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Fast Forward Saudi Arabia Forbids New Father From Naming Daughter ‘Ivanka’
A Saudi father will not be able to name his newborn daughter Ivanka after the government told him that he couldn’t use the name, the news website Zawya reported Sunday. “The civil status department informed me that the name could not be approved because it was foreign,” Salem Al Anzi told the newspaper Okaz. “I…
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Fast Forward Ivanka Trump’s Rabbi Throws Out First Pitch — Mets Lose 7-0
(JTA) — Perhaps the injury-plagued New York Mets thought that having a rabbi throw out the first pitch before a game would bring some divine intervention. Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, the prominent modern Orthodox rabbi who oversaw Ivanka Trump’s conversion to Judaism, made the ceremonial toss at the Mets-Marlins game on Sunday to a smattering of applause at…
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Fast Forward Ivanka Launches Listening Tour Of Government To Learn About Women’s Issues
Ivanka Trump will be meeting with various administration officials and cabinet heads as part of the first daughter’s push to become an advocate within the White House on women’s issues. The listening tour will begin with Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt, and then move to other higher-ups, including Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, Labor…
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The Schmooze Debra Messing’s Powerful Message To Ivanka ‘One Jewish Mother To Another’
Debra Messing had a strongly-worded message for Ivanka Trump during the GLAAD Awards on Saturday. The actress, who was being honored with the Excellence in Media Award, spoke to the president’s daughter, “one Jewish mother to another.” “It’s not enough to simply say that women’s issues are important to you,” Messing said. “It’s time to…
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Life Ivanka’s ‘Women Who Work’ Inspires Nostalgia For ‘Lean In’
A Washington Post headline from last June read as follows: “Move over Sheryl Sandberg, Ivanka Trump’s new book ‘Women Who Work’ is coming out next spring.” Indeed, Ivanka’s new opus is often compared with Sandberg’s 2013 “Lean In.” The verdict goes something like this: If you thought Sandberg represented corporate faux-feminism, you’ve seen nothing. Nothing!…
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Fast Forward State Dept. Retweets – And Then Deletes – Plug For Ivanka’s New Book
A State Department Twitter accounted posted and then quickly deleted a tweet from Ivanka Trump promoting her new book “Women Who Work.” The agency’s Office of Global Women’s Issues briefly retweeted the post from Trump, in which the first daughter gushed about her sisters reading her memoir/self-help volume. Thank you to my beautiful sisters for…
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Fast Forward Conservatives Accuse Jared and Ivanka For Watered-Down Executive Order On Religious Freedom
Did President Trump’s Executive Order on religious freedom signed Thursday please anyone? Liberals fret that it went too far, while some conservatives feel that the it fell short of Trump’s campaign pledge to “totally destroy” the Johnson Amendment which prohibits clergy from pulpit politicking. Why the sudden softening in Trump’s approach? Robert P. George, a…
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The Schmooze ‘Don’t Use My Story’: Women React To Being Included in Ivanka Trump’s New Book
Ivanka Trump already has a thrilling history of pulling quotes slightly out of context: last September she tweeted a meme of the words “If not me, who? If not now, when?” in a cutesy font and attributed them to the actress Emma Watson. Critics were quick to point out that while Watson did say those…
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