WTF?

said that at Harvard Kushner did observe such laws.

I hope he realizes what Bannon is doing in broad daylight.

I tried to look it up but was so far off I gave up. Thanks.

....really recall them correctly. Bugs the hell out of me.

IIRC, he was asked if he would be able to take critical actions on the Sabbath if his office required, and IIRC Lieberman said the country would take precedence.

I am by no means familiar with the nuances of Orthodox observance, but if Kushner were at hand, couldn't he tell his father-in-law to just take a deep breath or something?

....with what being that close to the Mad King really entails when he's become POTUS, but Jared also is not elected to anything. He doesn't officially have the powers of State. He should probably consult his rabbi if in doubt. At the moment Jared is derelict in the duties he signed up for, which entail babysitting a madman.

Conclusion: we are so fcked.

I'm saying all this straight up. Lieberman had it right: there are exemptions for considerations of State. My FIL died at the same time as Itzhak Rabin. My FIL was buried 24 hours later, and Rabin's funeral was postponed, so the question someone posed was why. The rabbi said Rabin was a head of state, and it was appropriate therefore to let other heads of state travel there.

I extrapolate from that. I'm no expert, believe me.

big, glitzy dress-up showcase parties.

If they can get an exemption for big parties, then they could do so four actual important stuff.

He doesn't cover his head, neither does Ivanka.

You're right. With that much wiggle room, Jared should just suck it up and babysit his father in law.

Trump seems to be listening to Bannon rather than his son-in-law.

ease into the Baltic states or further into Ukraine or Georgia.

would be included in the ban on Sunday.

Why didn't Kushner stop Trump from firing acting AG?
I find the whole idea ludicrous.

have been him or maybe it was those democratic institutions that walked it back. That was my whole point.. that moderating influence beyond a son in law is THE WHOLE US GOVERNMENT!

And Kushner didn't know about it?

He can attend prayers on Saturday morning. Basically, he's supposed to be off the clock and thinking religious thoughts until sundown Saturday. And it's winter -- sundown and sunrise reflect a longer night. So ostensibly the earliest he could be in contact is after sundown on Saturday, plenty of time to catch up on the news.

His job is to babysit a crazy man with the fate of the world in his tiny paws. Someone needs to get Jared in to see a rabbi, or Trump needs another babysitter.

Yet Trump fired acting AG and some other people. You are attributing to Kushner powers he clearly doesn't have.

could very well be playing the role that actually belongs to the whole US government. And is that not what Trump does: creates something that already exists and already works? And does it in a much lesser way.

that already exist.

He's never "ridiculous."

Regardless, it's not making sense to me.

devotion.

some millions to the school.

Kushner may be the sane one, but Bannon is too powerful.

Trump explain that? How does Bannon and Kushner explain that? How do they work around that? In his mind somewhere is Trump really trying to get rid of Jared?

Feel share their animal instincts, to the both of them everyone else is the other and they'll be cool as long as they're getting what they want from people. Power comes first for both of them- the hatred is just a game to get what they want.

They go low, we go high.
Delete this thread.

Trump relies to a greater or lesser extent for Jared Kushner to play the whole government's role of moderator. There is no insult to the Jewish faith.

...in Team Trump, and that, frankly is part of it. There was a stunning in-depth article during the latter half of the campaign that said, in part, the Trump had gotten so that he could not even fall asleep at night without his son in law's "whispery voice in his ears." That, frankly, is when I realized that Donald Trump is nuts.

I am not Jewish myself, but I have some skin in this game of trying to disseminate accurate information, having married in to the tribe over 30 years ago. Being Jewish is not all one way of life, nor all one way of thought. Jared and Ivanka claim to be Orthodox, but there's more than one kind of Orthodox.

As of this post, I've seen nothing objectionable in this thread.

The point of this thread is the absolute absurdity that in all likelihood our President needs his son in law to prevent him from doing stupid stuff.