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Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, Who Oversaw Ivanka Geirus, Slams Trump’s Charlottesville Response
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Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, the Rabbi who oversaw Ivanka Trump's conversion to Judaism criticized her father's response to Charlottesville in a...
Anti-Muslim Australian Senator Wears Burqa In Parliament
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