The National Council of Young Israel, central agency for a group of Orthodox synagogues, today joined the traditional Jewish organizations supporting Federal aid for religious schools. Such aid is specifically excluded from the Kennedy Administration school aid bill now before the Congress.
The Young Israel Council declared in a resolution that the movement "favors legal and constitutional federal aid to parents and children attending parochial schools providing such aid does not jeopardize the principle of separation of church and state."
The group said such federal help should be given as would help foster Jewish education and give the students of religious schools "the material advantages" of those attending public schools. Federal aid on that basis, the statement said, would not endanger the church-state separation principle.
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