Local Educators Opposed on Federal Aid to Education
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If the prospect of public aid to little from earlier ones that were a desperate position; they can when the federal government is
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private schools has split American rejected because they endangered use the money. For some rea- trying to encourage integration?"
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Not only will this result in a
Jewry nationally, it has caused the principle of church-state sep- son, many who oppose the bill
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are afraid it will benefit the loss of democratic values from
aration. "It is merely couched in
just as fine a split here.
The Jewish News interviewed different terms, so I don't Imow Catholic Church. We should public school education, Dr. Drach-
four Detroit educators who would what has suddenly made this pro- think in terms of the children. ler said, "but it also will lead to
be directly involved in the local posal so respectable," he added. If I can get $10, why should I a deterioration in the quality of
Passage of the bill, said Rabbi worry that someone else is get- education.
administration of any such federal
aid program. Their views on the Applebaum, could mean "the total ting S1,000?"
"We're opening a Pandora's
Akiva Day School Principal
President's bill reflected the po- ruination of the public school sys-
box
that we won't be able to
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Manfred Pick agreed. He foresees
sitions taken by parent Reform, tem."
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Two Orthodox day school prin- "an entire revolution in education close readily."
Conservative and Orthodox
cipals,
Rabbi
Israel
Flam
and
methods
and
teaching
materials.
groups.
Rabbi Manfred Pick, took the op- We can't afford this without fed-
Rabbi Emanuel Applebaum,
eral aid."
L___nrincipal of Hillel Day School posite view.
Rabbi Flam, head of Yeshivath
Rabbi Pick said the church-
/ Conservative), said he fears
creeping enroachment of the Beth Yehudah's Hebrew Academy, state issue fails to bother him.
ederal government into areas insists that there is no question of "So what if the government as-
reviously handled adequately infringement on the principle of sists with textbooks, the lunch
Vay states, private and corporate church-state separation in the program and transportation? What
does it matter? The concept of
organizations. I would like to President's bill.
consider it a very provin- local control is basic to education.
see the private and independent
cial approach by people afraid
school remain private and inde•
"America has always stood for
of things that don't exist," he cultural pluralism, and it must be
pendent."
The proposal, he feels, differs said. "Jewish day schools are in continued," said Rabbi Pick.
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tunity to perpetuate its culture."
(Close to 80 per cent of Ameri-
meat, such as other ethnic groups ca's Hebrew day schools have al-
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ready indicated their support of
in the Soviet Union had.
LONDON — Dr. Nahum Gold-
If this continued, he asserted, the stand taken by Torah Ume-
mann expressed the hope here Soviet Jews "would disappear in sorah, the Orthodox National So-
Tuesday night that West Germany due time." Jews and non-Jews, he ciety for Hebrew Day Schools,
would approve soon a measure to declared, were trying to persuade which has come out in favor of
provide indemnification to an esti- Soviet authorities that it was to President Johnson's education bill.
(Torah Umesorah is now estab-1
mated 150,000 Jewish victims of their interest, as well as a matter
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Dr. Goldmann proposed a toast federal funds to private schools in
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Dr. Goldmann spoke at a dinner moral authority in Jewish life" gles: as head of a religious school
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the
angles
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"I hear with grave concern
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He expressed confidence that West mal title of vice president and the provision in that bill provid-
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of extension of the statute of tive but contributing much more." parochial schools," said Dr.
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He said he was happy that West large gathering also included now available to parochial schools,
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tions and that Premier Eshkol had Jones, Prof. Ernst Boris Chain, he said.
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accepted the offer, which was ap- Nobel Prize winner and co-discov-
proved Tuesday by Israel's parlia- erer of penicillin, Haham Solomon cil Delegate Assembly Wednesday,
ment. Dr. Goldmann added that Gaon, Sir Barnett Janner, Nobel Dr. Drachler discussed the issue
"normal relations between Ger- Prize winner Sir Hans Krebs, Is- with Rabbi Herbert Weiner of
mans and Jews is no easy matter raeli Ambassador Arthur Lourie Temple Israel, South Orange, N.J.
Dr. Weiner called for a-re-appraisal
and our generation may not be and many others.
it) o yeplo$
of the position of church-state sep-
able to countenance it."
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in
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of
national
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