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Fast Forward The Top 10 Moments That Mattered To Jews In 5777
(JTA) — This Jewish year was not a quiet one, to say the least. From the tumultuous first eight months of Donald Trump’s presidency, to a wave of bomb threats against Jewish community centers, to a neo-Nazi protest in Charlottesville that turned violent, to the twin weather catastrophes of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, Jews, like…
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Fast Forward Some Trump Lawyers Thought Kushner Should Step Down Over Russia Scandal
(JTA) — Some lawyers for President Trump recommended that Jared Kushner step down as senior White House adviser over the Russia scandal. The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that the president’s lawyers were not united in the opinion. The article also said that Trump believed Kushner had done nothing wrong, thus there was no reason…
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Fast Forward Trump Lawyers Wanted Jared Kushner Dumped Over Russia Probe
President Trump’s legal team reportedly wanted Jared Kushner fired over his involvement in the Russia collusion scandal — but his father-in-law refused to dump him. The Wall Street Journal said “some” of Trump’s shifting legal team recommended in June that Kushner be ousted from his position as a top White House adviser. Trump, whose daughter…
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Opinion The Paradox Of Jared Kushner, A ‘Man Without Qualities’
Seventy-five years ago, Robert Musil died in Switzerland. The Austrian writer had taken refuge there in 1938 with his Jewish wife Martha, and as the war progressed, he spent his time trying to make ends meet and to complete his novel, “The Man Without Qualities.” Neither effort was successful: Musil’s life ended in poverty when…
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Fast Forward Breitbart Suggests Jared And Ivanka Undercut Trump On DACA
Breitbart News is taking names on who wants to extend Obama-era protections for undocumented immigrants, publishing an item on Tuesday morning noting that Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are supposedly for keeping the DACA program in place. The article was written as a straight news story, but represents a constant drip of information from Breitbart…
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Fast Forward Bannon’s Breitbart Says Trump’s ‘On House Arrest’ — At Hands Of Jared Kushner’s Faction
When former U.N. ambassador John Bolton complained that “staff changes in the White House” have made it impossible for him to present his views to the president, most took it as a sign of Chief of Staff’s John Kelly policy to control access to Trump. But Mike Cernovich, author of the Trump Dispatches blog and…
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Fast Forward Jared And Ivanka Are Unhappy And Disliked in D.C.
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are not having much fun in Washington D.C., according to a new Vanity Fair feature out over the weekend. Distant from their old friends, the power couple has found themselves surrounded by enemies, with far less power than they expected. In one devastating anecdote from a high-wattage conference of leading…
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Opinion Jared Kushner Just Made A Huge Blunder On Peace In The Middle East
Last week, Jared Kushner and various other Trump administration officials met with Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas. Abbas reportedly urged the Americans to publicly endorse the two-state solution. The Americans refused. The reason, according to The Washington Post, is that Kushner and company believe “that it is down to the two sides, not them, to…
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