Letter to Harvey Litt about Minyan Attendance and Jewry Duty (1976)
Dear Harvey: I have contacted four people who, together with yourself, will constitute the committee to implement the ideas we discussed concerning minyan attendance. All of them agreed that they would await your phone call, attend the meeting, and divide the names of those who are likely candidates to attend either once a month, in response to your “Choose a Number from 1-30” plan, or more often, such as a two-week period during the year, or once every week. I suggest that you call the meeting and make sure that either Rabbi Wermuth or Cantor Wietschnr attend together with you. Rabbi Wermuth will prepare for you a list of likely candidates who should or will respond to such an invitation. Your committee can then divide up the names and make the calls. You ought to decide upon a common approach to the people who are called. The five people who are awaiting your call, and who have agreed to serve, are as follows: Sol Gold (home number: SU7-5668; business number: 787-7815), Irving Kobrin (home number: 787-1087; business number: SW5-2100), Sam Scher (home number: TR7-3578; business number: 873-4160), and Abraham Tennenbaum (home number: SU7-0756; business number: WA5-1020). Please let me know what progress you make, and thank you ever so much for volunteering to head up this committee. Warmest regards to Jane. Cordially yours, Rabbi Norman Lamm.