Most Jews Back McGovern, but by Smaller Percentage

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district, Sheepshead Bay, Mr.
Nixon polled 38 per cent of
the vote, compared to 11 per
cent four years ago. In some
parts of New York City,
Mr. Nixon's stronger showing
among Jewish voters was at-
tributed to the heavy support
he received in Orthodox and
Hasidic neighborhoods.
But it was also apparent
that the Jewish vote for Sen.
McGovern was higher than
that of any other white ethnic
group. Roman Catholic neigh-
borhoods in New York and
other cities voted overwhelm-
ingly for Mr. Nixon.
Jewish voting patterns in
the 1972 elections were of
particular interest in view of
the intensive efforts made by
both candidates to woo the

Jewish voter. While Jews
comprise only 3 per cent of
the population, Jewish votes
are crucial in six key states
—New York, Florida, Cali-
fornia, Ohio, Pennsylvania
and Illinois.
Accordingly, both candi-
dates stressed issues of spe-
cial concern to Jews beyond
the purely domestic economic
and social issues. These were
primarily support for Israel's
security and concern over
the mistreatment of Soviet
Jews. In Cleveland, Rep.
Charles Vanik, a non-Jewish
Democrat, won a 10th two-
year congressional term with
an estimated 92 per cent of
the Jewish vote. Vanik intro-
duced an amendment to the
East-West Trade Act oppos-
ing most-favored-nation stat-

Modern Maccabees and Dreidel

These costumed nursery school children at a Jew-
ish Welfare Board—affiliated Jewish center have come
out of a house shaped like a giant dreidel (spinning top)
to re-enact the Hanuka story of Judah Maccabee. The
Hebrew letter "shin" is on the side of the dreidel. Jew-
ish Centers and YM-YWIIAs across the nation emphasize
creative Jewish programing related to Jewish holidays
and to other aspects of the American Jewish experience.
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European Communities" Parley
Focuses on Common Problems

PARIS (JTA)—Five hun-
dred delegates representing
1,500,000 European Jews in
18 countries took part last
weekend in the second an-
nual conference of the Euro-
pean Council of Jewish Com-
munity Services.
The participants, repre-
senting virtually every re-
ligious and ideological trend
among European Jews, fo-
cused on problems of Jewish
concern including assimila-
tion, the loss of traditional
values, the structure of the
va r i o us communities and
their relations with Israel
and world Jewry.
The conference sought to
project "the quality of Jew-
ish life in 1985."
The two largest communi-
ties participating in the con-
ference were those of France
and Great Britain, with 550,-
000 and 410,000 Jews respec-
tively. The smallest com-
munities were Norway with
900 Jews and Portugal with
700.
Of the Eastern European
bloc, only representatives of
Romanian and Yugoslavian
Jewry attended.
While the Jewish communi-
ties of Poland, Czechoslo-
vakia and Bulgaria- are affili-
ated with the council, they
sent no delegates.
Michel Topiol, a member
of the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency board of directors in
— Parts spoke to is capacity
as president of the French

In his concession state-
ment 'Tuesday night, Sen.
George McGovern reiter•
ated a favorite quotation
from Isaiah:
"They that wait upon
the Lord shall renew their
strength; they shall mount
up with wings as eagles;
they shall run, and not be
and not faint."
weary; they shall walk,

•• •
Judge Levin
Elected to
High Court

us and other trade conces-
sions to the Soviet Union un-
less Moscow withdraws its
education head tax and other
obstacles to Jewish emigra-
tion.
Sen. McGovern appears to
have won 52-54 per cent of
Ohio's Jewish vote, a ma-
jority but far below the 80
per cent polled by the 1968
Democratic candidate, Hu-
bert H. Humphrey.
Middle East policy was an
issue in Ohio's Jewish com-
munity, but so were domes-
tic issues relating to race
and the economy.
Mr. Nixon's i in proved
showing among Jews was at-
tributed in large measure to
a feeling in many Jewish cir-
cles that he has "delivered"
on his pledges of support for
Israel, while Sen. McGovern
was an unknown quantity
despite his many pro-Israel
statements. There was also
a tendency among many
Jews to link Sen. McGovern
with the stridently anti-Israel
New Left and other radicals
who have adopted a pro-Arab
stance.
Such attitudes are believed
to have played a part in
Jewish defections from their
traditional loyalty to t h e
Democratic ('arty. In 1952,
for example, 73-79 per cent
of the nation's Jews voted
for Adlai Stevenson, and in
195G, 77 per cent—Although
Stevenson's opponent w a s
the national hero, Gen.
Dwight I). Eisenhower.
In Los Angeles, the 1968
Jewish vote was RS per cent
for Humphrey; in 1964. 90
per cent went to President
Johnson; and in 1960, 83 per
cent to John F. Kennedy.
These figures are considered
fairly representative of the
Jewish votes in the country
as a whole.
Lawrence Goldberg, execu-
tive director of the Con-
cerned Citizens for the Re-
Election of the President, a
Jewish group, claimed an
outstanding victory for Pres-
ident Nixon among Jewish
voters. In an interview with
the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency in Washington, Gold-
berg said that Mr. Nixon
received 40 per cent of the
national Jewish vote. Approx-
imately triple the number he
received four years ago.

United Jewish Appeal when
he called on the delegates
to help JTA expand its ac-
tivities in Europe.
Ile said the French ex-
perience with the news
agency "proves th a t JTA
can make a huge contribu-
tion to community structures,
information and to fund-rais-
ing itself."
Claude Kellmann, president
of the European Council,
warned in his concluding re-
marks that the delegates
must not place the needs of
Israel behind those of other
communities,
"Israel must remain for us
the guiding light and our in-
spiration," he said in what
was seen as rebuttal to Guy
president of
deRothsehild,
the Fonds Social Juif Unifie
(FSJU).
at the
Rothschild said
FSJU's general assembly last
week that too large a share
of UJA monies raised in
France were going to Israel
with the result that the
French Jewish community
was forced to operate on a
"distress budget." Rothschild
announced that he would be
meeting here this week tvtii
Louis Pincus, chairman of
the Jewish Agency Executive.
to discuss the issue. Roths-
child stressed in a message
to the conference that "Israel
and the diaspora can co-exist
only irn—t-F -ri7-71; (Tr -nTrir.,7 -
respect and understanding...

the fact is that the Jewish to get his name on the ballot.
vote remained overwhelm-
Other judgeships went to
ingly democratic."
Benjamin Burdick and Mich-
ael Stacey, Wayne County
Circuit Count Ira G. Kauf-
man, Probate Court; Susan
Borman, Recorder's Court;
and Irwin H. Burdick and
George D. Kent, Common
Pleas Court.
Also elected were Paul Sil-
ver, Wayne trounty commis-
sioner:
David S. Newman,
Despite heavy losses to in-
cumbents, a number of Jew- W a y n e Couinty Community
ish candidates for office in College trustily; Bernard
Detroit and Oakland County Berman and Seymour Pus-
emerged victorious in Toes ner, Oakland c ounty commis-
sioners; and Joseph Forbes,
day's
state represetative.
Most notable was the de-
One of th more serious
cisive win by Charles Levin.
was s tier ed by Dan-
member of the Michigan iel
lel Cooper, Who lost to con-
Court of Appeals, who won
servative Re ublican Robert
a seat on the St a t e Su-
Huber, in th new 18th Con-
preme Court. There we're
gressional
istrict. Cooper
nine candidates for two va•
still
, two . years to go on
cancies on the court.
his four-yea
State Senate
Levin. 46, considers him- term.
self as a nominal, non-dues- I The adopt in of Daylight
paying Democrat, who once Savings Tim was a blow to
ran, unsuccessfully, for nom- synagogues, ostler caterers
ination to the State Senate, 1 and youth g oups, who w ill
on the Democratic ticket. A •offer hard, ips in summer
cousin of Sander Levin. 1970 • when sundow occurs late in
Democratic candidate f n r • i.e ro ening
Because Sal,
governor, and of Dc t r o id bath does re I officially end
Councilman Carl Levin. intil the fir t star appeii: s
chart,: Levin formed the in thes!.‘,. Saturday rocit
Nonpartisan Judiciary Party. events -,..[ ii somewhat i or
• • •
[ tailed.

Richard Cohen, who headed
the Jewish affairs unit of the
McGovern campaign com-
mittee, told the JTA that "no
matter what the precise fig-
ure on the Jewish vote was,

Washington of the cogency of
this argument that Ministers
Dayan, Allon and Eban will
be flying the Atlantic in the
coming weeks.
Jersualem officials tend to
discount the pessimism of
observers who insist that now
the election is over the ad-
ministration will bring pres-
sure to bear on Israel to
move toward a peace agree-
ment against its own wishes.
O t h e r observers do not
subscribe to these fears.
They say that there are no
signs that Washington in-
tends to betray a central
plank in its Mid East policy
to date: the need for direct
negotiations.

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, Nov. 10, 1972-15

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No Ethnic Slurs Seen
in Election Campaign Israelis Confident
Rabbi Leon Frans, chair- Nixon Support Stays

man of the Michigan Fair
Campaign l'ractices Commis-
sion, reports that this fall's
campaign was noticeably
free of the racial, religious
and ethnic slurs that have
plagued other campaigns in
Michigan.
candidates
the
Among
were Catholics. Protestants
and Jews, black and white.
and a wide variety of eth
nics. Yet, in no instance,
were prejudices used as
campaign weapons, he said
There was vigorous de
hate, but all compare.;
were made on the bast. of
the issues and the qualifira
lions. and not on the irrele
vant basis of taco or minor
ity status.
There were some viola-
tions of the standards of fair
campaigning, but they were
mainly procedural and psy-
' chological, Rabbi Fram
added.
The simple question of
arithmetic emerged as a
basis of charges and counter
charges of unfairness in the
case of Proposal B, the
Abortion Law Reform Pro-
posal. The question at issue
was: "Is 20 weeks the same
as 5 months?"
The proponents of Pro-
posal B charged that al-
though the proposition on the
ballot read specifically that
an abortion may be per-
formed if the period of ges-
tation has not exceeded 20
weeks, the opponents kept
using the expression "5
months," instead of the fac-
tual "20 weeks."

' JERUSALEM (JTA) — .1e-

rusalcm greeted the re-elee
i lion
of President Nixon ssiiii

calm confidece
that his ad
i
ministration'i record of sup-
port of Isra I will continue
through his iew term.
Senior officials her,-
: stress that U.S. policy in the
Mid East ti, s been tillel,,,
full to date Why, then,
' should Was ington want to
[ilange it I is to persuade

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