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NOVEMBER 17,1088-KISLEV 8
Devoted to American
and Jewish Ideals.,
American Jews Buck
National Trend Which
Elects Bush President
NEW YORK (JTA) -
American Jews bucked the
national trend Tuesday,
Nov. 8, that swept George
Herbert Walker Bush intoof-
fice as 41st president of the
United States.
As in past elections, Jews
voted overwhelmingly Democratic, favoring Michael
Dukakis and Lloyd Bentsen
over the Republican ticket of
Bush and Dan Quayle by
more than a 2-1 margin.
Exit polling by ABC News
found Jews favored Dukakis
over Bush by 67 percent to 32
percent. The Washington'
Post reported that Dukakis
claimed roughly seven out of
ten Jewish votes.'
ABC also said Jewish
voters in New York favored
Dukakis by 69 percent, and
by 74 percent in California.
In less scientific exit polling, The American Jewish
Congress found that Jewish
voters favored the Democratic ticket over the Republican ticket by 77 percent 4o
23 percent. AJCongress
volunteers queried 3;881 voters in 12major cities.
Market Opinion Research
in Detroit, a firm run by Bob
Teeter, Bush's chief pollster,
put the Jewish vote at 69 percent to 31 percent for Dukakis. They polled more than
4,1)00 Jewish voters in six
states.
But Bush gained the overwhelming support of Orthodox Jews, according to the
Detroit firm. Among the ten
percent  of  those  polled
identifying themselves as
Orthodox, 75 percent voted
for Bush.
, By contrast, 28 percent of
Conservative Jewish
respondents and 24 percent
of Reform Jews voted for
Bush.
Bush also did poorly
among Jewish women. Only
20 percent of Jewish women
over age 40 voted for Bush,
compared to the 30 percent
of the men in the same category. The breakdown for all
Jewish women was not immediately available.
"We are very satisfied
with those numbers," said
Mark Neuman, coordinator
of Bush's National Jewish
Campaign Committee. "We
had enormous obstacles to
overcome, the main one
being that most Jews are
Democrats, to be this competitive and get a significant
share of Democrats and independents to come over and
vote for George Bush."
At;Bush .headquarters in
Houston, supporter Jack
Stein, a former chairman of
the Conference of Presidents
of major American Jewish
Organizations, said that
among Jewish Republicans
there is "a feeling of satisfaction over the results
of a long and difficult campaign."
In a conciliatory
statement on behalf of
Dukakis' National Jewish
Leadership Council, Hyman
Bookbinder  congratulated
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Palestinian State Declared
At PLO Parliament Meeting
Ernest and Aurelia Stern
Ernest And Aurelia Stern Honored
By Temple Israel New Members
The Temple Israel New
Members Class of 1988,
named in honor of Ernest
and Aurelia Stern, will be
welcomed at a dinner preceding Sabbath Eve services
on Friday,'Nov. 25, at the
Temple.
Selection of the award winners is made on the basis of
exemplary participation and
leadership in the congregational life. The Sterns fulfill
that criteria both at Temple
Israel and in the community.
They joined the Temple
when they married in 1948>
Mr. Stern is a past president of Temple Israel and
currently serves on the Temple Israel Foundation Board,
as well as Union of American
Hebrew Congregations Committee on Outreach. He is
also active in both the Jewish and secular cpmmun-
' ities.
Mrs. Stern, has served as a
member of Heritage House
Auxiliary and as chairwoman of the National Council of
Jewish' Women's New
Americans Committee. Cur
rently, she is a member of
the Temple Israel Adult
Education Committee.
The entire community is
invited to the services on
Nov. 25 at Temple Israel to
honor them.
Former Israel Ambassador Meir Rosenne
Named Head Of Israel Bond Organization
Dr. Norman Shub, general
chairman, Central Ohio Division, State of Israel Bonds,
reports that the appointment
of former Israel Ambassador to the United States Meir
Rosenne to head the worldwide Israel Bond Organization beginning Jan. 1, has
been announced by David B.
Hermelin of Detroit, international chairman, and Julian
B. Venezky of Peoria, Illinois, chairman of the Board
of Directors. ,
Hermelin added, "We consider it a great tribute to our
organization and its achievements in behalf of Israel that
such a distinguished figure
will lead our campaign as we
enter the decade of the 90s
and meet the new challenge
before us of helping Israel to
achieve economic independence,"
Venezky continued: "On
behalf of all the officers of
the Bond Organization, we
express our deep gratitude
to Yehudah Halevy for his
Meir Rosenne
devoted and tireless leadership as head of the Bond Organization for the past six
years which have seen our
campaign expand from an
average of $400 million in
The 450-member Palestinian National Council
declared Palestine an independent state, implicitly
recognized Israel and renounced terrorism at a
meeting in Algeria last
week.
Those were the conditions
the United States set for
allowing the Palestine
Liberation Organization a
role in the Mid-East peace
process.
PLO Chairman Yasir
Arafat stated, "The Palestinian National Council
hereby declares the
establishment of a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as
its.capital, which will be for
all Palestinians wherever
they are."
Number Of Jews In Congress
To Reach All Time High Jan. 3
sales each year to a record-
breaking annual results of
more than $600 million. We
all wish Yehuda Halevy success in his future endeavors
in Israel."
Ambassador Rosenne served as his nation's chief
diplomatic envoy to the
United States from 1983 to
1987 at a time which saw the
further strengthening of the
good relations between the
United States and Israel.
In recommending him to
head the Bond Organization,
the Finance Ministry of the
State of Israel said that
Rosenne "accepted the Finance Minister's appeal because of the recognized
great importance attached
today to the Bond Organization for .its world-wide
mobilization of economic
development  proceeds  for
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WASHINGTON (JTA) -
With the election of three
Jewish newcomers and 28 incumbents Nov. 8f7the U.S.
House of Representatives
will have an all-time higlurf
31 Jewish members when the
101st Congress is sworn in
Jan. 3. The previous high
was 30 in the 99th Congress.
Two of the three Jewish incumbents seeking re-election to the U.S. Senate and
two newcomers were elected, bringing the total number of Jews in that chamber
back to eight: There were
eight Jewish senators when
the current Senate took office in 1987i but Sen. Edward
Zorinsky: (D-Neb.) died
early in the session.
In the Seriate races, incumbents Howard Metzenbaum (D-Ohio) and Frank
Lautenberg (D-N.J.) were
re-elected, while Sen. 'Chic
Hecht (R-Nev.) was defeated. The two new Jewish
senators, both Democrats,
are Herbert Kohl of Wisconsin and Connecticut Attorney
General Joseph Lieberman,
believed to be the first Orthodox Jew elected to the chamber.     ■'■"'■•■.
The only other Jew running fQr the Senate was
Rhode Island Lt. Gov.
Richard Licht, a Democrat.
He was defeated by Sen.
John Chafee, who * was reelected to his third term.
Light was heavily supported
by pro-Israel political action
committees because Chafee,
while voting for aid of Israel,
.had backed arnjs sales to
Arab countries.
In the House, where incumbency is almost a guarantee of re-election, Nita-
Lowey, a New York Democrat, upset Rep. Joseph Dio-
Guardi, a Republican. There
will now be two Jewish wom-
enin the House, Lowey and
Rep.   BarbaraxBoxer-(D~
Calif.).    .
Both of the other two Jews
elected to the House for the
first time ran for open seats.
They are -Steven Schiff
(R-N.M.) and Eliot Engel
(D-N.Y.). Engel ran for the
Seat vacated by Rep. Mario
Biaggi, who resigned after
being convicted of bribery
and extortion.
In addition, Madeleine
Kunin, a Democrat, was reelected to her third term as
governor of Vermont. The
only other Jewish governor
is Neil Goldschmidt of Ore-
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The boundaries of the new
state are to be determined
by negotiation.
Israel rejected the results
, of the meeting even before it
began, with Prime Minister
Yitzchak Shamir declaring,
"We will not negotiate with
the PLO."    „   t.
Pres. Reagan Signs
Anti-Genocide Act
CHICAGO (JTA) - In a
brief ceremony Nov. 4,
President Reagan signed
legislation implementing a
40-year-old international
treaty that bans acts of genocide, making the United
States the 98th country to
support the pact.
The Genocide Convention
Implementation Act amends
the federal criminal code to
make genocide a federal offense. It defines genocide as
"the specific intent to destroy, in whole or in substantial part, a national, ethnic,
racial or religious group."
^"Roughly two dozen politicians and representatives
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