(JTA) â This year we celebrated Passover early, on a Sunday a few days before St. Patrickâs Day. My adult children will disperse before the official holiday, but with the darkest days of the pandemic behind us, we have much to celebrate.
I walked to President Joe Biden’s inauguration.
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transport Authority closed 13 downtown stations Jan. 15-21, so I couldn’t take the Metro to Lafayette Square, where I was headed for a stand built for reporters to watch Joe and Jill Biden walk up the semicircular drive and into the White House.
I didn’t miss taking the Metro, until I did.
Taking the subway to the inaugural festivities in 2001, 2005, 2009, 2013 and 2017, I was carried on a wave of parka-clad humans jammed into cars steamy with excitement. Passengers carried folded banners like barely concealed secrets, eager to explode on cold bright mornings into reds and blues and exclamations of fealty to George W. Bush, then Barack Obama, then Donald Trump.
Joe Biden’s inauguration was replete with anxiety, and a lot of it was Jewish January 21, 2021 3:56 pm A roadblock at Pennsylvania Avenue and 19th Street on the day of Joe Biden s presidential inauguration in Washington, Jan. 20, 2021. (Ron Kampeas)
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WASHINGTON (JTA) I walked to President Joe Biden’s inauguration.
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transport Authority closed 13 downtown stations Jan. 15-21, so I couldn’t take the Metro to Lafayette Square, where I was headed for a stand built for reporters to watch Joe and Jill Biden walk up the semicircular drive and into the White House.
I didn’t miss taking the Metro, until I did.