Feuerstein made a tremendous kiddush hashem when his factory burned down in 1995 but he protected the jobs of all his employees and continued to pay them their salaries while rebuilding, despite there being no work for them during that period. Aaron Feuerstein recently died.
The Second Family decided to honor Feuerstein in this way as part of the Biden Administrations theme of getting people to work together to get the country out of COVID.source: TOI
So, the Vice President of the United States of America and her husband have now borrowed a mezuza and a menora for their public mitzvahs. What's next - a borrowed gragger for Purim? A borrowed Seder Plate? Maybe a borrowed tree for Tu Bshvat?
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