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Local rabbis will be mentioning Clinton
in their sermons, but most hope to focus
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IV

ith Independent Coun-
sel Ken Starr's report
posted on the Internet
last week, it's hard to
avoid overloading on news of the
White House sex scandal that may
cost President Bill Clinton his job.
High Holiday services this year may
offer something of a respite, but —
with their focus on repentance — will
draw inevitable allusions to the presi-
dent's behavior. Although most local
rabbis are insisting they won't let Clin-
ton, Lewinsky and company dominate
their sermons, they do expect the
scandal's ethical implications to be
mentioned a little bit.
"I have a feeling everyone's going to
touch on the Clinton scandal some-
what," said Temple Shir Shalom's
Rabbi Dannel Schwartz. While the
president's extra-marital affair and
alleged perjury will not be featured in
Schwartz's sermons, he anticipates
congregants will ask about it during a
question-and-answer session he facili-
tates for the holidays.
Congregation Shaarey Zedek's Rabbi
Irwin Groner, who usually delivers
High Holiday sermons to an audience

of 3,500, is decidedly not interested in
letting the president's shenanigans
dominate the sermon this year. "There
may be some reference to Clinton, but
that's not what the sermon's about," he
said.
Alternately, Groner plans to focus
his. Rosh Hashanah sermon on Jewish
identity.
"My thesis is that, for the first time
in the history of the Diaspora, the
Jewish people have been granted free-
dom and opportunity beyond that
what any prior generation received,"
he said. "This enables us to share with
and offer America those distinctive
values which can greatly enrich and
enhance the quality of life for every-
one. "
His Yom Kippur sermon will
address the issue of fulfilling promises.
Rabbi Paul Yedwab of Temple Israel
said he is thinking about addressing
the Clinton scandal and is also explor-
ing the Daimler-Chrysler automotive
company merger from a Jewish per-
spective, but has not yet decided
which, if any, from-the-headlines topic
may surface in his sermon.
"I've been working on issues of jus-
tice and mercy and both [Clinton and
Daimler-Chrysler] are very relevant,"
he said. "But I will only speak about a