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Related: About this forumJoe Biden's very Jewish family
For a staunch Roman Catholic, President Elect Joe Biden has a remarkably Jewish family.
All three of his children married Jewish spouses. And the baby grandson that he cradled in his arms after his victory speech last week is halachically Jewish, as are the children of his late son Beau.
President Elect Joe Biden with his grandchildren, including baby Beau, son of Melissa Cohen Biden and Hunter Biden.
Beaus wife, Hallie Olivere was the Bidens first Jewish daughter-in law. Joe Biden had known her mother Joan since childhood, and once joked that hed have liked to have married her. 'I was the Catholic kid. She was the Jewish girl. I still tried. I didnt get anywhere.'
Hunter met Jewish South African film maker Melissa Cohen, and within 10 days the couple were married in a ceremony in her Los Angeles flat. Hunter marked the occasion by getting a tattoo to match Cohens - the word 'shalom' in Hebrew letters... The couples baby, named Beau, was born in April, just under a year after they first met and married.
Joe and Jill Bidens daughter Ashley also has a Jewish spouse - Howard Krein, an ENT specialist at a Philadelphia hospital. They married in 2012, in a Catholic-Jewish ceremony followed by a reception during which the then Vice-President danced the hora. Im the only Irish Catholic you know who had his dream met because his daughter married a Jewish surgeon, he said in 2016.
https://www.thejc.com/news/world/joe-biden-s-very-jewish-family-1.508420
LakeArenal
(28,815 posts)Skittles
(153,142 posts)I did not know that
CottonBear
(21,596 posts)Gothmog
(145,107 posts)I did not know this. Thank you for posting this
Lonestarblue
(9,968 posts)Including the Harris-Emhoff family. It will be great to have decent human beings in the White House again. Such a contrast to the vipers who live there now.
JudyM
(29,225 posts)And she resembles Uma Thurman.
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(47,465 posts)Heard that when each kid turned fifteen he took them to Dachau and to Israel.