How the media describes Jews by choice is not a small issue. We should treat this group with more respect and less casual disregard. Some people experience a spiritual longing that Judaism fulfills.
Others grew up surrounded by a strong Jewish community and always felt most at home among Jews. Some people discover that their ancestral history was actually Jewish and want to reconnect a chain that was broken because of historical circumstances. Some people just respect and desire Judaism. Donald Trump was crestfallen when he was told Ivanka was marrying a Jew - and even more upset when she converted to Orthodox Judaism, claims new book. Jared's parents weren't initially happy about the union either and initially refused to meet Ivanka.
Jared was the grandson of Holocaust survivors and had been raised as a strict Orthodox Jew. The couple met after Ivanka had a luncheon date with a diamond merchant, Moshe Lax in early who launched the introduction.
The lovebirds were spotted kissing by May and strolling hand in hand through SoHo by fall. The following year, the relationship hit a sand trap with Trump not understanding why his oldest daughter wanted to marry an Orthodox Jew and Kusher's parents still opposed to their son marrying a non-Jew.
Ivanka pushed back, saying: 'I'm a New Yorker, I'm in real estate. I'm as close to Jewish, with a 'i-s-h' naturally as anyone can start off'. Media mogul Rupert Murdoch and the wife Wendi Deng Murdoch, Ivanka's close friend, worked to reunite the couple on their yacht. The ruse worked and by late summer of , Ivanka began studying the Torah and observing the Sabbath.
She learned to cook Kosher, was tested by a religious panel and had a ritual cleansing dip. Two years later, on the grounds of Trump's N. Bedminster Golf Club, the Kushner's strict Orthodox Jewish son was marrying the former shiksa who converted to Judaism under an enormous chuppah, a canopy of white flowers symbolizing Jewish hospitality, the tents of Abraham and the presence of God.
Five hundred people witnessed the lavish but traditional Orthodox wedding and dined on kosher pastrami, corned beef, turkey, sushi and Peking duck. Family and friends, movie stars and influential people responded to Trump's 'implied command' that they attend this 'marriage of money and power, to acknowledge the authority of the patriarchs'. But 'the old, dynastic families of New York real estate, when asked about Trump, people said then and still say, 'Donald Trump is not one of us', writes the author.
Jared's parents Charles and Barbara Kushner weren't initially happy about the union either and refused to meet Ivanka. He did show up on occasion at the US Open tennis tournament in Queens but always stayed in his own homes, used his own clubs and ate in restaurants that he owned.
Ivanka had been accepted in the Manhattan elite, attending private schools in the City and Connecticut, and became a sought-after supporter for causes, donating money unlike her father and attended the opera. She did not have a Jersey accent like her husband or Queens accent like her father that she helped to ameliorate. Jared and his father, Charles, founder of Kushner Cos.
According to the proposed guidelines, they said in a statement, Ivanka Trump would be certified Jewish. For Ivanka Trump, the issue is mostly symbolic. 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.
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