Interesting read. Trump’s Favorite Son-In-Law Is Jewish — Does That Matter?

[snagglepuss]

Note: This is from Forward a Jewish publication


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Brought up in a modern Orthodox Jewish community in New Jersey, Kushner has given almost exclusively to Democrats, including Hillary Clinton. His father, now a convicted felon, was in the 1990s and early 2000s the largest Democratic political donor in New Jersey


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Charles Kushner has been out of prison since 2006, and has continued his life more or less where he left off. Though Jared now runs the family firm, Charles and his wife, Seryl, remain active philanthropists. Their foundation, on the board of which Jared also sits, gave away $2.4 million in the 2013 fiscal year, much of it to Jewish charities. Charles and Seryl Kushner pledged $18 million to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Israel in 2014; a hospital campus was dedicated in their name in early 2015.

Since the 2009 Kushner-Trump nuptials, the two families appear to have tied knots beyond the purely social: Last year, Seryl Kushner gave $100,000 to a pro-Trump super PAC called Make America Great Again. (That super PAC closed soon after and gave back some of the money it raised, though Seryl Kushner’s donation does not appear to have been returned.)

Jared Kushner has been suspected of helping the Trumps in other ways, too. A February 2014 article in Jared Kushner’s New York Observer attacked New York State Attorney General Eric Schneideman, outlining what it called a “pattern of political opportunism in which enemies pay while friends skate.” At the time, Schneiderman was pursuing a case against Trump University, a Donald Trump venture that Schneiderman accused of fraud. The Observer story condemned Schneiderman’s case, saying that the decision to pursue it was “fraught with odd ethical choices.” Months before the Observer article was printed, in response to another magazine’s report on the Schneiderman investigation, Donald Trump had tweeted that an unnamed publication was “doing a story on me to get even.”












Read more: http://forward.com/news/334272/donald-trumps-favorite-son-in-law-is-jewish-does-that-matter/#ixzz423tBxXrT

[Hekate]

1. Why are you posting this twice? Does that matter?

Perhaps you are the one with issues? Your first try didn't go that well, so try try again?

[snagglepuss]

3. Two different articles. One about Trump's SIL the about Hillary's SIL. Both

from a Jewish publication which found the subjects noteworthy.

[jehop61]

2. And why

do you need to post two articles there pointing that out?

[snagglepuss]

4. Two different articles. One about Trump's SIL the about Hillary's SIL. Both

from a Jewish publication which found the subjects noteworthy.

[6chars]

5. why bring this up?

it doesn't matter. ok, a Jewish publication says look, there is someone Jewish connected to this family. And an albanian publication would say the same thing if there was an albanian. Trump has said some not so good things about Jews and he his supporters have said some downright terrible things.

[snagglepuss]

6. We hear that Bernie won't win because of anti-Semitism, well if that is the case neither will Trump

or Hillary.

[6chars]

7. where is the logic there?

i don't know whether Bernie is facing anti-Semitism, but it's not like there is a rule among people with anti-Semitic tendencies that they will look for whether any relatives of a person married Jews and then discriminate against them because of that. There may be some devoted anti-Semites who would want to track down any possible Jewish connection and play it up, but generally it would be about an individual.

For this, we have the fact that Bernie sounds and acts and has a history that is really very Jewish, while Hillary and Trump are about as gentile as can be.

In fact, putting up posts about these in-laws in order to diminish the possibility of anti-Semitism is a little creepy.

[KoKo]

8. Its a Fascinating Read...Thanks!

I like to read "behind the curtain" into the families of our Candidates. This was very helpful.

[gollygee]

9. Bigots are able to exceptionalize members of groups they are bigoted against

I wonder if an Islamic son-in-law would be a favorite.