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News Is Jared Kushner Becoming A Small Shadow State Department?
“They think Jared can do everything.” A State Department official said Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law and a high-level White House advisor, has such a sprawling portfolio that he’s starting to usurp the roles of trained diplomats, according to an article by Julia Ioffe in the Atlantic. “It’s reminiscent of the developing countries where I’ve…
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Fast Forward Jared Kushner To Keep Some Real Estate, Courts Conflict Of Interest Questions
Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, key White House advisor to the new president, will not entirely divest from his family’s vast real estate empire, ProPublica reported Friday. According to ProPublica’s report, based on documents released to the news organization and statements from the White House, Kushner is keeping some of his extensive assets. With an…
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Fast Forward Where Are Jared And Ivanka On Trans Bathrooms?
Advocates for LGBT rights are looking to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump to speak out against new guidelines that strip protection from trans students – and they’re coming up empty. The new guidelines, published Wednesday, reverse an Obama-era ruling that high schools must allow transgender students to use the bathrooms matching their gender identities. Jewish…
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Opinion How Ivanka Trump Revamped The Role Of The ‘Daddy’s Girl’
While researching my book, “Our Fathers, Ourselves,” I spent a year interviewing nearly 100 women, ages 20 through 40, most of them successful in their fields, in a quest to explore the father-daughter bond and the evolving gender roles between women and their dads. These were the sort of women who were early to excel…
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Fast Forward Frisch School Alumni Speak Out Against Jared Kushner On Trump’s Muslim Ban
Jared Kushner’s fellow alumni of New Jersey’s Frisch School say Jewish values spurred them to speak out about the famous graduate and President Trump’s “Muslim ban.” Nava Friedman organized a petition calling on Kushner to shift course she told the New York Jewish Week. “Given the values that we learned at Frisch … it felt…
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Breaking News Frisch School Colleagues Plead With Jared Kushner To Halt Refugee Ban
(JTA) — Some 180 alumni and former staff of a New Jersey yeshiva high school implored graduate Jared Kushner to use his influence with President Donald Trump, his father-in-law, to ease the path for refugees coming to the United States. In the open letter from “members of the Frisch School Community,” the signatories expressed “alarm”…
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Fast Forward Kushners Drop Baseball Bid Among Conflict-Of-Interest Fears
Members of Jared Kushner’s family are suspending their big league dreams. A Kushner bid to buy the Miami Marlins, led by Jared Kushner’s younger brother, Joshua Kushner, and a brother-in-law, was paused on Wednesday, amid reports that the team’s current owner, Jeffrey Loria, is up for an ambassadorship. “We do not want this unrelated transaction…
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Food Jared Kushner Connection at Kosher Wine Show?
Sipping my way through Monday’s Kosher Food & Wine Experience at Chelsea Piers, I was struck by a palpable excitement in the air. The place was packed, the mood was convivial and the wines I tasted were notably high quality. Among the highlights was the 2014 Covenant Israeli Syrah from Covenant Winery’s new Israeli vineyard…
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