Biden to host first-ever White House Rosh Hashanah party
President Joe Biden is bringing a Jewish High Holiday celebration to the White House for the first time.
His White House is hosting a Rosh Hashanah reception on Sept. 30, Jewish Insider reported on Monday.
As vice president during the 2009-2017 Obama administration, Biden hosted Rosh Hashanah and Sukkot receptions at the Naval Observatory, the official vice presidential residence, the first vice president to do so.
President Bill Clinton was the first president to host a Hanukkah party for staff, and President George W. Bush made it a public event for Jewish community leaders, a practice continued by President Barack Obama and President Donald Trump. Obama instituted White House Passover seders, a practice Trump did not continue, although on at least one occasion, Jewish staffers gathered in the adjacent Eisenhower Executive Office Building for a seder.
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