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pass in view of the expected op-
position by the business commu-
nity, and a new Congress that is
much more inclined to listen to
them.
Jews remain strongly pro-
choice. Yet the new Congress has
a clear anti-choice majority that
could roll back the liberalized reg-
ulations promulgated by the Clin-
ton administration. Jewish
organizations have worked ac-
tively against the proposed bal-
anced budget amendment, which
would significantly decrease the
federal government's ability to
respond to social needs, and in-
crease the burden on state gov-
ernments and private social
service providers such as Jewish
federations. The amendment fell
only four votes short in the last
Congress, but its prospects are
considerably brighter after the
Republican revolution.
The Jewish community may
strongly favor gun control, but
the biggest victor in last week's
election was the National Rifle
Association, which succeeded in•
defeating almost all its primary
targets.
The first showdown between
Jewish groups and the new, con-
servative Congress is almost cer-
tain to involve church-state
issues. In the last session, Jew-
ish and civil liberties groups nar-
rowly turned back a flurry of
school prayer provisions. GOP
leaders have promised to bring
the issue back as soon as Con-
gress reconvenes. And already,
incoming House Speaker Rep.
Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., is talking
about passing a constitutional
amendment allowing school
prayer by July.
The election also reinforced the
anti-foreigner undercurrent
spreading across the country.
That was the underlying message
of the passage in California of a
ballot initiative that will — if it
survives court challenges — deny
basic services to illegal immi-
grants and their children. Propo-
sition 187 does not directly affect
Jewish immigrants. But the
anger that propelled the amend-
ment to success — and the mes-
sage its passage sends to the new
Congress — will have an impact
when legislators begin to revamp
the nation's basic immigration
and refugee laws in the upcom-
ing session. And that could have
disastrous consequences for the
Jewish community if a resur-
gence of persecution in the for-
mer Soviet Union results in a
new Jewish exodus.
Studies of voters who favored
the California referendum show
that they were being driven by
an unfocused anger and resent-
ment, not by any expectation that
the referendum might solve the
problem of illegal immigration.
Jewish activists worry that when
that kind of scapegoating is in-
corporated into official policy, all
minorities are at risk. 0
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