Israel’s minister for Diaspora affairs welcomed word that Al Gore had picked Sen. Joseph Lieberman as his running mate. “I am very proud that American society has matured” to the point that “a religious Jew can be a candidate of this high position,” said Rabbi Michael Melchior, himself an Orthodox Jew. Melchior added that he did not anticipate any change in the U.S. position toward the Middle East peace process if a Jew were to be elected vice president.
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