Chassidic Rabbi Backs Banning of Prayer in Public Schools

A statement strongly supporting last year’s U.S. Supreme Court decision banning official prayer in the public schools was issued here today by the Bostoner Rebbe, Rabbi Levi I. Horowitz, spiritual leader of the New England Chassidic Center and chairman of the commission on religious practices of the Massachusetts Council of Rabbis.

Attacks against Jews who support the High Tribunal’s ruling, and their equation with atheists, should not obscure the issue, Rabbi Horowitz declared. Those who uphold the Supreme Court’s decision, he stated, “may be Just as religious as those who oppose it, and have the additional advantage of upholding the great American tradition of separation of church and state.”