Ivanka Trump 'receives permission to fly on Sabbath' for father's trip abroad
Source: Independent
Jewish law generally does not permit travelling on the Sabbath except in life-threatening situations
Alexandra Wilts Washington DC 5 hours ago
Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner reportedly got the green light from a rabbi to fly on Air Force One with Donald Trump, as the president kicked off his first trip abroad as president.
Both practicing Orthodox Jews, Mr Trump's daughter and son-in-law typically observe the weekly Shabbat holiday by removing themselves from work activities from sundown on Friday to sundown on Saturday.
Jewish law does not permit travelling on the Sabbath except in life-threatening situations, or if there is a safety concern. It was not clear on what grounds the rabbi made the exception for Ms Trump and Mr Kushner to accompany the president on his trip, Politico reported.
On Inauguration Day, they also received a rabbinical approval to travel by car.
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...they both seem... ungodly. I wonder if a good reporter could find any other instances where they worked on the Sabbath?
...but they are going to Israel where things like this aren't taken lightly.
She's showing that she's the good little Jewish girl who asked the rabbi's permission first.
I'm not sure if Jared (who was raised Jewish) ever did any such thing, and that's what is odd about this.
Just sayin'
The rabbi must have known that leaving the crazy baby unattended is a threat to world peace and stability.
St. Pattys Day fell on a Friday,and the pope gave me the green light to eat corned beef and cabbage.
...but our local bishop in Pittsburgh gave dispensation to eat meat on that particular Friday.
Only because it happened during Lent, when we're still doing the abstinence thing.
For me it didn't matter because I've always hated corned beef. My mom didn't know how to cook it right and I always hated it since childhood.
American bishops, as a rule, are usually good about dispensations for the Irish when it falls on a Friday. In Ireland, barnacle goose was often claimed to be 'seafood' and not meat back in the days when the Lenten abstinence went the whole 40 days. Mostly claimed by the well-to-do, mind you...
And corned beef is an Irish-American thing that has since been imported to Ireland. Originally it was Irish bacon and cabbage (think Canadian style back bacon). That style of bacon was harder to come by here, but the nice Jewish neighbors clued us into corned beef and the rest is history (well, folklore, but you get the idea). I can't stand cabbage--taste or smell--but a nice Rueben sandwich with thin sliced corned beef...
Special dispensation? Sounds quite pharisaical to me. Do these people really think the creator of a universe so vast we cannot even comprehend our tiny corner of it gives a rat's rear end if some puny, ephemeral Homo sapien travels by air on a certain day? What crap! Yet lying their asses off 6 days a week is perfectly fine. 
