Torah Umesorah Director Lauds Nixon for Request for Aid to Nonpublic Schools

Dr. Joseph Kaminetsky, national director of Torah Umesorah, the National Society for Hebrew Day Schools. Congratulated President Nixon on his recent education message to Congress which included in some measure wider provisions for aiding nonpublic school students. Speaking on behalf of the Hebrew Day School movement Dr. Kaminetsky, in his wire to President Nixon, said that “we are heartened by your inclusion of the nonpublic student on the agenda of the Federal government’s concern for the education of all of America’s children. As American citizens, as Jews and as educators we applaud your initial though hesitant steps which demonstrate that what really counts is the need of the child rather than his creed.” He added that nonpublic school students contribute to the social welfare and the public good and hence are legitimately the concern of the State. “Aid to nonpublic school students shatters no wall except that of unfounded fear and the unholy principle of discrimination against millions of nonpublic school children in their pursuit of secular studies.”