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Boris &rotor's
`Between You
and Me'
Editor-in-Chief
Emeritus, JTA
(Copyright 1981, JTA, Inc.)
LOSERS AND WINNERS: There are six Jewish
members in the new U.S: Senate and 29 in the House of
Representatives — one Senator less and five Congressmen
more than in the 96th Congress. Most of them are not
known nationally to Jews throughout the country. In fact,
some of the members of the House are not even known to
many Jews in the larger communities where they were
elected.
Unlike their parents and,grandparents, who voted for
Jewish candidates to Congress because they considered al.
important to have a larger Jewish representation ther ?
,
Jewish voters of the third generation lay no particular
stress on whether the candidate is Jewish although the
Jewish identity of the candidate is still important to many
of them. They vote on the merits of the candidate — on his
attitude to problems affecting not only Jews but general life
in the country. Naturally, the attitude of the candidate
toward Israel plays a role in the Jewish voting for any
candidate, Jew or non-Jew. .
Three popular Jewish Senators were not returned to
the Senate in the elections last November, but two new
ones have been elected. The three are Abraham Ribicoff, a
Democrat who chose not to run for re-election in Con- .-
neticut; Richard Stone, Florida Democrat who lost in Flori-
da's Democratic primary; and Jacob Javits, a Republican
who lost in New York's Republican primary but received
more than 500,000 votes on the Liberal Line — not enough
however to beat Republican candidate Alfonse D'Amato.
The two newly-elected Jewish Senators are Arlen Specter,
, a Philadelphia Republican, the first Jew ever to be elected
to the Senate from Pennsylvania; and Warren Rudman, a
IZepublican from New Hampshire who formerly served as
' State Attorney General.
FOCUS ON METZENBAUM: With Ribicoff and
Javits — who have played a pivotal role in assuring the
strength of the U.S. commitment to strong support for Is-
rael — no longer in the Seriate, Sen. Howard Metzen-
baum (D-Ohio) seems to be destined to become the most
popular Jewish Senator. He is one of a handful of Senators
who have been asked to serve on four major committees in
the 96th Congress. He replaced Sen. Edward Kennedy
(D-Mass.) as the ranking Democrat on the important antit-
rust, monopoly and business rights subcommittee of the
Judiciary Committee, and served on the Energy Commit-
tee. He also became a leading voice on the Budget and
Labor and Human Resources Committees. He is, naturally,
strongly pro-Israel.
There are also the three other Jewish Senate incum-
bents: Carl Levin (D-Mich.), Edward Zorinsky (D-Neb.) and
Rudy Boschwitz, (R-Minn.). However, Metzenbaum has a
record of ranking the third among all members of the Se-
nate in supporting liberal viewpoints. His record is 84 per-
cent. Second to him among the ,Jewish Senators is Levin
with 74 percent, while Javits was the third with 63 percent.
The records of the other J Jewish Senators — as reported
by the liberal Americans for Democratic Action — were
Ribicoff 53 percent, Boschwitz and Zorinsky, each 21 per-
cent.
Since his election to the Senate in 1976 — when he
defeated Senator Robert Taft, Jr. -- Metzenbaum estab-
lished himself as one of the leading consumer advocates. He
introduced an amendment to increase budget authority in
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fiscal years 1980, 1981 and 1982 for nutritional programs
for older Americans. His amendment was approved 68-21.
Because of these efforts he received an award from the
Consumers Federation of America and from the National
Council of Senior Citizens.
HIS JEWISH RECORD: Metzenbaum — a promi-
nent Cleveland attorney, chairman of the Board of Interna-
tional Telephone and Telegraph Consumer Services, and
chairman of a chain of suburban newspapers — is a com-
plete product of the organized Jewish community of Cleve-
land. He has been intimately associated all his adult life
with the Cleveland Jewish Federation and its agencies. To
use his own words, he could not have achieved his political
maturity without the nourishment of his Jewish commur - '
experience. He became interested in Jewish commun
work as an active member of the Jewish Community Cen-
ter and later served as chairman of the Community Rela-
tions Committee. He is today one of the very top con-
tributors to the federation and founder of the Metzenbaum
Human Relations Fund within the federation. Nationally,
he served on the board of the National Jewish Community
Relations Advisory Council.
Jewish Troupe Offers 'Memoirs'
"From ter at the 92nd St. Y. The
NEW YORK
the Memoirs of Pontius Pi- 90-minute, one-act piece
late," a play by Eric Bently, deals with the events lead
is the current production of ing up to the crucifixion and
the American Jewish Thea- stars Albert Sinkys
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