Some CP supporters may have been more than a little unhappy about running a candidate whose name appeared around town on red. white and blue striped campaign stickers. But they were really squirming in their seats October 20, when at the PBP's Borough of Manhattan Community College rally they heard with their own ears McDonald's anti-Semitic ravings. There was no mistaking his racist message. Less than a minute into his speech, McDonald began ranting that "It's a travesty that in the city of New York. we are about to elect three white, Jewish males to run the city-wide offices of this city." There was plenty of muttering in the heavily Jewish audience, and one elderly woman yelled out "They're three millionaires!" McDonald was undeterred. He went on to denounce the makeup of the Board of Estimate for including "Ed Koch, Andy Stein, Jay Goldin, Donald Manes, Howard Golden, Stanley Simon...." And after this recitation of Jewish names he attacked real estate developers for throwing old women on the street "so they can get a few more shekels."

William Shakesman: The third line is pretty indisputable. A lot of Reform and Conservative Jews intermarry with other ethnicities and become less attached to a Jewish identity. The Orthodox communities have very high birthrates with very little intermarriage, so I think the political character of the American Jewish community (if we continue to use the Halakhic definition of who is a Jew) will be very different.