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Many American Jewish leaders may be able to talk about the first time they met Joe Biden the guy has, after all, been a fixture in Washington for 44 years but Rabbi Michael Beals story is a doozy: He met Biden at a shiva call.
In 2006, Biden was still a Democratic Senator from Delaware, and Beals was the newly-installed spiritual leader of Congregation Beth Shalom in that states largest city, Wilmington. A synagogue member named Sylvia Greenhouse had died at the age of 83, and her apartment was too small to fit the gathered mourners, so Beals was leading a service in the buildings laundry room, and in walked the states senior Senator.
Biden explained to the rabbi that in every election campaign since his first Senate run in 1972, Greenhouse, a retired DMV employee, had sent him donations of $18 a number that in Judaism symbolizes life. So Biden was there to pay his respects.
And nobody was covering it, nobody from the press, there wasnt an assistant, Beals recounted. Its just who he is.
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FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)Gothmog
(145,313 posts)This is Joe is
Mosby
(16,319 posts)Gothmog
(145,313 posts)still_one
(92,218 posts)Qutzupalotl
(14,317 posts)where Joe shows his humanity and decency, and doesnt shout it from the rooftops.
We picked a good person.
Indykatie
(3,697 posts)I'm looking forward to seeing more of them. They warm my heart.