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Title: Trump Vs. Clinton: Battle Of The Jewish Sons-In-Law
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The Jewish Week
URL Source: http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/n ... clinton-battle-jewish-sons-law
Published: Jun 2, 2016
Author: Uriel Heilman
Post Date: 2016-06-02 15:10:27 by Hondo68
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Keywords: Ivanka Trump, Chelsea Clinton
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Somebody had better put a mezuzah on the Lincoln Bedroom. Whoever ends up winning the election in November, one thing seems certain: For the first time in history, Jews will be in the president’s inner family circle. Both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have Jewish sons-in-law, and of course Bernie Sanders — in the unlikely event he makes it to the White House — is Jewish himself (though his daughter-in-law is not). With the head-to-head contest between the two likely nominees heating up, we decided to take a closer look at Jared Kushner, who is married to Ivanka Trump, and Marc Mezvinsky, who is married to Chelsea Clinton. Kushner: 35 Mezvinsky: 38 Kushner: CEO of family real estate firm Kushner Properties and owner-publisher of The New York Observer. Mezvinsky: Investment banker and co-founder of hedge fund Eaglevale Partners. Kushner: High school at Frisch, a modern Orthodox yeshiva in Paramus, New Jersey; B.A. from Harvard (sociology); J.D. and M.B.A. from New York University. Mezvinsky: High school at Friends Central in the Philadelphia suburb of Wynnewood; B.A. from Stanford (religious studies and philosophy); M.A. in international relations from the University of Oxford, England. Kushner: Grew up in Livingston, N.J. Father, Charles Kushner, ran a real estate empire until his imprisonment and is involved in various Jewish philanthropic endeavors. Mother, Seryl Kushner, is involved in the family’s business and philanthropy. Has three siblings. Mezvinsky: Grew up in Philadelphia. Both parents served stints in Congress as Democrats: father, Edward Mezvinsky, served two terms from Iowa in the 1970s (and decades later went to prison); mother, Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky, a former TV journalist, served a single term from Pennsylvania in the mid-‘90s. Parents are now divorced. Has one full brother, four half-siblings and five adopted siblings. Kushner: Often described as a wunderkind, Jared Kushner has doubled the assets of his family’s real estate empire since taking over as CEO in 2008. In 2014, Kushner Properties did $2 billion in transactions. Mezvinsky: Worked at Goldman Sachs for eight years before launching Eaglevale in 2011, which now has$326 million under management. But the hedge fund was down 3.6 percent in 2014, largely due toMezvinsky’s bad bets on Greek debt. Kushner: Helped draft Donald Trump’s AIPAC speech, advises the presumptive Republican nominee for president on Israel issues and is involved in assembling his White House transition team. Kushner’s newspaper endorsed Trump for president. Mezvinsky: Appears at non-political events with the Clintons, but has no known involvement with Hillary’s campaign. Kushner: Belongs to an Orthodox synagogue, Manhattan’s Kehilath Jeshurun, observes Shabbat and kosher restrictions, and is raising children as Jews. Mezvinsky: Grew up in a Conservative synagogue, has been seen in shul on occasion with wife Chelsea Clinton and is raising daughter with both Jewish and Methodist traditions. Kushner: Ivanka Trump underwent Orthodox conversion after studying with Orthodox Rabbi Haskel Lookstein. She now observes Shabbat and keeps a kosher home. “We’re pretty observant,” she has said. Mezvinsky: Chelsea Clinton is still a practicing Methodist. The couple married in an interfaith ceremony featuring a huppah and co-officiated by Rabbi James Ponet of Yale University and Methodist Rev. William Shillady. Kushner: Hired a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law, secretly recorded the encounter and sent the tape to his sister as part of a blackmail scheme. He served 16 months after guilty pleas to 18 counts of tax evasion, witness tampering and making illegal campaign donations. Mezvinsky: Bilked friends, family and strangers out of some $10 million in bogus schemes disguised as investments in Africa and oil development. He served five years after pleading guilty to 31 counts of felony fraud, including bank fraud, mail fraud and wire fraud. Kushner: Stylish 10-room apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side at – where else? – Trump Park Avenue. Mezvinsky: A sleek apartment in Manhattan’s Flatiron district, on 26th Street, that the couple bought in 2013 for $10.5 million. Kushner: Theodore James, 2 months; Joseph Frederick, 2; Arabella Rose, 4. Mezvinsky: Daughter Charlotte, 1, and one on the way. Kushner: “Baby-faced,” “sandy haired” and “handsome.” Mezvinsky: Bespectacled with a perennial 5 o’clock shadow. Poster Comment: Hillary and The Donald are virtual twins.
Jared Kushner, left, Marc Mezvinsky. JTA Age
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