Word: fidelman
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Dates: during 1955-1955
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Reaction was quick to come. Resort Owner Irving Fidelman, of nearby South Haven, declared that he would test the legality of Hendricks' experiment, probably on the grounds that using school classrooms for religious instruction is an unauthorized use of tax-supported public property: "Children meet in the school as Americans ... There should be no division ... to set them apart.'' His own three children, he added, were getting instruction in the Jewish faith outside school four times a week. In Lansing, State Senator Charles S. Blondy blasted the Bangor sessions as "an improper intrusion of religion...