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The District of Columbia school board and the school boards in the surrounding Maryland and Virginia communities were studying today a request by the Jewish Community Council of Greater Washington that they issue directives prohibiting public school religious observances of any kind. In identical letters to the school boards, the council asked for “a policy […]https://www.jta.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/jta-long-logo-bw.jpg600315