Dear Rabbi Rosenfeld: I want to call to your attention the fact that no All–Day school exists in all mid–town. I believe that it is possible to establish an All–Day kindergarten and perhaps arrange for classrooms in my synagogue, the West Side Jewish Center. I hope that you will be able to be of assistance to me in this project. I know that I can count on you and the Jewish Education Committee for full cooperation. Sincerely, Norman Lamm, Rabbi

Dear Lenny: The enclosed is an unusual jacket design that impressed me immensely. It was done by Satenstein, the man who originally did tradition for me. Would you be interested in something of this sort for our Festschrift? I just received your manuscript, for which I, mankind, and all others have been waiting so long. I hope to look into it in the near future. Sincerely yours, Rabbi Norman Lamm.

Dear Norman, The merry-go-round has started. Newspaper interviews, radio interviews, T.V. interviews, luncheon meetings, supper meetings, committee meetings, receptions, greetings. It all adds up to talk, speech, talk, speech, etc. Me – 12½ to 15 pp. The worst of it is lack of sleep. Since Monday 5 AM NY to Wednesday midnight here I slept nothing. Since then I’ve averaged 5 hours. My usual problem in talking is to keep the audience awake, here I struggle to keep awake myself.

Dear Lenny, I am looking forward to seeing the artwork by Schloss. I am returning enclosed to you the letter by Wengrov so that you can process it once we have made a decision on the artwork. I couldn't think of keeping it when, by all rights, the letter and responsibility for following it up belongs to you. Believing so, I don't dare to encroach on your prerogatives. Seriously, please, Lenny, be a good boy and follow through on these few details. Meanwhile, I have been meeting with the officers of the Center in an attempt to set up the program and other details.I suspect that, no matter what our own intentions and desires, the affair will not be exactly calculated to fit Satmar preconceptions about the nature of Rabbinic functions. It seems this will be more like a R.A.S. affair.The officers have decided to do as follows with regard to distribution of the books:About 20 copies, without any personal inscription, should be prepared for the affair itself, with one being presented to Rabbi Jur as the climax of the affair. The others should be distributed, one to a table, so that the guests might see what they paid for. These will later be collected and taken back.Meanwhile, copies of the book, which have been properly embossed, will be mailed to:All members of The Jewish Center, present or notEach authorAll guests, both those participating in the program and those invited by other guestsRemember that we had discussed the problem as to whether the English section should also be mailed to the Israeli Hebrew authors. If you still think that this is not advisable, then remind Hunger to get specially bound Hebrew sections.You will then have to figure out a jacket for the book, which will now be reduced in size and hence the regular plastic jacket unfit for it.It is later than you think.Sincerely,RABBI NORMAN LAMMNL\:ffEncl.

Dear Norman: 1. Forgive me for leaving before your masterful address at the Hadoar dinner. The day was long and I simply couldn't sit any more. 2. Your letter to Silberman was a good idea. 3. Have you heard from your friend concerning Rabbi Jung's book? 4. There is an incongruity between the meticulous planning concerning the structure and program of E. M. C. and the hasty and haphazard manner in which leadership is being sought and recruited.With kindest regards, I remainVery sincerely yours,Rabbi Leonard RosenfeldI r/t

Dear Rabbi Rosenfeld: You may have heard of the Assocation of Religious Academicians in Israel. One of the three presidents, Rabbi Rabinowitz, of Holon will be stopping off in New York for one day. He has asked to meet with you and a few other likeminded individuals, in order to discuss the possibility of an international organization. We shall be gathering for a very brief meeting at The Jewish Center on Wednesday June 21, at 8:00 P.M. You may bring along any colleagues who qualify for this kind of group.Please notify my office as soon as possible whether we may expect you and any others.Sincerely,Rabbi Norman Lamm

Dear Nachum: I hope you do not think that I have simply forgotten our conversation when we met at the dinner of the UOJCA. I trust that you remember the gist of our conversation. I do hope to be in contact with you towards the end of the summer, p.g., and perhaps we can arrange for you to come in from Toronto at the very beginning of September to meet with me and a few other people to discuss the matter. Perhaps, after that, we may know better what the possibilities are. Meanwhile, please accept my best wishes for a very pleasant summer. Cordially yours, Rabbi Norman Lamm

Dear Lennie: Some time ago I sent you a copy of an article based on a lecture I gave concerning sex education. (If you no longer have a copy, please ask your secretary to ask mine for one.) I feel quite strongly that something ought to be done about the problem. My own very limited experience in education has necessarily circumscribed my involvement in the matter to the theory but I feel intuitively that there's a great educational contribution waiting to be made. Do you think that of the hundreds of underworked and overpaid executives and educationists you have at your beck and call that you can get one person or one committee to look into it? I'm thinking of a method of interlacing sex instruction with both religious and general studies in a truly integrated fashion in Day Schools. Alternatively, you might try a scheme of relating it to Hebrew Studies for afternoon schools and attempt it for all groups from Orthodox through Reform. Sex, after all, cuts across all lines and, at last report, has not been known to be a respecter of denominational boundaries.I would have mentioned the possibility of Rogosin Institute tack-ling the problem, but they have been dragging their feet on less formidable issues. Perhaps you can preempt one or two of their people to work with yours.Do you think it can be done? Think, think. Beter: do!Yours,RABBI NORMAN LAMMRNL/fz

Dear Rabbi Lamm: As Chairman of the Publications Committee of the Rephael Society of the Association of Orthodox Jewish Scientists, I was sent a copy of your letter dated April 5, 1971. Your kind comments concerning our Euthanasia Kit are greatly appreciated. This is the second kit that we have put together, the first one being a similar kit and dealing with the subject of abortion, which we mailed out last year. Should you wish to receive that material, please write us and we will be happy to forward it to you.I am in the process of preparing a third Major Issues kit for distribution sometime in the fall. The subject of this latter one is *Human Experimentation and Medical Research on Humans From the Jewish Viewpoint*.Sincerely yours,**Fred Rosner, M.D.**FR\:sfDirector of Hematologycc: Rabbi Rosenfeld

Dear Lenny: I just received your letter of November 15. Regarding my problems, I will write to you separately, although I believe I recently gave you more information. At any rate, I appreciate the details and the frankness of your report. What I am writing about now is in fulfillment of your request for an immediate answer regarding a psychiatrist for the young lady you described. My best advice is to call Menachem Brayer who is now in Jerusalem at Rechov Hapalmach 12. He knows the field in New York far better than I do, and he can best advise you. Best to Rosalie, Tirtza, and Ezra. I hope to be writing to you shortly.Cordially,Rabbi Norman Lamm(Dictated but not read)SD