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Letters Letter to the Editor: Treat Jared and Ivanka with Empathy, Not Judgement
You know the old joke, two Jews, three opinions? It’s true. But when it comes to judgment, unfortunately we take it to another level entirely. Our propensity to judge one another is a sad component of Jewish culture today, which is at odds with our Jewish values. And, this judgmental culture seems to be a…
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Opinion Jews Who Attack Jared Kushner And Ivanka Trump Should Cut The Hypocrisy
Last week, several CNN commentators, including Don Lemon and Alan Dershowitz, wondered aloud whether Donald Trump’s poorly executed executive order on immigration was caused because of Shabbat. Specifically, the panelists posited that Trump’s son-in-law and close adviser, Jared Kushner, an Orthodox Jew who observes Shabbat, might not have been able to properly vet the order…
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News WATCH: Ivanka’s Adorable Daughter Sings Chinese New Year Song, Goes Viral
Ivanka Trump’s and Jared Kushner’s oldest daughter, Arabella, is enchanting China with her Chinese singing skills. Earlier this week, Ivanka Trump posted a video of five-year-old Arabella singing “Happy New Year” in Mandarin on Instagram. “Arabella singing a song she learned for #ChineseNewYear,” Trump wrote. “Wishing everyone an amazing year to come during these days…
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Fast Forward How Jared Kushner’s Making Shabbat Exciting Again — by Letting Trump Be Trump
Since Jared Kushner became the right hand man to the leader of the free world, folks have been puzzling over his Sabbath observance, when his phone’s off and he’s incommunicado. Jake Tapper, CNN’s chief political correspondent, offered an appropriate analogy to explain the connection between Saturdays and the palace intrigue. The nation hasn’t been this…
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Fast Forward ‘SNL’ Mocks Trump for Losing It When Jared and Ivanka Are Observing Shabbat
“Saturday Night Live” took another pointed shot at President Trump last night, skewering him for famously losing his cool whenever son-in-law Jared Kushner isn’t around — especially on Shabbat. In the show’s famed cold opening, Alec Baldwin playing Trump asks an aide about Jared and Ivanka Trump, who generally do not work or use electronic devices…
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Fast Forward How Jared and Ivanka Pushed Back Against the Christian Right
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump may have a new role in Donald Trump’s White House – a counterweight to Christian conservatives trying to sway the president’s agenda to the right. Politico reports that the first daughter and son-in-law led the charge to scuttle a proposed executive order rolling back the Obama administration’s rules on LGBTQ…
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Breaking News Did Ivanka and Jared Block Anti-LGBT Executive Order?
(JTA) — Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner reportedly helped push President Donald Trump to uphold a 2014 executive order protecting LGBT people from workplace discrimination. President Trump’s daughter and her husband, who serves as the president’s senior adviser, worked to nix a draft executive order outlining how to roll back some of the protections granted by former president Barack Obama’s…
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News Ivanka Trump Hasn’t Stepped Down as Promised, Investigation Finds
Just like her father, Ivanka Trump pledged to resign from all her positions in the family business. But so far, she hasn’t filed the paperwork, a ProPublica investigation found. “I will take a formal leave of absence from The Trump Organization and my eponymous apparel and accessories brand,” Ivanka Trump wrote in a Facebook post…
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