Rabbi Moshe Sherer urged the New York State Board of Regents today to publicly endorse a bill pending in Congress to grant income tax credits to the parents of children attending non-public schools. Rabbi Sherer is executive vice president of the Agudath Israel of America and president of “Credit” (Citizens Relief for Education by Income Tax), an organization of Orthodox Jews, Catholics and others who support the legislation.
He claimed in testimony at a legislative hearing of the Board of Regents that the tax credit bills currently under review by the House Ways and Means Committee meet constitutional and legal requirements and prevent any abuse for racial segregation. He said the measures conformed with guidelines issued by the Board of Regents in a March, 1971 policy statement.
In a statement issued earlier by the Agudath Israel, Rabbi Sherer denounced the leaders of eight national Jewish organizations who testified last week against the tax credit bills at a House committee hearing. He called on them to “repent of their die-hard and unrelenting efforts to deprive Jewish education of any and every form of indirect governmental assistance.”
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