An appeal to the Canadian Jewish Congress to take “firm measures” regarding religious instruction in the public schools of Ontario in general, and this city in particular, has been voiced by the Hamilton Council of Jewish Organizations. The appeal, in the form of a resolution adopted by the Council, asked the CJC to take “an unequivocal stand in the matter before the proper authorities.”
The resolution declared that the Council was mindful of Bible reading and hymn singing in some of the grades “and even more, of the fact that in other grades Ministers of the Gospel enter the classrooms in clerical garb, and with the express permission and encouragement of the school authorities, to teach such religious principles, tenets and doctrines as cannot be accepted by some of the pupils.” The Hamilton group asked that sectarian instruction in any form be removed from the public schools.
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