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...world doesn't get more here and now than a presidential campaign. So the next few months will go beyond merely testing how well Lieberman can conduct a full campaign when he can't ride in a car or talk on a telephone on the Jewish Sabbath, which runs from sunset Friday to sunset Saturday. What will really be tested is what happens to Gore's campaign with the addition of a man like Lieberman, a Democrat who was happy to mention God more than a dozen times in the first minute of that Nashville rally. Gore really did gamble...
...always had the same holidays. They'll be the same ones now. We're going to be very creative in the ways we move forward. The Sabbath is something we have always observed. We may be spending it in various cities throughout the country. We've always felt we are observant, traditional. I've never gotten into this labeling of Orthodox, frankly. The press has gotten into that more than us. We've just always been traditional and observant. That's an important way to describe it because it's more inclusive of so many different ways of celebrating...
...used to walk to synagogue on the Sabbath, and very often her Christian neighbors would pass her on the street and say 'Good Sabbath,'" Lieberman said. "That was a source of endless delight and gratitude...
...more obvious explanation is at hand. In a country where the vast majority of Jews are Reform, Conservative or non-practicing, Lieberman is Orthodox. As even Americans who have never met a Jew in their lives know by now, Lieberman keeps kosher, does not campaign on the Sabbath and walks home from the Capitol on Saturdays. Practically alone among Jewish politicians, he laces his speeches with references to his faith--at the official announcement rally in Nashville, Lieberman opened with a quote from Chronicles and gave repeated thanks to God, "maker of all miracles"--a technique more familiar...
...Orthodox Jew, Lieberman takes pains to avoid campaigning on the Sabbath, or from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday. He and his wife, Hadassah, have four children and live in New Haven, Conn...