Dear Rabbi Jakobovits: The enclosed letter from Rabbi Lookstein to me will explain the situation with regard to his supposed commitment to obtain fellowships for Rabbi Kasher’s project. I suggest you inform Rabbi Kasher personally, at the meeting, of Rabbi Lookstein’s clarification. Please be kind enough not to show the letter itself to anyone, but to return it to me after you have read it. Sincerely, Rabbi Norman Lamm

Dear Rabbi: As soon as the very nice article about the establishment of the Erna Michael College at the Yeshiva University and your appointment as Michael Professor of Jewish Philosophy appeared in the Rosh Hashana Center Bulletin, I started to dictate a letter of congratulations and best wishes upon your having received your Doctorate and your deserved appointment. I know you played no small share in the establishment of the Michael College by our dear friend Jacob Michael to honor the sainted memory of his beloved Erna. Unfortunately, preoccupation and distractions in no end of problems in the office and elsewhere, apart from the whole series of holidays and travelling to and from Lake Mohegan, regrettably left my letter unfinished. Now that the holidays are over, and we have returned to the City, I am now belatedly completing the unfinished letter. (As is said, ״Better late than never”).I need hardly tell you how pleased Sylvia and all our children, (and Avery, of course) were to read about these very significant events and our heartfelt congratulations and best wishes for your continued good health and outstanding accomplishment in the new tasks that you have now assumed.With warm personal regards from Sylvia and myself,Sincerely,Samuel KramerSK:mfEncl.P.S.All of us also read with great interest the reprint of the outstanding sermon you preached on Rosh Hashana, entitled, "Today". We regretted that we missed hearing it. Incidentally, on erev Yom Kippur in the ”Kaporah” prayer I set aside the enclosed $5. bill as a gift to charity. I have been keeping it in my pocket ever since, Intending to turn it over to you for your special charitable fund. You will thus be my "sheleach mit zvah".

Dear Mr. Kramer: Something has just come to my attention which may involve the Jewish community in great difficulty, and which you can help us avoid. As you know, we recently built a new Mikvah on West 78th Street, between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue. I have now learned that an adjoining building, which now houses the Moreno Institute, has been acquired or leased for an organization called Bridge, Inc., which is an outpatient clinic for mentally unbalanced people. According to my information, this organization will be open both by day and night, and will therefore clearly constitute a serious danger to unprotected and unaccompanied women who must use our Mikvah in the evenings. If we do not alert the City or State authorities in time to the effect that this new facility will have a deterrent impact upon existing facilities, I can well-foresee, Heaven forbid, the abandonment of the Mikvah by the largest number of its present users. I believe that your friendship with Mayor Beame can be of great help to us at this time. The institution is funded partly by the State, but mostly by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Welfare. I do not have any more details, and should they be necessary, they may be best obtained from Mr. Charles Bendheim. Whatever you can do in this respect will be deeply appreciated by all members of the Jewish community. My warmest regards to Mrs. Kramer. Cordially yours, Rabbi Norman Lamm