May 26, 2026 · 43 min · 10 segments
Rebecca Lieberman goes Behind the Bima for a deeply personal conversation about the life and legacy of her father, Senator Joe Lieberman. The episode moves from the chaos of the 2000 presidential…
Efrem GoldbergHostPhilip MoskowitzHost
We got a great episode today with Rebecca Lieberman, the daughter of the late, great Senator Joe Lieberman, an incredible mensch, incredible Jew, incredible inspiration, who lived in a very different time, even though it wasn't that long ago, and we'll get into that with her.
First of all, it feels like a wor- a world ago.
I mean, 2000, whatever it was, 2000, to think that you had a Orthodox Jew as a vice presidential candidate, and now that that's almost, like, a liability in the public sphere.
Yeah, so much changes.
Yeah
... to be on the national ticket because he was a Jew, and she'll discuss, but, uh, campaigning with her father across the country not that long ago, she encountered zero antisemitism.
And most importantly, as a teaser, we talk about the time that he called me, that Senator Lieberman called me.
When was that?
You have to watch the whole episode to get that information.
Why? When Rabbi Moskowitz answered his phone, and it was Joe Lieberman bailing him out of prison.
[laughs]
That seemed to have piqued people's interest last time.
It did.
They're gonna have to wait.
They're gonna have to wait.
We got a great episode today with Rebecca Lieberman, the daughter of the late, great Senator Joe Lieberman, an incredible mensch, incredible Jew, incredible inspiration, who lived in a very different time, even though it wasn't that long ago, and we'll get into that with her.
First of all, it feels like a wor- a world ago.
I mean, 2000, whatever it was, 2000, to think that you had a Orthodox Jew as a vice presidential candidate, and now that that's almost, like, a liability in the public sphere.
Yeah, so much changes.
Yeah
... to be on the national ticket because he was a Jew, and she'll discuss, but, uh, campaigning with her father across the country not that long ago, she encountered zero antisemitism.
And most importantly, as a teaser, we talk about the time that he called me, that Senator Lieberman called me.
When was that?
You have to watch the whole episode to get that information.
Why? When Rabbi Moskowitz answered his phone, and it was Joe Lieberman bailing him out of prison.
[laughs]
That seemed to have piqued people's interest last time.
It did.
They're gonna have to wait.
They're gonna have to wait.
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