Dear Rabbi Lamm, I hope this letter finds you and your family in good health. It has been quite some time since you left Bombay but we enjoyed your short visit very much and you have certainly left a fresh impact upon us here. We hope to see you once again with us in the near future. Mr. Manasseh has conveyed to me the contents of your letter urging the necessity of forming a Bethdin in Bombay. I quite agree with the necessity of this move, as it will definitely help to consolidate and establish our work in Bombay. This question was discussed at a meeting held on Wednesday the 17th instant but was shelved for the next meeting. I hope very soon this body becomes a reality and a force in Bombay Jewry. Now coming to the question of the O.R.T. and Joint Committee in Bombay, I am sure you must have received a copy of the letter addressed to Mr. [redacted] by Mr. Jhiradas Secretary of our organisation, analysing as briefly as possible the selection of tlie o.r,t» & JOINT Committee and its workings as well as the adverse effect it will liave on our organisation in time to come. The reason is simple, as Mr. Jhirad has rightly put it that the person who controls the purse controls the community. If the present trend of events taking place in the community today is not nipped in its bua, I am afraid, Orthodoxy will be well overshadowed ana outnumbered. The aay will come when we will regret our failure to take early ana decisive steps against this threatening •na real danger. This matter shoula be takenup absolutely immediately and Jr. Jhirad‘s letter should be considered as a genuine and real fact and treated as such if we are truly interested and concerned with conse-quences. You liave already been informed by Jr. J’anasseh about the 500 dollars per month sanctioned for the school along with 500 each to the Elly Kadoorie school ana tlie Orphanage. The latter amounts were paid but the Jacob Sassoon school money was withheld even upto last week. I understand that Jr. Gilb…

My dear Rabbi Lamm, I welcome your letter of May 26th and am glad to note your awareness of the unhealthy situation prevalent in the community to-day. Nevertheless sympathy and understanding from your side without immediate action will do nothing for us but lead to the inevitable crises. The voice of righteousness in the face of monetary temptation will be completely ignored as our community, as you have seen for yourself, is a very poor one, and it will respond best to the hand that feeds them. This is what the O.R.T. and Joint are doing and will be doing in the future. Therefore these self-appointed men on the Committee, who have wormed their way into the confidence very ingenously from the Head office in Geneva, have now attained positions over and above the genuine leaders in the community who have no voice at all in the Management of what is today the most powerful financial organisation in Bombay. The talk is, and I am Inclined to take it seriously that [redacted] is completely swayed by certain of these committee members and his actions are subtly dictated by them as for example the case of the Sir Jacob Sassoon School. The fear is that these personalities, using the CRT and JOINT orgainisations as their chief weapon, will institute themselves as virtual dictators of our community and with such people as I know, them to be, it means virtual spiritual disaster to our Jewish people here. I am as disturbed as yourself and even more so as I can see the situation first hand. I am glad you spoke to Rabbi Jung about our position here and I earnestly hope that the whole present situation will be reversed and brought to order with genuine representation of communal leaders at the helm of the organisation in question. I quite understand that it is necessary to place confidence In the JOINT’s fieldmen. As business men ourselves we also have field workers and we have to put confidence in them but if and when field workers create strife and allow themselves to be influen…