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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.