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THE- JEWISH NEWS
JAMES D. BESSER WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT
I
t wasn't hard to gauge the
about Jews in high administra-
mood at Sunday's Jewish tion positions, or the number of
Leadership Celebration in Jews in Congress. The worry was
Washington, the main Jewish that acknowledging Jewish suc-
event in a weekend of political cesses would only reinforce the
pomp and partying.
anti-Semites who insist Jews con-
These were hardened Democ- trol everything from the Federal
rats, after all, with a lot to cel-e- Reserve Bank to sunspots.
brate. For the first time in the
In the executive branch, Jews
memory of most, an elected De- have played key roles in Demo-
mocratic president had been re- cratic administrations beginning
turned to office; Congress, while with Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
remaining in Republican hands, who included many Jews in his
was clearly backing away from "brain trust" but went to great
its experiment in Gingrichism.
lengths to keep them from being
With the administration's ac- too visible. Jimmy Carter had al-
tive help, the Middle East peace
process was back on track, pre-
serving what has become a
high-water mark in U.S.-Israel
relations. In four years, there
have been no significant con-
flicts between the Clinton ad-
ministration and the organized
Jewish community.
But there was something else
at Sunday's gathering at the
newly renovated District of Co-
lumbia Jewish Community
Center: a palpable feeling that,
with the Clinton administration,
Jews have passed an important
milestone.
'What we've seen over the
past 20 or 25 years is Jews com-
ing of age, in a political sense,"
said Stuart Eizenstat, the as-
sistant secretary of commerce
for the International Trade Ad- Bella Abzug:
ministration, and one of the hon- Celebrated involvement.
orees. "We've become much
more vocal, not just as an outside most as many Jews around the
interest group, but by integrat- Cabinet table as Bill Clinton.
ing into the system."
But the comfort level of Jew-
That was the Jewish sub- ish officialdom lagged far behind
theme to this week's inaugural the employment statistics.
extravaganza: the Jewish corn-
"Privately, people kept count,"
munity finally has transcended said a longtime Jewish activist
political tokenism and commu- attending Sunday's reception.
nal fear of too-visible participa- "But there was a feeling that we
tion. That change, more would jeopardize those gains by
evolutionary than revolutionary giving voice to them. The accre-
despite the quantum boost of the tion of Jewish political power has
Clinton years, is likely to stand taken place over two or three
the test of time.
decades, but it's only been during
Several veterans at Sunday's the Clinton administration that
reception remembered an era we've become comfortable enough
when Jewish leaders would not with our own achievements to
be so bold in celebrating their po- celebrate them openly."
litical involvement.
The idea of keeping Jewish
`Twenty years ago, there were participation out of the glare of
some politicians who felt that the public attention "is all washed
more Jews took leadership, the up," added Ms. Abzug. "This
more they'd be blamed," said for- gathering is a visible reminder of
mer Rep. Bella Abzug, who didn't that."
need to remind a reporter that
The first Clinton administra-
she was never among them. Ms. tion included six Cabinet-level of-
Abzug served in the House in the ficials who were Jewish; the
early 1970s.
president broke the informal rule
Jewish leaders and politicos limiting Jews to a single
generally avoided public talk Supreme Court seat, and the pol-