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I live in south Florida (the infamous Palm Beach County), where we have a large number or retired Jews, as you probably know.

I have a good friend here who is a financial advisor with quite a few Jewish clients, and he is always telling me stories - their hatred for Bush is unbelievable.

We just don't understand it. Neither do they. Sometimes he gets an opportunity to ask them why they feel the way they do, and they actually have no real answer. It's pretty sad.

I think I have an answer. I watched an Ed Koch speech before a Long Island Synagogue on Public Access TV tonight. He was almost on his knees begging them to vote for Bush. One man rose to ask a question. The questioner feared that Bush was going to make America a Christian state, that he threatened the separation of Church and State that all Jews in America were grateful for.

This is the root of the problem. In my own experience as a public school teacher in NYC the emotions i have encountered as an open Catholic range from amusement, to concern, to fear. This will never go away. Jews in America actually do believe it can happen here and that the Democratic partyhas been their sole defense.