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‘Don’t Call Me — or Chelsea — a Shiksa’

The recent conversion to Judaism and subsequent marriage of Ivanka Trump to Jared Kushner, and Chelsea Clinton’s even more recent engagement to Marc Mezvinsky have newspapers, magazines and blogs discussing the impact these relationships have on society and on the families involved. In this Daily Beast essay, Samuel P. Jacobs touts Ivanka Trump’s, and presumably…

By Marilyn Horan Dec 10, 2009 | 3 min read
Life
For Chelsea Clinton, a Jewish Fiancé

Today we learned that Chelsea Clinton, seen at right, will be the latest celebrity to walk down the aisle with a Jewish partner — her longtime boyfriend Marc Mezvinsky. And thus, the most powerful liberal political dynasty in the country has firmly allied itself with the Chosen People. It’s unclear whether, like Ivanka Trump did…

By Sarah Seltzer Nov 30, 2009 | 2 min read
Life
Comparing Ourselves to Ivanka

What intrigued me more than the celebrity news coverage of the Ivanka Trump–Jared Kushner nuptials is how many Orthodox Jews have quickly and eagerly adopted Ivanka — a recent convert to Judaism — as one of their own. Since the wedding, I’ve received “private” photos of the wedding from one friend, clips from interviews in…

By Maayan Dauber Nov 9, 2009 | 2 min read
Life
At the Trump-Kushner Wedding, the Rabbi Sang in ‘Aromatic’

Barbara Walters, who attended the Trump-Kushner nuptials, discusses the Hebrew lettering on the couple’s wedding invitation and officiant Rabbi Haskel Lookstein’s “aromatic” — she means Aramaic — singing, under the chuppah:

By Gabrielle Birkner Oct 28, 2009 | < 1 min read
Life
JVanka Wedding Recap

Over the weekend, entrepreneur Ivanka Trump (The Donald’s daughter) married her fellow real estate scion boyfriend, Jared Kushner, who publishes the New York Observer. The lavish wedding was held with the couple’s 500 nearest and dearest at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J. The blogosphere is buzzing with all the gossip tidbits you…

By Nadja Spiegelman Oct 26, 2009 | < 1 min read
Life
Cronkite, Trump, and the Validity of Jewish Marriages

Ivanka Trump’s conversion/engagement to Jared Kushner may be interesting to most readers because of its wealthy-elite-hooking-up gossip factor, but their story is also quite relevant to the controversies that have been surrounding Orthodox conversion in recent years. My unsolicited advice to the happy couple, who shall heretofore be known collectively as Jivanka: Don’t try to…

By Rebecca Honig Friedman Jul 21, 2009 | 2 min read
Life
Should Ivanka Want a Sheitel…

Welcome to the tribe, Ms. Trump. No sooner had the mikveh water dried from her conversion to Judaism this week than Ivanka Trump became affianced to Jared Kushner. The future Mrs. Trump-Kushner announced their engagement by sending off this Tweet. She completed her conversion this week under the tutelage of Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, who is…

By Debra Nussbaum Cohen Jul 17, 2009 | 2 min read
Life
Pesach With the Kushners

The son is the young Manhattan media mogul who just got engaged to Ivanka Trump. The father is the New Jersey real estate baron who went to jail for tax fraud and sending a prostitute to try to entrap his brother-in-law. New York magazine has a lengthy profile of the Kushners — and, oy, do…

By Daniel Treiman Jul 17, 2009 | < 1 min read

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