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by Jacob Kamaras
June 29, 2015

In the middle of a phone interview with JNS.org on June 26, billionaire real estate mogul and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump leaves his desk to scan the wall of his office for awards he has received from the Jewish community….How close, in fact, is Trump’s relationship with Judaism?…he is no apprentice when it comes to the Jewish faith. Trump’s daughter Ivanka [who recently spoke in Chicago for JUF] converted to Judaism in 2009, and her observance of Shabbat with her husband Jared Kushner (a well-known real estate developer as well as the owner and publisher of the New York Observer newspaper) is well-documented. “I have great respect for [the Shabbat traditions], and I see Ivanka during Saturday, and from Friday evening on through Saturday night, she won’t take phone calls and they live a very interesting life,” Trump said. READ MORE