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museum to "universalize" the Holo-
caust.
Klein also was accused of misrepre-
senting the position of a key Holo-
caust Council member. •
In his second press release on the
subject, Klein cited a statement by
Holocaust scholar Deborah Lipstadt
in the Jewish Forward. Lipstadt, he
wrote, "said that Roth's Los Angeles
Times OpEd was 'odious.'"
But this week, the Emory Universi-
ty Holocaust scholar blasted Klein for
leaving out the rest of her quote; in
fact, she said, she had strongly praised
Roth's appointment and objected to
the way he was being "tarred and
feathered."
"I am appalled, absolutely
appalled," Lipstadt said. "This is the
height of intellectual dishonesty, 4)
take a quote that clearly indicated I
thought something unfair was being
done to John Roth, and to use it to
give the impression that I had criti-
cized him."
Klein defended his use of Ms. Lip-
stadt's quote.
"I very carefully stated that this is
what people are saying in response to
the Nazi-Israel analogy in his article,"
he said. "I wanted to make it clear
that it was not only ZOA that was
making the case that this was odious,
that there were Holocaust scholars
who found this odious."
This week, Holocaust Museum
officials seemed to be standing by
their man.
"Key members of the council are
fully supportive of John Roth," said
Holocaust Council Chairman Miles
Lerman. "We have no intention of
caving in to anybody. If we're con-
vinced we're on the right side of the
issue, we'll stick to it."
Coalition Seeks
Silver School Lining
In Washington, one of the first things
legislators, lobbyists and aides learn to
do is claim victory, no matter what the
final vote.
That was the drill for religious right
activists last week after House Repub-
licans couldn't muster the votes to pass
the Religious Freedom Amendment,
which would legalize sectarian prayer
in public schools and open the door to
public funding of religious institu-
tions.
Christian Coalition director Randy
Tate said that "we consider it a victory
to have had this vote, the first of its
kind in the House in 27 years."
But he failed to point out that the
measure, despite the coalition's frantic
last-minute lobbying blitz, actually did
worse than the last major school
prayer amendment, which was defeat-
ed in 1971 — before there was a
Christian Coalition.
When the vote started, members of
the coalition allied against the "Istook"
amendment, named after lead sponsor
Rep. Ernest Jim Istook, R-Okla., had
hoped for 180 nays, but when the
tally was complete, 203 legislators had
rejected the controversial measure,
dubbed the "Religious Coercion"
amendment by opponents.
Harsh lobbying
cost votes.
Every Jewish member voted against
the amendment, including both Jew-
ish Republicans — Rep. Jon Fox, R-
Pa., and Rep. Ben Gilman, R-N.Y.
The pro-Istook cause was harmed,
several analysts said, by harsh last-
minute lobbying by Christian right
groups aimed at swing lawmakers who
were not persuaded that tampering
with the First Amendment was a good
idea.
In particular, Rep. Chet Edwards,
D-Texas, was targeted with mailings
accusing him of an "anti-Christian"
bias. Several defectors from Istook
indicated that they had changed their
votes because of the strident attacks.
Jewish activists said the anti-Istook
effort was the biggest by a broad-based
Jewish coalition in years — although
they pointed out that the National
Jewish coalition, a group of Jewish
Republicans, and the Orthodox Union
sat out the fight.
Jewish activists were pleased with
Istook's defeat, but warned that the
school prayer battle is far from over.
"Getting over 200 votes was gratify-
ing and important," said Richard
Foltin, legislative director for the
American Jewish Committee. "But I'm
still very disturbed that a majority of
the House was willing to vote for an
unnecessary, dangerous change to the
Bill of Rights. That's nothing to be
sanguine about."
Foltin and others do not expect
additional school prayer amendments,
at least not in the immediate future.
But there are indications that Republi-
can lawmakers will add school prayer
language to other legislation.