Any rabbi with any integrity at all would consider this scenario happening all throughout the "Modern Orthodox" world. " Wow....I can date a shiksa for years, then find a rabbi to convert her if my parents want her to, eat non-kosher, violate the Shabbos repeatedly, still call myself Orthodox if my father has money, and not one rabbi stands up and says this is a fraud not to be emulated" Shameful!
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Jared Kushner, son-in-law of President Trump, may be the most famous, and most-scrutinized, Orthodox Jew in the United States today.
Since
the president’s inauguration two weeks ago, Kushner — graduate of a
prominent Modern Orthodox day school in New Jersey, grandson of
Holocaust survivors, active supporter of the Chabad-Lubavitch chasidic
movement, a senior adviser to Trump who may become involved in Middle
East peace negotiations — has come under fire in some Orthodox circles.
The charges: Kushner rode with his wife Ivanka in a car to Friday night
post-inaugural events in Washington (with rabbinic dispensation LOL, it is
said, because of security concerns) , attended an ecumenical prayer
service in a D.C. church and apparently remained silent after the
president issued a controversial statement last week about International
Holocaust Remembrance Day that omitted any mention of Jews being the
primary target of the Nazis.
The statement “was
written with the help of someone who is both Jewish and the descendent
of Holocaust survivors,” White House press secretary Sean Spicer said.
Many assumed he was alluding to Kushner, though press reports say it was
written by Boris Epshteyn, a Russian Jewish immigrant serving as
special assistant in the administration after working on the Trump
campaign.
Still, Kushner’s
critics have indulged in a chorus of so-called “frum-shaming,” keeping a
watchful eye on him, eager to call out any perceived violation of
Jewish law.
Kushner has
emerged as one of his father-in-law’s closest confidantes and fiercest
defenders, asserting that Trump is neither an anti-Semite nor a racist.
At 36, the publicity-shy scion of the wealthy Kushner real estate family is the subject of numerous media reports.
A “quiet
millionaire with Donald Trump’s ear,” reported BBC. “Something of a
mollifying influence upon his mercurial boss,” wrote Vanity Fair.
“Someone who ‘enjoys a Rasputin-like power’ with Trump,” according to
Cosmopolitan.
Now a (prominent?) Orthodox rabbi is coming to Kushner’s defense — ironically, one with close ties to Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Rabbi Menachem
Genack, administrator of the Orthodox Union’s kashrut division, calls
Kushner “a genuine Modern Orthodox Jew … serious about his Judaism.”
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| KUSHNER AT KABBALAT SHABBAT PARTY |
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| KUSHNER IN CHURCH ON SHABBAT |
The rabbi of
Congregation Shomrei Emunah in Englewood, N.J. and author of the 2013
“Letters to President Clinton: Biblical Lessons of Faith and Leadership”
(Sterling Ethos), was openly critical of Trump during the campaign,
saying he lacked a “sense of morality.” But having known the Kushner
family for three decades and worked “on many projects” with Charles
Kushner, Jared’s father, the rabbi said Jared “listens, he absorbs
information … he’s very even-tempered … the opposite of his
father-in-law.”
In a letter to The
Jewish Week, the rabbi described how Jared every year sends a $500
check before Passover to one of his former day school teachers “as a
gesture of appreciation for what [he] felt he gained,” Rabbi Genack
said.
In a similar vein,
a recent JTA article described Jared Kushner’s generosity and spirit of
cooperation at Harvard Chabad during his student days at the Ivy League
school and in his post-graduation life.
“It was most apparent in the
first impression what kind of mensch this young man was,” JTA quotes
Chabad Rabbi Hirschy Zarchi as saying. “When he saw importance in a
project, he committed himself to it.”
Rabbi Genack
compared the criticism of Kushner on halachic grounds to the carping
about Joseph Lieberman, also an Orthodox Jew, during the former
senator’s race for vice president with Al Gore in 2000. Lieberman was
accused of “hydrating” on a fast day during the campaign.
The rabbi said
such criticism is “ridiculous,” and that it is unfair for people in the
public eye to be held to unreasonable standards.
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KUSHNER CELEBRATING BIRTHDAY ON SHELLFISH:
READ: http://pagesix.com/2012/01/12/private-b-day/
Genack ---- HOW DO YOU SPELL Z-O-N-A?
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THE OU STATEMENT ON A DIFFERENT ISSUE (IN PART) - THE HEIGHT OF HYPOCRISY:
"A movement that has voluntarily parted paths with normative Orthodoxy and Halakha in so many ways has no right to complain when the Orthodox establishment rejects its radical innovations. It is a classic case of the pot calling the kettle black.
Halakha is predicated upon following the directives and guidance of the generation’s foremost rabbinic authorities. Vigilante Judaism – and that’s exactly what is being promoted by those attacking the OU’s ruling – is inconsistent with the deference to the generation’s most distinguished Torah experts that forms the basis of all stripes of authentic Orthodoxy.
The OU has followed traditional and halakhically required protocol when dealing with challenges and innovations to Torah practice, by consulting with a world-renowned team of halakhic authorities, and committing to following the decision that would be rendered.
This is what Torah Judaism is all about."
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As Rabbi Yaakov Kaminetzky zt"l expressed to me when I asked him if the OU can be trusted on Kashruth; Without hesitation he responded: "Yes, on salt"!
http://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/jared-kushner-under-the-microscope/?utm_source=JW+Newsletter&utm_campaign=d01d1f2c42-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c115aa4114-d01d1f2c42-21299163
Jared Kushner & Ivanka Trump In Church on Friday and Shabbos! Trump's Conversion Farce Must Be Repudiated, Rebuked & Delegitimized by Every Orthodox Rabbi! Kabbalat Shabbos With Jared & Ivanka! Israel & The Jewish People Have Every Reason To Be Concerned About Kushner's Total Rejection of Core Jewish Values (מומר להכעיס) , and In Essence, Contemptuous Conduct.
http://theunorthodoxjew.blogspot.com/2017/01/jared-kushner-ivanka-trump-in-church-on.html
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Even before that NY Post article, UOJ was the only one to catch on Ivanka's Twitter feed how she was live blogging on a Shabbos immediately after her wedding to Kushner from a treif restaurant how she was savoring shellfish.
http://www.jewishlinknj.com/community-news/bergen/17046-orthodox-union-formalizes-greater-roles-for-women-in-synagogue-life
The OU are scared as heck from Open Orthodox competition so they have partially caved to approve "yoatzot" which are women poskim but which they are too embarrassed to actually call poskim. And it should not be lost on long time UOJ readers that dray-kop-in-perpetuity Gil Student is cheering this.
http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/modern-orthodoxys-failings-transcend-jared-kushner/
Given his unexceptional high school record, Kushner’s acceptance by Harvard highlights another iron-clad reality: the power of money, in Jewish as well as secular American life. With the understandable need to recruit and retain major donors to underwrite our economically unsustainable network of institutions, especially yeshivas and day schools, compromises are both inevitable and ubiquitous.The inherent and explicit failings of the Modern Orthodox establishment reach much wider than one individual, and anyway we can know very little about Mr. Kushner’s individual psyche and moral choices. These failings and contradictions have been inherent and apparent in our community for years, before Kushner ever attended New Jersey’s Frisch School.
The fellow with a beard next to the kissing couple is rabbi Shalom Weingot, who, according to Wherewhatwhen.com, "is the director of B’nainu, an organization that, besides its other services, also provides mentors for children." (The "other services," as reported by Achim.org, include "spearheading the 'Silent Revolution', an initiative to develop healthy listening skills.")
Here is rabbi Shalom Weingot enjoying the words of the Song of Solomon 7: "How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince’s daughter! The joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman." – http://i.cubeupload.com/AYTxUa.jpg
Wonder what happened to two Moshe Markowitz comments and his photo. Have you started censoring free speech, Shaul?
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