icy against a Jewish ambassador
'__to Israel. There are dozens of
'Jewish White House staffers.
"Politically, we've come out of
the closet," Mr. Eizenstat said on
Sunday. 'That's a very significant
development for our communi-
ty.),
But the question remains:
Does that new comfort level re-
flect permanent changes in
American politics, or merely the
unique circumstances of the Clin-
ton administration?
Bill Clinton's own familiarity
and ease with the Jewish world
is unusual even within the De-
mocratic Party; the Republicans,
despite years of Jewish outreach,
lag far behind in the integration
of Jews into the party main-
stream.

-,

"Politically, we've
come out of the
closet. That's a very
significant
development for our
community."

— Stuart Eizenstat

"What's interesting about
Clinton is that he's the first pres-
ident from a generation in which
Jews are widely accepted," said
Johns Hopkins University polit-
ical scientist Benjamin Ginsberg.
"He was educated in a milieu in
which Jews were simply part of
• the environment. That's an im-
- portant factor."
Despite the influence Jewish
neo-conservatives have in the Re-
publican Party, "this political
emergence for Jews is still pri-
marily a Democratic phenome-
non," Mr. Ginsberg said.
Still, he said it is unlikely that
the nation will retreat back to to-
kenism and unspoken quotas.
•
Even partisan Democrats say
• the integration of Jews into the
political mainstream has gone
too far for that. Mr. Eizenstat,
who began his Washington ca-
reer as a junior aide in the Lyn-
don Johnson administration,
said that the Jewish communi-
ty has reached a kind of critical
mass in politics that guarantees
that many of the gains of the
"—) - Clinton years will remain, no
• matter who occupies the White
House.
"I think the change will last,"
Mr. Eizenstat said on Sunday.
"People in the middle levels will
move up in the years ahead;
younger people who are being
trained at junior levels will, in
future administrations, take
more senior positions."
That, as much as the inaugu-
ration of Bill Clinton, explained
the high spirits of many top Jew-
ish political activists who
celebrated in Washington.

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