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Opinion Donald Trump Plays ‘Identity Politics’ With Jews and Israel — but Conservatives Keep Quiet
If there’s one thing conservatives hate, it’s “identity politics”: the claim that membership in a particular ethnic, racial or gender group gives someone special authority over policy toward that group. Tell conservatives that women should make abortion policy, or Latinos should make immigration policy, or African Americans should decide whether affirmative action is fair, and…
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News Trump Adviser Reed Cordish
EDITOR’S NOTE: On January 18, the Forward published a story describing a number of allegations made in a lawsuit against The Cordish Companies. Our story relied on information from a Daily Beast article. The Daily Beast has removed its story and apologized. The Forward has removed its story and also apologizes.
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News Jewish Republicans Hope for Face Time With Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump at Inauguration
As exciting as watching the presidential inauguration with hundreds of thousands of other Trump supporters gathered in the National Mall may be, true political players are looking beyond the swearing in, the inaugural speech and the parade to the White House. For them, its all about inaugural balls, pre- and post-inauguration dinners and private receptions….
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Life Donald Trump’s Subtle Sexism Towards Ivanka Makes Me Nostalgic For Caring About Subtle Bigotry
Fears or hopes or whatever they were of Ivanka Trump serving as a behind-the-scenes first female president can probably be set aside. Donald Trump went to Jared rather than Ivanka for assistance: “‘She is busy buying a house,’ he said [in an interview quoted in the Forward]. ‘She has children so Jared will be engaged…
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Fast Forward Trump Appoints Jared Kushner Friend as Assistant to President
(JTA) — Donald Trump named Reed Cordish, a real estate developer who is friends with his son-in-law Jared Kushner, as assistant to the president for intragovernmental and technology initiatives. Cordish, who is Jewish, will be responsible for initiatives requiring multi-agency collaboration. He will also focus on technological innovation and modernization, according to a statement Tuesday by Trump’s…
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Fast Forward Tom Friedman: ‘Jewish Summer Camp’ Is Jared Kushner’s Mideast Peace Credential
Jared Kushner, real estate developer and presidential son-in-law, is about to play an important role in peace negotiations in the Middle East. His father-in-law Donald Trump praised him as “a good boy” who will pull off an “Israel agreement that no one else would pull off,” and a prominent New York Times pundit agrees, sort…
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Fast Forward Palestinians Say ‘Glass Half Full’ on Jared Kushner as Peace Envoy — for Now
A Palestinian official welcomed Donald Trump’s pick of his son-in-law Jared Kushner as Mideast peace envoy, saying he hoped Kushner, an American Jew whose family donated to settlers, would play fair. Husam Zomlot, an adviser to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, told the Jerusalem Post he saw the timing of Kushner’s appointment before Trump even…
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Opinion Barring Jared Kushner From the White House Would Be Unconstitutional
Commentators and political enemies jumped up crying nepotism the moment on January 9 that the President-elect announced his appointment of his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, as Senior Adviser to the President in the White House Office. Members of Congress and Mr. Kushner’s own lawyer immediately floated competing interpretations of the federal anti-nepotism law, which purports to…
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