Like so many, I was sad to hear of Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman’s passing. Fortunately, I had personal reasons to invoke the Jewish response to such news: Baruch Dayan emet (bless the righteous judge).
This March 17 will be the "yahrzeit" of Sen. Joe Lieberman’s unexpected death in 2024, a time in Jewish tradition when family members recite the mourners’ kaddish prayer and light candles in memory of ...
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Sen. Joe Lieberman was a remarkable American political figure. At a time of virulent partisanship, he remained a centrist, a conciliator. He sought to find a constructive middle ground in an era when ...
Joe Lieberman, a former longtime U.S. senator from Connecticut who was the first Jewish American nominated to a major party’s national ticket as the Democratic Party’s nominee for vice president in ...
(JTA) — Alison Sharaf, a staffer for Sen. Joe Lieberman in 2000, remembers the moment she heard that he would be making history. Sharaf, then a manager in Lieberman’s Hartford office, was confident ...
NPR's Debbie Elliott talks to Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut about the legacy of Joe Lieberman, a former Connecticut senator and onetime Democratic VP nominee, who died at age 82.