It turns out they are not "enemies" at all, but best friends!
And their daughters Ivanka Trump and Chelsea Clinton are best friends!
But that's not all.
The daughter of Bill and Hillary Clinton, Chelsea, is married to a Jew, an adherent of Chabad Lubavitch, Mark Mezvinsky.
And the daughter of Donald Trump, Ivanka, is married to a Jew and an adherent of Chabad Lubavitch, Jared (Jared) Kushner.
Interestingly, Ivanka Trump even gave money to the election campaign of Hillary Clinton in 2008. Chelsea suggested a temporary break in relations at the beginning of this year, as a more sophisticated person in political affairs. Realizing that they both got the difficult role of “daughters of their parents,” she turned to Ivanka with a proposal to resume communication immediately after the elections, so as not to cause unnecessary gossip among journalists during the election race. Both friends have repeatedly stated in the media that they are not offended by each other for the words that their parents utter from the stands.
A great example of true friendship.
How it all began?
On the eve of the election of the President of the United States, visitors to the grave of the Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem-Mendel Schneerson in New York were accompanied by none other than the daughter of one of the leading candidates for this position, Ivanka Trump, with her husband Jared Kushner.
According to the religious website Kikar Shabbat, the couple appeared unaccompanied by journalists and the press. Despite this, they did not manage to avoid video cameras - Jewish pilgrims filmed the star couple. Ivanka Trump's visit coincided with an unfortunate incident that happened to her father during the Nevada campaign rally, when an attempt on his life was suspected. Recall that Ivanka, who has recently converted, and her Jewish husband are among the closest advisers and assistants to Donald Trump. At the same time, the daughter of the tycoon repeatedly told what a big role Judaism plays in her life.
As you know, Trump's daughter Ivanka (Yael) is married to Jared (Jared) Kushner, an adherent and sponsor of the ultra-Orthodox Hasidic Jewish sect with a Nazi bias, Chabad Lubavitch.
Trump does everything for a reason and for a reason.
He has advisers and especially an adviser - his daughter Ivanka.
The United States launched a massive missile attack on the Al-Shayrat air base in Syria. Tomahawk missiles destroyed aircraft, gas stations, hangars, military and civilians were killed.
The daughter of US President Donald Trump, Ivanka, wrote on her Twitter account that she was proud of her father, who ordered the missile strikes on Syria.
“The times we live in require complex decisions. Proud of my father for refusing to accept these heinous crimes against humanity,” the message reads.
The times we are living in call for difficult decisions - Proud of my father for refusing to accept these horrendous crimes against humanity https://t.co/yV0oJuC9dE
Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) April 7, 2017
US President Donald Trump, like his predecessors, proclaimed the birthday of Lubavitcher Rebbe SHLITH King Moshiach on Nisan 11 (April 7 this year) as a day of education and knowledge sharing.
Here is a new coincidence between the history of Chabad Lubavitch and the motives of Trump's actions
NEW YEAR OF HASIDISM
On this day in 1798, the founder of Chabad Hasidism, Rabbi Shneur-Zalman of Lyad (1745-1812), also known as the Alter Rebbe, was released after a fifty-three-day imprisonment in the Peter and Paul Fortress.
The spread of the teachings of Hasidism began, in principle, two generations earlier. The founder of Hasidism, Rabbi Yisrael Baal Shem Tov (1698-1760), revealed to his followers the radiance of the mystical teachings of the Torah.
Rabbi Shneur-Zalman went much further than his predecessors. More importantly, Rabbi Shneur-Zalman founded a new path of teaching - Chabad (an abbreviation of the words Hochma - wisdom, Bina - understanding, Daat - knowledge), this was the first Rebbe, who laid the foundation for the Lubavitcher movement.
We offer you to look into the history and get acquainted with an interesting video about this holiday.
Trump is the first Jew to lead the United States… Jews hope for Trump's pro-Israel stance
The transformation of a Yankee with German-Scottish roots into a Jew was vividly described on the website of the Global Jewish Online Center by publicist Peter Lukimson.
RIGHT GRANDCHILDREN
“Now, serious battles have unfolded on social networks between Israelis and Americans, who continue to discuss the results of the US elections in different languages and whether they are good for the Jews. Among the representatives of the left camp, who do not call Trump a fascist, there is obvious despondency - for the third month there has been crying for Barack Obama as for his own brother. However, most Israelis are again in clear euphoria, remembering the old adage: "A Jew is not one with a Jewish dad, but one with Jewish grandchildren." From their point of view, it turns out that for the first time a Jew won the elections in the USA. Now this president will move the American embassy to Jerusalem in no time, will not interfere with the expansion of Jewish settlements, and then - what the hell is not joking! – support the annexation of Judea and Samaria!”
Necessary explanation about grandchildren. Ivanka, Trump's daughter from his first wife, Czech model Ivana, married Jared Kushner in 2009. His parents - Orthodox Jews, very influential in the Jewish community of New York, were against this marriage. They could not allow future grandchildren to cease to be Jews. But love won. Ivanka converted to Judaism before the wedding, performed a complex ceremony of turning a non-Jew into a Jew - giyur, received the ancient Hebrew name Yael ("mountain goat"). The couple belongs to the Orthodox branch of Judaism, observes its laws more strictly than most young American Jews. Ivanka herself is an activist in the Chabad women's movement. They already have three children - Arabella Rose, Joseph Frederick and Theodore James Kushner.
So with the Jewish grandchildren, the new US president has "everything in order."
Ivanka and Jared were part of the leadership of his campaign headquarters, played a big role in the victory over Hillary Clinton. After all, it is solely thanks to them that Trump began to enjoy the support of the US Jewish community. In the election, more than 90% of the very influential Hasidic community voted for him, including in New York, which voted overwhelmingly for Clinton. Although before the daughter's marriage, the billionaire had big claims regarding anti-Semitism.
When the media called one of the Republican candidate's tweets "anti-Semitic" before the election, Kushner openly defended his father-in-law: "Donald Trump is not a racist or an anti-Semite. I learned this from personal experience while caring for his daughter.” And he recalled his Jewish grandmother, who fled from the ghetto of the Nazi-occupied Belarusian town of Novogrudok to the partisans. In the partisan detachment, she met her grandfather Jared.
Jared is now a senior aide to his father-in-law, the President of the United States. Observers note that he became the conductor of Trump's plans in the Middle East. In any case, he had a hand in the appointment of his old acquaintance David Friedman as the new US Ambassador to Israel.
UNJUSTIFIED DELIGHTS
But let's get back to Peter Lukimson's article "The Great Trumpiad". It gives reason to think not only for the Israelis, but also for us in Russia.
“I am equally unacceptable to both sobs over Obama and delights (I almost wrote “pig squeals”) about Donald Trump. However, the latter can still be understood. Worse than Barack Obama, the American president for Israel still will not be. He took an openly anti-Israeli, and if you call a spade a spade, anti-Semitic position. He became the first American president who not only violated an agreement with Israel to protect its interests, but also prepared and passed through the UN Security Council one of the most dangerous anti-Israeli resolutions. And Obama's latest decision was to transfer $221 million to the Palestinians, another blow to Israel that encourages opponents of the Jewish state. (Trump managed to "freeze" this tranche allocated by the outgoing US president for "support for democratic reforms and humanitarian aid" to Palestine. - Auth.) So, when Barack Obama said that if Iran gets an atomic bomb, then it should say his name is he wasn't joking. Trump will definitely not be worse than Obama for Israel. And that's good for once.
However, with regards to the hopes placed on him, here I would not be in a hurry - my deja vu never deceives me. First, read the biography of Donald Trump, and you will understand how versatile this person is, how balanced and thought out all his decisions are. All his extravagance is nothing more than a mask for fans of his TV show.
Therefore, one should not expect any stunning steps either in relation to Israel or in relation to Russia from Trump - at least in order not to be disappointed later. Most likely, there will be no transfer of the US embassy to Jerusalem. As well as the supported annexation of Judea and Samaria and everything else. But if Trump returns US support to Israel at the UN, allows it to quietly develop existing Jewish settlements, and also reconsiders the decision that those born in Jerusalem are not considered born in Israel in the United States, it will not be so small.
The skepticism of the wise Lukimson begins to be justified.
On February 15, Trump met with Israeli Prime Minister B. Netanyahu for the first time in Washington. Jared Kushner also took part in the talks. They touched upon the problems of bilateral relations, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the Iranian nuclear threat, and the fight against terrorism. And although Netanyahu said at a joint press conference that “a new day has begun” in relations between the United States and Israel, the administration of the new president made it clear: Trump, although he agrees to help his Middle Eastern partner, but not on all points, Tatiana Karasova commented on the results of the visit, head Department of Israel, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences. It seems that one should not expect too much from Trump - he is aware that his pro-Israeli sympathies have objective limits.
And among Russian politicians, who also recently rejoiced violently, like the Israelis, at Trump's victory, disappointment with Donald sets in. The latest statements by the new US president and his inner circle about Russia are very upsetting. And are they caused only by objective restrictions on the part of the US Congress?
WATCH THE FILM TO THE END
However, Trump himself will also have a hard time, writes Lukimson. They won't leave him alone. “There are still high-profile journalistic investigations and attempts to arrange a new Watergate ahead of us. And of course, no one will allow Trump what Clinton and Monica Lewinsky were allowed to do.
Before putting labels and dogs on Trump, it’s better to just watch this movie to the end and only then judge how good or bad this American president was for the world and for the Jews. The author of the script and he is also the main director of this film, judging by his previous productions, has a good sense of humor and unpredictable imagination. So we still have a lot of exciting twists and turns, and perhaps the main villain will not be the one you first thought.
In what - in what, and there is no doubt in the fascinating twists of the plot. Trump and his team have been their people in Hollywood for years. Will watch. What remains to be done...
Petr Efimovich LYUKIMSON is an Israeli Russian-speaking writer and journalist. Born in 1963 in Ukraine, from early childhood he lived in Baku. Since 1991 - in Israel. He was the editor-in-chief of the Russian Israelite. Now he is the deputy editor-in-chief of the Novosti Nedeli newspaper. Published 20 books in Russia.
In a previous post, I was interested in a phrase by Michael Krieger " Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner in charge in the war zone"and I realized that something important was passing our attention. I began to look for available information.
"At 36, Jared Kushner has reached unprecedented heights: he is a multimillionaire, the owner of one of the largest real estate companies in New York, and also a senior adviser to the President of the United States, his father-in-law Donald Trump. Many merits are attributed to the young official: from organizing Trump's acquaintance with Henry Kissinger and Rupert Murdoch to launching the billionaire Republican's virtual social media campaign.Kushner's role in the White House has become so big in recent times that he's been called the country's shadow president.
People like Jared Kushner are called in the West "born with a silver spoon in their mouth" - in the sense that he and his brother Joshua, as well as two sisters Nicole and Dara, grew up in luxury from early childhood and did not know poverty. His father, Charles Kushner, is a well-known philanthropist and tycoon, founder of the real estate development company Kushner Companies and one of the main sponsors of the Democratic Party- made billions of dollars selling real estate in New Jersey.
In business, Kushner Sr. did not shy away from gray schemes, which is why in 2005 he was sentenced to imprisonment for tax evasion, illegal contributions to the election campaign and pressure on witnesses.
As a teenager, Kushner studied at a private Jewish school - yeshiva but was not a particularly diligent student. Well-known journalist Daniel Golden writes in his book The Price of Admission that Jared's father donated $2.5 million to get his son into Harvard.
In 2009, Kushner married a representative of another major New York real estate development clan, Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka. Before the marriage was fixed she accepted the Jewish faith and has been living the same lifestyle ever since. The Kushner-Trump couple brings up their three children in the traditions of Judaism, adheres to a kosher diet, and donates money to synagogues and Jewish schools. Both also diligently observe Shabbat: from sunset on Friday until Saturday night, they turn off their phones and do not participate in any public affairs. Journalists note that, coincidentally, it is during Shabbat that Donald Trump writes the most scandalous tweets and makes his most controversial statements.
Kushner joined Trump's campaign headquarters immediately after his presidential nomination - fortunately, the relationship between father-in-law and son-in-law has always been extremely positive. Gradually and very confidently, the young man began to participate in almost all aspects of the campaign - many both inside and outside the campaign headquarters called Kushner the de facto leader of the campaign team. He helped Trump choose the chief communications officer, oversaw work on the creation of an online fundraising system, and also had a hand in writing several Republican keynote speeches.
But perhaps his greatest merit is the campaign he organized in support of Trump on the Internet and social networks.
Jared Kushner (second from right) during talks in Iraq, April 2017
Kushner has previously spoken to a wide range of high-ranking foreign officials: British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, members of the Canadian government, EU diplomat Federica Mogherini, and Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray Caso.
Another direction, which is under the jurisdiction of a young official, is US relations with Israel. During the official visit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Washington, it was Kushner who was present at the negotiating table between the leaders of the two countries - representatives of the State Department, including experts on the Middle East, were not invited. According to CBS sources in the State Department, this decision was made in order to "make discussions more personal" due to the fact that Trump, Netanyahu and Kushner are old acquaintances.
Kushner also played a key role in arranging Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to Washington. It was in his office in the Trump Tower skyscraper on December 9 and 10 last year that the American side held contacts with Chinese Ambassador to the United States Cui Tiankai and member of the State Council of the People's Republic of China Yang Jiechi. "During this meeting, Yang Jiechi outlined his proposals. China wants the Trump administration to adopt the concept of a "new model of great power relations" - Xi Jinping's idea of conflict avoidance and cooperation," according to The Washington Post.
In the current US administration, Kushner takes the position of "a stranger among his own" - in the predominantly conservative White House, he promotes measures unpopular among Republicans. In particular, he persuaded Trump to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, and also blocked the upcoming presidential decree to weaken the rights and freedoms of the country's LGBT communities and religious minorities. However, Kushner's liberal views do not prevent him from moving up the career ladder in the camp of conservatives. At the end of March, it became known that under his leadership a new executive body would be formed - the Office of American Innovation, which would function as an independent unit in the West Wing (where the Oval Office is located), directly subordinate to Trump. This structure is supposed to be a kind of task force, consisting of former heads of commercial organizations, which is designed to "bring fresh thinking" to Washington. In addition, according to The Washington Post, a number of government functions will be transferred to the unit in the future.
Kushner's activity is not limited to this field. The ABC TV channel tried to compile a list of all the duties assigned to the young man by the president. The list is impressive:
Planning for Xi Jinping's visit.
Making Peace in the Middle East.
The fight against IS Or rather curatorship?)
Reform of the criminal law system in the United States.
Leadership of the Office of American Innovation.
Reform of social support for veterans.
Fighting the opioid epidemic.
U.S. Federal Government Update".
So, there is one stroke left, but the most important for understanding the threat looming over the whole world!!!
" Forgot to mention that Kushner is a friend and partner of Mark Mezvinsky - the husband of Chelsea Clinton, whom Clintonyha worked up from her two Jewish bosses in a law office.My answer: There are many facts, you can’t mention everything. It is clear that the election of Clinton against Trump was a show for suckers.
Trump wants to appoint his Chabad son-in-law as an adviser in the White House, and his daughter, a Chabad activist, will become the Most Powerful Woman in the White House
US President-elect Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, could take over as a key adviser to the White House.
The appointment of Trump daughter Ivanka's 35-year-old husband as senior or special adviser is being promoted by future chief of staff Reince Priebus and his adviser Stephen Bannon, according to The Wall Street Journal.
It is not yet clear whether the federal law prohibiting the recruitment of relatives to work in the White House applies. However, the son-in-law of the future president made it clear that he would get around this obstacle by forgoing a salary.
Kushner, the owner of a real estate company founded by his father and the New York Observer newspaper, was actively involved in the Trump campaign. In contrast to Hillary Clinton's traditional print and television media tactics, the billionaire's son-in-law has relied on the internet and social media. According to media reports, on the eve of the election, he was one of the closest advisers to the Republican candidate.
As the Cursor told, Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is a descendant of Jewish partisans, his grandmother fought in her youth in the most famous "family detachment" of the Belsky brothers, who fought against the Nazis in the Belarusian forests from 1941 to 1944.
“I am the grandson of Jews who survived the Holocaust. On December 7, 1941, on the day of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Nazis surrounded the ghetto of the city of Novogrudok and ordered its inhabitants to line up in two lines. So they divided people into the living and the dead,” Kushner told the newspaper The New York Observer, responding to accusations by some Jewish publicists that Trump is allegedly "racist" and "anti-Semitic" - My grandmother's sister, Esther, wanted to hide in a neighboring house, but a local boy, who saw where she was running away, dragged Esther was among the approximately 5,100 Jews who died in the first "action" against the Novogrudok Jews."
Tuvia Belsky and his brothers - Zushe and Aaron - repatriated to Israel after the war, but moved to the United States in the 1950s.
In an interview, Jared Kushner said that he and his father-in-law have never hidden their sympathy for Israel. According to Kushner, the anti-Semitic slander against Donald Trump is the machinations of his political enemies.
As the Cursor reported, two days before the presidential elections, Ivanka and her husband came to the grave of the Lubavitcher Rebbe to ask for the victory of their father.
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump got married in 2009. On the eve of the wedding, Ivanka underwent conversion, approved by one of the leading Orthodox rabbis in the United States.
A Jewish proverb says: "A Jew is not one whose parents are Jews, but one whose grandchildren are Jews." So, who is the next president of the United States after that?
Is Trump good for Jews?
... When more than six months ago it became clear that Senator Benny Sanders was hopelessly losing the primaries in the Democratic Party to Hillary Clinton, those Israelis who believed that "a Jewish president is bad for Israel" breathed a sigh of relief. Donald Trump did not cause fear among supporters of this theory - until they found out that the only daughter of billionaire Ivanka-Yael Trump-Kushnir underwent an Orthodox conversion in 2009, and since then has been leading a Jewish lifestyle, donating money to synagogues and Jewish schools, and She is also listed as an activist in the Chabad women's movement.
When, during the next election show, Trump was directly asked about the religion of his eldest daughter, he did not deny it.
“Yes, one of my daughters is Jewish,” he said. It wasn't planned, it just happened. And I'm glad it did. She has a wonderful Jewish family, and I have a wonderful son-in-law, a great guy, Jerad Kushnir.
Trump had five children from three marriages. Three sons - Donald Jr., Eric and Brown, and two daughters - Ivanka and Tiffany. But, of course, Ivanka-Yael was and remains the closest to him. Maybe the whole point is that she reminds Donald Trump of himself more than others: like his father, Ivanka is both a successful manager and a brilliant TV showman; like his father, he tries his hand at writing, and in addition is also a fashion model and one of the trendsetters for business women.
Ivanka Trump was also one of the leaders of the Trump campaign. Political scientists have no doubt that in the near future Ivanka will become the most powerful woman in the White House - without, of course, holding any official posts.
Model and fashion designer, writer and producer
Ivanka-Yael was born in 1981 from Donald Trump's first marriage to Czech fashion model and bodybuilder Ivanna. In 2004, Ivanka, having already become a well-known fashion model by that time, graduated with honors from the School of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. Thanks to her father's connections and position, she almost immediately entered the upper echelon of managers of the Forest City real estate company. And from there she soon moved to the marketing department of Dynamic Diamond Corporation, which specializes in the sale of diamonds.
However, the young Miss Trump clearly wanted to prove that she was worth something on her own. In the second half of the 2000s, she founded her own jewelry manufacturing company, the Ywonka Trump Collection. Soon the company also began to produce women's clothing and shoes, which were advertised as a fashion model by her mistress herself.
The success of Ivanka Trump's "clothes and jewelery for the working woman" has been phenomenal. Ivanka formulated the ideology of her company simply: “These are clothes in which a woman is not ashamed to come to the office during the day, and in the evening she is not ashamed to appear in a restaurant if a man invites her there.”
In 2006, Ivanka took part in the popular reality show "The Candidate", in which her father acts as a host and producer at the same time, lasted in six episodes, so she was offered to participate in the next season of the show.
In the wake of popularity, Ivanka began to be invited to various TV shows, and in some of them she tried herself as a presenter - and again very successfully. And in 2009, her book “Trump Card. How to Play to Succeed at Work and in Life,” which was even on the business bestseller list for several months.
By this time, she already had a stormy romance with Jerad Kushnir, the son of a multimillionaire and one of the leaders of the New York Jewish community, Charles Kushnir. By all accounts, they made a very beautiful couple, but it was not only about appearance - young people were brought together by the desire to prove that they were both worth something regardless of their fathers, and both were able to do it.
Love brought to conversion
Jerad Kushnir, who also graduated with honors from the university, bought the New York Observer newspaper at the age of 25, showed himself as a talented editor, and by the age of 30 was already a media mogul. The only obstacle to their marriage was that the Kushnir family was not ready to accept a non-Jewish daughter-in-law, and then Ivanka announced that she was ready to convert.
“I have always had many Jewish friends, I have always been interested in Judaism, so I can’t even say what is the cause and what is the effect: my interest in Judaism or the fact that Jerad turned out to be a Jewish observant of religious commandments,” she admitted in an interview. “Anyway, I always knew that I wanted to marry a Jew.
It soon became clear that Ivanka, who by that time had taken the post of vice-president in one of her father's companies, took her conversion to Jewry more than seriously: she did not undergo a reformist, but a strict orthodox conversion, and began to observe religious commandments.
The wedding of Ivanka, who took the Jewish name Yael, and Jerad Kushnir was played, of course, according to a religious rite. True, under the Chuppah, Ivanka-Yael kept trying to take her husband by the arm, and the rabbi had to remind the bride again and again that until all the necessary words were said, she and the groom had no right to touch each other.
After the wedding, for 7 days, as Jewish tradition prescribes, feasts were organized every evening with “sheva brachot” (“seven blessings”). About a thousand guests took part in one of these feasts - almost all relatives of the large Kushnir family.
She prayed at the grave of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
So that the Almighty sent victory to her father.
Now Ivanka-Yael and Jerad Kushnir are raising three children - the third grandson of Donald Trump was born already during the election campaign. However, the star couple was constantly in the field of view of the media before that, and not only as participants in secular receptions.
So last fall, journalists filmed Ivanka and Dzherad when they left the synagogue in festive clothes.
“Charming Ivanka Trump holds her husband by the arm, and in the hands of Jerad is a bag of fruit and a bouquet of flowers that he bought for his wife,” read the caption under one of the photos.
Although, if the journalists had shown great conscientiousness, they would have found out that in the hands of Jerad Kushnir is not a bouquet, but a lulav, which Jews offer during prayer on Sukkot. And in the box are not fruits, but an etrog, which is part of the lulav.
Not so long ago, one of the journalists invited Ivanka-Yael for an interview in a restaurant. She warned that she could only eat vegetarian food there.
“We keep kosher,” she explained.
What other commandments of Judaism do you observe? - Asked for some reason, shocked by these words, the journalist.
- Another Saturday, the laws of family purity, and everything else. Of course, we observe everything not as strictly and scrupulously as the ultra-Orthodox, but at the same time, to a much greater extent than, alas, other young Jewish families of America do.
"And it doesn't bother you?" - the journalist did not let up.
- Well, what are you?! Ivanka answered. - The further, the more I understand that most of the commandments of Judaism are aimed at ensuring that a person has a truly happy family. For example, on Saturday, like it or not, and the spouses find themselves together and can figure out all the relationships, resolve all conflicts and really get closer to each other. True, for a long time my father refused to understand why I could not pick up the phone for 25 hours, but it seems that now even he is used to it.
The Jewishness of Yael-Ivanka and Dzherad Kushnir is manifested, of course, not only in the fact that they regularly attend the synagogue, observe kashrut, the Sabbath and the commandments of the purity of family life, but, as already mentioned, in their active participation in the life of the Jewish community of New York and donate a lot of money to Jewish schools and various community events. In addition, Ivanka and her husband do not hide the fact that they are great patriots of Israel, although they still have not decided where they will buy an apartment - in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv.
How did Trump vodka come about?
But as for Yvonka's political views, they remain a mystery. It is known, for example, that in 2007, she donated money to the election campaign of Hillary Clinton.
However, this may be due to the fact that Ivanka-Yael is a friend of Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of Bill and Hillary Clinton. Chelsea, as you know, is also married to a Jew, but she did not convert. It is known that the friends agreed, regardless of the outcome of the presidential elections, to arrange a "cabal" in November.
Be that as it may, it is known that it was at the insistence of his daughter that Trump sent a note to the Wailing Wall on the eve of the elections, and Ivonka herself prayed at the grave of the Lubavitcher Rebbe so that God would send her father a victory.
Trump wants to appoint his Chabad son-in-law as an adviser to the White House, andThe most powerful woman in the White House will be his daughter, a Chabad activist
US President-elect Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, could take over as a key adviser to the White House.
The appointment of Trump daughter Ivanka's 35-year-old husband as senior or special adviser is being promoted by future chief of staff Reince Priebus and his adviser Stephen Bannon, according to The Wall Street Journal.
It is not yet clear whether the federal law prohibiting the recruitment of relatives to work in the White House applies. However, the son-in-law of the future president made it clear that he would get around this obstacle by forgoing a salary.
Kushner, the owner of a real estate company founded by his father and the New York Observer newspaper, was actively involved in the Trump campaign. In contrast to Hillary Clinton's traditional print and television media tactics, the billionaire's son-in-law has relied on the internet and social media. According to media reports, on the eve of the election, he was one of the closest advisers to the Republican candidate.
As the Cursor told, Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is a descendant of Jewish partisans, his grandmother fought in her youth in the most famous "family detachment" of the Belsky brothers, who fought against the Nazis in the Belarusian forests from 1941 to 1944.
“I am the grandson of Jews who survived the Holocaust. On December 7, 1941, on the day of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Nazis surrounded the ghetto of the city of Novogrudok and ordered its inhabitants to line up in two lines. So they divided people into the living and the dead,” Kushner told the newspaper The New York Observer, responding to accusations by some Jewish publicists that Trump is allegedly "racist" and "anti-Semitic" - My grandmother's sister, Esther, wanted to hide in a neighboring house, but a local boy, who saw where she was running away, dragged Esther was among the approximately 5,100 Jews who died in the first "action" against the Novogrudok Jews."
Tuvia Belsky and his brothers - Zushe and Aaron - repatriated to Israel after the war, but moved to the United States in the 1950s.
In an interview, Jared Kushner said that he and his father-in-law have never hidden their sympathy for Israel. According to Kushner, the anti-Semitic slander against Donald Trump is the machinations of his political enemies.
As the Cursor reported, two days before the presidential elections, Ivanka and her husband came to the grave of the Lubavitcher Rebbe to ask for the victory of their father.
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump got married in 2009. On the eve of the wedding, Ivanka underwent conversion, approved by one of the leading Orthodox rabbis in the United States.
The most powerful woman in the White House will be a Chabad activist
A Jewish proverb says: "A Jew is not one whose parents are Jews, but one whose grandchildren are Jews." So, who is the next president of the United States after that?
Is Trump good for Jews?
... When more than six months ago it became clear that Senator Benny Sanders was hopelessly losing the primaries in the Democratic Party to Hillary Clinton, those Israelis who believed that "a Jewish president is bad for Israel" breathed a sigh of relief. Donald Trump did not cause fear among supporters of this theory - until they found out that the only daughter of billionaire Ivanka-Yael Trump-Kushnir underwent an Orthodox conversion in 2009, and since then has been leading a Jewish lifestyle, donating money to synagogues and Jewish schools, and She is also listed as an activist in the Chabad women's movement.
When, during the next election show, Trump was directly asked about the religion of his eldest daughter, he did not deny it.
“Yes, one of my daughters is Jewish,” he said. It wasn't planned, it just happened. And I'm glad it did. She has a wonderful Jewish family, and I have a wonderful son-in-law, a great guy, Jerad Kushnir.
Trump had five children from three marriages. Three sons - Donald Jr., Eric and Brown, and two daughters - Ivanka and Tiffany. But, of course, Ivanka-Yael was and remains the closest to him. Maybe the whole point is that she reminds Donald Trump of himself more than others: like his father, Ivanka is both a successful manager and a brilliant TV showman; like his father, he tries his hand at writing, and in addition is also a fashion model and one of the trendsetters for business women.
Ivanka Trump was also one of the leaders of the Trump campaign. Political scientists have no doubt that in the near future Ivanka will become the most powerful woman in the White House - without, of course, holding any official posts.
Model and fashion designer, writer and producer
Ivanka-Yael was born in 1981 from Donald Trump's first marriage to Czech fashion model and bodybuilder Ivanna. In 2004, Ivanka, having already become a well-known fashion model by that time, graduated with honors from the School of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. Thanks to her father's connections and position, she almost immediately entered the upper echelon of managers of the Forest City real estate company. And from there she soon moved to the marketing department of Dynamic Diamond Corporation, which specializes in the sale of diamonds.
However, the young Miss Trump clearly wanted to prove that she was worth something on her own. In the second half of the 2000s, she founded her own jewelry manufacturing company, the Ywonka Trump Collection. Soon the company also began to produce women's clothing and shoes, which were advertised as a fashion model by her mistress herself.
The success of Ivanka Trump's "clothes and jewelery for the working woman" has been phenomenal. Ivanka formulated the ideology of her company simply: “These are clothes in which a woman is not ashamed to come to the office during the day, and in the evening she is not ashamed to appear in a restaurant if a man invites her there.”
In 2006, Ivanka took part in the popular reality show "The Candidate", in which her father acts as a host and producer at the same time, lasted in six episodes, so she was offered to participate in the next season of the show.
In the wake of popularity, Ivanka began to be invited to various TV shows, and in some of them she tried herself as a presenter - and again very successfully. And in 2009, her book “Trump Card. How to Play to Succeed at Work and in Life,” which was even on the business bestseller list for several months.
By this time, she already had a stormy romance with Jerad Kushnir, the son of a multimillionaire and one of the leaders of the New York Jewish community, Charles Kushnir. By all accounts, they made a very beautiful couple, but it was not only about appearance - young people were brought together by the desire to prove that they were both worth something regardless of their fathers, and both were able to do it.
Love brought to conversion
Jerad Kushnir, who also graduated with honors from the university, bought the New York Observer newspaper at the age of 25, showed himself as a talented editor, and by the age of 30 was already a media mogul. The only obstacle to their marriage was that the Kushnir family was not ready to accept a non-Jewish daughter-in-law, and then Ivanka announced that she was ready to convert.
“I have always had many Jewish friends, I have always been interested in Judaism, so I can’t even say what is the cause and what is the effect: my interest in Judaism or the fact that Jerad turned out to be a Jewish observant of religious commandments,” she admitted in an interview. “Anyway, I always knew that I wanted to marry a Jew.
It soon became clear that Ivanka, who by that time had taken the post of vice-president in one of her father's companies, took her conversion to Jewry more than seriously: she did not undergo a reformist, but a strict orthodox conversion, and began to observe religious commandments.
The wedding of Ivanka, who took the Jewish name Yael, and Jerad Kushnir was played, of course, according to a religious rite. True, under the Chuppah, Ivanka-Yael kept trying to take her husband by the arm, and the rabbi had to remind the bride again and again that until all the necessary words were said, she and the groom had no right to touch each other.
After the wedding, for 7 days, as Jewish tradition prescribes, feasts were organized every evening with “sheva brachot” (“seven blessings”). About a thousand guests took part in one of these feasts - almost all relatives of the large Kushnir family.
She prayed at the grave of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
So that the Almighty sent victory to her father.
Now Ivanka-Yael and Jerad Kushnir are raising three children - the third grandson of Donald Trump was born already during the election campaign. However, the star couple was constantly in the field of view of the media before that, and not only as participants in secular receptions.
So last fall, journalists filmed Ivanka and Dzherad when they left the synagogue in festive clothes.
“Charming Ivanka Trump holds her husband by the arm, and in the hands of Jerad is a bag of fruit and a bouquet of flowers that he bought for his wife,” read the caption under one of the photos.
Although, if the journalists had shown great conscientiousness, they would have found out that in the hands of Jerad Kushnir is not a bouquet, but a lulav, which Jews offer during prayer on Sukkot. And in the box are not fruits, but an etrog, which is part of the lulav.
Not so long ago, one of the journalists invited Ivanka-Yael for an interview in a restaurant. She warned that she could only eat vegetarian food there.
“We keep kosher,” she explained.
What other commandments of Judaism do you observe? - Asked for some reason, shocked by these words, the journalist.
- Another Saturday, the laws of family purity, and everything else. Of course, we observe everything not as strictly and scrupulously as the ultra-Orthodox, but at the same time, to a much greater extent than, alas, other young Jewish families of America do.
"And it doesn't bother you?" - the journalist did not let up.
- Well, what are you?! Ivanka answered. - The further, the more I understand that most of the commandments of Judaism are aimed at ensuring that a person has a truly happy family. For example, on Saturday, like it or not, and the spouses find themselves together and can figure out all the relationships, resolve all conflicts and really get closer to each other. True, for a long time my father refused to understand why I could not pick up the phone for 25 hours, but it seems that now even he is used to it.
The Jewishness of Yael-Ivanka and Dzherad Kushnir is manifested, of course, not only in the fact that they regularly attend the synagogue, observe kashrut, the Sabbath and the commandments of the purity of family life, but, as already mentioned, in their active participation in the life of the Jewish community of New York and donate a lot of money to Jewish schools and various community events. In addition, Ivanka and her husband do not hide the fact that they are great patriots of Israel, although they still have not decided where they will buy an apartment - in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv.
How did Trump vodka come about?
But as for Yvonka's political views, they remain a mystery. It is known, for example, that in 2007, she donated money to the election campaign of Hillary Clinton.
However, this may be due to the fact that Ivanka-Yael is a friend of Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of Bill and Hillary Clinton. Chelsea, as you know, is also married to a Jew, but she did not convert. It is known that the friends agreed, regardless of the outcome of the presidential elections, to arrange a "cabal" in November.
Be that as it may, it is known that it was at the insistence of his daughter that Trump sent a note to the Wailing Wall on the eve of the elections, and Ivonka herself prayed at the grave of the Lubavitcher Rebbe so that God would send her father a victory.
Just how much Donald Trump respects his Jewish son-in-law (or, rather, how he knows how to extract money from any situation) is evidenced by the existence of Trump vodka with the Kasher le Pesach brand.
According to legend, this sort of vodka was born in the following way.
Once Donald Trump was visiting his daughter, and was surprised why among the many drinks on the table there was no his branded vodka.
“It’s Pesach now,” his daughter and son-in-law explained to him. - Vodka is made from wheat and is therefore not kosher on Pesach. This is a law that cannot be circumvented.
Trump began to ask the rabbi sitting opposite him if this was true, and he confirmed that vodka, like everything leavened, is prohibited on Passover.
“And if it is not made from cereals?” Trump said.
“Well, then maybe it will be kosher.”
Let's say corn...
- What are you, corn is "kitniyet", it is also forbidden to Ashkenazi Jews on Pesach.
- And from potatoes or sweet potatoes?
“If only from potatoes or sweet potatoes, then, of course, it will be kosher,” the rabbi replied.
“Well, I always knew that there is no law that cannot legally be circumvented - even if you are told that this is impossible! - the future president stated with satisfaction.
By the way, in the Chabad community of New York, "lechaim" in honor of Trump's victory was made precisely with shots of Trump vodka, which Ivonka put up in unlimited quantities.
