When Ted Deutch, the former congressman who now heads the American Jewish Committee, broke the news Wednesday that Joe Lieberman had died, many in his audience — a group of Philadelphia Jewish day school supporters — gasped. Deutch went on to praise Lieberman, the former senator, as a model of a proudly Jewish public servant. But he... […]
When Rabbi Daniel Cohen was writing his book about courage, he couldn’t think of a better subject for a chapter than his congregant, Sen. Joseph Lieberman. Lieberman, who died Wednesday at 82, eventually wrote the foreword for the book, What Will They Say About You When You’re Gone? And Cohen, the spiritual leader of Congregation... […]