Prohibition of the use of the shortened or abridged Bible or Bible stories in Hebrew schools was resolved upon today at the Orthodox Jewish conference now in session in Dwinsk, Latvia. Over two hundred delegates are attending the conference, which is presided over by the famous Gaon of Rogatchov. The Gaon, learned rabbi, declared that every letter and every punctuation mark in the Bible is holy, and that tampering with the Bible is sacrilege.
The conference of Jewish teachers, meeting at the same time as the Orthodox conference, disclosed forty percent of the Latvian Jewish pupils, numbering 11,920, are being educated in Hebrew schools, as compared with only eleven percent of the total in 1921.
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