Gray Lady Guy: Glenn Thrush with his wife, Diane Webber. Image by Courtesy of Diane Webber

By Aiden Pink April 17, 2017

One half of The New York Times’ top Trump reporting duo praised The Forward’s coverage of their friendship, which began when they discovered that the other was Jewish.

Times reporter Glenn Thrush tweeted that the article “is the greatest thing that has ever happened to me and” colleague Maggie Haberman.

This is the greatest thing that has ever happened to me and @maggieNYT https://t.co/IqLecEoQRh

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— Glenn Thrush (@GlennThrush) April 16, 2017

The two met when they were reporters at rival newspapers covering New York City politics. They refused to speak to each other until Haberman overheard Thrush mentioning that he was Jewish.

“Since when are you Jewish?” Haberman asked.

“Since they cut my foreskin off when I was a baby,” Thrush responded.

True to form, the duo, who most recently collaborated on a joint profile of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump on Saturday, continued bantering about the article on Twitter.

I have been telling this story for how many years now? https://t.co/xoZQ35L2RW

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) April 16, 2017

Since my actual bris https://t.co/g8DM8WXD9z

— Glenn Thrush (@GlennThrush) April 16, 2017

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