Joe Biden blessed by Delaware rabbi before White House inauguration

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Then-US vice president Joe Biden speaks at the funeral of US Sen. Frank Lautenberg in New York’s Park Avenue Synagogue in 2013.

Then-US vice president Joe Biden speaks at the funeral of US Sen. Frank Lautenberg in New York’s Park Avenue Synagogue in 2013.

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ByRON KAMPEAS/JTA

JANUARY 20, 2021 01:55