Judging by website traffic, the materials on the Lamm Legacy site relating to the Manhattan eruv controversy are among the most gripping and consequential in the entire archive.
This blog post centers on a contemporaneous memo that records the very day the eruv was banned.
Previously unpublished, the memo significantly deepens our understanding of how that decision unfolded, clarifies Rabbi Lamm's central role alongside his rabbinic colleagues, and sheds new light on a longstanding puzzle in the story: the perplexing shift in the position of Rav Moshe Feinstein.

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