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Opinion How Could Modern Orthodox Judaism Produce Jared Kushner?
In our annual progression through the Torah, we are now deep into slavery in Egypt. And each year, around this time, as I read the first Torah portions in Exodus, the same thought occurs to me: Why is all this necessary? By the end of Jacob’s life, he’s back in the Land of Israel, the…
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The Schmooze Ivanka Trump Reportedly ‘Feels Terrible’ After Instagram Backlash
Two days after President Trump signed an executive order halting immigration from seven predominately Muslim countries, Ivanka Trump took to social media to post a picture of herself and Jared Kushner decked out in evening attire. The post swiftly sparked backlash from several social media users, who found the timing of the glitzy shot to…
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Opinion The Refugee Ban Masks Steve Bannon’s Power Grab
Last Friday night, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump hosted their first Shabbat meal in their new home in Washington DC. Among the invitees saying kiddish were influential members of the new Trump administration. The next day, one of the attendees, Hope Hicks, Trump’s Director of Strategic Communications, spent her Saturday publicly defending and applauding the…
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Fast Forward Jared Kushner: In White House, Nearly Everything ‘Runs Through Me’
Weekend reporting in the New York Times provided a peek into the Trump White House’s inner workings and the role played by his Jewish son-in-law Jared Kushner. Formally described as senior adviser to the president, Kushner has emerged as Trump’s closest ally in the West Wing. “He has told several people that all things on…
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Fast Forward Soros Rips ‘Would-Be Dictator’ Trump, Lends Money to His In-Laws, the Kushners
George Soros has been a fierce critic of President Donald Trump, denouncing him at a recent conference in Switzerland as a “would-be dictator.” But that doesn’t mean he’s above doing business with the president’s in-laws — the billionaire investor is said to have given $250 million in credit to Jared Kushner and Joshua Kushner’s real estate…
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Life Ivanka Trump Leaves Metallic Taste in Nation’s Mouths
I’m sure you’ve seen this in your social media feeds, too. In response to outrage about a Muslim ban, some have pointed out that not all Muslims are technically banned by President Trump’s recent executive order. Fine. This is the right place to focus if you imagine that the Holocaust simply involved Europe one day…
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Opinion Day of Reckoning: Religious Leaders Must Fight Trump’s Refugee Ban Or Lose Moral Standing
The Trump administration’s executive order to ban refugees from seven Muslim-majority countries and to give preference to Christians has now forced leaders of all faiths to declare how American they truly are. By American, I do not mean the perverted notion of nationalism embedded in President Trump’s offensive, unnecessary and damaging travel and immigration ban….
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Fast Forward Trump Cabinet Go to Kushners for Shabbat Dinner
(JTA) — Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump hosted several members of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet for a Shabbat dinner. The London-based Daily Mail published photos of food and caterers, flowers and a makeup artists arriving at the Kushner’s new home in the Kalorama neighborhood of Washington DC. Local Chabad rabbi Levi Shemtov also was photographed…
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