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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 435

Joe Lieberman

Former Vice President Al Gore offers his condolences to Hadassah Lieberman during the funeral for her husband, former Sen. Joe Lieberman in Stamford, Connecticut, Friday, March. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Bryan Woolston)
March 30, 2024, 12:32 am
At funeral, Joe Lieberman eulogized as ‘mensch’ committed to his Jewish faith
Stamford, Connecticut synagogue packed with mourners, including Al Gore, for four-time senator and first Jewish candidate for vice president on a major party ticket
By AP
Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the current Israeli government, in Tel Aviv, on March 23, 2024. (Photo by Erik Marmor/Flash90)
March 28, 2024, 1:04 pm
Daily Briefing Mar 28: Day 174 – Haredi draft bill looms; Netanyahu spins and flipflops
Political correspondent Tal Schneider discusses differences in the latest iteration of ultra-Orthodox army draft legislation, and the prime minister’s recent political machinations
By ToI Staff
United States Senator Joe Lieberman lights Hannuka candles with Jewish Agency Chairman Ze'ev Bielski and new immigrants from Ethiopia at the Jewish Agency Absorption Center in Mevasseret Zion, near Jerusalem, December 2006. Ariel Jerozolimski)
March 28, 2024, 10:52 am
‘Matchless champion of the Jewish people’: Israeli, US officials mourn Joe Lieberman
Allies and opponents pay tribute to the former Connecticut senator, whose career in public service blazed a path for religious Jews in American politics
By ToI Staff
Former Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman waves to members of the media as he leaves the West Wing of the White House in Washington, May 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
March 28, 2024, 12:41 am
Joe Lieberman, centrist senator and first Jew on major US presidential ticket, dies at 82
Veteran politician became one of most visible role models for Jewish observance in high places and was known for his attempts to build bridges in an increasingly polarized Washington
By Ron Kampeas
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky (L) and Natan Sharansky in Kyiv, October 25, 2022 (courtesy Ukraine Presidential Office)
October 26, 2022, 2:51 am
Zelensky to Sharansky: Israel is one of few countries that can help defend our skies
Ukraine’s president meets members of Babyn Yar memorial board in Kyiv, pledges government support for expansion of museum
By Lazar Berman
Matt Lieberman, who is running for Senate in Georgia as a Democrat, poses in Atlanta, Nov. 22, 2019. (Ron Kampeas)
August 8, 2020, 12:18 pm
Joe Lieberman’s son Matt, a Senate candidate, under fire for ‘racist tropes’
Georgia NAACP head says Lieberman should drop out of race after self-publishing a novel in 2018 in which a character believes he owned an imaginary slave and routinely uses N-word
By Ron Kampeas
In this November 17, 2019 file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks as supporters wave lighted signs during a fundraiser for the Nevada Democratic Party in Las Vegas.(AP/John Locher)
January 29, 2020, 11:36 pm
Sanders builds a deeper Jewish identity on the 2020 trail
Known for being detached from organized religion, progressive Democrat opens up on his heritage, talks about anti-Semitism while also criticizing Israel
By ELANA SCHOR
Georgia Democratic Senate candidate Matt Lieberman, son of former senator Joe Lieberman, stands in front of his home in Georgia (Courtesy)
November 15, 2019, 10:17 pm
Can a Lieberman win in Georgia?
The former Veep nominee’s son Matt wants to help Democrats win back the Senate. But first he has to convince the party that he’s truly one of their own
By Eric Cortellessa
Georgia Democratic Senate candidate Matt Lieberman, son of former senator Joe Lieberman, in a screenshot from a YouTube ad announcing his Senate bid, October 2, 2019.
October 3, 2019, 9:55 pm
Joe Lieberman’s son throws hat in ring for Georgia Senate seat
Matt Lieberman seeks Democratic nod to replace retiring Republican Sen. Johnny Isakson, says he’s ‘fed up with the do-nothing politicians’ in Washington
By AP
Former US senator from Connecticut Joe Lieberman leaves the West Wing of the White House after meeting with US President Donald Trump on May 17, 2017. (AFP/Olivier Douliery)
August 16, 2019, 10:18 pm
Joe Lieberman says Israel made ‘serious mistake’ in banning Tlaib and Omar
Former senator and only Jewish candidate on a major party’s presidential ballot joins chorus of criticism for Israel’s decision
By JTA
Former US senator from Connecticut Joe Lieberman leaves the West Wing of the White House after meeting with US President Donald Trump on May 17, 2017. (AFP/Olivier Douliery)
March 18, 2019, 4:46 am
Joe Lieberman says some Democrats are anti-Jewish, but party is not
Former vice president candidate singles out Ilhan Omar for her remarks on dual loyalty and AIPAC buying support for Israel
By JTA
Senator Joe Lieberman speaking at 'The First Israeli Congress on Judaism and Democracy' on February 11, 2018. (Erez Uzir)
February 6, 2019, 4:09 am
Joe Lieberman: Don’t ‘rush to judgment’ on Virginia governor accused of racism
Former senator says Ralph Northam need not resign immediately over 1984 yearbook image of unidentified person in blackface next to someone wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood
By JTA
Former US senator from Connecticut Joe Lieberman leaves the West Wing of the White House after meeting with US President Donald Trump on May 17, 2017. (AFP/Olivier Douliery)
January 16, 2019, 1:42 pm
Joe Lieberman now works for the Chinese telecom giant he slammed as a senator
Spokesperson for former vice presidential nominee says he is not lobbying for ZTE, but ‘conducting a national security’ assessment for company suspected of espionage
By JTA
John McCain (with Joe Lieberman) visits the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City March 19, 2008. (Nati Shohat /FLASH90)
September 1, 2018, 11:08 pm
Joe Lieberman lauds McCain’s sensitivity to Jewish observance, love of Jerusalem
In eulogy, former senator recalls Republican colleague went out of his way to observe ‘Shalom Shabbat’ with him during trips abroad
By Ron Kampeas
A military honor guard team carries the casket of Sen. John McCain from the US Capitol, Saturday, Sept. 1, 2018 in Washington. (Win McNamee/Pool photo via AP)
September 1, 2018, 6:22 pm
At funeral, McCain’s daughter mourns passing of ‘real’ American greatness
Meghan McCain lambastes ‘cheap rhetoric from men who will never come near his sacrifice’; three presidents, but not Trump, pay tribute at Washington service
By Laurie Kellman
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