The Southern Israelite. (Augusta, Ga.) 1925-1986, November 07, 1986, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextThe Voice of Atlanta's Jewish Community Since 1925 Vol. LXII Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, November 7, 1986 Election ’86 No. 45 > 5 H ~» rc —i m ^ cn n I—H DO 5> -< • cr O O T> T> Jewish candidates: You win some, you lose son I by Joseph Polakoff TSI’s Washington correspondent WASHINGTON—Incumbent Jewish Sens. Arlen Specter and Warren Rudman, both Republi cans, easily won re-election to second terms from Pennsylvania and New Hampshire, respectively, but three other Jewish candidat.es for Senate seats lost in Tuesday’s national election. The results left the number of Jewish senators intact, four Re publicans and four Democrats. Senate hopefuls, Republican Kenneth Kramer in Colorado and Democrats Harriet Woods in Missouri and Mark Green in New York trailed opponents. In the closest of these contests, Kramer lost by less than 1 per cent, receiving 48.8 percent to 49.6 percent received by Demo crat Tim Wirth. The competing congressmen for the seat being vacated by Democratic Sen. Gary Hart were 16,000 votes apart out of more than 1.2 million cast. Returns in Missouri showed Kit Bond defeating Woods by 67,000 votes out of about 1,400,000 cast. President Reagan campaigned for both Kramer and Bond. In New York, Green, the sur prising winner of the Democratic nomination, lost to incumbent Republican senator, Alfonse D’Amato, who easily won a sec ond term. D’Amato picked up 57 Peaceful protest planned by AJF at Ga. Tech game A peaceful protest to heighten awareness of the unfair treatment of Soviet Jews by the Russian government will take place out side the Georgia Tech Coliseum during the Georgia Tech vs. U.S.S.R. basketball game on Wednesday, Nov. 12, according to Jack Horowitz, chairman of the Atlanta Jewish Federation’s World-Wide Jewish AffairsCom- mittee. Aleksandr Kushnir, an ex-refus- nik who is now living in Israel, will be in Atlanta for the effort. Kushnir’s visit is part of an offi cial tour of the United States on behalf of the Soviet Jewry move ment. The Federation will provide shuttle transportation to and from the march beginning at 7:30 p.m. at the Federation building and leaving the Coliseum at 9 p.m. The march is not intended to protest the game itself, Horowitz said, but it is another community effort to draw attention to the efforts of Soviet Jews to repa triate to Israel and to live freely as Jews. Reservations for the shuttle can be made by calling the Fed eration at 873-1661. Arlen Specter percent of the votes. The total of Jewish congress men in the coming 100th Con gress, which convenes in January, may recede to 29, one less than in the present Congress and two below the record of 31 in the 98th Congress. Of the incumbents, 28 were re-elected and two, both Republicans, did not run for another term since they sought Senate seats. Maryland, with large Jewish populations in Baltimore and Washington suburbs, elected its first Jewish congressman in 16 years in Democrat Benjamin Cardin of Baltimore, who is the speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates. His wife is Sho- shana Cardin, president of the Council of Jewish Federations. The last Jewish congressman from Maryland was Sam Friedel, who lost in 1970 to Parren Mitchell. Mitchell, who is retiring from Congress this year, is a former chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus. The House total of Jewish congressmen may stay at 30 if Democrat Rosemary Pooler edges out incumbent Republican George Wortley in upstate New York. Wortley’s office here told The Southern Israelite that he was leading by 392 votes out of more than 160,000 cast at all the pre cincts in the district, but the count of 5,000 absentee ballots will not be completed for a week. “It is not a decisive victory yet,” Wortley said. Pooler, 48, resigned from the New York State Public Service Commission as a consu mer advocate to run for Con gress in the district largely domi nated by Syracuse. Specter, seeking his second term in what was perceived would be a difficult campaign against the liberal Democratic congressman, Bob Edgar, won going av. ay, tak Gertrude S. White, national president of Women’s American ORT, will open the organization’s Warren Rudman ing 57 percent of the more than 3,200,000 votes cast. A former Philadelphia district attorney, Specter, who is 56, received slightly over 1,862,000 votes, Since both candidates are from the Philadelphia area, Specter’s stronghold, campaign perceptions were that Edgar could defeat Specter by dividing the Philadel phia returns. In reporting Edgar’s defeat, the Washington Post said, 16th National Board Conference Sunday afternoon at the Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel with the “For 12 years, Bob Ed$ supposed to lose, but ne' It started in 1974 when t Bob Edgar, a young Me minister, anti-poverty activist anu political naif, became so outraged by Watergate that he declared himself a Democratic candidate for Congress in a white suburban district of Philadelphia (that had elected nothing but Republicans since before the Civil War). He drew 55 percent of the vote.” In 1984, Edgar, who is 43, won by 412 votes as Reagan swept the area but the Edgar miracle, as it has come to be known, the Post said, “met its match in the unlikely form of Specter, a lackluster but hardworking politician, once considered one of the Senate’s most endangered freshmen.” Former Congresswoman Bella Abzug, seeking to return to the House after an absence of 10 years, lost to Republican Joseph DioGuardi, who received a second term with 78,169 votes to the strongly liberal Abzug’s 64,430. keynote address. Approximately 700 women are scheduled to attend the confer ence. Delcy Harber, local arrange ments chairman, said, “We have nearly 200 local ORT members who have volunteered to help make their fellow delegates feel at home with our ‘Southern Hospitality.’” In addition to White’s address, the Sunday afternoon meeting will include presentation of awards for 1985-86 financial oversubscription. The plenary session will be fol lowed by Share Fair, a new pro ject that encourages each region, area council and chapter-at-large to develop a visual display that depicts their area's most successful activity during the past year. Sunday evening, Reese Feld- See ORT, page 25. THIS WEEK Anne Frank Center opposes federal court ruling 12 Ben-Gurions Zionist vision.. .13 Soviet official talks religion to Atlantans 32 Arts & Entertainment ... .22.23 Business 24 Obituaries 27 Classified 28 10 & 25 years ago 31 Historical photographs such as this one are part of a centennial exhibit at Ahavath Achim Synagogue. Above, the late Max Cuba (left) hands a souvenir brick from the congregation's Washington Street home to the late Abe Goldstein. The building's cornerstone, along with that of the original Gilmer Street location (right), is ready to be moved to the new location. For more on the exhibit, see pages 16 and 17. Gertrude S. White set to open conference of Women’s ORT c / T uu\m;uaimv\ kau CHRIST INF C BROWN GA NEWSPAPFR project