Word: jew
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...sensation surrounding the elevation of Senator Joseph Lieberman, an Orthodox Jew, to a national ticket lies less in the noun than in the adjective: Jews in American public life are old news; Orthodox Jews...
...said, "That's not part of me...I exclude that," Christopher told the New York Times. But other Gore advisers are cagier on the subject. "We do a lot of research about a lot of different people," says one, "but it wasn't like, Will they vote for a Jew?" It's a minor issue, because even if the campaign did poll the question, it wouldn't necessarily trust people to respond honestly. The latest TIME/CNN poll asked voters if Lieberman's Judaism will "make people in your area" more likely or less likely to vote for the Democratic ticket...
Nathan? Bennett, a devout Roman Catholic, knew that Lieberman, an Orthodox Jew deeply immersed in the Bible, did not need to be reminded that Nathan was the prophet sent by God to upbraid King David for inappropriate behavior with Bathsheba. "I thought [Lieberman] was the closest thing in the Senate to an Old Testament prophet," says Bennett...
...Jersey. There's a funny political symmetry at work this year. The Republicans threw a Democratic Convention, all about compassion and tolerance and inclusiveness. Now the Democrats have a vice-presidential candidate who talks about God as eagerly as any evangelical Republican. Lieberman describes himself as an "observant Jew." Those are words that just begin to describe how thoroughly he tries to match his understandings of the world to his understandings of the Bible. Lieberman is not only the first Jewish vice-presidential candidate but also an Orthodox Jew--or "Modern Orthodox," to use the term that describes Jews steeped...
...tale is a typically dispiriting take on American Jewish dysfunction from Samuel G. Freedman's new book Jew vs. Jew (Simon & Schuster; 384 pages; $26). But to the initiated, its message is more specific: the angst of belonging to the group so often stuck in the middle of such rifts. Gottesman is a Modern Orthodox Jew. Just like Joe Lieberman...