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Jewish Court Excommunicates Lieberman
CNSNews.com
Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2000
The New York Torah Court, Beth Din, has excommunicated Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, the Democrat vice presidential nominee, it announced Monday.
The court stated that Lieberman caused grave scandal for the Jewish religion because "while claiming to be an observant Jew, Lieberman has been misrepresenting and falsifying to the American people the teachings of the Torah against partial birth infanticide, against special privileges and preferential treatment for flaunting homosexuals, and against religious intermarriage of Jews."
Rabbi Joseph Friedman, a spokesman for the rabbinical court, said that Lieberman has "flagrantly violated our sacred Torah by his Senate votes upholding partial birth infanticide and legitimizing homosexuality, which abnormal and unhealthy behavior the Torah strongly condemns as sinful and immoral."
"Mr. Lieberman, moreover, has, in violation of the Torah, supported harmful gender integration in the U.S. Armed Forces – in the barracks, on naval warships, and in combat training – all of which weakens and demoralizes our armed forces," he added.
Friedman declared that "under excommunication ... the person being excommunicated still remains a Jew. We hope that the senator repents and asks forgiveness so that the excommunication may be lifted."
Friedman stated that there were historical precedents for rabbinical excommunication of public figures as well as private individuals. However, those precedents have been few and far between.
In 1945, Rabbi Mordecai M. Kaplan was excommunicated for grave violations of the Torah. That excommunication was reported in the New York Times and other newspapers and publications.
The Gore-Lieberman 2000 Campaign Headquarters' press office in Nashville had no immediate response to the excommunication.
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Jewish Court Excommunicates Lieberman
CNSNews.com
Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2000
The New York Torah Court, Beth Din, has excommunicated Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, the Democrat vice presidential nominee, it announced Monday.
The court stated that Lieberman caused grave scandal for the Jewish religion because "while claiming to be an observant Jew, Lieberman has been misrepresenting and falsifying to the American people the teachings of the Torah against partial birth infanticide, against special privileges and preferential treatment for flaunting homosexuals, and against religious intermarriage of Jews."
Rabbi Joseph Friedman, a spokesman for the rabbinical court, said that Lieberman has "flagrantly violated our sacred Torah by his Senate votes upholding partial birth infanticide and legitimizing homosexuality, which abnormal and unhealthy behavior the Torah strongly condemns as sinful and immoral."
"Mr. Lieberman, moreover, has, in violation of the Torah, supported harmful gender integration in the U.S. Armed Forces – in the barracks, on naval warships, and in combat training – all of which weakens and demoralizes our armed forces," he added.
Friedman declared that "under excommunication ... the person being excommunicated still remains a Jew. We hope that the senator repents and asks forgiveness so that the excommunication may be lifted."
Friedman stated that there were historical precedents for rabbinical excommunication of public figures as well as private individuals. However, those precedents have been few and far between.
In 1945, Rabbi Mordecai M. Kaplan was excommunicated for grave violations of the Torah. That excommunication was reported in the New York Times and other newspapers and publications.
The Gore-Lieberman 2000 Campaign Headquarters' press office in Nashville had no immediate response to the excommunication.
Copyright CNSNews.com
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You have to be there when it's all over. Otherwise you can't say "I told you so."
Better days to be,
Ed