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Fast Forward Did Jared Kushner Have Real Estate Links To Shady Israeli Billionaire?
Jared Kushner and his family business has now been linked to real estate transactions with an Israeli billionaire under investigation in four countries for bribery and corrupt practices. According to The New York Times, Kushner partnered in 2012 with Raz Steinmetz, whose family got rich in the diamond business, to purchase $190 million worth of…
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Fast Forward Newspaper. Office Tower. Marry Ivanka. Did PR Maven Give Jared A Checklist?
When dad Charlie Kushner got sent to prison for political wheeling-and-dealing, Jared Kushner reportedly got some advice from Howard Rubenstein, possibly the king of crisis communications in New York City. Rubinstein, according to a piece in the Huffington Post, apparently told Kushner to buy a newspaper, purchase a Manhattan building and marry a rich New…
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Fast Forward Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner Once Appeared On ‘Gossip Girl’
There have been a lot of random celebrity cameos on the glossy, teen soap “Gossip Girl.” Lady Gaga, Mike Bloomberg (?!) and Cyndi Lauper among them. But a sharp-eyed Twitter user caught a glimpse of two high-profile and, erm, currently very topical New Yorkers in one particular scene. Yup, that’s Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump…
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Letters The Kushner Theory of Relativity
My last name – Kushner – wasn’t a big deal until the election of President Trump. Now everyone wants to know if I’m related to Jared Kushner. Aviya Kushner of the Forward apparently gets this question, too. Her response: “The short answer: no.” That’s what she wrote in her recent article “Why It’s So Hard…
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Fast Forward 53% Give Thumbs Down To Ivanka and Jared In White House
A majority of Americans say that Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s prominent roles in the White House are inappropriate, a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday revealed. In separate questions, voters nationwide were asked whether it was appropriate that the pair were “playing a significant role in the White House.” In both cases, 53% of voters…
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Israel News What Do Israelis Think Of Jared And Ivanka?
American Jews have a fraught relationship with Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. Whatever pride they feel in the Jewish couple in the White House is tempered by the fact that most of them voted against President Trump and oppose the administration’s policies. In Israel the feeling is much less complicated. “For us it is like…
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Fast Forward 9 Jews Named to Time 100 List – Can You Guess Them All?
Jews were prominently featured in Time magazine’s annual list of the world’s 100 most influential people, which was released on Thursday. Husband-and-wife White House advisers Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump received separate entries. Kushner’s bio was written by former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who said that he has “sporadically exchanged views” with Kushner over…
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Fast Forward Jared And Ivanka Make Time’s 100 Most Influential
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump were listed among the 100 most influential people in 2017 according to Time magazine’s annual list. The daughter and son-in-law of the president are listed in the “Pioneers” section, which also includes late-night host Samantha Bee and pro-Palestinian activist Linda Sarsour. Wendi Murdoch, producer and former wife of Rupert Murdoch,…
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