This is so cool, Biden's cabinet has enough Jews to have a minyan

[repoman]

Very inspirational

https://forward.com/news/462330/enough-for-a-minyan-a-jewish-whos-who-of-bidens-cabinet-to-be/

President-elect Joe Biden announced his picks for the Cabinet, the joke went around on Jewish Twitter that the West Wing would have a minyan.

Indeed, at least 10 prominent Jews have been nominated to key positions. There’s Ronald Klain (chief of staff); Anthony Blinken (Secretary of State); Janet Yellen (Treasury); Merrick Garland (Attorney General); Alejandro Mayorkas (Homeland Security);and Avril Haines (Director of National Intelligence). One level down are Wendy Sherman (deputy Secretary of State); Eric Lander (science and technology adviser); Ann Neuberger (deputy National Security Adviser); and David Cohen (deputy CIA director).

Plus there’s Doug Emhoff, the Jewish husband of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris.

t’s a “remarkable statement about the place of Jews in this society,” said Jason Isaacson, the American Jewish Committee’s chief policy and political affairs officer in Washington. Amid the rise in antisemitism and its role underpinning the Capitol siege on Jan. 6, Isaacson added, the fact that so many well-known and engaged Jews will serve in the highest levels of the administration “and no one talks about that and it’s not an issue, that says a lot about how far American society has progressed.”

After Biden’s inauguration on Wednesday, most of these individuals will have to be confirmed by the United States Senate. Here’s a who’s who guide to the West Wing minyan-to-be:

 

[ideologyhunter]

Then it's a bookend for SCOTUS, the national branch of the Jesuits. Dammit, I want an atheist agency in the government! Maybe the Government Printing Office. I'd like to see Ingersoll's Greatest Hits alongside Growing Root Vegetables in Your Victory Garden.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Did we lose the ability to uber-ignore posters so we wouldn't see the threads they started?

 

[Keith&Co.]

So, the Catholic President is turning the White House into a synagogue....

Well, the last administration was more of a clown car, so anything's a step up.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

So, the Catholic President is turning the White House into a synagogue....

Well, the last administration was more of a clown car, so anything's a step up.

Quit insulting clown cars!

And most Jews aren't interested in using their position to impose their religion on others, they're a lot safer than Christians.

 

[Elixir]

Will we never have an egalitarian society?
Is an evangelical atheist catholic muslim clowncar synagogue in which to worship nothing and everything just a utopian dream?

 

[Keith&Co.]

Will we never have an egalitarian society?
Is an evangelical atheist catholic muslim clowncar synagogue in which to worship nothing and everything just a utopian dream?

Splitter!