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Sun Dec 25, 2022, 04:51 PM Dec 2022

Earlier CNN dedicated a whole hour to the Second Getleman, Doug Emhoff

It included the story of the mezuzah that was affixed to the doorpost

Harris and Emhoff decided to put a mezuzah on their official residence in the spring when they moved into it, after it had undergone renovations, a White House official said.

The second gentleman’s parents, Barbara and Michael Emhoff, attended the ceremony to attach the mezuzah during their first visit to Washington, D.C., this year. It was officiated by Rabbi Peter S. Berg, senior rabbi of The Temple, a Reform synagogue and the oldest Jewish congregation in Atlanta, which lent them the mezuzah. Berg first discussed it with Harris during her visit to Atlanta in June on a nationwide tour to urge people to get vaccinated.

The Temple was bombed by antisemitic white supremacists in 1958, and forged strong ties with the Rev. Martin Luther King and Atlanta’s Black community during the Civil Rights Era.

https://forward.com/fast-forward/478353/harris-and-emhoff-place-mezuzah-on-doorpost-of-vice-presidents-residence/


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