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Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff affixes a mezuzah at the vice president’s residence in Washington, D.C., in 2021. (Photo courtesy of The White House)
August 16, 2024, 9:25 am
A mezuzah in a Harris-Emhoff White House? It might not be the first.
Doug Emhoff said he’d put a mezuzah in the White House. Whether Jewish law requires him to is a matter of dispute.
By Unitha Cherry, Louis Keene | Forward
President Joe Biden, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff and Rabbi Angela Buchdahl of Central Synagogue in New York City host a Hanukkah reception in the East Room of the White House, Dec. 11, 2023. (Bonnie Cash/Pool/Getty Images)
December 17, 2023, 8:32 pm
Biden’s Chanukah party centers on the Oct. 7 massacre
The president welcomed more than 800 guests to the White House's largest party of the season.
By Ron Kampeas
Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker and US President Joe Biden help Holocaust Survivor Bronia Brandman to a menorah during a Hanukkah Holiday Reception in the Grand Foyer of the White House, Dec. 19, 2022. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP/via Getty Images)
December 20, 2022, 4:03 pm
The White House celebrates Chanukah in the shadow of rising antisemitism
Biden: “This year, we thought it was important to celebrate Chanukah with another message of significance: permanence. Permanence.”
By Ron Kampeas
President Joe Biden delivers remarks before a menorah lighting ceremony in celebration of Hanukkah in the East Room of the White House, Dec. 1, 2021. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
September 22, 2022, 9:56 am
Biden to host first-ever White House Rosh Hashanah party
As vice president during the 2009-2017 Obama administration, Biden hosted Rosh Hashanah and Sukkot receptions, the first vice president to do so.
By Ron Kampeas
Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff lights a menorah at a Hanukkah ceremony in the East Room of the White House, Dec. 1, 2021. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
December 2, 2021, 1:29 pm
A menorah in the window: Biden presidency’s first Chanukah is all about visible diversity
“We have to stand against the resurgence of this tide of antisemitism and other forms of intolerance and hate here at home and around the world,” Biden said.
By Ron Kampeas
Douglas Macgregor, right, appears on Fox News on Dec. 30, 2019. (Screenshot via JTA)
November 16, 2020, 1:08 pm
Top Pentagon adviser has said ‘Israeli lobby’ funds officials who want war
Douglas Macgregor routinely blames “the Israeli lobby” and “neocons” for pushing the United States into wars.
By Ron Kampeas
President Donald Trump speaks at the White House, Sept. 23, 2020. A Washington Post story quoted anonymous current and former officials describing how Trump treated race in private conversations. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images via JTA)
September 23, 2020, 3:38 pm
Trump quoted as saying that Jews are ‘only in it for themselves’
Trump said Jews “stick together” and are “only in it for themselves” following conversations with Jewish lawmakers, The Washington Post quoted senior White House officials saying.
By Ron Kampeas
Screenshot from the video. Video by Karen Lehmann Eisner.
September 17, 2020, 12:32 pm
Mincha on the White House lawn
The minyan for mincha on the White House lawn on Sept. 15, led by native Pittsburgher David Eisner, assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury. Video by Karen Lehmann Eisner.
Judah Samet. Photo courtesy of the White House
February 14, 2019, 1:07 pm
Pittsburgh resident featured at State of the Union
Octogenarian who escaped death twice honored before the nation.
By Adam Reinherz
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