The North American Reform movement will continue fighting school voucher proposals. In a sermon Saturday to more than 5,000 Jews gathered in Boston at the Reform movement’s biennial, Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, said he is “embarrassed and ashamed” when Jews support vouchers.
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