Two suburban Detroit communities elected Jewish Mayors Tuesday, both of them women. Ida Eisenseld won the mayoralty race in Mt. Clemens and Charlotte Rothstein was the winner in Oak Park.
Mrs. Rothstein has been involved in Oak Park politics for 20 years. She was elected in a write-in campaign following the death of former Mayor David Sheperd. Oak Park has a population of 33,000, a substantial proportion of it Jewish. But there are only 300 Jews in Mt. Clemens out of a population of 21,000.
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