Confused: President Biden 'invented' his visit to a synagogue after the massacre

September 4, 2021   

President Joe Biden participated last Thursday in a video call with senior rabbis from across the United States on the occasion of Rosh Hashanah. Holidays? New from Danona WOW: Yogurt with a strudel-flavored cream layer Hundreds of thousands have already obeyed the 'Gadoilim' and received a third vaccination. And you? How to ensure yourself a safe ride on public transportation? This is how According to a report by Yoni Hersh in Israel Hayom, during the conversation, the president, who promised to fight anti-Semitism, claimed that he had visited the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh after the 2018 massacre, in which 11 worshippers were murdered. "I remember, you know, visiting the Tree of Life synagogue," Biden said in the conversation. However, several journalists checked and found that President Biden described a visit that never happened, because he did not visit the Jewish community in Pittsburgh after the massacre. On Friday, the White House was forced to issue a clarification, stating that Biden had indeed not visited the synagogue. "He was referring to a conversation he had with the community's rabbi in 2019," the administration's response said. Biden ended the conversation with the rabbis with an anecdote about his daughter's marriage to a Jew: "You know, the dream of every Catholic father is for his daughter to marry a Jewish doctor," he joked. "Now I know you all won't like this, but my daughter's wedding was jointly officiated by a Catholic priest and a Jewish rabbi.".