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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Knesset Members Raise

Blaine Amendment Issue Stirs New
Controversy Over Parochiaid in N.Y.

NEW YORK (JTA)—The battle
over state aid to parochial schools
mounted this week as the New
York State Senate prepared to act
on a bill to repeal Art. XI, Sect. 3,
of the State Constitution—the so-
called Blaine Amendment—which
bars indirect aid to religious
schools under the principle of sep-
aration of church and state.
The 1970 Legislature passed a
resolution to repeal the Blaine
Amendment. Repeal requires a
second passage and approval by.
state referendum next fall.
The Committee for Petblic Edu-
cation and Religious Liberty
(PEARL), a coalition of 29 civic,
religious and educational organi-
zations, has urged defedt of the
repeal measure in letters to every
member of the State Legislature.
The Orthodox viewpoint was
stated by Rabbi Moshe' Sherer,
executive vice priesident of the
Agudath Israel of America, in a
broadcast over radio station
WQXR. Rabbi Sherer replied to
Dr. Leo Pfeffer, of the Ameri-
can Jewish Congress, who broad-
cast the opposing view last
week.
Rabbi Sherer said he sought to
dispel the "myth" that religious
groups are asking the government
to finance religious education with
the American tax dollar." He said,
"This is totally untrue. We are
not seeking any financial assist-
ance from the government for re-

Rent Ceiling, but Half
of What Govt. Sought

JERUSALEM (JTA)—A Knes-
set committee rejected Wednes-
day a . government-sponsored draft
bill that would have allowed the
owners of controlled buildings a
major rent increase. It raised the
rent ceiling but only by half the
amount granted in the government
measure.
Rent control has been in effect
since it was imposed by the Man-
datory government during World
War IL It was continued by the
Israel government to cope with the
severe post war housing shortage,
a problem that persists in certain
areas.
Rent control applies only to
dwelling units built before the
war. Rents have been raised
periodically with government
permission. But landlords com-

ligious studies. All that we ask the
government to do is help defray
the expenses of our secular studies
program."
Terrance Cardinal Cooke, the
Roman Catholic Archbishop of
New York, was challenged
Wednesday on his bid for "sub-
stantial" state aid to private and
parochial schools.
In a letter to Gov. Nelson A.
Rockefeller Monday, he did not
specify the type or the amount of
aid for nonpublic schools. But he
insisted that it was needed to
meet "the great economic plight
of nonpublic education."
William Haddad, co-chairman of
PEARL, warned at a press con-
ference Wednesday that state aid plain that they are still too low
to yield a fair return. As a re-
to private and parochial schools,
sult, many of them have allowed
no matter what form it took, would
their property to fail into disre-
result in the proliferation of pri-
vate schools "segregating pupils by pair.
The new rent ceiling is intended
religion and by income as well as
by race," while the public schools to improve the landlord's return.
face "starvation budgets" and the its passage by the Knesset is
virtually assured.
cities "near bankruptcy."

... Then Raise Salarles

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JERUSALEM (JTA)—The mem-
bers of the Knesset voted them-
selves a salary increase of $57 a

month Tuesday night, raising their
pay from just over $371 a month
to nearly $429, plus expenses.
Knesset members will now be paid
at a rate of '70 per cent of a
cabinet minister's salary, com-
pared with the previous rate of 60
per cent

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NEW YORK (JTA) — The
American Jewish Committee's Na-
tional Project on Ethnic America,
stablished a year ago to help
ease black-white tensions, has re-
ceived a $262,536 grant from the
Ford Foundation to underwrite its
work for the next two years.
AJCommittee president Philip E.
Hoffman praised the foundation for
having "once again taken the lead
in a most difficult area of prob-
lem-solving."
Bertram H. Gold, AJCommittee
executive vice president, said the
Ford Foundation money would be
used specifically for experimenting
with new techniques for depolariz--
ing racial tensions; for working
with the communications media to
end the "stereotyping" of white
ethnics; to aid both white ethnics
and non-whites in improving their
lot; and to work with professionals,
community leaders and scholars on
"ethnic programs at all education-
al levels" and "the present im-
portance - and the future discretion
of ethnicity in America."
The project recently received a
grant from the University of Mich-
igan's Center for Policy Research,
among other sources.

Sherut La'am Draws
17 Young Americans

teachers, social workers, sport
coaches, nurses and lab Jean].
clans in places where special
tare and professional guidance
L needed.
Last year about 30 per cent of all
the participants remained in Israel
to continue their studies or to work
in their fields.

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Ford Foundation Aids
AJCommittee Project
on Ethnic America

NEW YORK—Seventeen Ameri-
can and Canadian high school
graduates and college students, in-
cluding Rose - Berlin of Detroit,
left for Israel Monday, to spend
one year on the Sherut La'am
kibutz program.
This is the first of five groups
which will spend the year in Israel
under the auspices of Sherut
La'am.
Yehoshua Leer, national coor-
dinator of Sherut La'am in the
United States, predicted that this
year's number of participants will
at least double last year's total,
which was 258..
The college graduates work as

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