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By Goldfein
is not easy working for a Jewish vice presidential
inding a certain symbol on a food package would be
candidate.
one way a person keeping kosher might know that
. Early last week, Sen. Joseph Lieberman's cam-
the food is "okay" to purchase. What is that symbol?
1: paign scheduler was scratching his head: How could
he find a synagogue in the rural midwest where the
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answer with the help of some Democratic Jewish consul-
tants and a small-town Wisconsin synagogue.
The campaign first contacted the major Jewish rabbini-
cal organizations for synagogues in Wisconsin and Iowa
A beet farmer once told a friend,
— and close-by hotels — located along the Mississippi
River route where Vice President Al Gore and his running "This job's not one I'd recommend.
You struggle and toil
mate Lieberman campaigned over the weekend.
I
For
months in the soil,
The campaign discovered Congregation Sons of
And
wind up with borsht in the end!"
Abraham in La Crosse, Wis., where Gore and Lieberman
Martha Jo Fleischmann
campaigned last Friday.
Rabbi Saul Prombaum, who leads the 45-family
(idiomatic) nothing
Conservative shul, founded in 1905, was delighted to wel-
(literal)
beet or cabbage soup
come the vice-presidential entourage. "When you live in a
small town, you're very grateful for the opportunity to
interact with the larger Jewish world," said the rabbi.
His wife baked some kosher food for Lieberman, and
additional provisions were brought in from Postville,
"We came to Detroit young (he 28, she 25), and grew up
Iowa, where the Lubavitch movement has a kosher
here professionally and in service to the Jewish people. No
slaughterer.
matter where we go in our lives, we will always have a con-
Rabbi Prombaum was even more delighted when the ser-
nection to Detroit — our home."
vice attracted 75 people, about double the usual number.
— Yael Weil, wife of Rabbi Steven
Lieberman attended the service with his wife, Hadassah;
Weil, at their community farewell
his 33-year-old son, Matthew; 31-year-old daughter,
at Yeshivat Akiva in Southfield. He
Rebecca; and their 12-year-old daughter, Hana.
now leads Beth Jacob Congregation
The Connecticut senator even gave an interpretation of
in Beverly Hills, Calif
the week's Torah portion, Ekev, in which he argued that peo-
ple kept Shabbat not just because they fear God, but for
"At the end of the day, Joe
themselves as well. "It was a magic moment for us. We don't
Lieberman will be judged as an
have things like this," the rabbi said.
individual and not by the fact
As for Tipper Gore's birthday party?
that he goes to shul or doesn't go
According to sources, Lieberman, who flew to Iowa
shul."
after Shabbat ended, was a half-hour late. ❑
— Abraham Foxman, national
executive director of the Anti-
— Peter Ephross/JTA Abraham Foxman
Defamation League.

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