Republicans this week saw their hopes lifted for a political realignment among Jewish voters, following the emergence of two new faces onto the national stage. In the battle for the late Paul Wellstone's Senate seat in Minnesota, Norm Coleman defeated former vice president Walter Mondale. In Hawaii, Linda Lingle won in the gubernatorial race, becoming the state's first GOP governor in 40 years and America's first Jewish Republican woman governor. Polls continued to show Jewish voters leaning heavily Democratic. And two strong Democratic victories, by senator-elect Frank Lautenberg in New Jersey and governor-elect Ed Rendell in Pennsylvania, seemed to balance...