President Donald Trump welcomed a wide-ranging group of Jewish leaders to the White House on Monday in a Pesach gathering that brought together representatives from across the religious and communal spectrum.
Among those in attendance were Antisemitism Envoy Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun, American Friends of Chabad Lubavitch Executive Vice President Rabbi Levi Shemtov, Agudah CEO Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel, and Holocaust Memorial Council Chairman Jeffrey Miller.
Also present were Holocaust survivor Jerry Wartski and former Hamas hostage Edan Alexander, who attended alongside his parents. Additional participants included Rabbi Meir Soloveitchik, representatives from the Satmar community, New Square Mayor Izzy Spitzer, Rabbi Moshe Margaretten, and Harold Loss, a Reform rabbi from West Bloomfield, Michigan, whose congregation was recently targeted in an attempted terror attack by a Hezbollah-aligned suspect.
During the gathering, Trump expressed appreciation for the Jewish leaders present and for the broader Jewish community, offering Passover greetings and reflecting on the significance of the holiday.
The event also included a call-in from Trump’s daughter and son-in-law, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner.
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Beautiful
YWN – how can you write the word ‘Reform’ next to the word ‘rabbi’ (even if it has a small ‘r’!) ???!?
Reform priest maybe
What business does Pesah have with Trump – an Epstein files garbage heap. He’s a dirty man, the way he has talked about his daughters, the way he conducts himself, the business dealings he has and THAT is what our community wants to send representatives to for Pesah?! Have we learned nothing from history??? The equivalent is going to have a party with Paro. What is going on in the heads of the Rabbis these days? Are they all delusional or so caught up in politics and ego that they can’t see the danger right in front of their faces?!!! Wake up!
Ido:
“Rabbi” here is used as a job description, not a title. You’ll see in many shuls that they write on their letterhead “Rav Ploni Cohen” and then under that will be the word Rabbi, indicating his job there at the shul. LiHavdil, same here.
Still, I would have put either clergy or “rabbi” with the quotes.
Leya is probably a demcRAT operative. As Orthodox Jews we love Trump. He is a holy man. Thats why he has Jewish grandchildren while so many reform secular Jews dont. Trump has been the most pro Israel president since George Washington. He deserves top place in heaven while Obama and Biden are going to hell.