PROFILE OF A PARTNER
SHELDON STERN
Democrat
PROFESSION: Ophthalmologist; senior attending
physician, Sinai Hospital
Continued from Page 7
ONLY HAS EYES FOR: Wife Jessie, childien Gayle and Jeremy, one granddaughter
TAKES PRIDE IN: Award as Outstanding Teacher, Sinai Hospital Department of
Ophthalmology—four years in a row.
ALSO LOVES: Downhill skiing, tennis, golf, art history, classic cars
EDUCATION: Indiana University School of Medicine; active in college Hillel
ALLIED JEWISH CAMPAIGN ROLE: Co-Chairman, Professional Health Division
WHY HE'S A CAMPAIGN PARTNER: "This is an exceptional, dynamic
Jewish community. Working for the Campaign makes me feel that
I'm part of the Jewish community, that I'm contributing something
worthwhile."
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Friday, March 20, 1987
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
them wrong, as did the 1986
their political persuasion..
Congressional elections in
Here again we see why the
which Jews again voted
Democratic Party maintains
overwhelmingly for Demo-
its strength in the Jewish
cratic candidates.
community. Since Israel's
I think that there are two
creation in 1948, Democrats
very good reasons why
in Congress have led the
American Jews have stayed
battle for U.S. aid for Israel.
with the Democrats. The first
During the Carter and Re-
involves domestic policy. The
agan administrations, it was
second involves Israel.
Senate and House Democrats
It is true — as Republicans
who, for the most part, op-
point out — that most (but
posed the sale of sophisti-
not all) Jews have worked to
cated arms to Saudi Arabia
escape the poverty they
and Jordan. It was Republi-
endured as new immigrants
cans that not only provided
to this country in the late
the margin allowing
Nineteenth and early Twen-
President Reagan to sell
tieth centuries. But that does
AWACS to Saudi Arabia; but
not mean that Jews have for-
also the margin allowing
gotten what it was like to be
President Carter to sell F-15s
poor, to be hungry, to be vic-
to the Saudis. (That was just
tims of discrimination. "Re-
about the only time when
member, we were slaves in
Republicans in Congress ral-
Egypt," the Haggadah tells
lied around President Car-
us. That injunction to re-
ter!)
member where we came from
I do not argue that all Jews
— no matter where we may
should be Democrats. Nor do
be now — keeps Jews from
I maintain that there are no
abandoning other groups
strong supporters of Jews and
struggling to make it in
Israel in the Republican
America. And it keeps us
Party. Of course, there are.
from abandoning the political
We need friends in both par-
party that helped us make it.
ties and I'm glad we have
American Jews remain a
them. However, it is easy to
tiny minority in this country,
see why most Jews continue
a minority that thrives
to vote Democratic, as they
largely because there is no
have for over 50 years. The
state religion here. The
Democratic Party has been a
heterogenous United States
secure home for the Ameri-
freed us from the discrimina-
can Jewish community. There
tion that was our lot
is no reason for that to
everywhere else in the Dias-,
change.
pora. However, there is no w
growing attempt to impose a
state religion on Americans
Soviets May
Candidates for public offs ce .
attacked because they are
Release POC
not Christian — or not th
e
Lifshitz
right kind of Christian.
Unfortunately, the Repu b-
New York (JTA) — The wife
lican Party has become th e
of a Prisoner of Conscience
home for this exclusive ten -
has been told that her hus-
dency. The 1984 Republica n
band will be released soon.
convention — in which eac h
Lynn Singer, executive direc-
delegate was given a copy o
the New Testament - f - for of the Long Island Corn-
mittee for Soviet Jewry,
typified this dangerous trend •
reported last Monday that
So did the Republican Senat
Anya Lifshitz spoke with an
Campaign Committee's radi e
official of the Procurator
ads last November, whic
General's Office in Moscow
made specific appeals t
and was told that her hus-
southern voters as "Chris
band, Vladimir, was to be
tians." And at the Michiga
sent home from Kamchatka
Republican Party's conven
labor camp.
tion in February, Pa t
Robertson's fundamentalis t
Vladimir Lifshitz, a
forces dominated the debat e
44-year-old electrical engineer
on issues and captured new
and mathematician, was ar-
positions of party leadership.
rested in January 1986 in his
Obviously Jews have to
home town of Leningrad, and
worry about this trend. If left
sentenced to three years in
unchecked it could lead to a
labor camp for "anti-Soviet
situation where Jews are re-
slander." The charges were
legated to second-class citi-
based on letters he wrote to
zenship. Is it any wonder that
the West describing his situa-
American Jews feel alienated
tion
as a refusenik.
from Republicans — and
Anya Lifshitz told Singer
much more at home with
by phone from Leningrad
Democrats?
that Yuri Ovcharov, who
The security of Israel has
works in the Prosecutor's
to be of paramount concern to
KGB department number 13
American Jews, whatever
Robert H. Naftaly is director
of the Michigan Department
of Managment and Budget.
handling so-called KGB
crime, said that her hus-
band's case has been recon-
sidered and a decision
reached to free him