Posted by Trump's YKW ties fighting for control on Tue, 21 Jun 2016 11:19 | #

Sure, Trump’s family and other Jewish ties are “superfluous.”

Trump’s Jewish ties fighting over control..

TJP, “Tensions with Trump’s Jewish son-in-law reportedly behind ouster of campaign manager”, 21 June 2016:

Corey Lewandowski, left (photo REUTERS)

WASHINGTON — Tensions between Donald Trump’s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and Jewish son-in-law Jared Kushner reportedly were behind Lewandowski’s departure announced Monday by the campaign.

On the same day, Lewandowski said separately that he stood by Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.

The New York Times first reported what it said was a firing, and CNN followed up by reporting that Ivanka Trump, a convert to Judaism, persuaded her father to let Lewandowski go, citing tensions between the campaign manager and her husband, Kushner.

According to one source cited in the CNN story, the last straw for Ivanka Trump was hearing that Lewandowski planned to plant negative stories about her husband in the media.

Kushner, the scion of a real estate family and publisher of the New York Observer, is handling the hiring of a transition team should Trump, also a real estate magnate, win the presidency. Kushner, who is an Orthodox Jew, has been instrumental in shaping Trump’s positions on Israel.

Trump has been floundering since his unexpected run to the nomination, in which he crushed 16 opponents in the primaries. He has yet to rally against the presumptive Democratic Party nominee, Hillary Clinton, with his poll numbers dropping and Republicans bewildered at how he lost ground to Clinton after the mass shooting last week in Orlando by a man who declared loyalty to the Islamic State terrorist group.

Republicans routinely do better on national security issues, but Trump’s initial I-told-you-so reaction apparently alienated voters.

Lewandowski was seen as the architect of the pugnacious, self-congratulatory style that helped Trump win the primaries, but other advisers are now pressing Trump to adopt a more statesmanlike demeanor as he faces Clinton in the general election. The differences have led to multiple reports about tensions in the campaign.

“I want to say how honored I am to be part of this team, and it’s been such a privilege to be part of this team,” Lewandowski said on MSNBC. “I have supported and will support Donald trump in any endeavor he has.”

Posted by Kumiko Oumae on Tue, 21 Jun 2016 13:16 | #

It’s openly happening, then. At this stage I don’t even see how anyone could deny it.

Posted by Ivanka to undergo a “giur l’chumra” on Sat, 16 Jul 2016 19:20 | #

Jewish Press, “Sorry, Ivanka, Israel’s High Rabbinical Court Doesn’t Recognize Your Conversion”, 14 July 2016:

It should be noted ... that despite our catchy headline, Ivanka Trump herself was converted under the Rabbinical Council of America and the Israeli Chief Rabbinate “Geirus Policies and Standards” network (GPS) agreement, and so her conversion is not, in fact, in jeopardy.

The high court debated on Wednesday an appeal regarding a ruling of a lower rabbinical court in Petach Tikvah, which revoked the Jewish status of a convert because she had been converted by Rabbi Lookstein, and Rabbi Lookstein was not on the approved list of rabbis submitted by the Rabbinical Council of America (RCA).

The high rabbinical court panel was headed by Dayan (judge) Rabbi Nahum Gortler and with the dayanim Rabbi Yitzhak Elimelech and Rabbi Maimon Nahari — all three being recent appointments for whom this has been their very first ruling in this capacity. Which may explain why they chose to ignore the public and strong urgings of both Sephardi and Ashkenazi chief rabbis to accept Rabbi Lookstein’s conversions.

The high court decided to deny the Lookstein conversion, thus essentially annulling all his past conversions and called on the petitioner to undergo a “giur l’chumra,” which essentially means a new conversion. She was instructed to repeat before the high court panel that she had faith in the one God, and that she accepted the yoke of the rabbis on halakhic matters. The court ruled that when she dips in the mikvah before her wedding it would count as the halakhicly required dipping for the conversion as well.

The petitioner endured the procedure, actually showing she was indeed accepting the rabbinical yoke and then some, but outside the court she said, “I feel humiliated, they were actually saying they’re not recognizing my being Jewish. I love Rabbi Lookstein, he is my rabbi, he brought me into the Jewish world, and I don’t want his conversions not to be recognized.”