applause and reaction of the audience,
Bush is still No. 2 to Gore.
Perhaps this isn't surprising.
Despite recent inroads for Jewish
Republicans, American Jews still over-
whelming vote Democratic.

Gore At Ease

Gore, who has spoken to many Jewish
audiences, did his best to show his con-
nections to the American Jewish corn-
munity by extending greetings to
AIPAC board members and acknowl-
edging personal friends in the audience.
He received a minutes-long round of
applause before he spoke a single word.
Gore also showed he has a way
with a Jewish audience.
Whether it's telling a story about
former Israeli Prime Minister David
Ben-Gurion or using a little Yiddish,
Gore seems to lose a little of his leg-
endary stiffness when he addresses a
Jewish crowd.
At the end of his speech, Gore
brought the crowd to its feet when he
said safeguarding Israel was not just
his policy, but is "in my heart, in my
conscience and in my bones and in
my soul."
Bush, who has less experience
addressing Jewish groups, did his best
to connect with the audience.
At one point he noted the tiny dis-
tance in Israel between enemy lines
and Israel's population centers before
the 1967 Six-Day War.
"I was told that before the Six-Day
War, Israel was only nine miles wide
at its narrowest. In Texas, some drive-
ways are longer than that."

Audience Reacts

Conference participant Stephen Tanner
of West Virginia said Bush sounded
pro-Israel, but most politicians do.
"If he does what he says, then we're
OK," Tanner said. He said either Gore
or Bush would be a good president as
far as their policies on Israel are con-
cerned, but Tanner still prefers Bush.
Tanner is not worried about Bush's
lack of foreign policy experience because,
he said, every president is led by advisers.
But Ariel Rubin, a 19-year-old
Dartmouth student, is concerned
about the governor's foreign policy
inexperience.
"It's easy to make promises," Rubin
said, but Bush should be more "realistic."
Roland Moskowitz, a participant
from Cleveland, finds Gore honest
and sincere.
"He's extremely knowledgeable,"
Moskowitz said. "We know where he
stands."

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