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Cozen befriended Biden in 1976, and told
The Algemeiner that the two have bonded over golf outings, spent Jewish holidays together, and talked often of their shared concern for preserving the memory of the Shoah.
“He was steeped in that history and heartbroken that it ever took place,” said Cozen. “He was a huge supporter of the remembrance of the Holocaust, as well as a huge supporter of Israel.”
Biden’s first foreign trip as a senator was to Israel, in 1973, during which he met with Prime Minister Golda Meir before the Yom Kippur War. Since then he has met every person to hold the office, through 36 years in the Senate and eight more in the White House.
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Bernhardt, who is not Jewish, lit the
shamash (“helper candle”) on the giant menorah in a cherry-picker alongside Rabbi Levi Shemtov, executive vice president of American Friends of Lubavitch (Chabad), his son, Rabbi Menachem Shemtov and his father, Rabbi Abraham Shemtov, chairman of the board of Agudas Chasidei Chabad and director of the Lubavitcher Center in Philadelphia.
Rabbi Levi Shemtov, who emceed the ceremony and was also on stage with Bernhardt when the secretary gave short remarks prior to the lighting, told
JNS on Friday that he, his son and his father were tested on Thursday as soon as they heard of the diagnosis. Their results came back negative, he said, and they were told there was no need to quarantine.
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