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100
N.E.2d 48
(Cite
as: 302 N.Y. 857, 100 N.E.2d 48)
Court
of Appeals of New York.
PEOPLE,
Respondant,
v.
Aaron
DONNER, Appellant.
PEOPLE,
Respondant,
v.
Zalman
BLESOFSKY, Appellant.
PEOPLE,
Respondant,
v.
Aaron
N. ABER, Appellant.
June
1, 1951.
Appeal
from Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department,
278 App.Div. 705, 103 N.Y.S.2d 757.
Aaron
Donner, Zalman Blesofsky and Aaron N. Aber were convicted
in the Domestic Relations Court of the City of New York,
Children's Court Division, of violating the Education Law,
Consol. Laws, c. 16, by sending their children to a small
religious school where there was no education in the eleven
subjects required by statute, instruction was not in English,
textbooks were not in English, instructors did not possess
minimum qualifications for secular instruction required
by the Board of Education of the City of New York or the
State Education Department, and no records of attendance
were kept, all contrary to the provisions of the Education
Law, ss 3204, 3205, 3211.
The
defendants contended that their religious beliefs forbade
formal systematic secular education, that religious law
must prevail over provisions of the Education Law and that
they were protected by the First Amendment of the United
States Constitution.
The
Appellate Division, 278 App.Div. 705, 103 N.Y.S.2d 757,
affirmed judgments of conviction, and defendants appeal.
**48 *858 Judgments affirmed.
All
concur. N.Y. 1951.
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