Dear Hans, It was a pleasure hearing from you both on the phone yesterday and by mail this morning also. Since Sydney looks like the major site for seminars, I believe we should firm up our dates. After meeting with our contingent on Wednesday, I will be in a better position to inform you whether they can all leave the States on June 23. What happens beyond that and how you anticipate using the several weeks at Shalom College is rather unclear to me since I am not privy to information about arrangements in Melbourne and what your plans are for Perth, Canberra, Auckland, etc., and stopover plans. I would like to receive a proposed schedule from you.Among the titles for sessions which were discussed with Mr. Ranoschy were the following:* Reward & Punishment* Religion & Belief* Free Will* Challenges to Survival* Concepts of Rest and Relaxation* The Generation Gap* Revelation* Concepts of Repentance* Rationale of Observance* Courtship, Marriage & the Family* Love and Fear of God* Jewish Contributions to Society - Giving & Taking* Living by a Moral Code* The Sanctity of Life* Man & His Creator* Israel & the Nations* The Jew Relates to the Non-Jew* Classical Anti-SemitismThese were briefly discussed with Prof. Mono and his committee. They should adopt these titles for some of the subjects in the sourcebooks. Since I will be unable to communicate individually with faculty people, I would appreciate it if Bert reviewed these with his committee and they inform us of the study topics which may be appropriate for your day school and state school youngsters.Concerning your proposed slogans for Counterpoint, each is delightful. Have you discussed these with Arnold both?I take it by now you have Rabbi Lamm’s statement on the importance of the forthcoming programs.In regard to further publicity, I have asked each of our staff people to make available a biographical sketch, photo, and lecture topics which we will be mailing to you as soon as they are receiv…

Dear Rabbi and Mrs. Bernan, My wife and I feel remiss not having personally replied to the letter which our friend, Dr. Abe Stern, delivered. However, you will be pleased to hear that, whilst our first inquiries proved negative, one source has been discovered which may yield results. Of course, we are delighted to hear that both of you may be leaving New York a few weeks ahead of the group, and if you could make it so as to arrive earlier than the rest in Australia, I would like to show our gratitude and from there assist you in making a more leisurely start.We suggest the following possible routes:(a) Tel Aviv / Singapore / Jakarta to Melbourne, or(b) Tel Aviv / Hong Kong / Jakarta to Melbourne, or(c) London / Tokyo / Taiwan / Hong Kong to Melbourne.On such a routing, you will be able to make one official stop for a few days, whilst the other stops are technical to make connecting flights. We shall try to see, if possible, that you have 12–24 hours at each place.My wife and I would be delighted to have you stay at our house, and we would be happy having you with us at the centre of Melbourne Jewish activities!Please convey our warmest regards. We look forward to seeing you soon.Yours sincerely,

Dear Hillel, It was good talking to you and I'm very pleased that the operator gave me your private number. I assume that next time I do not have to make it personal as only you will answer that particular phone. Regarding tickets, I'm prepared to pay up to US $1,200.00 each, except for the Frankies, where I received the indicated refund. If you do ticket over there, please make sure that your group arrives on Wednesday, 26th June, and is not leaving Melbourne before Wednesday, 14th August. Otherwise, I have no particular demands. If you arrange the Frankies' ticketing, I fully understand that they wish to leave Australia early and I suggest you route them via Perth, where they can do good work for a few days and where the community is very hospitable.I’m very happy to hear that you had a very successful meeting and gave the topics to Dr. Stern, and I'm looking forward to receiving them from him.Whilst fully realising that for 20-year-olds it is frequently hard to find some interesting items which the newspaper could write up, I'm sure for some of the more senior people, you can give us such information."Might and Fog" is available and I have written to the French Embassy to see that we have it in Sydney for both seminars.All your American source books start with the article "Dear Seminarian," and we wonder whether you will authorise us to print your signature on a similar article which we have prepared, first draft of which is enclosed.My next letter should contain most of the articles re-written or prepared by Australians.Hope you enjoyed Yom Tov.Sincerely yours,H. A. Bachrach