After heated debate, the Rabbinical Assembly’s 61st annual convention here, attended by more than 500 Conservative rabbis from all over the United States, today adopted a set of resolutions here, unanimously backing President Kennedy’s program of federal aid to education and opposing federal grants in aid or loans to private or parochial schools.
In backing the Kennedy federal aid program, the Assembly declared it is opposed to “all attempts to make such aid contingent upon aid to private or parochial schools.” The rabbis also reaffirmed their “traditional opposition” to federal grants in aid or loans to private or parochial schools.
At the same time, the convention adopted another resolution, calling upon the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds “to give badly needed support to Jewish parochial education.”
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