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tion. But I don't accept that. There's a
certain amount of latitude here."
Gravely Misleading
Reaction to Lieberman's comments was
tempered among Jewish leaders, who
are still not in agreement over the extent
to which Lieberman is responsible for
presenting Judaism to the nation.
"It's an awesome responsibility," said
Rabbi Avi Shafran, a spokesman for
the Orthodox Agudath Israel of
America. "If he can, he should speak
honestly, knowledgeably and clearly.
But for whatever reason, his most
recent comments about intermarriage
were gravely misleading."
Most Jewish leaders agreed that
Jewish law forbids interreligious mar-
riage, but none said they would harsh-
ly criticize the politician for making
the theological mistake.
"He's not a rabbi. He's a politician in a
national campaign with the burden of
explaining Judaism to millions of
Americans," said Rabbi Eric Yoffie, pres-
ident of the Reform movement's Union
of American Hebrew Congregations.
Asking whether or not Judaism bans
intermarriage is a question "loaded
with political overtones," Yoffie added.
"Though his answer was not necessarily
accurate from a halachic [Jewish law]
standpoint, saying Jews marry within
`to keep the faith' going was a way of
gently explaining our tradition."
The Orthodox Union's Ganchrow
agreed that it is "totally unfair to
make" Lieberman a "paradigm of
Orthodoxy, but he should leave ques-
tions of theology to the rabbis."
Ganchrow said people should take
into consideration that the tone of the
interview was "frivolous" and not
deeply philosophical.
Steve Rabinowitz, a media adviser to
the Gore-Lieberman campaign, said,
"The campaign has no opinions on
the senator's religious beliefs. He is
free to express whatever he wants."
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we're trying to get him elected";
and others who misunderstood,
believing "we were criticizing
Lieberman for being too Jewish
when we were criticizing him for
bringing religion into the public
policy arena."
Shinbaum noted that the
Gore-Lieberman campaign
seems to have toned down its
emphasis on religion. "And that's
exactly what we wanted. We
thought religion should not be
used on the campaign stump."
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