Ivanka's Rabbi Slams Trump's Charlottesville Response

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http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/08/rabbi-that-oversaw-ivankas-conversion-slams-trump.html

The rabbi that oversaw Ivanka Trump’s conversion to Judaism has released a letter to the congregation of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump’s longtime synagogue condemning President Trump’s widely criticized statements about the violent protests in Charlottesville.

In a letter sent to members of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun this evening, Rabbi Emeritus Haskel Lookstein (who oversaw Ivanka’s conversion), along with his successors Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz and Rabbi Elie Weinstock, said, “We are appalled by this resurgence of bigotry and antisemitism, and the renewed vigor of the neo-Nazis, KKK, and alt-right.”

The letter went on: “While we avoid politics, we are deeply troubled by the moral equivalency and equivocation President Trump has offered in his response to this act of violence.”
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[dlk]

1. If Any of Them Had a Conscience, They Might Actually Care

[CanonRay]

2. Whatever gene gives one a conscience

the Trump family has excised it.

[bullwinkle428]

3. Are you going to "unfollow" him too, IVANKA?

[oasis]

4. "Dad may be rude, and sometimes crude

And he is a bit of a nazi
But I can't ignore what's in his WILL I'll score
So my heart belongs to Daddy."

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. excellent.......

[oasis]

7. Thanks, and a salute to

The late great Cole Porter.

[lindysalsagal]

6. I was beginning to wonder if he'd bought off the whole temple!

Anything's possible.

[lindysalsagal]

8. 3...2...1...

How do you attack your daughter's rabbi and congregation???????

[Gothmog]

9. Of course a good rabbi will have issues with trump's conduct