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Fast Forward Does Trump Get Itchy Twitter Fingers When Jared’s Observing Shabbat?
Does Jared Kushner’s Shabbat observance lead father-in-law Donald Trump to go off the rails? It’s an open question after this weekend, when the new leader picked a fight with the media as his top adviser and crisis manager unplugged for the day. “He wasn’t rolling calls on Saturday when this happened,” an unnamed source told…
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Israel News How Jared Kushner Became a Teenage Hero — and Learned To Be a Zionist
Almost 20 years before Jared Kushner became a chief adviser to Donald Trump, a man who has boasted about groping women’s genitals, he rescued a teenage girl from a groping attack in Poland. The incident happened in 1998, when Kushner was a high school participant in the March of the Living, a Holocaust education trip…
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Fast Forward Jared Kushner’s Name Scrubbed From Pro-IDF Group Board
Jared Kushner’s name has been scrubbed from the national board of the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces, apparently following questions from the press about his continued involvement in the group. Ha’aretz had asked Kushner’s spokesman about his affiliation to the organization, given President Donald Trump’s desire that his son-in-law help him negotiate Middle East…
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Breaking News Will Joshua Kushner’s $2.7B ‘Hipster Health’ Company Fail Under Trump?
(JTA) — It might not surprise some of those who know him that Joshua Kushner, Jared Kushner’s younger brother, showed up at the Women’s March on Washington this weekend. The 31-year-old has given about $100,000 to Democratic candidates over the years, and Esquire reported in August that he was not planning to vote for Donald…
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Fast Forward Joshua Kushner’s Wild Weekend — From Anti-Trump Protest March to White House With Brother Jared
If you’re a rich young tech investor whose brother is the son-in-law of the leader of the free world, how to spend inauguration weekend? Saturday with the anti-Trump protesters, and Sunday hanging with your big bro in the White House. Joshua Kushner, brother to Ivanka Trump’s husband, senior White House adviser Jared Kushner, played both…
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Opinion Could Ivanka Trump Be the Lisa Simpson of the White House?
What if famous cartoon doofus Homer Simpson, by some stroke of fate, became mayor of his fictional town of Springfield? The character, known for his harebrained schemes and for his reliance on dumb luck to get by, isn’t based on any real-life personalities, though lately a certain politician has brought him to mind. What would…
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Opinion Are the ‘Frum Police’ Right To Judge Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump?
(JTA) — President-elect Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, attended the Inauguration Day service Friday at St. John’s Episcopal Church, a tradition that goes back to 1933. The live video showed the Trumps shaking hands with the pastor and entering the church, followed immediately by his daughter Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner. No big deal,…
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Breaking News Jared Kushner Gets Green Light for White House Position
(JTA) — U.S. President Donald Trump can appoint his Jewish son-in-law Jared Kushner as a White House senior adviser, the Justice Department concluded. The Justice Department issued its 14-page opinion on Friday, according to the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Council. The office said that a federal anti-nepotism law passed in 1967 “does not bar…
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