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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
14 Friday, March 2, 1979
Day Schools Fight to Retain IRS Tax Exempt Status
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WASHINGTON (JTA) —
Two spokesmen for differ-
ent groups of Jewish organ-
izations have testified be-
fore a House subcommittee
in support of action to as-
sure that religious schools
are protected in their right
to accept only students of
their own religious faith
without risking loss of tax
exempt status.
The spokesmen were
Martin Cowan, secretary of
the National Jewish Com-
mission on Law and Public
Affairs (COLPA), and
Nathan Z. Dershowitz, di-
rector of the Commission on
Law, Social Action and
sued guidelines reportedly
aimed at "white academies"
organized by parents op-
posed to attendance by their
children at integrated pub-
lic schools.
The exemption of Jewish
and other religious schools
from the guidelines —
which basically required
private schools to prove ab-
sence of racially dis-
criminatory admission
policies — was affirmed by a
1975 revision. It specified
that "a school that selects
students on the basis of
membership in a religious
denomination or unit
thereof will not be deemed
to have a discriminatory
policy if membership in the
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The subcommittee
called the hearings to de-
termine whether the IRS,
in its various steps to find
racially discriminary
private schools, had
overstepped its
authority.
The issue dates back. to
July, 1970 when the IRS is-
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The hearings were the
latest in a series of de-
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velopments nvolving pri-
vate religious schools and
the Internal Revenue Serv-
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tify more effectively non-
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tice racially discriminatory
policies, for which they are
subject to loss of tax exempt
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denomination or unit is
open to all on a racially
ton-discriminatory basis."
But xvhen the IRS pub-
lished late in 1978 new re-
vised proposals, concern
was widely expressed by
non-public school organiza-
tions and religious groups
over apparent ambiguities
in the revised proposals
relative to religious schools.
In response to thousands
of complaints, the IRS held
three days of hearings last
December at which repre-
sentatives testified for
Jewish and Christian
schools.
The 1978 proposed re-
visions were aimed at
private schools or-
ganized in areas in which
public schools are being
or have been integrated.
A private school in such a
school district could,
under the 1978 proposed
revisions, be presumed
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by the IRS to be dis-
criminatory if its minor-
ity enrollment was not at
least 20 percent of the
proportion of the minor-
ity school age population
in the area of such a pub-
lic school, or if there had
been a substantial in-
crease in its white stu-
dent enrollment which
might be related to the
integration of the local
public school.
Cowan and Dershowitz
testified at the IRS hearings
that the absence of black,
Hispanic and other minor-
ity group children from
Jewish religious schools
simply reflected the fact
that very few such minority
children in the U.S. are
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