The New York Board of Rabbis declared last night that “sectarian religious practices have no place in the public schools” and that all “specifically sectarian material and doctrinal teachings should be eliminated from school programs. “
That stand was taken in one of a series of resolutions approved at the board’s annual meeting at which Rabbi David L Golovensky was re-elected president.
The school resolution also proposed that symbols, ceremonies and representations “identified with specific religions” should neither be displayed nor used and that school authorities should avoid classroom materials which “have a particular sectarian religious character.”
The delegates, in another resolution, urged the New York Legislature to amend the present Sunday closing law to “grant the Jewish community the religious freedom of observing their Sabbath as our Christian brothers are entitled to observe theirs. “
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