Joe Lieberman

Joe Lieberman’s religiously promiscuous campaign

By Mark Silk — March 28, 2024
(RNS) — A missed opportunity for the first Jew on a major-party presidential ticket.

Why are Jewish leaders reluctant to endorse Bernie Sanders? (COMMENTARY)

By Mark Silk — March 9, 2016
(RNS) After Michigan, will his candidacy resonate in the Jewish community?

Considering Bernie Sanders’ Jewishness (COMMENTARY)

By Jeffrey S. Gurock — February 16, 2016
(RNS) Expect a debate among American Jews over the Jewishness of a candidate who does not speak openly about his religious or ethnic roots.

COMMENTARY: A history of discrimination earns President Obama a right to speak

By Jeffrey Weiss — July 22, 2013
(RNS) Imagine that Joe Lieberman had been elected president. And that in a moment of crisis, he felt compelled to explain that some American Jewish support for Israel is partly explained by the Jewish cultural memory of the Holocaust. Would he be accused of whatever the Jewish equivalent of “race-baiting” might be?
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