One Nation, Under God

The New York City Board of Education announced last week that it will require the pledge at the beginning of every school day (though conscientious objectors will not be disciplined).
Rabbi Mordechai Besser, principal of Manhattan Day School, said. Last week, we just sent out a memo that all classes should say the pledge on a daily basis.

At several day schools where the pledge isnt said, administrators said that it was increasingly being asked about by parents.

But Rabbi Hertz Frankel, principal of secular studies at the Beis Rochel girls schools of Satmar, said his schools dont say the pledge and it hasnt come up. We do say Ani Mamin every day, says Rabbi Frankel, referring to the affirmation of faith that God will send a Redeemer in the End of Days. Thats a pledge, too.

The Pledge of Allegiance, though, has long been instituted at the other all-Satmar public school in upstate Kiryas Yoel, MonDroe. One yeshiva principal, who asked not to be named, was pleased that the pledge is returning God to the public schools, even without school prayer, through the verse: One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.