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News Kushner Foundation Bankrolls Radical Jewish West Bank Settlers
In recent years, the parents of Jared Kushner – the son-in-law and trusted confidant of President-elect Donald Trump – have donated tens of thousands of dollars to organizations and institutions located in the West Bank settlements, according to their tax forms. The U.S. State Department has long held that the settlements are an impediment to…
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News Judy Rapfogel, Sheldon Silver’s Ex-Chief of Staff, Lands Job With Jared Kushner’s Company
The former chief of staff of disgraced New York State Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver has a new job at Jared Kushner’s firm, the Daily News reported this morning. Judy Rapfogel has had close relationships with two New York power brokers who took spectacular falls in recent years. Her longtime boss, Silver, was convicted of federal…
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News Jared Kushner, Peacemaker? Israeli Official Says Bring Him On
Could a Jewish New York real estate guy with precisely zero foreign policy experience break the Mideast peace logjam? If his father in law is called Donald Trump, Israeli officials say: “why not?” A top Israeli diplomat said Jared Kushner would be a welcome partner if he becomes a peace mediator. “We welcome him,” Deputy…
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News That Time Jared Kushner’s Father Gave Bill Clinton a Shofar
Jared Kushner was 16 years old when President Bill Clinton paid a visit to the New Jersey offices of his father’s corporation. It wasn’t Kushner’s first encounter with high-powered Washington players, even at this young age. His father, Charles, was a major political donor and as such, courtesy visits such as this were not uncommon….
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Breaking News Jared Kushner Called Bridgegate Traffic Chaos ‘Badass’
Jared Kushner reportedly praised disgraced New Jersey official David Wildstein as “badass” for engineering the controversial closing of lanes on the George Washington Bridge — a scandal that has led to three criminal convictions and tarnished the once-promising career of Gov. Chris Christie. The Jewish son-in-law of Donald Trump told Wildstein that he wished him the…
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News Is Jared Kushner on the Verge of Becoming Donald Trump’s ‘De Facto President’?
New Jersey real estate mogul Charles Kushner had a rule for his four children when they were growing up – no jeans unless they were boarding a plane. “They had to maintain a certain look at all times, as if they were living in Camelot across the Hudson,” says a childhood friend who requested anonymity….
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News In His Office, Good Jewish Boy Jared Kushner Reads the Sages
Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law and top adviser, keeps a pretty Jewish office, according to an exclusive Forbes profile of President-elect Donald Trump’s son-in-law. Kushner’s office is a spartan affair, empty of much decoration, except for framed covers of the New York Observer (the weekly paper that he owns) and signs of his Orthodox Jewish…
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News What You Need to Know From Jared Kushner’s First Interview
Jared Kushner has widely been reputed as the brains behind father-in-law Donald Trump’s successful bid for the presidency. And for the first time since the campaign began, he’s talked to the press in an exclusive interview with Forbes Magazine. 1. Kushner Might Be the Reason Trump Won “Best I can tell, he actually ran the…
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