Joe Lieberman’s True Legacy | Rebecca Lieberman | Behind the Bima #201

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Welcome back behind the Bema. We got a great episode today with Rebecca Lieberman, the daughter of the late great Senator Joe Lieberman, an incredible mensch, incredible Jew, incredible inspiration, who lived in a very different time even though it wasn't that long ago and we'll get into that with her. But first Rabbi >> Moskowitz, what's going on? >> First of all, it feels like a a world ago. I mean, 2000 whatever it was, 2000. To think that you had a Orthodox Jew as a vice presidential candidate and now that that's almost like a liability in the public sphere. >> Yeah, Josh Shapiro was >> not chosen to be on the national ticket because he was a Jew and she'll discuss, but uh campaigning with her father across the country not that long ago, she encountered zero anti-Semitism. >> And most importantly as a teaser, we talk about the time that he called me, that Senator Lieberman called me. >> Yes, when was it that >> When was that? You have to watch the whole episode to get that information. >> When Rabbi Moskowitz answered his phone and it was Joe Lieberman bailing him out of prison. No? >> That seemed to have piqued people's interest last time. >> It did. All my kids texted me, "Why was

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1. 0:14Welcome back behind the Bema. We got a great episode today with Rebecca Lieberman, the daughter…
2. 4:33in a way you know, I'm amazed sometimes in seeing what public personalities, rabbis, Jewish, so-called…
3. 8:43around them and we're like where's the drasha? Where's the drasha? Where's the drasha? And you're…
4. 12:56rather than with a phone call, which is bizarre. Um I was actually away with a…
5. 17:05>> in our voting district, we were like, "It's our fault." Whatever. >> I would vote…
6. 21:16was in college at that point and people would, you know, sort of say like, "Oh,…
7. 25:34elections, you know, Congress and and vice president and president. And so maybe you could talk…
8. 29:47cuz I have a husband, but he also works. And I wanted to be with our…
9. 34:00bipartisan way. Um There's some people as my brother references in the movie for whom like…
10. 38:23America first. How did he balance that, his incredible support of Israel, and his incredible public…

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