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Study raises questions about school vouchers

WASHINGTON, April 13 (JTA) — A study of one of the nation’s few school voucher programs has found that students who receive tuition subsidies to attend private schools are not doing any better than students in public schools. The findings drew a predictably mixed reaction in the Jewish community, which remains divided over school vouchers […]

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NEWS ANALYSIS Far-right party’s success sounds alarms in Germany

BERLIN, April 27 (JTA) — Alarm bells are sounding after a right-wing party scored an unexpectedly strong showing in a German state election. Five months before German national elections, the German People’s Union on Sunday scored the largest percentage of the vote won by a far-right party in any state election held in the country […]

ISRAEL AT 50 Volunteers of 1948 war — ‘Our souls burn with pride

SHA’AR HAGAI, Israel, April 30 (JTA) — The slim 76-year-old from Queens, N.Y., doesn’t look like a hero from Israel’s War of Independence. But in May 1948, Sidney Rabinovich risked his life to help the newborn Jewish state fight for its survival against invading Arab armies. This week, he and another 500 elderly veterans of […]

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