the West Side's Mikvah Proximity to the Bridge Organization (1975)

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Letter to Rabbi Asher Reichel about the West Side Institutional Synogogue Fire (1965)

Dear Asher: Like everyone else, I was shocked by the terrible news of the destruction of the West Side Institutional Synagogue by fire on Friday night. Words, of course, are far too feeble to express my feelings of sadness at this terrible occasion. If there is anything that I can do for you personally or professionally in order to ameliorate your difficult tasks in this trying hour, please feel free to call upon me for whatever you wish. May the Almighty grant that we be privileged to receive good news from each other and about each other's communities at all times for many years to come.Cordially yours,RABBI NORMAN LAMM

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Letter from Myron Kaufmann about Orthodox Minyan in Sharon, MA and Raising Funds for Mikvah (1972)

Dear Rabbi Lamm, The article in the Jewish Advocate was a great success, as you can see from the enclosed. I understand that it was picked up by the JTA and appeared also in New York, Philadelphia and elsewhere. I have had many copies of the Boston article made, both for Orthodox families whom we contact, and for people in the Conservative temple in Sharon who are friendly to or potentially so. We are now going into our 20th week, and have not yet missed a minyan on Shabbat or Yom Tov. This “peaks” the opposition to us – as the existence of an Orthodox effort to establish and consolidate the administrative superiority and future viability in Sharon – apparently helped those opposed to us to be drawn out of the libel against Mr. Horowitz. Of course, it has had the side effect of stiffening the opposition, but we nevertheless consider it most significant progress. The results have been definite and promising, with Orthodox minyanim formed and with the large support of the Orthodox families from time to time, making it possible to know that the vital work of affinity in these families – and of direct indoctrination of the youth – are bearing results. Our job now is to find the prospects that we have been thus far successful in doing portions of the chinuchat themselves, and our resources are limited. I have no doubt that the project will succeed, and that in addition to bringing the nucleus of a community to Sharon we will also have a substantial effect on people elsewhere in Massachusetts. We bring to them not only people who are doing something for their Jewishness, but we bring them as well Torah. We have been learning the same sedarim as our minyanim and shuls, and some of the Sharon people have followed up by coming to the minyanim in Boston, and bringing their sons to the Talmud Torah. We are pleased with this, as it is an important step. We are also pleased with the fact that we can subsidize the students and yeshiva bochurim to come and help us. Our expenses …

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Letter to Joseph Schiff about West Side Parking on Shabbat (1975)

Dear Joe: I wonder if you had an opportunity to look into the parking problem on Saturdays in the West Side. Please let me know what answer, if any, you get. Warmest regards. Cordially yours, Rabbi Norman Lamm

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