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Saturday August 12, 2000; 10:35 AM EDT

'Jews for Morality' Web Site Shut Down After
Lieberman Critique

Hours after telling NewsMax.com that Gore vice presidential pick
Joe Lieberman doesn't live up to the standards set by his
Orthodox Jewish faith, Rabbi Yehuda Levin found that his "Jews
for Morality" Web site had been shut down by hackers.

"It seems like Lieberman supporters don't believe in freedom of
speech on the Internet when it comes to people in the Orthodox
Jewish community dissenting from his Orthodoxy," Levin told
NewsMax.com on Friday.

Before the hackers struck Wednesday, Levin had complained about
Lieberman's moral hypocrisy.

"It's very ironic that the liberal media is spinning Joe
Lieberman as 'Mr. Morality' because he has made a few nice sound
bites," said the Brooklyn rabbi. "But the question is, where's
the kosher beef when it comes to morality?"

Levin repeated his arguments to San Francisco talk host Michael
Savage and on Bob Grant's nationally syndicated radio program.

In his comments to NewsMax.com, he zeroed in on the vice
presidential hopeful's pro-abortion stance, which includes
support for the gruesome procedure known as partial-birth
abortion.

"There's no way in the world that any Orthodox Jew could
possibly support something so horrific," said Levin, noting that
even Orthodox children know that abortion is "akin to murder."

The Jews for Morality founder suggested that the hacker attack
may be connected to complaints earlier this week about
religion-based smears against the Connecticut senator on other
Web sites.

"I think this is especially interesting in light of the fact
that Mr. Lieberman was crying foul and had Yahoo! shut down some
anti-Semitic sites shortly after it was announced that he was
chosen as vice presidential nominee."

Levin says the attempt to drive him from the Internet is no
trifling matter and urged the candidate to address the issue
personally.

"I'm trying to get Senator Lieberman to issue an official
statement disassociating himself from any kind of censorship of
Orthodox Jews or others who are dissenting from Joe Lieberman
based on his record of Orthodoxy - or frankly for any other
reason," he told NewsMax.com.

Read the NewsMax.com interview with Rabbi Levin that preceded
the hacker attack on his "Jews for Morality" Web site: Lieberman
Void of Moral 'Kosher Beef,' Says Rabbi.