Tens of thousands, including New York’s governor and the city’s mayor, gathered for the 51st annual parade, which this year had the theme of “Israel Imagines.”
A newspaper report on the possible infestation at the Central Synagogue cited a letter emailed to its 2,300 member families about the five-day closure.
“Beau Biden achieved a great deal, and gave so much,” the Israeli prime minister wrote to the vice president’s family. Beau Biden, Delaware’s attorney general, succumbed to brain cancer at 46.