U.S. News and World Report’s Dan Gilgoff has made a list of "Obama’s 10 Most Important Faith Leaders" and Rabbi David Saperstein has made the list (which doesn’t rank them 1-10 but just lists the group). Gilgoff writes that Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism director Saperstein is "a key liaison between the White House and American Jews, many of whom overcame doubts about candidate Obama to support him in overwhelming numbers last November. Saperstein says Obama’s faith-based office is more committed to respecting church/state separation than Bush’s was. Still, he has criticized Obama’s refusal to prohibit religious groups from hiring only like-minded believers with federal dollars."
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