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Fast Forward Jared Kushner got rabbinic pass to work Shabbat due to pandemic. Did he make good use of it?
During the early days of the pandemic, Jared Kushner apparently received rabbinic dispensation to work late into Shabbat, Vanity Fair’s Katherine Eban reported — A meeting between White House officials and entrepreneurs, business executives and venture capitalists took place on Friday March 20, according to the report. “The meeting began at 6:30 p.m. Kushner is…
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Fast Forward Trump’s cabinet hated Jared Kushner: new Bob Woodward book
A new book by veteran reporter Bob Woodward says President Trump’s cabinet members saw the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner as unworthy of their trust and weak in dealing with world leaders, according to the Washington Post. Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called Kushner’s warm interactions with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…
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Fast Forward ‘Filthy Zionist agents:’ Iran’s Khamenei singles out Jared Kushner
(JTA) — Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, called out Jared Kushner as “the Jewish member of Trump’s family” in attacking the normalization agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. Khamenei made the comment on the White House senior adviser as part of a series of tweets on his English-language Twitter feed. “The nation…
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Fast Forward Jared Kushner will fly on first commercial flight between Israel and UAE
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Jared Kushner will be aboard when the first commercial flight between Israel and the United Arab Emirates takes off next week. Monday’s flight will carry an Israeli delegation as well as Kushner, the White House senio- r adviser; U.S. Middle East peace negotiator Avi Berkowitz; and National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien, according…
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Fast Forward Kushner says he ‘absolutely’ will send his kids back to school
(JTA) — Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump will be sending their three children — the grandchildren of President Donald Trump — back to in-person classes at their Jewish day school this fall. “This virus impacts different people in different ways. We know a lot more now than we did,” Kushner, a White House senior adviser…
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The Schmooze Why did Jared Kushner meet with third-party challenger Kanye West?
On Tuesday night Kanye West tweeted that he had met with Jared Kushner in Colorado. The rapper, who had been camping with his family, flew to Telluride, where Kushner was vacationing with his family during a global pandemic exacerbated by travel. In a tweet, Kanye said they’d discussed “Powernomics,” a book on Black economic empowerment….
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Fast Forward Kushner scrapped his own COVID testing plan to make blue states suffer: report
White House senior advisor/son-in-law Jared Kushner, who led a task force to fight COVID-19 in the early days of the pandemic, abandoned efforts to create a nationwide testing scheme after it was decided that it would be politically advantageous to let Democratic-controlled states suffer outbreaks, Vanity Fair reported Thursday. “The political folks believed that because…
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Fast Forward Bolton book says Netanyahu was concerned about Jared Kushner
(JTA) — John Bolton, a former Trump administration national security adviser, says in his new book that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu questioned Jared Kushner’s ability to develop a Middle East peace plan. In “The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir,” Bolton wrote that he spoke with Netanyahu before Bolton joined the Trump…
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