The week began with interest in Bernie Marcus’ support of Donald Trump. In an essay, former Home Depot CEO/Co-founder and philanthropist Bernie Marcus wrote an impassioned plea for Republicans...
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Newbits: Will Chief Rabbi Validate Parking But Not Conversions; Vogue’s Trump Shabbat, and a Jew-nicorn
A Member of the Knesset, Elazar Stern, who identifies as an observant Orthodox Israeli Jew and is a member of the Yesh Atid party, called on Israel’s Sephardic chief rabbi – Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef...
Newbits: TrumpSoho’s $146 Kosher Turkey, Haredi Sperm, Djerba, and More
The NY Post reports that Dan Miller is suing the Trump Soho hotel in Manhattan. His suit alleges that the hotel charged him $146 to get a special hot kosher meal during a conference, but they sold...
Jewlicious News TimBits – April 23
Some people think that little news happens during the Counting of the Omer. They are mistaken. Take a look at the tidbits of news from around the web. New York Magazine reports on a rift between the...
My wedding speech at Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s wedding
I wish the newly-wed couple mazal and bracha. And while I was not asked to perform the wedding (the venerable Rabbi Haskel Lookstein had that honor) I figured that I would pen a small speech that...
You’re Acquired! Is a Star of David in a Trump’s Future?
The mortgage committees of several NYC tristate area synagogues might be abuzz and salivating, if Ivanka Trump, the daughter of Donald and Ivana (Ivana Marie ZelnÃÄková) Trump, becomes an active...