The Joint Public Relations Committee of Edmonton, Alberta, and the local community council has decided to present the committee’s viewpoint against offering religious instruction in the city’s public schools, it was announced here by the Canadian Jewish Congress. The committee, on a national scale, represents the CJC and the B’nai B’rith.
A request for the introduction of religious instruction in the schools, permitted by Ontario legislation at the discretion of individual school boards, was made by a delegation of the Edmonton and District Council of Churches. The delegation, which said that 90 percent of all Protestant churches in the city favor such instruction, admitted under questioning by school board members that the Jewish congregations of the city are among the 10 percent which do not favor such instruction.
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