On Wednesday, President Obama called on Liberal religious leader to fight for “public-option” health care. The president couch the need for health insurance reform using religious terms.”We are God’s partners in matters of life and death,” Obama said,quoting from the Rosh Hashanah prayer that says that in the holiday period, it is decided “who shall live and who shall die.”
Poniting out the Jewish High Holiday are just around the corner in early September.
Obama concluded the call with “shanah tovah,” or Happy New Year to the Rabbis he contacted.
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