THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
6—Friday, October 21, 1966
South African Jews Hit Omission
of 'Conscience Clause' at University
JOHANNESBURG (JTA) — The
South African Board of Jewish
Deputies issued a statement crit-
icizing the omission from a bill
passed in new government legis-
lation doing away with the "Con-
science Clause" in the measure to
establish a new Afrikaans univer-
sity in Johannesburg.
The "Conscience Clause" pro-
hibits universities from inquiring
into the religious beliefs of staff
or students, or from giving or with-
holding any preference to a staff
member or student on the ground
of religious belief. In the bill to
establish the new Rand Afrikaans
University, the "C on s c i en c e
Clause" is replaced by a clause pro-
viding that staff will be engaged,
and students admitted, on the
grounds of acat_2_emic and adminis-
trative qualifications and abilities
and subscription to the principles
contained in the preamble to the
South African Constitution which
acknowledges belief and trust in
God.
Following representations by va-
rious bodies, the Minister for Edu-
cation, Arts and Science, Senator
de Klerk, amended this by incor-
porating the reference to the repub-
lic's Constitution in the preamble
to the bill, and recasting the rele-
vant clause of the bill to provide
that staff appointments shall be on
the grounds of academic and ad-
ministrative qualifications o n 1 y.
The Minister said that freedom of
belief was guaranteed by South
African common law, and the
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clause as refrained ruled out any
possibility of religious discrimina-
tion. "A rabbi, for example," he
said, "could be appointed to lec-
ture in Hebrew, because he was
best qualified to do so." His as-
surance was accepted by the main
opposition party, the United Party,
which v oted for the bill as
amended. Only Mrs. Helen Suzman,
the Progressive Party's solitary
Member of Parliament, voted
against it, because of the omission
of the "Conscience Clause."
The Board of Deputies statement,
while welcoming the minister's as-
surance, pointed out that "there
have been conflicting legal opin-
ions on the efficacy of the proposed
amendment to protect religious
freedom," and that "no convincing
reasons have been given by the
promoters of the new University as
to why the customary Conscience
Clause has been dropped."
Gustav Saron, general secretary
of the South African Jewish Board
of Deputies, left on a four-month
study mission to the United States,
Europe and Israel. While abroad,
Saron will interview applicants for
senior posts on the staff of the
Board of Deputies, and study work
being carried on in various Jewish
communities among youth and stu-
dents and in the fields of inter-
grouP relations, community plan-
ning, fund raising and social re-
search.
Victims of Austria Nazism
Form Unit to Press Claims
NEW YORK (JTA) — The es-
tablishment of an American Coun-
cil for Equal Compensation of Nazi
Victims from Austria, was an-
nounced by Felix Harding, the
first president of the new organiza-
tion. The purpose of the new group
is to achieve equal compensation
for equal suffering comparable to
the indemnification legislation of
the Federal Republic of Germany.
Harding said that the formation
of the group resulted from dis-
satisfaction with w h a t he de-
scribed as "glaring inequities" in
the treatment of Austrian victims
of Nazism.
(From Vienna, it was reported
by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
that the Jewish cemetery in the
Austrian town of Gmunden was
found desecrated for the second
time this year. In the latest
incident, the vandals smashed a
memorial stone for victims mur-
dered in Nazi concentration
camps.)
Day School Group Asks
Repeal of NY Ban to Funds
for Religious Schools
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
NEW YORK—Tora Umesora,
the national society for Hebrew
day schools, has called for the
repeal of the New York State con-
stitutional prohibition on state
financial aid to schools sponsored
by religious groups.
Testifying before the temporary
commission on the constitutional
convention, Herman Cahn, repre-
senting the Hebrew day school
group, said that the federal con-
stitution is sturdy enough to pro-
tect the principle of church-state
separation and the state's restric-
tive amendment is superfluous
and unnecessarily restrictive. The
temporary commission is conduct-
ing hearings in preparation for
the constitutional convention to be
held by the state next spring.
Asserting that it was important
that pupils in religion-sponsored
schools receive as good an educa-
tion in non-religious subjects as
do other children, Calm said that
the restrictive amendment now in
the constitution was discriminatory
and relegated students in religious
schools to the status of second-
class citizenship.
In a related development, re-
plying to queries by the New
York Civil Liberties Union on
the positions of the various candi-
dates for the New York state
governorship, towards proposals
to repeal the constitutional ban
on aid to religious schools, Demo-
cratic nominee Frank D. O'Con-
nor indicated that he favored a
less restrictive provision.
He said he favored a constitu-
tional guarantee of church-state
separation but he said such a
guarantee did not have to be any
more restrictive than the first
amendment to the Federal Consti-
tution.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., the
Liberal Party candidate, un-
equivocally supported retention of
the restrictive provision by the
1967 constitutional convention.
Gov . Rockefeller did not reply to
the question.
In White Plains, meanwhile,
Westchester County Democratic
Chairman William F. Luddy an-
nounced that his organization's
platform called for the repeal
of the restrictive constitutional
amendment against state aid to
religious schools.
He said all nine party's candi-
dates for delegates to the conven-
tion from Westchester had de-
clared their support for repeal of
the amendment.
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