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News House, Check. Shul, Check. Now Jared and Ivanka Hunt for a School.
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner have settled on a home in Washington, D.C. — a mansion right around the block from where President Barack Obama and his family will soon live. And now the question looms, which school will the couple’s three children attend? As Orthodox Jews, it’s likely the two will opt to send…
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News Drool Over 9 Photos of Ivanka and Jared’s To-Die-For Washington Mansion
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are leaving behind the glitzy lifestyle of New York’s Upper East Side. But the ultimate power couple’s new Washington D.C. home still has plenty to offer for them and their three children. The six-bedroom, seven-bathroom 6,870-square-foot home in the tony Kalorama neighborhood is clearly one of D.C.’s prestigious homes —…
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Community What Really Happened at the Presidents Conference Hanukkah Party
On December 14, 2016, the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations (the Presidents Conference) in concert with the Embassy of Azerbaijan held a historic Chanukah party in Washington, D.C. that will be talked about for some time. Controversy continues to swirl over not only who attended the party, but who did not; how many…
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Opinion Are These Colleges ‘The Worst’ for Jews?
Everyone loves lists. Lists are fun and informative, and ranked lists in particular help us make decisions more efficiently. But lists are also deceptively powerful: it’s really hard for a person to properly judge the objective value of something distinct from its ranking once they’ve seen it on a ranked list, whether that “something” is…
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News What Could Go Wrong as Ivanka and Jared Go Shul Shopping? Try Everything.
President-elect Donald Trump’s daughter and son-in-law, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, are synagogue shopping in D.C. — and it’s making headlines in the Jewish world and out. Reporting this in the mainstream media requires some explanation — an MSNBC anchor apparently believed the story was about Trump shoe shopping — but generally the narrative touches…
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The Schmooze SNL’s Election Special, Art Spiegelman In Chicago, And 5 Other Things To Read, Watch And Do This Weekend
This week we start sharing events outside of New York as part of our normal roster; festivals of arts and ideas in Chicago and Washington, D.C. are up first. There’s a slew of new books to tempt you, regardless of what you’re craving – history, science fiction, some hearty Yiddish humor – and a few…
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Breaking News Anti-Semitic Graffiti Scrawled in Washington Chinatown — for Fifth Time
— Anti-Semitic graffiti has appeared for the fifth time this month at one of the busiest intersections in the Chinatown section of Washington, DC. Earlier this month, vandals repeatedly painted the word “Jew” on the images of rats appearing on an outdoor Chinese Zodiac public art display. On Monday, swastikas were discovered painted on the…
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Breaking News Grieving Dad Says Seth Rich Scored Dream Job With Clinton Campaign Days Before Murder
Joel Rich, the father of slain Democratic staffer Seth Rich, has revealed that his son landed his dream job just days before being killed — a gig with the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign. Rich told Britain’s Daily Mail that his son’s bosses at the Democratic National Committee selected him to work on the national campaign…
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