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ven as Democratic vice pres-
idential candidate Joseph
Lieberman's positions on
issues from gun control to
Hollywood are dissected, some Jewish
leaders hope that he can keep quiet on
at least one topic: Jewish law.
Interviewers "should stop asking him
about it, and he should stop talking
about it," said Dr. Mandell Ganchrow,
president of the Orthodox Union.
He and other Jewish leaders are
growing more concerned over the way
Lieberman, an Orthodox Jew, express-
es points of Jewish theology — espe-
cially after his appearance on a nation-
ally syndicated radio show Sept. 15.
In the course of a humorous conver-
sation with host Don Imus, Lieberman

was asked to clarify several issues of
Jewish law and practice, including
Judaism's position on intermarriage.
When asked if Judaism placed "a ban
on interracial or interreligious dating,
that sort of thing," Lieberman respond-
ed that there was "no ban whatsoever."
Lieberman elaborated, "But there's
what I would describe as a natural ten-
dency among a lot of Jews, as there is
among a lot of Christian and other eth-
nic groups," to marry within the faith
"to keep the faith going. But, believe me,
there's a lot of intermarriage as well."
Earlier in the program, Lieberman
joked about his decision never to say a
Jewish prayer in which one thanks God
for not having been born a woman.
Imus quipped that the prayer's senti-
ment would not appeal to "soccer
moms." Lieberman answered, "That
was put in historically by the rabbis way
back, and of course there is an explana-

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Rebuking
The ADL

New York/JTA
hen the Anti-Defamation
Vir League publicly criticized vice
presidential candidate Joe Lieberman
for an Aug. 29 speech in which he
appeared to blend religion with poli-
tics, it touched a raw nerve with a
group it would rather not irritate: its
400,000 donors.

The agency has received 400 let-
ters, phone calls and e-mails in the
weeks following the highly publi-
cized ADL rebuke, and the com-
ments run 2-1 against the ADL
position, said spokeswoman Myrna
Shinbaum, Some threatened to
withhold donations, she said.
The criticisms, she said, have gen-
erally fallen into three categories:
those who feel you don't criticize a
Jew, no matter what"; others who
were partisan, as in "Democrats who
said, 'What are you trying to do,

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