Conservative Rabbinical Aseembly Raps Jewish Congress for ‘hasty’ Move

Rabbi Max J. Routtenberg, president of the Rabbinical Assembly, the national association of Conservative rabbis, today issued the following statement: “We deplore the hasty and precipitous announcement by the American Jewish Congress that it will test the constitutionality of the Federal elementary and secondary education bill, made on the very date that the President signed it into law.

“We particularly regret the impression which this announcement may have left in the minds of many Americans that this interpretation of the principle of church-state separation is shared by substantial segments of American Jews. The absence of Jewish ecumenicity, which makes such activity possible, must be considered a major problem for the American Jewish community.”