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Sid Rosenberg speaks at a campaign rally for Donald Trump at Madison Square Garden, New York, Oct. 27, 2024. (Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images via JTA)
May 2, 2025, 10:42 pm
Trump taps shock jock, Haredi publisher, Witkoff’s son for Holocaust Memorial Council
Sid Rosenberg and Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz join Mideast envoy Witkoff’s son Alex on panel, after president ousted Doug Emhoff and several other Biden appointees in very rare move
By Andrew Lapin
FILE - US Second gentleman Doug Emhoff speaks at the Democratic National Committee's holiday reception at the Willard Hotel in Washington, December 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
April 30, 2025, 1:01 am
Trump dismisses Doug Emhoff, other Biden nominees to US Holocaust Memorial Council
Kamala Harris’s husband slams president for ‘turning one of the worst atrocities in history into a wedge issue,’ says move ‘dishonors the memory of 6 million Jews murdered by Nazis’
By Zeke Miller and DARLENE SUPERVILLE
Rescued hostage Noa Argamani attends an emergency conference on the medical condition of Israeli hostages in the Gaza Strip at the President Residence in Jerusalem, December 10, 2024. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)
April 16, 2025, 6:55 pm
Rescued hostage Noa Argamani included in Time’s 100 Most Influential People of 2025
Former US second gentleman Doug Emhoff lauds her ‘extraordinary courage and humanity in speaking out’ for remaining captives; ADL chief Greenblatt also on list
By ToI Staff and JTA
Republican presidential nominee and former US president Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at McCamish Pavilion, October 28, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
October 29, 2024, 5:11 am
‘I’m not a Nazi. I’m the opposite of a Nazi,’ Trump declares amid fascism claims
Second Gentleman Emhoff charges that GOP nominee would betray Jews and Israel ‘if it suited his personal interests,’ says he’d like to put a mezuzah on White House if Harris wins
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Second gentleman Doug Emhoff stumps for Kamala Harris at an event for Jewish voters in suburban Detroit, October 20, 2024. (Andrew Lapin via JTA)
October 22, 2024, 12:14 am
Doug Emhoff, Ritchie Torres reassure Michigan Jewish voters Harris supports Israel
At mini-rally, second gentlemen questions how Jews can vote for Trump: ‘He foments antisemitism everywhere he goes’; NY rep tells private event VP is a pro-Israel stalwart
By Andrew Lapin
US President Joe Biden, center, standing with first lady Jill Biden, left, and Rabbi Aaron Alexander of the Adas Israel Congregation, after lighting a memorial candle in the Blue Room of the White House in Washington, Oct. 7, 2024, to mark the one-year anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel. (AP/Susan Walsh)
October 8, 2024, 3:21 am
Biden and potential successors mark Oct. 7 as US election nears, Mideast war rages
US president lights candle at White House, VP plants pomegranate tree at residence; Sullivan: Israel needs strategy to ensure battlefield wins endure; Trump visits Chabad rebbe’s grave
By Jacob Magid
Second gentleman Doug Emhoff speaks during a Jewish American Heritage Month event, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, May 20, 2024. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)
September 4, 2024, 11:23 am
Emhoff ‘gutted’ over Hersh Goldberg-Polin’s killing, hails hostage’s parents’ strength
US second gentleman says American-Israeli’s death ‘feels personal’ to him and VP Harris, vows administration ‘working around the clock’ for a hostage-ceasefire deal
By Jacob Magid and Agencies
US Vice President and 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and her husband US Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff wave from the stage on the fourth and last day of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, on August 22, 2024. (Charly Triballeau / AFP)
August 23, 2024, 1:07 pm
Daily Briefing Aug. 23: Day 322 – VP Harris reaffirms Israel support on final night of DNC
Diplomatic reporter Lazar Berman weighs in on ongoing hostage release talks in Cairo, maps out Gaza fighting and how it may progress; US bureau chief Jacob Magid reports from Chicago
By ToI Staff
Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff addresses an event organized by the Jewish Democratic Council of America on the sidelines of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on August 22, 2024. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)
August 23, 2024, 5:09 am
Emhoff pledges to continue fighting against antisemitism ‘when I’m first gentleman’
Speaking to Jewish Democrats on DNC sidelines, Harris’s husband shares how she encouraged him to redouble efforts after Oct. 7, when antisemitism ‘went from problem to crisis’
By Jacob Magid
Former President Barack Obama speaks during the Democratic National Convention August 20, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
August 21, 2024, 12:51 pm
Daily Briefing Aug. 21: Day 320 – ToI reports from Democratic National Convention in Chicago
US bureau chief Jacob Magid updates us on the hostage release negotiations and brings all that is Jewish and Israeli from the this week’s political confab in the Windy City
By ToI Staff
US second gentleman Doug Emhoff speaks during a commemoration ceremony at the site of the Chez Jo Goldenberg kosher deli where an August 9, 1982, bombing and shooting attack perpetrated by a Palestinian terror group killed six people and wounded 22. (Stephane de Sakutin / AFP)
August 10, 2024, 6:41 pm
Doug Emhoff brings fight against global antisemitism surge to Paris Olympics
Democratic nominee’s husband, who could become first Jewish spouse of a US president, attends commemoration of deadly 1982 attack on kosher deli, visits well-known falafel joint
By ToI Staff
UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay (L) and US Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff attend a meeting dedicated to combating antisemitism through education, at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris on August 8, 2024. (STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP)
August 8, 2024, 8:32 pm
US donates $2.2 million to UNESCO to fight antisemitism
Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff addresses post-Oct. 7 surge of Jew-hatred at UNESCO event in Paris; Biden administration rejoined agency after Trump withdrew over anti-Israel bias
By AFP
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally, July 27, 2024, in St. Cloud, Minn. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
July 30, 2024, 10:20 pm
Trump says Kamala Harris, who is married to a Jew, ‘doesn’t like Jewish people’
Former president says Democratic hopeful ‘dislikes Israel even more than Biden did’; Emhoff, who has been outspoken in his mission to combat antisemitism, declines to comment
By AP and ToI Staff
Second gentleman Doug Emhoff speaks during a Jewish American Heritage Month event, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, May 20, 2024. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)
July 28, 2024, 5:06 pm
Doug Emhoff is aiming to become America’s first first gentleman
‘I’m also going to live openly and proudly as a Jew,’ says Harris’s husband, who would be first Jewish White House resident; will continue to lead efforts to counter antisemitism
By Will Weissert
US Vice President Kamala Harris and Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, left, speak to the press while making a stop at the Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 13, 2024. (Ryan Collerd/AFP via Getty Images via JTA)
July 24, 2024, 12:33 pm
US Jews excited, and anxious, about potential representation on Democratic ticket
Kamala Harris, whose husband is Jewish, reportedly considering Gov. Josh Shapiro, Sen. Mark Kelly as running mate; both spouse and VP would be firsts for Jewish community
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
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