Would Teach Anti-religious Science in Jewish Schools

The introduction of permanent courses in “anti-religious science” in all Jewish schools in Soviet Russia is recommended by the Oktiabre Jewish Communist organ in Minsk. The suggestion is made in connection with a review of the failure of the anti-religious campaign on the eve of the recent High Holidays.

The Oktiabre complains that is futile to expect any results from anti-religious propaganda when it is called into use only twice a year. The use of anti-religious measures just before the advent of the holidays is a boomerang, the Oktiabre feels. The paper points out that by conducting anti-religious campaigns only on the eve of the holidays the opposite effect is achieved and the Jewish villagers and colonists who might otherwise ignore the holidays are reminded of them by the agitation against them.