Ivanka Trump’s rabbi pulls out of Republican convention based on congregation's petition

[Liberal_in_LA]

A prominent Orthodox rabbi who was listed as a speaker for the Republican National Convention emailed his community on Friday to say that he will not actually appear at the nominating convention.

Rabbi Haskel Lookstein was set to appear in Cleveland, where Donald Trump, whose daughter Ivanka is a member of his congregation, expects to receive the Republican nomination. But hundreds of members of the Modern Orthodox Jewish community signed petitions asking him not to appear at Trump’s convention, and Lookstein quickly complied.

“The whole matter turned from rabbinic to political, something which was never intended … I have never been involved in politics,” Lookstein wrote in an email to members of his community. “Politics divides people. My life has been devoted to uniting a community.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/07/15/ivanka-trumps-rabbi-pulls-out-of-republican-convention/

[grossproffit]

1. How would speaking at a political convention not be seen as political?

[Chemisse]

2. That must be a little awkward for Ivanka.

In fact her whole life must be a series of embarrassments and explanations, thanks to her father, the fucktrumpet.