Of Making Many Books There Is No End
Ecclesiastes 12:12
Jewish Book Fair Opens at Jewish Center Saturday Evening
We have preserved the Book and the Book has
Preserved us.
=David Ben-Gurion
Book Fair
With a Mission
•
Looking Ahead
to November 5
•
Dangerous
Amendments
A book may be as great a thing as a battle.
—Benjamin Disraeli
THE JEWISH NEWS
A Weekly Review
Editorials, Page 4
VOL. LXXVIII, No. 9
If you drop gold and books, pick up first the books and
then the gold.
—Sefer Hasidim
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Making Use
of Citizenship
Privilege:
Duty to Vote
on Tuesday
- October 31, 1980
Tuesday Election Challenge
Is Agonizing American Jews
py JOSEPH POLAKOFF
lenged in a fatal way the existing church and there was no possible way for-the
WASHINGTON (JTA) — That many Jewish voters even at this late stage of
Jewish leadership to avoid the challenge. So they decided to kill Jesus."
the Presidential campaign continue "undecided" is not surprising to objective
At the Jewish Telegraphic Agency's request at that time, the White
surveyors of the national political scene. They see major problems being kept in
House provided a clarification that toned down these remarks and they
cold storage or glossed over with generalities while false or minor issues are
were forgotten until after Reagan had been stigmatized by Carter's
hopped up with sly presentations to gain advantage or stain the opponent.
Christian-Jew statement.
This is the most agonizing election I have ever known," said one veteran
Then, the other day in Temple Ner Tamid in Van Nuys, Calif., Reagan, in
analyst. "Many of us are suspicious of Carter and apprehensive about Reagan.
denouncing anti-Semitism as "abhorrent" with reference to the outrages in
We'll either vote for Anderson or not vote, which amounts to the same thing."
Paris, criticized Carter for failing, he said to "speak out forcefully to the world"
Among the imponderables is the impact on Jewish sentiment of the
about the bombings and say there is "no room" for the "virus that brought us the
"Christian Right" and President Carter's forecast that Ronald Reagan's
Holocaust."
election will separate black from white and Christian from Jew.. One
That brought Vice President Walter Mondale into the White House news
off-shoot of this was the remark by a White House Jewish official to a
room to say "Reagan should apologize" because his "facts were totally wrong."
synagogue audience in a Washington suburb that "if you want Jerry
Mondale said that "immediately following the Paris bombings," Carter_ had
Falwell in the White House vote for Reagan."
"condemned" them in the "clearest possible terms."
Another was if you want to continue having Libyan agent Billy Carter
As proof, Mondale read a three-line statement quoting Carter. Since Mon-
influencing the White House, re-elect his brother."
dale did-not say when and where the President had made that statement, press
Dr. Bailey Smith was a generally unknown Southwest clergyman who
people were asked in the White House, the Democratic National Committee and
would have stayed that way if this were not an election
the Carter-Mondale Committee to provide the specifics.
year, but his remark: "God does not hear the prayers of
It appeared that he made it at a town meeting in
Jews," caused a storm that some suspect was politically
response to a question but the date was uncertain.
stimulated. Reagan had appeared at the meeting at which
The State Department, Secretary of State Edmund
Smith spoke but, Reagan's aides stress, he did not ever
Muskie and National Security Council chairman
hear Smith's remark, let alone endorse it.
Zbigniew Brzezinski also denounced the synagogue
While Reagan is being convicted of guilt by associa-
bombing when asked for comment.
tion with the Evangelicals, Carter is remembered as hav-
Reagan also has been assailed as courting racists by
ing told his Bible class at the First Baptist Church in
alluding to "state's rights" at a rally in the South but
Washington on April 23, 1977, according to The Philadel-
overlooked is that the staunchest supporters of "state's
See- Sto ry on Page 14
phia Inquirer, that "He (Jesus Christ) had directly chal-
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1/Veizman's
Stumping
for Carter
Draws Fire
Vox Populi — America's Electorate Will Judge Them Tuesday
John Anderson
. Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan