|
?:reviewBody
|
-
In June 2020, a Twitter thread relaying a story supposedly written by someone identified as Rabbi Michael Beals about Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's attendance at a Jewish funeral service was widely circulated on social media. Some social media users were skeptical about this thread. After all, it's not uncommon to see pieces of text incorrectly attributed to influential figures floating around social media. (Check out our ever-growing list of misattributed articles.) The above-displayed text, however, was actually written by Rabbi Michael Beals. This story was originally published on Joe Biden's Medium page back in September 2019, where it was preceded by the following introduction: Beals, who has been with Delaware's Congregation Beth Shalom since 2004, confirmed to us that he was the author of this story, and assured us in an email that the story is true. Beals also sent us the obituary for Sylvia Greenhouse, the woman whose death anchored this story, and told us that this was just one of several menchy [sic] stories about Biden. Beals wrote: In 2019, Beals relayed a story about Biden attending a shiva minyan, a worship service following a death of a Jewish person. According to Beals, he was conducting the service for Greenhouse, a Delaware woman who was not a person of means, when Biden quietly entered the room. Beals writes that he asked Biden why he attended the service, and that the then-senator responded that Greenhouse had been a frequent small donor to his political career. An excerpt from Beals' story appears below. The full post can be read on Medium.
(en)
|
![[This page as RDF]](http://data.gesis.org/claimskg/static/rdf-icon.gif){kind=icon}