Memo on Meeting with Roshei Yeshiva (2004)

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Memo from R. Wieder About Topics to be Covered in Shiur (2005)

1) אבות ותולדות2) ל״ט מלאכות3) דבר שאינו מתכוון/פסיק רישיה4) מלאכה שאינה צריכה לגופה5) שאר דיני מלכת מחשבת6) שבות7) אמירה לנכרי8) שהייה וחזרה (והטמנה)9) ד' רשויות של שבת10) פקוח נפש בשבת11)הדלקות נרות12)מצוות כיבוד ועונג13)קידוש והבדלה

Torah Study

Memorandum about the Agudath Israel Siyum Hashas (1990)

Several months ago, well before the Siyyum Ha-Shas celebrating the conclusion of the Daf Yomi, I asked Rabbi Charlop to make private and discrete inquiries from Agudath Israel whether Yeshiva University would be invited to join in the commemoration. He told me that the answer was negative. I then asked him for more details, and he referred me to Rabbi Parness, who made the inquiries. I today called Parness and got the following information: Some time before Passover, he called up Rabbi Moshe Sherer of Agudath Israel, who said that he did not want to give a rash decision, but his first impression is that it will be difficult because it would incite his own kana'im. He would consult his lieutenants and get back to Parness.On Choi Hamoed Pesach, he told Parness that he consulted with them, and this time the answer was negative again, not because of the kana'im, but because of political reasons. Sherer had many obligations to many personalities who were much more identified with Agudath Israel, and he could not ignore them and give me a seat on the dais (apparently that was the nub of the whole negotiation: a seat on one of the front two rows in Madison Square Garden).Parness himself believes that the major reason was the kana'im. ו Parness tells me that the chief antagonist to Yeshiva and myself is Rabbi Svei of Philadelphia, and that unquestionably if he had I come and seen me he would have left abruptly.

Miscellaneous

Exchange with Dr. Noveck about Meeting to Discuss Hasidism Book and Adult Education Courses (1975)

Dear Norman, May I have the pleasure of coming to see you at your office any Tuesday or Thursday during the next couple of weeks for half an hour or so? There are three things I would like to discuss with you. First, the book on Hasidism on which you are working. Following up the material I prepared for Bernie Schafstein last summer, he has asked me to do a family comprehensive of creative adult education meeting around the country which will

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