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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