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Israel News How Jared Kushner Became a Teenage Hero — and Learned To Be a Zionist
Almost 20 years before Jared Kushner became a chief adviser to Donald Trump, a man who has boasted about groping women’s genitals, he rescued a teenage girl from a groping attack in Poland. The incident happened in 1998, when Kushner was a high school participant in the March of the Living, a Holocaust education trip…
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Opinion Could Ivanka Trump Be the Lisa Simpson of the White House?
What if famous cartoon doofus Homer Simpson, by some stroke of fate, became mayor of his fictional town of Springfield? The character, known for his harebrained schemes and for his reliance on dumb luck to get by, isn’t based on any real-life personalities, though lately a certain politician has brought him to mind. What would…
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Opinion Are the ‘Frum Police’ Right To Judge Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump?
(JTA) — President-elect Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, attended the Inauguration Day service Friday at St. John’s Episcopal Church, a tradition that goes back to 1933. The live video showed the Trumps shaking hands with the pastor and entering the church, followed immediately by his daughter Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner. No big deal,…
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News How the Women’s March Found Its Distinctly Jewish Voice
As a thousand people crammed into the ornate, cavernous sanctuary of B’nai Jeshurun on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, and another 400 waited patiently in a line that extended around the block, it was clear that today’s protest organized by women against President Donald Trump had found a distinctly Jewish voice. Soulful niggunim, those timeless melodies…
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Fast Forward Ivanka Trump: I’m Not Going to Be First Lady
Ivanka Trump stepped up for her stepmother in a Thursday interview, saying that Melania Trump, not her would be the first lady in both name and deed. “I think it’s an inappropriate observation. There’s one first lady, and she’ll do remarkable things,” Ivanka Trump said on ABC’s 20/20, responding to a question about she and…
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News Jewish Moments To Look for at Trump’s Inauguration
As a candidate he was shunned by most of the Jewish community, yet Trump has surrounded himself with a small but loyal group of Jewish supporters, donors and confidants. For those celebrating and for those protesting, here are a few Jewish moments to look for on Inauguration Day. Who will be there for Trump? Jewish…
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The Schmooze Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner Get Rabbinic Pass To Ride in Car on Inauguration Shabbat
Updates to add details about Jewish law, other Sabbath observers’s experiences in politics. Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner have been given a free rabbinical pass to travel by car following Donald Trump’s inauguration Friday. According to Jewish law, driving or riding in cars is prohibited on the Sabbath. But a principle in Jewish law, called…
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News Jewish Republicans Hope for Face Time With Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump at Inauguration
As exciting as watching the presidential inauguration with hundreds of thousands of other Trump supporters gathered in the National Mall may be, true political players are looking beyond the swearing in, the inaugural speech and the parade to the White House. For them, its all about inaugural balls, pre- and post-inauguration dinners and private receptions….
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