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Gov't layoffs send ripple effect within DC-area Jewish community

(JNS) — The wave of impending U.S. government layoffs has touched cities, suburbs and rural areas across the country. One demographic, in particular, is bracing for impact: Jewish day schools in and around Washington, D.C.

Jewish Insider reported that “local schools, synagogues and social-service agencies are making plans to support laid-off community members and their families,” and wrestling with how fewer students and dues-paying members will upend their bottom lines.

“It’s day schools, it’s camps, it’s early childhood, JCC memberships,” Gil Preuss, CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater W...

 
 

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