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Kamala Harris, tapped on Tuesday as Joe Biden’s running mate, attended services at both a Black Baptist church and a Hindu temple growing up – an interfaith background that reflects her historic status as the first Black woman and woman of South Asian descent on a major-party presidential ticket. "Kamla" means “lotus” in the Sanskrit language.
Attending Oakland’s 23rd Avenue Church of God as a child, Harris said, “we’d learn about caring for the least of these. And I sang in the choir about how faith combined with determination will always see us through difficult times." Harris added that her mother also took her and her sister to a Hindu temple “to see that all faiths teach us to pursue justice.”
Harris attends services at the Third Baptist Church of San Francisco, led by pastor Rev. Amos Brown, who lauded her as “a quintessential scholar” who would unite “the spirituality, the genius and the nonviolent traditions” of her parents’ backgrounds and of the African American community.
She identifies as a Baptist and brought another faith into her life in 2014, when she married Douglas Emhoff, a Jewish attorney. Harris’ two step-children deserve the credit for that mashup of mom and Kamala ~ momala CNN reported last year. Emhoff lives in San Francisco home to the largest community of Karaite Jews in America.
During a 2017 speech at a historic Black church in Atlanta, Harris invoked both of the faiths she encountered as the daughter of immigrants from Jamaica and India.
Kamala Harris is the best VP the "progressive-liberal" DNC could have chosen. Trump's tweeting is getting old? If only he would listen to Jason, Ivanka, Melania and even Barron who's now taller than his dad.
Attending Oakland’s 23rd Avenue Church of God as a child, Harris said, “we’d learn about caring for the least of these. And I sang in the choir about how faith combined with determination will always see us through difficult times." Harris added that her mother also took her and her sister to a Hindu temple “to see that all faiths teach us to pursue justice.”
Harris attends services at the Third Baptist Church of San Francisco, led by pastor Rev. Amos Brown, who lauded her as “a quintessential scholar” who would unite “the spirituality, the genius and the nonviolent traditions” of her parents’ backgrounds and of the African American community.
She identifies as a Baptist and brought another faith into her life in 2014, when she married Douglas Emhoff, a Jewish attorney. Harris’ two step-children deserve the credit for that mashup of mom and Kamala ~ momala CNN reported last year. Emhoff lives in San Francisco home to the largest community of Karaite Jews in America.
Their wedding featured the breaking of a glass, a Jewish tradition, and Harris’ stepchildren gave her the nickname of “Momala,” a rhyme with her name that recalls the Yiddish term “mamaleh.”
During a 2017 speech at a historic Black church in Atlanta, Harris invoked both of the faiths she encountered as the daughter of immigrants from Jamaica and India.
Religious groups that weighed in on Harris’ selection are split along ideological lines. The Jewish Democratic Council of America hailing her selection while the Republican Jewish Coalition decried. Harris’ support for abortion rights also sparked criticism from Priests for Life, an anti-abortion group, and longtime backer of President Donald Trump.
Kamala Harris is the best VP the "progressive-liberal" DNC could have chosen. Trump's tweeting is getting old? If only he would listen to Jason, Ivanka, Melania and even Barron who's now taller than his dad.
Sweet dreams, "momala" (pronounced same as Yiddish "mameleh") see you in the White House"
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