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News Are Jewish Trump Loyalists Being ‘Frozen Out’ of Administration?
As top positions in president-elect Donald Trump’s future administration fill up, some early loyalists are getting antsy, feeling they’ve been frozen out after spending the last year in the trenches fighting for Trump. The list of top campaign advisers still vying for a job in the Trump administration is long, and includes some of his…
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Fast Forward Jared Kushner’s Parents’ Foundation Donated Tens of Thousands to Settlement Groups
JERUSALEM — The charitable foundation of the parents of Jared Kushner, son-in-law of President-elect Donald Trump, has donated tens of thousands of dollars to West Bank groups and institutions, an Israeli newspaper reported. The Charles and Seryl Kushner Foundation has given a few million dollars a year to charitable causes, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported, citing…
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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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Fast Forward 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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