Agudath Israel Charges Yeshivas Smeared by Aj Congress, Aj Committee

Agudath Israel has accused the American Jewish Congress and the American Jewish Committee of “smearing the yeshivas before America’s highest legal tribunal” in the recent brief by them and other non-Orthodox groups to the Supreme Court seeking an end to public aid to supplement private-school teachers’ salaries. In a resolution at its convention here, Agudath Israel declared: “The non-Orthodox groups, spearheaded by the American Jewish Congress, have regrettably stooped to a new low in their unrelenting fight against government support for yeshivas. To use the Jewish day schools as an example of racially segregated institutions, even by implication, is a desecration of the Jewish religion taught in these schools–a religion which first proclaimed to the world the equality of all men.” The resolution advised the AJ Congress and AJ Committee to “put a halt to the anti-yeshiva tactics utilized by the professionals in their desperation to stem the tide of growing public approval of government aid for non-public schools.”