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Sun Nov 15, 2020, 03:14 PM Nov 2020

Joe 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.

Beau’s wife, Hallie Olivere was the Bidens’ first Jewish daughter-in law. Joe Biden had known her mother Joan since childhood, and once joked that he’d have liked to have married her. 'I was the Catholic kid. She was the Jewish girl. I still tried. I didn’t 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 Cohen’s - the word 'shalom' in Hebrew letters... The couple’s baby, named Beau, was born in April, just under a year after they first met and married.

Joe and Jill Biden’s 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. “I’m 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





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Joe Biden's very Jewish family (Original Post) question everything Nov 2020 OP
Interesting family. LakeArenal Nov 2020 #1
that's pretty cool Skittles Nov 2020 #2
The new Second Dude, Doug Emhoff, and his children are Jewish too! NT CottonBear Nov 2020 #3
This is cool Gothmog Nov 2020 #4
Lovely family! Lonestarblue Nov 2020 #5
Very cool. Didn't know this. JudyM Nov 2020 #6
This is great! question everything Nov 2020 #7

Lonestarblue

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5. Lovely family!
Sun Nov 15, 2020, 06:17 PM
Nov 2020

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.

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