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• Tuesday, May 6, 2008 07:09 AM

  Before there was Joe Lieberman, there was Dov Hikind

  [...] Democratic Party Representative Dov Hikind’s political and other positions have never been less than an open book, both in his heavily hassidic Brooklyn district, and in the Jewish state he visits regularly and admits to considering his main passion. In fact, he even goes as far as to say he’s “guilty” of not living here. This might sound peculiar for someone who has been an elected politician in the United States for nearly three decades — particularly when the question of Jewish “dual loyalty” continues to be raised by certain Americans wishing to stick it to prominent Zionists in their midst. But Hikind, the son of Holocaust survivors — and husband of Shoshana, who runs the New York office of American Friends of Ateret Kohanim Yeshiva — sees nothing wrong with his priorities, which he promotes without apology. He likens his type of partisanship to that of gay rights advocates, who, he claims, are unabashed about the issue closest to their hearts, minds and ballot-casting. “As a proud Jew, I will never support a candidate who is bad on Israel, even if he or she is good on all other issues important to me,” he says. This might help to explain why the veteran member of the Democratic Party who wears a crocheted kippa often supports Republican candidates, such as George W. Bush — and now John McCain [...]

  Ruthie Blum, JPost, April 2, 2008

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