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Biden releases new strategy to tackle rise in antisemitism, says 'hate will not prevail'

President Joe Biden has announced a new government strategy to fight hate, bias and violence directed at Jews

The Independent UK

The first national strategy for fighting antisemitism is finally here. What's in it?

The landmark plan outlines over 100 steps that federal agencies will take within a year. But the Biden administration says it will only work if other individuals and institutions take action too.

WEKU

It's Tax Day. Here's what President Biden paid

The Bidens paid a 23.8% effective federal tax rate on $579,514 in earnings for 2022, their filings show. Meanwhile, Vice President Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff earned $456,918.

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How Doug Emhoff became the White House’s voice against antisemitism

WASHINGTON — Second gentleman Doug Emhoff was furious.

Los Angeles Times

President Joe Biden spoke with Ralph Yarl and his family, as teen recovers from shooting

President Joe Biden spoke with Ralph Yarl and his family on Monday amid a national outcry over the shooting of the 16-year-old Black high school student, a White House official confirmed.

Tribune News Service

‘Every child deserves to be safe’: VP Kamala Harris responds to Ralph Yarl shooting

Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday became the highest-ranking official so far to react to the shooting of Ralph Yarl, a 16-year-old Black Kansas City student, saying “every child deserves to be safe.”

Tribune News Service

Harris out to reframe US views on Africa, foster partnership

If U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris has a favorite number on her trip to Africa, it’s undoubtedly 19

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Kamala Harris visits Ghana 'slave castle,' says 'history must be learned '

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris delivered a speech to thousands of young Ghanaians on Tuesday in Accra on women's empowerment, and toured a coastal building that was the last stop for Africans sold into the transatlantic slave trade.

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Vice President Harris wiped away tears as she toured Ghana's Cape Coast slave castle

The vice president visited a castle that was one of the last stops before enslaved people were transported across the Atlantic. "The horror of what happened here must always be remembered," she said.

WEKU

In Ghana, Kamala Harris 'excited about the future of Africa'

Vice President Kamala Harris has arrived in Ghana to begin a weeklong trip to Africa

The Independent UK

Biden celebrates St. Patrick’s Day with Irish leader at White House

Biden, who often speaks of his Irish heritage and is fond of quoting Irish poets, declared March Irish-American heritage month. The White House even dyed the water of the South Lawn fountain green for the occasion.

Chicago Sun-Times

Doug Emhoff has made antisemitism his issue, but says it's everyone's job to fight it

Second gentleman Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Harris, is increasingly focused on combating antisemitism at home and abroad. He spoke to NPR about his historic role.

WEKU

Second Gentlemen Doug Emhoff Brings The Fight Of Antisemitism To The United Nations

Emhoff calls for unity and to rally around fighting hate in the wake of the spike in violence that has influenced antisemitism.

Zenger

Antisemitism worries rising for many U.S. Jews, survey finds

More than four in ten Jews in the United States feel their status in America is less secure than it was a year earlier

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Joe Biden's wife kisses Kamala Harris' husband on the LIPS in surreal moment

As all eyes were on President Joe Biden and his wife after she swanned in to cheers from the Democrats, Jill and Doug Emhoff misjudged the distance between them and appeared to make the social slip up

The Independent UK

Jill Biden mocked over awkward kiss with Doug Emhoff at State of the Union

The first lady and second gentleman went viral after an intimate greeting in the gallery

The Independent UK

Emhoff visits synagogue, Holocaust memorial in Berlin

Doug Emhoff, the husband of U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, has met Ukrainian refugees at a Berlin synagogue and visited the city’s Holocaust memorial as he wraps up a tour of Poland and Germany focused on Holocaust remembrance and combating rising antisemitism

Tribune News Service

Emhoff calls for fighting anti-Jewish tropes on Auschwitz visit

Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff’s emotional visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau marked something of a triumph for Jewish Americans: one of their own representing the U.S. at the epicenter of the Nazi genocide that tried — but failed — to wipe out their people.

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Emhoff says somber Auschwitz visit key to antisemitism work

Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, says he was deeply moved by a “solemn and sad” visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau

France 24

Holocaust Memorial Day commemorated amid horrors of Russia-Ukraine war

Auschwitz-Birkenau survivors and other mourners commemorated the 78th anniversary Friday of the Nazi German death camp's liberation, some expressing horror that war has again shattered peace in Europe and the lesson of Never Again is being forgotten.

The Independent UK

Holocaust remembered at Auschwitz as Europe’s peace is shattered by Ukraine war

Former Nazi camp is only 185 miles from Ukraine

WEKU

Second gentleman Emhoff visits Auschwitz, part of a push against antisemitism

Emhoff, the first Jewish spouse of a U.S. president or vice president, is in Poland and Germany to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day and address rising antisemitism around the world.

Tribune News Service

Emhoff heads to Holocaust sites to fight rising antisemitism

Over a century after his great-grandparents fled Europe to escape religious persecution, second gentleman Doug Emhoff is returning to the sites of some of the Holocaust’s greatest atrocities.

The Independent UK

Emhoff to visit Poland and Germany amid rising antisemitism

Vice President Kamala Harris' husband, Doug Emhoff, is set to visit Poland and Germany this month amid rising antisemitism

Tribune News Service

Biden condemns ‘violent venom’ of antisemitism at Hanukkah event

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden, at a White House Hanukkah reception on Monday, said he understood the concerns of Jewish Americans amid rising antisemitism, and that his administration would stand with them.

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