America’s Jewish core

In the mid-1990s, the late Sen. Joseph Lieberman , then an Orthodox Jewish Connecticut Democrat, and Sen. Daniel Coats, an evangelical Indiana Republican, founded the Center for Judeo-Christian Values in America to promote “the value of human life; the sanctity of the traditional family ; the value of hard work, responsibility, honesty, loyalty, compassion and tolerance; and the free expression of faith.”

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As a yarmulke-wearing summer college intern in Coats’s office at the time, I fondly recall the senator’s warm and sincere enthusiasm for the project, for the Jewish people in general, and for his co-founder, not despite but beca