{"id":69582,"date":"2022-09-21T07:54:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T12:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=69582"},"modified":"2022-09-21T07:54:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T12:54:02","slug":"biden-to-host-first-ever-white-house-rosh-hashanah-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/biden-to-host-first-ever-white-house-rosh-hashanah-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden to host first-ever White House Rosh Hashanah party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By RON KAMPEAS<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (JTA) \u2014 President Joe Biden is bringing a Jewish High Holiday celebration to the White House for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>His White House is hosting a Rosh Hashanah reception on Sept. 30, Jewish Insider reported on Monday.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_69584\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/09-20-2022-Biden-Hanukkah.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69584\" class=\"wp-image-69584 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/09-20-2022-Biden-Hanukkah-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/09-20-2022-Biden-Hanukkah-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/09-20-2022-Biden-Hanukkah-1024x571.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/09-20-2022-Biden-Hanukkah-768x428.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/09-20-2022-Biden-Hanukkah-1536x857.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/09-20-2022-Biden-Hanukkah-2048x1143.jpg 2048w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/167;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69584\" class=\"wp-image-69584 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/09-20-2022-Biden-Hanukkah-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/09-20-2022-Biden-Hanukkah-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/09-20-2022-Biden-Hanukkah-1024x571.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/09-20-2022-Biden-Hanukkah-768x428.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/09-20-2022-Biden-Hanukkah-1536x857.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/09-20-2022-Biden-Hanukkah-2048x1143.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-69584\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Joe Biden delivers remarks before a Chanukiah lighting ceremony at the White House, Dec. 1, 2021. (Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>As vice president during the 2009-2017 Obama administration, Biden hosted Rosh Hashanah and Succot receptions at the Naval Observatory, the official vice presidential residence, the first vice president to do so.<\/p>\n<p>President Bill Clinton was the first president to host a Chanukah 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.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden White House last year hosted a last-minute Chanukah menorah lighting in person but has otherwise limited its Jewish events to virtual offerings because of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Kamala Harris and her husband Douglas Emhoff \u2014 the first Jewish spouse of a president or vice president \u2014 lit a menorah at a window at the Naval Observatory, another first, and this year Harris and Emhoff held a seder at their residence for family and Jewish staffers. Harris and Emhoff are also the first executive family to affix a mezuzah to their official residence.<\/p>\n<p>The White House did not respond to a question about whether it would hold a Chanukah event this year.<\/p>\n<p>Presidents have for years routinely briefed Jewish leaders in conference calls before the High Holidays.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Biden%20to%20host%20first-ever%20White%20House%20Rosh%20Hashanah%20party\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":69584,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[640,641],"tags":[8790,8795,8788,8820,8839,126],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69585,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69582\/revisions\/69585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}