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lengers, according to Jeff Stier, a
vice chair of the political group.
The group has given $1,000 to
Rep. Dick Zimmer, R-N.J., who
is running for the Senate seat be-
ing vacated by Sen. Bill Bradley,
a Democrat, and $500 to Rep. Pe-
ter King, R-N.Y.
"One of the reasons we're sup-
porting King is that he's been so
strong on the [Louis] Farrakhan
issue," Mr. Stier said. "It shows
that Israel is not the only issue
we are concerned about."
The group also gave a contri-
bution to Michael Benjamin, a
neophyte Republican candidate
who will face long odds in trying
to unseat Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-
N.Y., a Jewish Democrat.
And the group is contributing
to the campaign of Sen. Mitch
McConnell, R-Ky., who may be
facing a Democratic surge in his
state.
The Young Jewish Leadership
PAC has about 65 members,
mostly from the New York area;
in general, the group plans to con-
centrate its giving in districts
with few Jewish voters "to max-
imize our impact and find our
special niche," said Mr. Stier, a
student at Cardozo Law School.
"Generally, our members are
people who haven't felt comfort-
able expressing themselves in the
left-leaning Jewish organiza-
tions," Mr. Stier said. 'We're giv-
ing them a home, where they can
come out of the closet as Jewish
Republicans." _•

GOP Platform
And Buchanan

Conservative columnist Pat
Buchanan, a realist despite his
pitchfork rhetoric, has stopped
talking about winning the GOP
presidential nomination in Au-
gust; instead, the right-wing con-
tender is warning Republican

Pat Buchanan:
Will be ignored by Dole.

leaders that his strong showing
in early primaries and his loyal
followers give him the right to
play a major role in shaping their
party's 1996 platform.
But according to a leading Jew-

ish political scientist, Sen. Bob
Dole, the Republican nominee, is -
unlikely to concede much to the
Buchanan wing of the party.
"His only real threat is that
he'll run as an independent," said
Johns Hopkins University polit-
ical scientist Benjamin Ginsberg.
"But the threat is really very
small; I don't see any way he
could get significant support for
such a bid."
Dole forces, he said, "will prob-
ably ignore Buchanan and his de-
mands. The feeling will be, if you
give him an inch, he'll try to take
San Diego [the site of the Repub-
lican convention in August].
That's the way they'll approach
it."
And what about Mr. Dole's vice
presidential choice?
Most politicos expect a Repub-
lican governor from the Midwest
to get the nod, possibly Gov. John
Engler of Michigan.
But Mr. Ginsberg still is
putting his money on Gen. Colin
Powell, the former chair of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff who decided
against a presidential bid.
"It would be impossible for
Clinton to beat a Dole-Powell tick-
et," he said. "Because of that,
Powell is under tremendous pres-
sure to accept the nomination."
Even Christian conservatives
will fall in line behind a Powell
nomination, he said, when they
see that it's the only way to guar-
antee Mr. Clinton's defeat.

Better IDEA
From Agudath

The Clinton administration may
be gaining sympathy for the
plight of private schools — in-
cluding the expanding network
of Jewish institutions.
Recently, the Department of
Education issued a letter clari-
fying the agency's position on a
critical Supreme Court decision
limiting the ability of states to
provide needed services in
parochial schools.
The Felton decision is the one
that resulted in the Kiryas Joel
controversy, it specifies that state
authorities cannot provide ser-
vices such as remedial education
on-site at parochial schools. That
decision led the township of
Kiryas Joel to set up its own pub-
lic school district to allow for
state services to handicapped
youngsters.
Now, DOE officials have made
it clear that they support the pro-
vision of such services, and that
they will interpret Felton nar-
rowly, to apply only to remedial
education programs, not to oth-
er educational services.
And the department has
asked for information about oth-
er situations where children in
religious schools are not getting
necessary services because of
church-state rulings.

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