Fewer American Jews than blacks believe that relations between the two groups have improved during the past year, according to a just-released poll. But both blacks and Jews agree that more should be done to educate schoolchildren about slavery and the Holocaust, according to the results of the poll, which was conducted for the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding. The findings, which were released at a conference on black-Jewish relations held in New York, have a margin of error of 4 percent.
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