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enhanced_deficit
04-01-2017, 02:56 PM
Trump is turning out to an agent of change in areas where even Obama was unable to bring any change:

Does Israel recognize Ivanka Trump as Jewish? It does now


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(Photo: Evan Vucci, AP)

Ivanka Trump converted to Judaism before marrying Jared Kushner, an Orthodox Jew, in 2009.
But in Israel, it’s not that simple: You’re only Jewish if the rabbinic authorities say you’re Jewish. Last year, they questioned the credentials of the rabbi who oversaw Ivanka Trump’s conversion.
Then, a few weeks after her father Donald Trump won the U.S. election, Israel’s chief rabbis made a proclamation: They were looking to change the guidelines on which Jewish conversions they recognize.
According to the proposed guidelines, they said in a statement, Ivanka Trump would be certified Jewish.

The chief rabbis said they weren’t changing the system in order to accommodate Trump’s daughter.

Critics say that’s exactly what they were doing.
“It would definitely be embarrassing to the State of Israel and for the rabbinate if the Jewish family like Ivanka Trump’s family was to visit Israel and for the official Jewish authorities in Israel to not recognize their Judaism,” said Elad Kaplan of ITIM, a group that represents Jewish converts in Israel.

For Ivanka Trump, the issue is mostly symbolic. She doesn’t live in Israel and wasn’t married in Israel.
But the whole story began with another woman: a 31-year-old American named Nicole Zeitler.
She was born to a Jewish dad and a non-Jewish mother. In Orthodox Jewish tradition, your mother must be Jewish in order to be considered Jewish, so Zeitler wanted to formally convert.
She sought out Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, an Orthodox rabbi on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, and told him she was anxious.
“He said, ‘Nicole, let me tell you a story. I converted Ivanka Trump,’” she recalled the rabbi telling her. "'Your father is Jewish. You maybe know maybe something about something. Ivanka started from zero, basically, when it came to knowledge about Judaism. If Ivanka can do it, you can do it.'"


Zeitler moved to Israel, met a guy, got engaged and applied for a marriage license.
That’s when she hit a wall. In Israel, if you’re Jewish you have to be married by an Orthodox rabbi, and the Orthodox rabbinic authorities won’t grant a marriage license until they certify the couple is Jewish.
In Zeitler’s case, they said she wasn’t Jewish because they questioned the legitimacy of the rabbi who approved her conversion.
Rabbi Seth Farber of ITIM, the group that represented Zeitler at the religious court, said her American rabbi in Manhattan was considered too open-minded by Israel’s conservative religious authorities.
Zeitler’s conversion was dismissed last summer (http://forward.com/sisterhood/344998/israels-top-rabbinical-court-upholds-rejection-of-rabbi-who-sponsored-ivank/), prompting the Israeli and Jewish press to ponder a question: Would Israel recognize Ivanka Trump’s conversion, supervised by the same rabbi?

After the U.S. elections, though, Israel’s rabbinic authorities announced they would make changes to accommodate Jewish converts — including Ivanka Trump. They specifically mentioned her.
“There is a part of me that feels it’s a little fishy that now that Trump is president, they want to get her conversion approved right away,” Zeitler said.
“On [the] other hand, I’m happy that Trump is president, and that this may change things in the system. I mean, isn’t this how things happen in the world anyway? Someone superfamous and important has to come up and, in this case, be Jewish, to make a big change?”

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/02/08/israel-ivanka-trump-jewish/97638832/

AuH20
04-01-2017, 02:57 PM
Those 2 make me sick. Ugh.

RonZeplin
04-01-2017, 04:10 PM
Ivanka is not one of those fake Manhattan Jews anymore!

sparebulb
04-01-2017, 06:08 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uZzpzABLEE

Superfluous Man
04-01-2017, 06:23 PM
Those 2 make me sick. Ugh.

Why?

enhanced_deficit
03-22-2018, 06:26 PM
Those 2 make me sick. Ugh.

That was cold.

This was likely unrelated:

http://video.newsserve.net/v/20170409/1704091538-Ivanka-May-Have-Convinced-Trump-To-Bomb-Syria.jpg

dannno
03-22-2018, 06:42 PM
Those 2 make me sick. Ugh.

Lol..... plz watch this..

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?505478-Seth-Rich-Hacked-the-DNC&p=6606141&viewfull=1#post6606141