Berlin Jewish High School Takes Top Honors in German Capital

A Jewish high school operated by Chabad-Lubavitch in Berlin took top honors in the capital city’s state Regents exams, in which Hebrew was recognized for the first time by the German government as a tested subject.

The students who took the exam at the Jewish Traditional School in the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf section of the city weighed in with an average score of 1.37 on a scale of 1.0 to 6.0 (with 1.0 representing the high end of range) in a field of 103 schools, where the average was 2.4, according to the Senate Department of Education. Six of the students at the Chabad-run school registered exceptional results, added the department.

“For a Jewish school in Berlin to have these results is the very best answer we can have for the dark past,” Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal, rabbi of the Jewish community of Berlin told Chabad.org. “Hitler’s goal was not only to wipe out, G‑d forbid, the Jewish population, but also to eradicate Jewish education. This is the ultimate answer of light over darkness.”

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