THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
32—Friday, August 28, 1970
AJCongress Hits Agudath Criticism of Parochiaid Foes
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NEW YORK (JTA)—Charges by aimed at prohibiting expenditure 000 appropriated under the Man- and supports greater apportion-
Rabbi Moshe Sherer, executive of state funds on parochial schools dated Services Act only $1,500,000 ment "of Jewish communal funds
president of Agudath Israel, that under the Mandated Services Act. would go to Jewish day schools. for Jewish education."
PEARL and 13 individual "Thus, Rabbi Sherer's tax money
opponents of government aid to
plaintiffs argued that the act is and mine will go to support a
parochial schools are hostile to
unconstitutional under both the religion to which neither of us
Portraits by
Jewish day schools and unrepre-
U.S. and the New York State adheres," Cohen said. "Is that his
sentative of American Jews were
Constitutions, Cohen noted that idea of Jewish education?"
termed "distorted, inflammatory
"representative Jewish groups"
and unjust" by the American Jew-
Cohen noted that the AJCongress
are not alone in their opposition supports both the right and the
ish Congress.
to
parochial
aid.
Rabbi
Sherer
necessity of religious education
In a statement to the Jewish
had stated that "for years, cer
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of the AJCongress, reaffirmed his
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Congress have brought disgrace
organization's view that a direct
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government aid to religious schools
highly publicized harassment of
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would represent a serious abridge-
the nonpublic religious schools
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of 'secularism' Rabbi Sherer may
Cohen noted that of the $28,000,-
care to level," Cohen stated.
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Rabbi Sherer's statement criti-
cizing the AJCongress and other
Jewish organizations in the Com-
mittee for Public Education and
Religious Liberty (PEARL) was
issued after PEARL filed a suit
July 30 in the U.S. District Court
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The audience was described
by Gwertzman as "typical of
most of the infrequent Yiddish
productions here, mostly over
40, but with a noticeable num-
ber of well-dressed young cou-
ples in their 20s.
"From the whispering that went
on throughout the performances,
it was evident that a good deal
of translating was going on for
those who either did not know
Yiddish or had forgotten it," he
wrote.
Although the census of 19'70 has
not yet been published and there
are no exact figures as to how
many of the 3,000,000 Jews in the
Soviet Union can speak or under-
stand Yiddish, some 25 per cent
of Jews listed Yiddish as their
language in the 1959 census.
One of the complaints by Jews
against the Soviet government is
the lack of Yiddish- language
schools. Except for a single-sheet
Yiddish paper published in Biro-
bidzhan and one monthly Yiddish
journal and a few other publica-
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Besides Shvartser's group,
there is another based in Vil-
nius, and both companies have
some difficulty getting actors
for their touring troupes. Gwertz-
man observed that ingenues in
"Beyond the Ocean" were acted
by women "who had long since
seen their 40th birthday."
Authorities allowed Shvartser's
group to use the modern Satire
Theater in he center of Moscow's ,
cultural area. Previously the group
played in a rundown theater in 1
the outskirts of the city or in a
less prestigious theater nearer the
center.
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