Renowned businesswoman and heiress Ivanka Trump and her husband, real estate mogul Jared Kushner praised the benefits of observing Shabbos in the March issue of Vogue magazine, saying it is the one day a week they spend all their time together as a family, Jewish Insider reported on Wednesday.
“From Friday to Saturday we don’t do anything but hang out with one another. We don’t make phone calls,” Trump said. “It’s an amazing thing when you’re so connected to really sign off. And for [my daughter] Arabella to know that she has me, undivided one day a week? We don’t do anything except play with each other, hang out with one another, go on walks together. Pure family.”
Kushner added that his wife learned to cook so she could make Shabbos meals. He said, “for Friday, she’ll make dinner for just the two of us, and we turn off our phones for 25 hours.”
Trump and Kushner dated for two years before getting married in 2009 in a ceremony with 500 guests in New Jersey. Trump converted to Judaism before marrying Kushner and her father, business tycoon Donald Trump, recently joked that while he didn’t plan on having a Jewish daughter, he was “very glad it happened.”
Ivanka said she is always reluctant to discuss her conversion to Judaism in public because it is “such a personal thing.” Explaining their level of observance, she told Vogue that they are “pretty observant, more than some, less than others.”
“I just feel like it’s such an intimate thing for us.” she said. “It’s been such a great life decision for me. I am very modern, but I’m also a very traditional person, and think that’s an interesting juxtaposition in how I was raised as well.”
“I really find that Judaism, it creates an amazing blueprint for family connectivity,” she added.
{Matzav.com}
was it a real gayrus???
Wow ! Ivanka will now become Judism’s new role model. We should get her to speak at Bais Yakov’s etc. (Judism is in trouble)
Anonymous!!! Are you totally Nuts?
What arrogance. Wasn’t ester a convert and look who she married and who her progeny where
This doesn’t belong on a Torahdica website
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Thanks for posting this because I was unsure of of the benefits of Shabbos observance prior …
Yes, it was a real gayrus al pi Halacha as I understood it.
She happens to be a tremendous bas torah.
For someone who allegedly likes her “privacy”, going to Vogue to discuss her Judaism is not exactly keeping quiet.
isn’t it not a valid conversion? becuz she doesn’t seem orthodox
She needs to to meet Reb. E. Jungreis. The Rebetzin would influence
her to become more observant.