Jewish Candidates' Gains and Losses

NEW YORK (JTA)—Prominent Lefkowitz, 66, who has held that
candidates of the Jewish faith both office since 1956 and who beat
won and lost in elections Tuesday, Democrat Adam Walinsky, a for-
in which anti-Semitism often sur- mer Robert F. Kennedy aide; and
faced but Middle East policy was Democratic Controller Arthur
largely a nonissue.
Levitt, 70, in office since 1955.
The most prestigious loser was Jonathan Rothschild, who is Jew-
New York gubernatorial candidate ish but is not related to the banking
Arthur J. Goldberg, former secre- family, was unsuccessful as the
tary of labor, United Nations am- lieutenant governor candidate of
bassador and Supreme Court jus- the Socialist Workers Party. Re-
tice making his first bid for elec- publican Morris Kirsch lost in his
tive office at age 62.
bid to be Brooklyn borough presi-
He finished well behind Repub- dent.
In a campaign marked by hate
lican incumbent Nelson A. Rocke-
ads and telephone messages by
feller, who won a fourth term.
fringe
groups, Metzenbaum was
In senatorial races, Rep. Richard
L. Ottinger, New York Democrat; defeated in his Senate campaign on
the
Democratic
ticket.
Howard M. Metzenbaum, Ohio
An ad in the Cleveland Press
Democrat; Sam Grossman, Arizona
signed
by
"Prof."
William J. Ken-
Democrat; and Nelson G. Gross,
nick, bore the heading "Metzen-
New Jersey Republican, all lost.
baum and Zionism" and said in
In governorship races, Democrat part: "Metzenbaum should be de-
Marvin Mandel retained the Mary- feated
because he could become a
land statehouse, and Milton J. spokesman for Israel like N.Y.
Sharp became Pennsylvania's first Senator Jacob Javits." (Javits did
Jewish chief executive. Gov . Frank come to Cleveland, but to campaign
Licht of Rhode Island is still for Metzenbaum's opponent, Robert
awaiting the results of his re- Taft Jr.);
election bid.-
Telephone messages coming from
In the New York City congres- the National Socialist Book Store
sional contest, 82-year-old Emanuel screamed, "Don't vote for that
Celler, a House fixture since 1922, kosher commie Juice millionaire."
was re-elected, as were Edward I.
Also a source of contention was a
Koch, James H. Scheuer, Bertram political advertisement placed in
L. Podell, Lester L. Wolff, Sey- the Cleveland Jewish News and the
mour Halpern and Benjamin S. Columbus Jewish Chronicle con-
Rosenthal. All are Democrats ex- tending that gubernatorial candi-
cept for Republican Halpern.
date John J. Gilligan had, as a
In a bitter battle in which the member of Congress, voted to send
extent of the candidates pro-Israel- aid to Nasser and the Arabs. Gilli-
ism was a key issue, Democratic gan's backers decried this as a
peace activist Bella S. Abzug de- smear campaign by Roger Cloud
feated Republican radio personality and stated that the Amerida-Israel
Barry Farber. Indumbent Allard Public Affairs Committee had ex-
K. Lowenstein, initiator of the 1968 posed "this cynical attempt to con-
"dump Johnson" movement, lost vert humanitarian gestures into
in a gerrymandered district.
an anti-Israel smear.'
Also re-elected in New York were
The foreign aid bill on which
State Attorney General Louis J. Gilligan had voted in 1965 con-

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cerned surplus food shipments for
Egypt, and others who voted for
the aid included Richard Ottinger
and Congressman Emanuel Celler.
Gilligan won the election.
James Buckley, who ran an in-
dependent campaign for U.S. Sen-
ate in New York, was elected over
Ottinger and Republican Charles
Goodell, the liberal incumbent who
was a target of President Nixon.
All three candidates were avowed
Mends of Israel, and last Friday
Buckley placed an ad in the New
York Times in which he defined
the U.S.' special ties with the Jew-
ish state, urged a strong U.S. state-
ment on the plight of Soviet Jewry
and expressed concern -about New
Left anti-Semitism, particularly
that of the Black Panthers.
Among Buckley's supporters in
the Jewish community were Profs.
Joseph Donner of Yeshiva Univer-
sity. Will Herberg of Drew Univer-
sity and Edward Gershfiela of the
Jewish Theological Seminary.
George Jessel was chairman of
Concerned Citizens for Buckley.

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rendered by the Israeli agricultural
ministry, a ministry official said
here.
The ministry has introduced new
methods and farming and new
crops. According to Assael Ben
David, the productivity of West
Bank farmers has gone up by 24
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