This is the Forward’s coverage of Jared Kushner, white house senior adviser and President Trump’s son-in-law. Visit here to stay up on all the latest and breaking news on his fumbles with security and foreign relations matters, as he’s been…
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Fast Forward How Jared Kushner’s Making Shabbat Exciting Again — by Letting Trump Be Trump
Since Jared Kushner became the right hand man to the leader of the free world, folks have been puzzling over his Sabbath observance, when his phone’s off and he’s incommunicado. Jake Tapper, CNN’s chief political correspondent, offered an appropriate analogy to explain the connection between Saturdays and the palace intrigue. The nation hasn’t been this…
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Fast Forward ‘SNL’ Mocks Trump for Losing It When Jared and Ivanka Are Observing Shabbat
“Saturday Night Live” took another pointed shot at President Trump last night, skewering him for famously losing his cool whenever son-in-law Jared Kushner isn’t around — especially on Shabbat. In the show’s famed cold opening, Alec Baldwin playing Trump asks an aide about Jared and Ivanka Trump, who generally do not work or use electronic devices…
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Fast Forward How Jared and Ivanka Pushed Back Against the Christian Right
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump may have a new role in Donald Trump’s White House – a counterweight to Christian conservatives trying to sway the president’s agenda to the right. Politico reports that the first daughter and son-in-law led the charge to scuttle a proposed executive order rolling back the Obama administration’s rules on LGBTQ…
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Fast Forward Did Ivanka and Jared Block Anti-LGBT Executive Order?
(JTA) — Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner reportedly helped push President Donald Trump to uphold a 2014 executive order protecting LGBT people from workplace discrimination. President Trump’s daughter and her husband, who serves as the president’s senior adviser, worked to nix a draft executive order outlining how to roll back some of the protections granted by former president Barack Obama’s…
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News Ivanka Trump Hasn’t Stepped Down as Promised, Investigation Finds
Just like her father, Ivanka Trump pledged to resign from all her positions in the family business. But so far, she hasn’t filed the paperwork, a ProPublica investigation found. “I will take a formal leave of absence from The Trump Organization and my eponymous apparel and accessories brand,” Ivanka Trump wrote in a Facebook post…
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Fast Forward As Promised, Jared Kushner Sells Off Stake in Manhattan Office Tower
Jared Kushner has sold his stake in his family’s office tower and business headquarters in midtown Manhattan, as part of his promised effort to avoid conflicts of interest while serving as a White House senior adviser. “Mr. Kushner’s ownership interests were sold using a third-party appraisal for fair market value to a family trust, of…
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Letters Letter to the Editor: Jared Kushner Reveals The Fissures In American Judaism
In his recent column in the Forward (“How Could Modern Orthodox Judaism Produce Jared Kushner?” ) Beinart examines Jared’s recent, little-more-than-a-week long record as a member of the Trump administration. He looks at what the administration has thus far produced, and how Jared has stood by and watched it happen. In Beinart’s telling, Jared is…
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News Is Jared Kushner Losing White House Power Struggle To Steve Bannon?
In the reality show that is this White House, has chief strategist Steve Bannon kicked Jared Kushner off the island? It seems that Kushner might be losing the contest of wills, as the new president embraces nationalist policies and runs into trouble with ill-timed outbursts from himself and his advisers. President Trump’s boldest and most…
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