Local Jews will have to organize themselves again this year to fight the Bible bill, which, though defeated in the Ohio Legislature last year, will again be introduced there at this session. This was the statement made by E. J. Schanfarber, prominent Jewish attorney of Columbus, during an address made at the Brotherhood meeting of the Agudath Achim orthodox congregation, at which Governor Myers Y. Cooper was the principal speaker.
The bill, which would entail the reading of the Bible in the public schools, was defeated last year in the Ohio Legislature as a result of the fight waged against it by numerous prominent Jews of this city, led by Representatives Joseph Erlich of Cleveland and Harry Berman of Cincinnati.
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