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The Schmooze Jews, Reality and ‘Gossip Girl’
This year, Gossip Girl introduced at least four new Jewish characters: Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, Isaac Mizrahi and Rachel Zoe. There is also the unseen character, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, whose trans fat ban and restaurant calorie count are presumably what keeps the cast of the show lithe enough to fit into their increasingly…
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Life Comparing Ourselves to Ivanka
What intrigued me more than the celebrity news coverage of the Ivanka Trump–Jared Kushner nuptials is how many Orthodox Jews have quickly and eagerly adopted Ivanka — a recent convert to Judaism — as one of their own. Since the wedding, I’ve received “private” photos of the wedding from one friend, clips from interviews in…
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Life At the Trump-Kushner Wedding, the Rabbi Sang in ‘Aromatic’
Barbara Walters, who attended the Trump-Kushner nuptials, discusses the Hebrew lettering on the couple’s wedding invitation and officiant Rabbi Haskel Lookstein’s “aromatic” — she means Aramaic — singing, under the chuppah:
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Life JVanka Wedding Recap
Over the weekend, entrepreneur Ivanka Trump (The Donald’s daughter) married her fellow real estate scion boyfriend, Jared Kushner, who publishes the New York Observer. The lavish wedding was held with the couple’s 500 nearest and dearest at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J. The blogosphere is buzzing with all the gossip tidbits you…
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Life Ivanka and Jared’s Wedding Registry: What Would Register as Real Class
Is it just me, or are wedding registries tacky? I find it strange to be telling people what you want for gifts – especially when both the blushing bride and handsome groom are scions of two of America’s highest-profile, wealthy real estate families. A story in today’s New York Times, here, details what Ivanka Trump…
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Life Cronkite, Trump, and the Validity of Jewish Marriages
Ivanka Trump’s conversion/engagement to Jared Kushner may be interesting to most readers because of its wealthy-elite-hooking-up gossip factor, but their story is also quite relevant to the controversies that have been surrounding Orthodox conversion in recent years. My unsolicited advice to the happy couple, who shall heretofore be known collectively as Jivanka: Don’t try to…
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Life Should Ivanka Want a Sheitel…
Welcome to the tribe, Ms. Trump. No sooner had the mikveh water dried from her conversion to Judaism this week than Ivanka Trump became affianced to Jared Kushner. The future Mrs. Trump-Kushner announced their engagement by sending off this Tweet. She completed her conversion this week under the tutelage of Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, who is…
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Life Pesach With the Kushners
The son is the young Manhattan media mogul who just got engaged to Ivanka Trump. The father is the New Jersey real estate baron who went to jail for tax fraud and sending a prostitute to try to entrap his brother-in-law. New York magazine has a lengthy profile of the Kushners — and, oy, do…
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