Jacob M. Lowy, president of the Allied Jewish Community Services of Montreal, told the AJCS 50th anniversary banquet that the provincial government should accept responsibility for financial aid to Jewish day schools. Mr. Lowy noted that the Canadian Jewish Congress had formally proposed that such assistance be given to the schools, which are attended by more than 5,000 Jewish children.
“As schools are being financed from school taxes levied on properties, and the parents of these children pay their school taxes, surely these parents are justified in their demand that a per capita allotment be made to the Jewish schools on an equal basis with other schools,” Mr. Lowy stated. “The Jewish community is quite willing to assume responsibility for the religious and Hebrew education of these children, but so far as the secular education is concerned, it is unfair to withhold their share in the school taxes which really and truly belong to the schools which care for their education.
Referring to the Middle East crisis, Mr. Lowy warned that “injustice breeds injustice, lawlessness breeds lawlessness and the appetite of dictators can never be satisfied.” He expressed the hope that the Canadian Government would not make the mistake of the Chamberlain Government in appeasing Hitler “and will not attempt to buy peace” in the Middle East “at the cost of justice.”
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