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rs NEIGHBORHOOD mis tm mm MONDALE'S strong showing among Jews, however, couldn't compensate for his weakness among most of the other voting groups in the state Reagan carried the state with 54 of the over-all votes. Still, local Democratic leaders such as Gov. Cuomo and Mayor Koch can find consolation in Mondale's showing among Jews. It indicates that there has been no dent Reagan by a better than 2-to-l ratio, according to analysts for the American Jewish Committee, a Manhattan-based human relations agency. Of the estimated 5.7 million Jews in America, 1.1 million live in the city's five boroughs.

And 27 of the city's Jews live in Manhattan. In New York State, Mondale received from 63 to 70 of the Jewish vote, based on exit polls conducted by the television networks. Convent. widespread or lasting detection of Jewish voters to the Republican ranks. Four years ago, many Jews throughout the country bolted the Democratic ticket led by then-President Jimmy Carter to support Reagan, who received 39 of the Jew ish vote compared to 44 for Carter and 15 for independ ent candidate John Anderson.

Republicans waged a strong campaign among Jewish voters in the recent Presidential race, particularly in New York City. They had hoped to retain or increase the Jewish votes Reagan had won four years ago. BUT THE results indicate the 1980 defection was an aberration prompted by widespread dissatisfaction with Carter and his Middle Eastern policies, rather than by any lasting shift to the GOP or fundamental change in the political attitudes of Jews In a new national survey conducted for the A-J-C. by Dr. Steven Cohen of Bran deis University, only 12 of the Jews identified them selves as Republicans, com pared to who said they were Democrats and 31 who said they were independents, Cohen, who disclosed his findings this week at the A.J.C.'s headquarters, 105 K.

56th said that permanently defecting Democratic Jews are more likely to be come independents than He publicans, his study noted Cohen's survey of 959 Jews found that many still consider themselves "outsid ers" in American society and that 77 of the over all sam pie think that anti-Semitism may become a serious prob lem in this country. ASKED whether they agreed or disagreed with the statement that "Virtually all positions of influence in America are open to Jews," 58 disagreed, 31 agreed, and 117( weren't sure On specific issues, Cohen found that: 63 of the Jews favor the death penalty; 63-oppose tuition tax-credits for private and parochial schools; 61. also oppose similar tax credits for chil dren in Jewish day-care schools; 90 support gun control laws; 81 support government financed abortions for poor women; 70 oppose a moment of silent meditation each day in public schools; 69 favor the U.S. remaining in the United Na tions; and 48 agreed that it's good that the government protects the rights of un popular groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan, Nazis, and Communists. By FRANK LOMBARDI Like their counterparts elsewhere in the country, the Jewish voters of New York City reaffirmed their historic support for the Democratic Party in last week's presidential election.

With the notable exception of some Orthodox Jews, most Jewish voters across the country supported Walter F. Mondale over Presi The controversial Little Sisters By JOAN SHEPARD The Landmarks Preservation Commission, preoccupied with a controversial request for landmark status for an East Side convent, has postponed discussion of a preservation plan for the City Center until next Tuesday's executive session. The developer of a proposed 69-story mixed commercial-residential building next to the City Center must offer a plan that includes preserving the City Center, a city landmark. The developer, W. 56th St.

Associates, has agreed to purchase a minimum of $10 million worth of air rights from the City Center in order to erect the proposed tower next to and above the landmark. IN RETURN FOR other zoning bonuses, the builder is required to preserve the landmark. The commission must approve a certificate of III CoiiiEnissio Hospital meeting The Community Board of Harlem Hospital will hold its annual public meeting at 6 p.m. Monday in the hospital auditorium at 135th St. and Lenox Ave.

Child's play The Police Athletic League's Children's Theater of Public School 61 will perform in a production entitled, "The Nutcracker and the Mouse Queen," at 1 1 :30 a.m., next Saturday at B. Altman's department store, eighth floor, at 34th St. and Fifth Ave. The young actors will use drama, dance, mime, and song in the production, which was adapted by Kitty Kirby, the P.A.L.'s director of performing arts. It will feature solo ballet pieces; The Waltz otthe Flowers;" and Arabian, Japanese, and Spanish dancers in traditional costumes', as well as the battle of the Mouse King's army against the Nutcracker and his soldiers.

Admission is free. Future talk 'The Future of Religion Prospects for the 21st Century, "will be discussed by Pace University Prof. William Barrett in the school's Hayes Library Theater on the White Plains Campus tonight at 7:30. The lecture is free and open to the public. Poetry reading Poets Samuel Menashe and Joyce Brown will read from their works in The Pomegranate Series of Readers and Writers session beginning at 8:30 p.m.

today at the Rrverrun Bookstore in Hastings. Drama offered The Stumbler's Run," an original play by Manhattanville College student Charles McGrath, will be presented tonight and tomorrow night at the school's Brownson Hall Little Theater in Purchase. Art gallery opens The inaugural exhibition of the new Lehman College Art Gallery opens today with the installation of Alexander Cal-der's Red Gongs and other major works not currently shown to the public. The gallery is located in the college's Fine Arts Building on Bedford Park Blvd. West in the Bronx.

si eyes convent DAN CRONIN DAILY NFWS asset," Sister Maureen O'Keefe told the commission. "Most of the poor are above 96th she said, ing in the 1950s, the community was filled with low income people in tenements. Now the area is undergoing gentrification. Councilwoman Carol Maloney (D-Manhattan) was also opposed the landmark plan. Maloney, who represents part of Harlem, said the Sisters were desperately needed in the area.

Councilman Robert Dry-foos spoke in favor of de signating the building because of its architecture. "It is rare to find in one structure the confluence of architecture and style which mark so appropriately the purpose of the convent and its historical significance to New York City," he said. But William Delahanty, a retired architect, told the commission he was opposed to the designation, calling the building a "monstrosity." appropriateness for the tower. The City Center air rights issue was on the agenda last Tuesday, but the Commission didn't get a chance to talk about it because of a controversial plan to get land-' mark designation for the Convent of the Little Sisters of the Assumption. Upper East Side activists are seeking the designation for the Victorian Gothic building on Lexington Ave.

and 81st St. to block its de molition to make way for a 17-story building. HOWEVER, THE nuns want to sell the building, which they say could bring in $7.2 million. The landmark designation would prevent a buyer from changing the building's exterior without the Landmarks Commission's approval. The sisters want to move to 426 E.

119th where they have another building. "The property is our only.