Dear Moishe: I recall that on December 15, 1959 you borrowed from me Hirsch’s "Nineteen Letters of Ben Uziel." Please return it – all of them – to me. Sincerely, Rabbi Norman Lamm

Dear Moishe: I just received a letter from Uncle in which he expressed astonishment that you never write to him acknowledging receipt of his Sefer (about which he is as proud as can be), which I believe you received from Pop. I suggest that you do Uncle the courtesy of writing to him at 16 Lincoln Street, Jerusalem. Yours, Norman.

The Itinerary for Rabbi Lamm is as follows: Leaving New York on Feb. 1st at 10:00 P.M. by El Al, Flight #272. On Feb. 2nd from 10:00 A.M. to 10:30 P.M., he will be staying in Paris at the Lutetia Hotel - 43 Boulevard Raspail; he is to leave Paris via UAT French Airlines, arriving in Johannesburg at 11:25 A.M. Feb. 3rd. On Feb. 10th and 11th, he will be at the Krueger National Park; Wed, Feb. 19th at Pretoria; Thursday, Feb. 20th - Durban; Sunday, Feb. 23rd - Port Elisabeth. His return trip calls for him to leave Johannesburg on Feb. 25th via UAT, and to spend the evening of Feb. 25th in Paris, leaving February 26th at 10:00 A.M. via Air France and arriving in New York at noon that day. Please note the following time difference: Paris is five hours later than New York and South Africa is six hours later than New York. His address in Johannesburg will be: Rabbi Norman Lamm, Wynton-Joy Hotel, Catherine Avenue Corner Kapteijn Street, Hillbrow, Johannesburg, Union of South Africa. In case of emergency, the following address may also be used: Mr. A. Misheiker, South African Board of Jewish Education, 301/6 Zionist Centre, Corner Banket and De Villiers Streets, Johannesburg, South Africa; or Rabbi A. Lapin, 20, Young Avenue, Houghton Estate, Johannesburg, South Africa. Sincerely, Mrs. Florence Fine, Rabbi Lamm's Sec'y

Dear Bernard: I am very flattered by your invitation to me to accept the chairmanship of the committee which you described over the phone. However, most regretfully, I must decline the invitation I already indicated to you, during the same conversation my initial reaction. After thinking about it a bit more my feelings are intensified rather than diminished.While I approve wholeheartedly of the intentions that inform this particular move, I do take exception to the tactics and the tone, and I believe they will prove self defeating.Please, therefore, try to sympathize with my point of view, even if you don't agree with it.Thanks once again and very best regards,Cordially yours,Rabbi Norman LammRNL/fzbc – L. Hobrin, M. Lamm, R. Morris Feiner, R. Emanuel Rachman

Dear Mr. Kemmelman: I hope that your most recent novel is doing well. As one who has helped in a very minor way, I have a "vested interest" in its success. There is a request, forwarded to me, for your appearance, and one which I approve of wholeheartedly. My brother, Rabbi Maurice Lamm, is Dean of Akiba Hebrew Academy in the Bronx. It is a most worthwile and significant school. As part of their program they have an annual Author-Book Luncheon. This year – in late March or April – they would like to have you as their guest.I would very much appreciate your affirmative response. Would you please let me know as soon as possible? If, as I hope, the answer is positive, it might be simpler to contact my brother directly in order to make all the necessary arrangements. He can be reached at 1764 Popham Avenue, Bronx, N. Y.- LU 3-5561 or 878-0166.Many thanks in advance,Sincerely yours,Rabbi Norman LammRNL/fxbe: R. Maurice Lamm

Dear Norm, This is a minuscule note for your great assistance in aiding the book. I know how much work you put into it and that is really an adequate, gracious way in which we can thank the faster. You did more than cared, obviously. You advised and prodded – and that was just as valuable.

Dear Moishe: What is this business with Twersky? He tells me that he met you in Lakewood and that you said it is now up to me to provide a proper press release on your book. To the best of my recollection, you were supposed to choose a section which you consider pertinent and then try to write it up, with me re-writing, and then submitting to Twersky. Don't pass the buck. It stops with you. Yours, Rabbi Norman Lamm.

Dear Rabbi Lamm, I am sending you enclosed a photocopy of an article written by Arnold Fine in the April 17 to April 25 issue of the Jewish Press which shocked us very much. Although we can understand that Mr. Fine was upset about his son's illness and, being far from home, had to go through unfamiliar procedures, his report about Shaare Zedek is incredible and not factual. We feel that the whole tone of this article is so undignified that it would not be right for the hospital to send an official reply to the *Jewish Press*. On the other hand, this should not go unanswered, and the best possible reaction to such an article would be the spontaneous reply from a person like yourself who knows Shaare Zedek well from his personal experiences there and has a high standing in his community. You could state that this description of Shaare Zedek is completely out of line with your own experience of the hospital, both with regard to cleanliness and courteous treatment by our staff.We would very much appreciate it, were you to write a suitable letter to the *Jewish Press*.Nachum Pessin asked me to convey to you his warmest regards.Thanking you for any help you could give us in this matter, I am, with best wishes and personal regards,Director of Public RelationsEEP/smgcc: Rev. A. Asher HirschAmerican CommitteeShaare Zedek

Dear Moish: I recently read in the Israeli press an article by Milton Konvitz on the subject of non-violence and civil protest. The introduction to the article states that it was published in an English work which is על חוק ואדם, probably "On Law and Man." The publisher I believe is the Law School of Tel Aviv University and it was published in New York. It contains amongst other things a pretty good run down of all the sources for non-violent civil protest in Judaism, and I strongly suggest you get it for your own work. Helpfully yours, as ever, Cordially yours, Norman

In one of my recent letters to you I rather belittled the Israeli version of the Black Panthers. On further study and personal confrontation, I have reached quite different conclusions. It seems to me now that there is no room for disparagement or patronising and we had better take the matter seriously, with a view to encouraging every kind of constructive effort before the situation gets out of hand. The immediate occasion for my change of judgement was a debate held under the joint auspices of the Panthers and the Hebrew University students. I attended the meeting and feel that it calls for a full report to you, which I propose to give in the following. Before doing so, however, I must make a reservation. I was profoundly stirred by what I heard and saw. Indeed, I find it hard to recall a similarly disturbing experience outside the scope of my personal concerns. I therefore wish to inject a note of caution lest I am carried away by subjective impressions. Actually, there was nothing novel either for me or for you or for any one else who has followed social developments in Israel. We have all been long familiar with the problems discussed — or shall I say, bursting out with tremendous vehemence on that particular occasion. But the emotional impact on me and the entire audience was overpowering, and I have already observed that note has been taken with surprising promptness in some important quarters - by Pinhas Sapir, Teddy Kollek and in the Knesset, to mention only the more outstanding examples. At the same time, it is worth pointing out that the press coverage was grotesquely inadequate and you should not be misled by any nonchalant items which may come to your attention. You know that the ordinary newspaper is interested above all in sensations that lend themselves to big headlines. Had the meeting broken up in violence, as it threatened to do at one stage, you can be sure that the papers would have carried a full story - they did so in connection with the rece…