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Where Trump's real estate empire meets with the Kremlin's main religious ally.
The Chabad Jewish Community Center of Port Washington on Long Island in Manhasset Bay is housed in a squat brick building opposite a Shell gas station and mall. This is an unremarkable house on an unremarkable street, if you do not take into account one peculiarity. The shortest paths connecting Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin run through it.
20 years ago, when the Russian president began to consolidate his power in the country, he launched a project to eradicate the structures of the Jewish civil society that existed in the country and to replace them with a parallel structure loyal to him. And on the other side of the world, a cheeky Manhattan real estate developer was trying to grab some of the huge flow of capital flowing from the former Soviet Union in search of stable Western assets (especially real estate) and partners in New York with access to the entire region.
Such aspirations led these two people, as well as Trump's future son-in-law Jared Kushner, to form a close and overlapping relationship in a small world centered on the international Hasidic movement Chabad, completely unknown to most people.
In 1999, Putin enlisted the support of two of his confidants and the oligarchs Lev Leviev and Roman Abramovich, who later became the main patrons of Chabad around the world, and created the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia under the leadership of Chabad Rabbi Berl Lazar, who is now called "Putin's rabbi."
Several years later, Trump began searching for Russian projects and Russian capital, joining forces with Bayrock-Sapir, which was headed by Soviet emigrants Tevfik Arif, Felix Sater and Tamir Sapir, who maintained close ties with Chabad. The company's projects have been the subject of numerous fraudulent lawsuits, and a criminal investigation has been carried out into a Manhattan residential complex.
Meanwhile, the ties between Trump and Chabad gradually strengthened and expanded. In 2007, Trump organized the wedding of Sapir's daughter and Leviev's closest aide, which took place at his posh Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach. Months after the ceremony, Leviev met with Trump to discuss potential deals in Moscow and then arranged for the couple's first son to be circumcised at the most sacred site of Chabad Judaism. Trump attended the ceremony along with Kushner, who later bought a $ 300 million house from Leviev and married Ivanka Trump. She, in turn, became close friends with Abramovich's wife Daria Zhukova. Zhukova hosted this influential couple in Russia in 2014 and attended Trump's inauguration as their guest.
Thanks to this transatlantic diaspora and some global real estate tycoons, Trump Tower and Moscow's Red Square sometimes seem to be part of the same close-knit neighborhood. Now that Trump from the Oval Office has announced his desire to reorient the world order towards a better relationship with Putin, and the FBI is investigating inappropriate connections between Trump aides and the Kremlin, the small world of Chabad has suddenly taken on disproportionate importance.
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The Chabad-Lubavich movement was founded in 1775 in Lithuania, and today it has tens, and possibly hundreds of thousands of followers. Chabad makes up for its small size with enthusiasm. This movement is known as the most resilient form of Judaism.
Mort Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America, recalls how he was impressed by this Chabad feature. It was at one wedding. Two tables were occupied by the groom's cousins, the Chabad rabbis. They outdid all the other guests. “These guys were dancing like fire. I thought they were black. But no, they only had black hats, ”Klein said, referring to traditional Hasidic headdresses.
Despite its small size, Chabad has become the largest Jewish movement in the world. He is present in more than a thousand cities, including places like Kathmandu and Hanoi, where there are very few Jews. The movement is known for its "Chabad houses" (Beit Chabad), which operate as community centers and are open to all Jews. “Take any godforsaken city in the world and there’s a McDonald’s restaurant and a Chabad home,” says New York-based Jewish public relations specialist Ronn Torossian.
The adherents of Chabad differ from the rest of the Hasidim in numerous ways in their customs and traditions. Men from Chabad wear hats instead of fur hats. Many members of this movement consider the leader of this movement, Rabbi Menachem-Mendel Schneerson, who died in 1994, as their messiah, and some believe that he is still alive. According to Klein, the Chabad followers are very good at organizing fundraising.
Paying serious attention to the preaching work, and attracting an increasing number of Jews around the world to Judaism, Chabad provides services to those Jews who are not fully believers.
According to the famous New Jersey rabbi and longtime friend of Democratic Senator Cory Booker Schmuley Boteach, Chabad offers Jews a third path to religious identity. “The Jew has three choices,” he explains. - A Jew can assimilate without maintaining close ties with religion. He can be religious and orthodox. And there is also a third opportunity that Chabad gives people who do not want to follow the path of the orthodox, but want to stay inside the religious field. "
This third path precisely explains the closeness that Trump developed with many enthusiasts and supporters of Chabad, that is, with those Jews who eschew liberal and reformist Judaism, preferring traditionalism, but are not too devout.
“It is not surprising that Trump's associates are associated with Chabad,” Torossian said. - Chabad is the place where strong and stubborn Jews feel comfortable. Chabad is the place where no one judges anyone, where non-traditional people who are not used to living by the rules feel comfortable. "
Speaking about the approaches of Chabad, which are less strict than those of the Orthodox, he makes his conclusion: "If you cannot fulfill all the commandments, do those that you can."
Torossian, who said, among other things, that he is a friend of Sater and his public relations representative, explained that this balance is especially attractive to Jews from the former Soviet Union, who value the combination of traditional trappings and an indulgent attitude towards observance of customs and rituals. “All Russian Jews go to Chabad,” he said. "Russian Jews are uncomfortable in a reformed synagogue."
Jews of Putin
As is often the case in Putin's Russia, the state began to support Chabad as a result of inter-factional power struggles.
After becoming prime minister in 1999, Putin enlisted the support of Leviev and Abramovich in creating the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia. Its goal was to weaken Jewish civil society in Russia and its umbrella organization, the Russian Jewish Congress, led by oligarch Vladimir Gusinsky, who posed a potential threat to Putin and President Boris Yeltsin. A year later, Gusinsky was arrested and forced to emigrate.
At that time in Russia there was already Chief Rabbi Adolf Shaevich, who was recognized by the Russian Jewish Congress. But Abramovich and Leviev put Chabad Rabbi Berl Lazar at the head of the rival organization with the congress. The Kremlin removed Shayevich from its religious affairs council, and has since recognized Lazar as Russia's chief rabbi. As a result, two candidates for this post appeared in the country.
The Putin-Chabad alliance benefits from both sides. Under Putin, anti-Semitism is discouraged, and this is an important departure from the centuries-old tradition of discrimination and pogroms. In addition, the state supports it with its own sanctioned version of Jewish identity, calling Jews an integral part of the nation.
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In 2013, under the auspices of Chabad and with Abramovich's money, a Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center was opened in Moscow. Putin donated his monthly salary to the project, and the KGB's successor, the Federal Security Service, offered the museum relevant documents from its archives.
In 2014, Berl Lazar was the only Jewish leader present at the meeting at which Putin made a triumphant declaration on the annexation of Crimea.
But the rabbi had to pay for his loyalty to Putin. After the annexation, he continues to support the Russian dictator, and because of this, he has split with the leaders of Chabad in Ukraine. In addition, the Russian state has for many years responded with a refusal to a US court order to transfer the Chabad texts, which are called the "Schneerson collection," to the headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, which is located in Brooklyn. Soon after the opening of the center of tolerance, Putin ordered the transfer of this collection to his funds. Thus, Lazar became the custodian of the most valuable library, which his Brooklyn comrades consider to be theirs by right.
If Lazar has any remorse for participating in this internal Chabad dispute, then he does not show it. “Challenging the authorities is not Jewish,” the rabbi said in 2015.
Trump, Bayrock, Sapir
Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, Trump embarked on a search for projects and investors from the former Soviet Union in the early years of the 21st century, and as a result forged a strong relationship with Bayrock-Sapir.
One of its leaders was Felix Sater, who was convicted at one time for his connections with the mafia.
Sater and fellow Bayrock employee Daniel Ridloff, who later worked directly for the Trump Organization, are members of the Port Washington Chabad Jewish community. Sater told Politico magazine that he serves on the board of Beit Chabad Port Washington, and also serves on the leadership of many Chabad organizations in the US and abroad, but not in Russia.
The extent of Sater's and Trump's ties is controversial. While working at Trump Tower, Sater has worked with the famous developer on many projects and sought deals for him in the former Soviet Union. In 2006, Sater accompanied Trump's children Ivanka and Donald Jr. on a trip around Moscow in search of potential projects. He worked especially closely with Ivanka on the Trump SoHo project, which includes a hotel and residential complex in Manhattan. In 2006, this project was discussed in the TV program "Pupil".
In 2007, it became known that Sater was charged with a stock exchange scam. This did not stop Trump, and in 2010 he made Sater "senior advisor to the Trump Organization." In 2011, several Trump SoHo apartment buyers sued Trump and his associates for fraud, and New York prosecutors opened a criminal investigation into the sales. But the buyers settled the issue with the company and agreed not to cooperate with the investigation, which was later dropped, according to the New York Times. Two former managers filed a lawsuit against Bayrock, accusing the firm of tax evasion, money laundering, racketeering, bribery, extortion, and deception.
Sater spoke under oath of close relations with the Trumps, and Trump himself also said under oath that he hardly knew Sater and would not be able to distinguish his face in the crowd. Some people who worked with Trump during this period and agreed to talk on condition of anonymity, because they feared revenge from both, laughed at Trump's testimony, saying that he often met with Sater and called him almost constantly. One person recalled that Trump and Sater often dined together, including at the now defunct Kiss & Fly restaurant in Manhattan.
“Trump called Felix in his office about a day later. So his words that he does not know him are complete nonsense, - said a former colleague of Sater. - They were constantly in contact, that's for sure. They talked on the phone all the time. "
In 2014, the Chabad center of the Jewish community, Port Washington, named Satera "Person of the Year." At a ceremony in his honor, Chabad founder Shalom Paltiel recalled Sater spilling out about being a national security informant.
“I recently told Felix that I hardly believed anything of his words. It seemed to me that he had seen enough of James Bond films, read the novels of Tom Clancy, - said Paltiel at the ceremony. - All of Felix's acquaintances know that he is a master of storytelling. I just didn't really believe in them. "
But then Paltiel said that a few years later he received special permission to accompany Sater to a ceremony at a federal building in Manhattan. There, according to Paltiel, representatives of all American intelligence agencies praised Sater for his secret work and told "more fantastic, more incredible things than anything he told me." Video footage of that event in honor of Sater has been removed from the Beit Chabad Port Washington website, but is available on YouTube.
While preparing this article for publication, I called Paltiel, but he hung up as soon as I introduced myself. I had to ask him about some of the connections that I learned about in the process. Paltiel not only maintains a relationship with Sater, he is also on a short leg with "Putin's rabbi" Lazar. In a short note about meeting him at Schneerson's grave in Queens, Paltiel calls Lazar his "dear friend and mentor."
According to Boteach, this is not surprising because Chabad is such a community where everyone knows everyone. “In the world of Chabad, we all went to yeshiva together, we were all ordained together,” Boteach said. - I knew Berl Lazar from the days of studying at the yeshiva.
The Chabad home in Port Washington has another Bayrock devotee. Among the 13 main benefactors of this community are Satera's partner and founder of this company, Tevfik Arif.
Arif is a former Soviet official turned wealthy real estate developer. He owns a mansion in Port Washington, located in a wealthy suburb. But this is a very curious patron of the local Chabad. Arif has a Muslim name, was born in Kazakhstan, and is a citizen of Turkey. Arif is not a Jew, as the people who worked with him say. In 2010, he was arrested during a police search in Turkey on a yacht that once belonged to the founder of the modern Turkish state, Mustafa Kamal Ataturk. Arif was accused of running an international criminal network employing underage prostitutes. All charges were later dropped from him.
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Its patriarch, the late billionaire Tamir Sapir, was born in Soviet Georgia and came to New York in 1976, where he opened an electronics store in the Flatiron area. According to the New York Times, this store mainly served KGB agents.
Trump called Sapir his "great friend." In December 2007, he arranged the wedding of Sapir's daughter Zina in Mar-a-Lago. Lionel Richie and the Pussycat Dolls performed there. Rotem Rosen's fiancé worked as CEO of the American branch of Africa Israel, the holding company of Putin's oligarch Leviev.
Five months later, in early June 2008, Zina Sapir and Rosen performed a circumcision ceremony for their newborn son. In invitations to this ceremony, Rosen was called Leviev's "right hand". By that time, Leviev had become the largest sponsor of Chabad around the world and personally secured the circumcision ceremony at the grave of Schneerson, which the followers of Chabad consider the most sacred place.
Trump attended the ceremony. And a month earlier, in May 2008, he, together with Leviev, discussed possible projects for the construction of real estate in Moscow, about which the Russian media wrote at that time. The photo taken during the meeting shows Trump and Leviev shaking hands and smiling.
In the same year, Sapir, actively involved in financing Chabad, together with Leviev visited Berlin, where they visited the centers of Chabad.
Jared, Ivanka, Roman, Dasha
Kushner was also present at that newborn circumcision ceremony, who, along with his wife Ivanka Trump, forged their own ties with Putin's allies in Chabad. The Kushner family, which considers itself to be modern orthodox, has long and actively participated in charitable activities throughout the Jewish world, including in Chabad institutions. And while studying at Harvard, Kushner took an active part in the work of the university house of Chabad. Three days before the presidential election, the Kushner-Trump couple visited Schneerson's grave, where they prayed for Trump. In January, they bought a house in the Kalorama neighborhood of Washington and began visiting the nearby Chabad synagogue, which became their meetinghouse.
In May 2015, that is, a month before Trump officially entered the presidential race in the Republican primaries, Kushner bought a controlling stake in the old New York Times building on West 43rd Street from Leviev for $ 295 million.
Kushner and Ivanka Trump also maintain a close relationship with Abramovich's wife, Dasha Zhukova. Abramovich, a major entrepreneur, whose fortune is estimated at more than seven billion dollars, owns the British football club Chelsea, and was previously the governor of the Russian province of Chukotka, where he is still revered as a hero. He made his fortune thanks to the victory in the post-Soviet "aluminum wars", during which more than 100 people were killed trying to seize control of aluminum enterprises. In 2008, Abramovich admitted that he had amassed his business empire by handing out billions of dollars in bribes. His former business partner, the late oligarch Boris Berezovsky, after falling out with Putin, left for New York, where he settled in Trump International's building near Central Park. In 2011, he accused Abramovich of threats, blackmail and intimidation by filing a lawsuit in a British court. That process was won by Abramovich.
Abramovich reportedly was the first to recommend Putin to Yeltsin as his successor. In their 2004 biography of Abramovich, British journalists Dominic Midgley and Chris Hutchins write: “When Putin needed a secret power to oppose his enemies from behind the scenes, he could always rely on Abramovich, who became for him a voluntary accomplice. " Biographers write that the relationship between these two people developed as between a father and a son, and they report that Abramovich personally interviewed candidates for positions in Putin's first cabinet of ministers. According to the available information, he gave Putin a yacht for $ 30 million, although Putin himself denies this.
Abramovich's business interests and his personal life have intersected with Trump's world many times and in various directions.
Researchers from Cornell University in 2012 prepared a report stating that Evraz, partly owned by Abramovich, entered into a series of contracts under the terms of which it will supply 40% of the steel needed for the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, the project of which, after years of delays in March approved by Trump. And in 2006, Abramovich bought a large stake in the Russian oil company Rosneft, which is now being carefully checked for possible collusion between Trump and Russia. Trump and the Kremlin disparagingly call "fake news" a dossier alleging the recent sale of Rosneft shares is part of a scheme to ease sanctions against Russia.
Meanwhile, the wife of Abramovich Zhukov has long been moving in the same secular circles as Kushner and Ivanka Trump. She became a friend and business partner of Rupert Murdoch's ex-wife Wendi Deng, who has long been friends with Ivanka. Zhukova also became friends with a longtime friend of Kushner's brother Josh Karlie Kloss.
Gradually Zhukova became close to Jared and Ivanka. In February 2014, a month before the illegal seizure of Crimea from Ukraine, Ivanka Trump posted on Instagram a photo of her sitting with Zhukova and Wendy Deng over a bottle of wine. The caption under the photo: "Thank you [Zhukova] for the unforgettable four days in Russia!" Deng was recently rumored to be dating Putin, though Wendy herself denies this. From other photographs it becomes clear that Kushner was also in Russia at that time.
Last summer, Kushner, Ivanka Trump, Zhukova and Deng sat in the same box at the US Open. In January, Zhukova attended Trump's inauguration as a guest of Ivanka.
On March 14, a journalist from The Daily Mail noticed Josh Kushner and Zhukova, who were having dinner together at a New York restaurant. As this publication wrote, Josh Kushner "hid his face and quickly left the establishment with Dasha."
A week later, when Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump were vacationing in Aspen with her two brothers and their families, Abramovich's plane, according to the dispatch service, flew from Moscow to Denver. Abramovich owns two properties in Aspen.
A spokesman for Abramovich declined to comment on this coincidence in Colorado. The White House forwarded questions about the couples' vacation to Ivanka Trump's personal press secretary. Press secretary Risa Heller made it clear that she would answer questions about the vacation of these people in Colorado and their recent contacts, but did not.
According to the available information, President Trump is pushing for Kushner and Ivanka to gain access to state secrets as they play an increasingly important role in the White House. According to senior intelligence officials, any other person who maintains close personal relationships with the family of an important Putin confidant would find it very difficult to obtain such clearance, but political pressure will surely prevail over security concerns.
“Yes, that kind of relationship with Russia should have meaning for security agencies conducting inspections,” said former CIA chief of residence in Moscow, Steve Hall. "The question is, will they pay attention to it."
“I don’t think the Trump family will have any problems accessing state secrets unless a polygraph is used,” said Milt Bearden, former head of the CIA's East Europe unit. "This is absolutely crazy, but there won't be any problems here."
While Washington is abuzz with rumors of an FBI investigation into contacts between Trump's inner circle and Putin's Kremlin, the groups and organizations linking them remain the subject of scrutiny and scrutiny.
In March, the New York Times reported that Lazar met last summer with the Trump administration's special envoy for international negotiations, Jason Greenblatt, who was a lawyer for the Trump Organization at the time. Both described the meeting as a very common Greenblatt effort to establish contacts with Jewish leaders and said they discussed issues of Russian society and anti-Semitism. The meeting was organized by New York-based public relations specialist Joshua Nass, and according to Lazar, he did not discuss it with the Russian authorities.
In late January, Sater met with Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, to discuss a proposal for a peace deal in Ukraine that would end US sanctions against Russia. Cohen then reported the meeting to Trump's former national security adviser, Michael Flynn. Cohen himself has made various comments about the episode.
According to one Jewish Republican, Cohen makes frequent visits to the Chabad Fifth Avenue community center, which is a dozen blocks from Trump Tower and six blocks from Cohen's own office at 30 Rockefeller Plaza.
Cohen refuted this claim, stating: "I have never been to a Chabad home, and I have never been to a Chabad home in New York." He then said that he last visited the Chabad home 15+ years ago when he attended the circumcision ceremony. On March 16, he said, he attended a Chabad-related event held at the Newark Hotel in honor of US Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin. That dinner was hosted by the Chabad Rabbinical College of America.
To those unfamiliar with Russian politics, Trump's world, and Hasidic Judaism, all these Chabad connections seem completely incomprehensible. And someone just shrugs indifferently.
“The interconnectedness of the Jewish world through Chabad is not a surprise as Chabad is one of the main Jewish players,” Boteach said. "I would add that the world of New York real estate is also quite small."
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Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner have chosen a new home in Washington's Kalorama neighborhood and will soon, apparently, make another choice - a new synagogue.
As Orthodox Jews, observing the Sabbath, refraining from driving or using buses and trains and from using electronic devices, Trump and Kushner found a home within walking distance of the synagogue.
They reportedly chose a mansion on Tracy Place, half a mile from the Shula National Capital, a synagogue for the active Orthodox Chabad movement. And it takes almost twice as long to walk to Kesher Israel, a large synagogue in Georgetown; before, until the couple decided on a home, there were rumors that they would opt for Kesher Israel.
Representatives for Kushner and Trump declined to comment on where the family will go to pray after moving from New York to Washington. And Rabbi Levi Shemtov, Rabbi of Shula, said that in principle he never discusses his conversations with future parishioners with anyone. “Our synagogue is located 7-10 minutes walk along the beautiful streets from the house they are said to have rented,” Shemtov said.
Norman Eisen, a lawyer who served as special adviser to President Obama and the US ambassador to the Czech Republic, said that Shula's parishioners, as he is, are many high-level politicians, both Democrats and Republicans.
“In“ Shula ”people of any political orientation are welcomed. We have what is called a Hamish minyan - an informal, homely, friendly minyan, - said Aizen. "If Shul becomes a spiritual home, a house of prayer for Ivanka and Jared, that will be great."
Following the acceptance speech, President-elect Donald Trump hugs his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, while his daughter Ivanka stands by. November 9, 2016 Mark Wilson / Getty ImagesSince the election of Donald Trump as president, the Washington Jewish community has been vigorously debating which synagogue Ivanka Trump, the first Jewish woman in American history as part of a presidential family, will go to, and which school will send her children. Ivanka Trump converted to Judaism in 2009, before marrying Jared Kushner.
It was said that the oldest child now in kindergarten was likely to be sent to a Jewish elementary day school, and people close to Adas Israel, a conservative synagogue in Cleveland Park, reported that Trump and Kushner were interested in early childhood education. in this synagogue for my middle child.
As for attending the Sabbath service, it was initially assumed that the family would go to Oev Sholom or Kesher Israel; these are two Washington synagogues that belong to the modern Orthodox movement and most closely match Keilat Yeshurun, the synagogue Trump and Kushner attended in New York. Oev Sholem is located on 16th Street, near the Washington-Maryland border; it is more than five miles from the mansion chosen in Kalorama, and it is unlikely that a family of five will go there regularly. "Kesher Israel" in Georgetown is closer to Kalorama - a little twenty minutes walk; this is feasible, but still less convenient than going to Shul.
Shul, where at least 50 parishioners usually gather on Saturday eve, is one of 3,300 Chabad-Lubavitch centers around the world. This orthodox organization is best known for its desire to reach out to Jews in the most remote corners of the globe. It operates in dozens of countries and in all 50 states of the United States (since it recently sent its rabbi to South Dakota).
Shemtov, who heads not only the Washington Lubavitch congregation but also the Washington branch of the American Friends of Lubavitch, has long been energetically working to raise awareness of Judaism in Washington. In particular, he obtained a special permit for the construction of a sukkah on the Feast of Tabernacles on Capitol Hill, he also told the deputies of Congress on what days their Jewish colleagues cannot go to work.
Its most famous annual event is the lighting of the national menorah at the White House Ellipse Park, where it stands next to the national Christmas tree. Thousands of people buy tickets to watch the Chabad rabbis climb up and light the lamps in a giant candlestick using an aerial platform. This ceremony was established in 1979 by Shemtov's father, before him a former rabbi of Chabad, District of Columbia.
Rabbi Levi Shemtov (second from left) lights the national menorah in front of the White House. 2014 Reuters / Jim Bourg Shemtov became director of the Washington branch of the American Friends of the Lubavitch in the early 1990s and was known as the "Rabbi of Capitol Hill" until the society opened its center in Kalorama in 1999. Located in a five-story building that used to be part of the Italian embassy complex and is still surrounded by several other embassies, including the missions of Guinea and Nepal, Shul often receives distinguished guests.
Several high-ranking Washington observant Jews, including Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and long-term Senator and Vice Presidential nominee Joseph Lieberman in 2000, attend services at Shula from time to time, seeing the synagogue as an alternative to Kesher Israel where they spend Shabbat. more often. Likewise, many Jewish diplomats from different countries prefer to pray at Shula.
In keeping with the movement's active missionary policy, Lubavitch centers around the world are happy to welcome Jews who belong to another congregation, as well as those who have not attended any synagogue but wished to come to Chabad prayers from time to time or participate in their programs.
In addition to Saturday services, Shul also offers a full range of programs for children, including activities during Saturday break, Hebrew school and day camps during summer and winter holidays; it is possible that three young Kushners will eventually take part in these programs.
Chabad Lubavitch is a Jewish religious cult that serves the Illuminati. Despite having only 200,000 followers of the elite, they have close ties with almost every powerful government leader on earth.
The cult believes that jews are God's chosen people and everything else is rubbish... In the Book of Conversations, Rebbe Schneerson tells his followers that the Jewish people are an extension of God, and gentiles are meant to serve the Jews.
The Rothschilds belong to this cult. Historian Wolfgang Eggert says that Chabad Lubavitch is the real face of the Illuminati... He says the cult intends to initiate a nuclear holocaust in order to fulfill biblical prophecy and hasten the return of the Messiah:
“History and politics are a big film, and they are the filmmakers who make the old testament prophecy come true. They took over Freemasonry by creating the Illuminati (via Rothschild / Jacob Frank / Weishaupt); They made a pact with the British monarchy when they financed William III to become king; They placed the British royal courts at the head of the Masons; They created the modern banking system and the Fed (via Rothschild); They didzionism , world wars, the European Union and so on. They reign through their Rothschild puppets (whose ancestors were part of the Hasidic cult ) and Rockefeller, who were the guiding force of Bilderberg, tripartite movements, etc. We are now in "The End of Time"; They are trying to ignite the "predicted" Third World War. "
Chris Bjerkness agrees: "The Atonement Requires the 'King of the Jews' (Rothschilds) to rule the world after the nuclear holocaust".
Jared Kushner visited Chabad House at Harvard. “Israel was not a political discussion for him; It was his family, his life, his people ", - said Hirshi Zarchi, rabbi at Chabad House at Harvard.
Henry Makov reports: Between 2003 and 2013 the Kushner family foundation donated a total of $ 342.500 for various institutions and projects related to the movement. Of particular note was the Chabad Center at Harvard University, which received $ 150,000 in 2007 (one of the foundation's largest donations to a subsidiary in Lubavitch) and then another $ 3,600 in 2013. In addition, the Donald J. Trump Foundation donated $ 11,550 to three Chabad institutions. (in these numbers it is clear that three zeros are clearly not written)
In 2006, Kushner's father Charles was sentenced to 24 months in prison for illegal campaign donation and witness forgery.
Chabad's strength stems from two services they provide to the Illuminati:
- They work with Israeli intelligence in criminal and intelligence operations.
- They promote an ideology of superiority that encourages Zionists to do dirty deeds.
Jared Kushner is a globalist / satanist who tries to undermine President Trump on behalf of the Deep State. He needs to go.#FireKushner pic.twitter.com/6UwbZRYtc9 - / pol / News Network (@polNewsNet)April 8, 2017
SHABAD IS OCCULT CULT
Founded in the 18th century in RussiaChabad is a branch of Hasidic Judaism, a form of Orthodox Judaism that promotes Jewish mysticism as a path to enlightenment. Chabad Lubavicher studies Kabbalah, a Satanic creed that erases moral absolutes and believes that God is "subjective."
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Chabad became famous under the leadership of the "Great Rebbe" Menachem Mendel Schneerson. His policies led Chabad into a period of tremendous expansion, establishing institutions in 900 cities around the world.
The “Great Rebbe” regularly talked about the coming of the Messiah. Over time, Lubavichs began to understand that he meant himself.
The belief that Schneerson was the Messiah was first openly acknowledged by Rabbi Shav Dol Wolpo in his 1984 book and quickly gained acceptance.
It is absurd, although he died in 1994, the "Great Rebbe" is still the official leader of Chabad as the "Great Leader". The leader of North Korea is Kim Il Sung.
In Chabad schools, children chant and greet the invisible Rebbe.
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Chabad believes that Jews are God's chosen people and everyone else is rubbish.In the book Meetings and Conversations, the Great Rebbe tells his followers that the Jewish people are an extension of God, and the Gentiles are meant to serve the Jews.
"There are two opposite types of soul, the non-Jewish soul comes from the three satanic realms, while the Jewish soul comes from holiness."
“The Jew was not created as a means to any [other] end; He himself is the goal, since the substance of all [divine] emanations was created only to serve the Jews. "
Rabbi Ginsburg, the leading rabbi of Chabad, argues that since Gentiles are genetically inferior to Jews, Jews should be able to take the organs of the Gentiles if they need it... He was recorded saying: “As for the goyim ... Zalman's attitude (was):“ Non-Jewish souls have a completely different and lower order. They are absolutely wicked, without any redemptive qualities. "
“If every single cell in the Jewish body entails divinity, it is a part of God, then every DNA strand is a part of God. Therefore, there is something special in Jewish DNA. "
“If Jews need a liver, can you take the liver of an innocent non-Jew passing by to save him? The Torah would probably resolve this. Jewish life has infinite value. "
The Jewish daily Vperyod reported on a conversation made by Chabad rabbi Mani Friedman.
When asked how he thinks Jews should treat their Arab neighbors, Friedman replied: “The only way to fight moral war is the Jewish way: to destroy their holy sites. Kill men, women and children (and livestock). "
The Live Book Analytical Center presents to your attention an investigation of the more abruptly Bulk Medvedev ducks.The author of the material is an American living in Texas named Ken. On his website RedefiningGod.com A Resource for the Awakening Human he informs himself that he is not working, as he is busy all day long with the needs of his disabled son and elderly mother. He devotes his free time to the analysis of current events, and publishes the results of information search and analysis for free access on his website. The materials are available for free download and copying, there are no restrictions on their use.
Why are we so attentive to the materials of this particular author? - Pay attention to the dates of the articles. The forecast of the election results and even appointments in the president's team (!) Was absolutely correct. Which of the analysts, even very famous ones, could have given such a correct forecast, providing all the grounds for their conclusions?
Read and be horrified of your safety about your future ...
A former employee of Goldman Sachs, owns his own hedge fund in New York. The fund reportedly lost almost 90% of investor funds, with his father, Edward Mezvinsky, “embezzling more than $ 10 million raised through the Ponzi scheme (pyramid scheme) and Nigerian email scams. He was found guilty of forgery in 2001. "
And Ivanka Trump's husband, Jared Kushner, ..
Manages the richest real estate holding and development company in New York.
Kushner took his place at the family-owned Cushner Companies when his father, Charles, was arrested on charges of tax evasion, illegal donations and pressure on witnesses in 2004.
Of these two marriages to the elite of Jewish families, one clearly looks more solid than the other, and this is the marriage of Ivanka Trump. Chelsea Clinton married an unorthodox Jew, the marriage ceremony was not in accordance with Jewish traditions and was conducted by both a Jewish rabbi and a Christian priest, besides, she herself did not convert to Judaism. This approach offended some of the more traditionalist members of the Jewish community.
Title translation: Chelsea Clinton's Interfaith Marriage is bad for Jews, Israel spokesman says)
From Forward.com/Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA)
But Ivanka Trump "kissed all the asses", having converted to Judaism before the wedding, which took place in accordance with orthodox traditions, with an Orthodox Jew who has close ties with the Chabad-Lubavitch sect. Here are a few words about the wedding:
The wedding ceremony of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, in accordance with Orthodox Jewish traditions, was conducted by the prominent rabbi of New York, Haskal Lowenstein. According to The Jewish Journal, Ivanka commented on her conversion to Judaism: “For me it was an amazing and very meaningful experience! When we first started meeting with Jareth, I joked that I was from New York, I was from real estate, I was as close to Jews as possible to step further! " TheBigFatJewishWedding.com
And a few more words about Jared Kushner's connection to Chabad.
Have we already told you that Ivanka Trump converts to Judaism, so she would be a great match for Jared Kushner, who is the same age as the owner of the New York Observer? Yes, they did. Ivanka is 27, but she is already building ties with Chabad, selling her internship at an auction and donating the proceeds to a sect, a Hasidic organization supported by her boyfriend. This fact, as well as the media attention it attracts, can be an effective way to win over the Kushner family, as it is rumored that they did not like the idea of \u200b\u200badopting a daughter-in-law from another nation.
The Kushners have maintained close friendships with Chabad groups for many years. Jared was the head of the Chabad House at Harvard. And his father Charles took the help of a rabbi from the Chabad's Living Legacy fund when he got into a scandal related to prostitution and blackmail.
So donating to Chabad, which the Kushner family often does, could be a logical step for Ivanka to gain trust. From Gawker.com
Therefore, it is not surprising that Ivanka and Jared held a joint prayer at the grave of the Lubavitch Rebbe just a few days before the elections.
From Breitbart
To better understand the significance of the Chabad ties, let's look at an excerpt from the article “Chabad-Lubavitch, Vladimir Putin and the Globalist Scenarios of the End Times.”
If you don't know anything about Chabad - here is a short description:
Chabad, also often called Lubavitch and Chabad-Lubavitch, is an orthodox Jewish, Hasidic movement. Today Chabad is one of the most well-known Hasidic movements and is well known for its broad reach. It is the largest Hasidic group and Jewish religious organization in the world.
In 1951, Rabbi Menachim Mendel Schneerson became the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe. He was able to transform this minor Hasidic movement into the largest and most widely represented Jewish movement in the world at the moment. He created a network of more than 3,600 institutions that were involved in religious, social and humanitarian activities in more than 1,000 cities in 80 countries and 49 of 50 American states. Chabad organizations provide contact with Jews who are not members of this organization, and also implement humanitarian aid, religious, cultural and educational projects in Hasidic communities, synagogues, shtas, camps and canteens for beggars. (source Wikipedia)
To create a network of more than 3,600 institutions in 80 countries, serious funds were needed, which Chabad received from Kabbalists. It is through Chabad that Kabbalists are trying to set the framework of Judaism for ordinary Jews and to realize the prophecies of the End Times for us goyim.
With the money of the Kabbalists on the one hand and the tasks of the Kabbalists on the other, the late Rebbe Schneerson nurtured Jewish messianic madness.
Menachem Mendel Schneerson (April 5, 1902 - June 12, 1994), known to many as the Rebbe, was an Orthodox Jewish rabbi, the last Lubavitcher Rebbe. He is considered one of the most influential Jewish leaders of the 20th century ...
Schneerson was criticized for his passion and desire to educate the people about the coming of the Messiah. The ill-wishers also criticized the children's song he composed. It contains the following words: "We want moshiach (the messiah) now / We don’t want to wait,” that Schneerson commended. " (We need mashiach now, we don't want to wait!) [Wikipedia]
Chabad Messianism, or Lubavitcher Messiah, is the passions that are raging among the followers of the Chabad movement regarding the coming Messiah, and their goal is to raise awareness among the peoples that his arrival is inevitable. [Wikipedia]
And it is at this point that it is worth mentioning Berl Lazar, the Chief Rabbi of Russia, who is in close connection with Vladimir Putin. Here's an interesting moment I came across in his biography on Wiki:
Rabbi Lazar was born in 1964 in Milan, Italy, the son of the first followers of the Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson. Berel_Lazar
Thus, the Lazar family was close to Schneerson, and this led to the following:
Translation of the excerpt: For significant services to the Jewish community, Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Schneerson instructed Rabbi Lazar to devote his career to life and work in Russia. In 1990 Berl Lazar became the head of the synagogue in Maryina Roshcha ... From web.archive
So Berl Lazar ...
\u003e he was personally attributed to Russia by the Russian-born Messianic Rebbe Schneerson,
\u003e came to Russia in 1990, that is, in the same year when Putin returned to Russia and began his unthinkable career rise to the imperious Olympus
\u003e it was financed by the same Jewish oligarchs who helped Putin become the president of Russia ...
In 1992, Lazar met the Israeli diamond millionaire Lev Leviev, who introduced him to Russian businessmen Boris Berezovsky and Roman Abramovich. The latter became the largest donor of the synagogue in Maryina Roshcha. (Wikipedi)
When I was looking for additional information, I came across this news, in which Lev Leviev appeared ...
(Title translation: Lev Leviev Will Make $ 35M Net From Manhattan Deal)
Source… chabadinfo.com. Here's what you need to pay attention to:
The buyer was Jared Kushner (Donald Trump's son-in-law), he transferred a deposit to Africa Israel to close the deal.
Trump wants to appoint his Chabad son-in-law as White House advisor, and his daughter, a Chabad activist, will become the Most Powerful Woman in the White House
US President-elect Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, may become a key White House adviser.
According to The Wall Streeet Journal, the appointment of Trump's daughter, Ivanka, 35, as a senior or special adviser, is being promoted by future chief of staff, Raines Priebus, and his adviser, Stephen Bannon.
It is not yet clear whether the federal law prohibiting the employment of relatives to work in the White House applies. Nevertheless, the son-in-law of the future president made it clear that he would bypass this obstacle by giving up his salary.
Kushner, the owner of the development company and the New York Observer founded by his father, was active in Trump's election campaign. In contrast to Hillary Clinton's tactics of resorting to traditional print and television media, the billionaire's son-in-law relied on the Internet and social media. According to media reports, on the eve of the elections, he was one of the closest advisers to the Republican candidate.
According to "Cursor", Donald Trump's son-in-law - Jared Kushner - is a descendant of Jewish partisans, his grandmother in her youth fought in the most famous "family detachment" of the Belsky brothers, who fought against the Nazis in the Belarusian forests from 1941 to 1944.
"I am the grandson of Jews who survived the Holocaust. On December 7, 1941, on the day of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Nazis surrounded the ghetto of the city of Novogrudok and ordered its residents to line up in two lines. So they divided people into living and dead," Kushner told the newspaper The New York Observer, responding to the accusations of some Jewish publicists, according to which Trump is allegedly “racist” and “anti-Semite.” - My grandmother's sister, Esther, wanted to hide in a nearby house, but a local boy who saw where she ran was dragged Esther was among the approximately 5,100 Jews killed in the first "action" against the Jews of Novogrudok. "
Tuvia Belsky and his brothers - Zushe and Aaron - immigrated to Israel after the war, but moved to the United States in the 1950s.
In an interview, Jared Kushner said that he and his father-in-law have never hidden their sympathy for Israel. According to Kushner, the anti-Semitic slander against Donald Trump is the machinations of his enemies.
As "Cursor" reported, two days before the presidential election, Ivanka and her husband came to the grave of the Lubavitcher Rebbe to ask for a victory for their father.
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump got married in 2009. On the eve of the wedding, Ivanka passed a conversion approved by one of the leading Orthodox rabbis in the United States.
A Jewish proverb says: "A Jew is not one who has Jewish parents, but one who has Jewish grandchildren." Well, who is the new US president after that?
Is Trump Good for Jews?
… When it became clear more than six months ago that Senator Benny Sanders was hopelessly losing the primaries in the Democratic Party of Hillary Clinton, those Israelis who believed that “a Jewish president is bad for Israel” breathed a sigh of relief. Donald Trump did not cause fears among the supporters of this theory - until they found out that the only daughter of the billionaire Ivanka-Yael Trump-Kushnir underwent an orthodox conversion in 2009, and has since led a Jewish lifestyle, donated money to synagogues and Jewish schools, and also listed as an activist of the Chabad women's movement.
When, during the next election show, Trump was directly asked about the religion of his eldest daughter, he did not deny it.
Yes, one of my daughters is Jewish, ”he said. - It was not planned, it just happened. And I'm glad that it happened. She has a wonderful Jewish family, and I have a wonderful son-in-law, a great guy, Jerad Kushnir.
Trump had five children from three marriages. Three sons - Donald Jr., Eric and Brown, and two daughters - Ivanka and Tiffany. But, of course, the closest to him was and remains Ivanka-Yael. Maybe the whole point is that she reminds Donald Trump of himself more than others: like his father, Ivanka is both a successful manager and a brilliant TV showman; like his father, he tries his hand at writing, and in addition is also a fashion model and one of the trendsetters for business women.
Ivanka Trump was also one of the leaders of the Trump campaign. Political analysts have no doubts that in the near future Ivanka will become the most influential woman in the White House - without, of course, holding any official posts.
Model and fashion designer, writer and producer
Ivanka-Yael was born in 1981 from Donald Trump's first marriage to a Czech fashion model and bodybuilder Ivanna. In 2004, Ivanka, having already become a famous fashion model by that time, graduated with honors from the University of Pennsylvania School of Economics. Thanks to the connections and position of her father, she almost immediately entered the top echelon of managers of Forest City, a real estate company. And from there she soon moved on to the marketing department of the Dynamic Diamond Corporation, which specializes in the sale of diamonds.
However, young Miss Trump clearly wanted to prove that she was worth something on her own. In the second half of the 2000s, she founded her own jewelry company, the Ivonka Trump Collection. Soon, the company also began to produce women's clothing and footwear, which was advertised by its owner herself as a model.
The success of Ivanka Trump's “clothes and jewelry for a working woman” has been phenomenal. Ivanka formulated the ideology of her company simply: "These are clothes in which a woman is not ashamed to come to the office during the day, and in the evening she is not ashamed to appear in a restaurant if a man invites her there."
In 2006, Ivanka took part in the popular reality show "The Candidate", in which her father acts as a host and producer at the same time, lasted six issues, so she was offered to participate in the next season of the show.
In the wake of popularity, Ivanka began to be invited to various television programs and in some of them she tried herself as a presenter - and again very successfully. And in 2009 her book “Trump Card. How to play so that you can succeed at work and in life ”, which even appeared on the bestseller list of business literature for several months.
By this time, she already had a whirlwind romance with Jerad Kushnir, the son of a multimillionaire and one of the leaders of the New York Jewish community, Charles Kushnir. By all accounts, they made a very beautiful couple, but it was not only in appearance - the young people were drawn together by the desire to prove that both of them were worth something regardless of their fathers, and both were able to do it.
Love brought to conversion
Jerad Kushnir, who also graduated with honors from the university, acquired the New York Observer newspaper at the age of 25, proved himself as a talented editor, and by the age of 30 was already a media tycoon. The only obstacle to their marriage was that the Kushnirov family was not ready to accept a non-Jewish daughter-in-law, and then Ivanka announced that she was ready to undergo conversion.
I have always had many Jewish friends, I have always been interested in Judaism, so I can’t even say what is the cause and what is the consequence: my interest in Judaism or the fact that Jerad turned out to be a Jew who observes religious commandments, ”she admitted she is in an interview. - In any case, I always knew that I wanted to marry a Jew.
It soon became clear that Ivanka, who by that time had taken the post of vice-president in one of her father's companies, took her transition to Jewry more than seriously: she went through not a reformist, but a strict orthodox conversion, and began to observe religious commandments.
The wedding of Ivanka, who took the Hebrew name Yael, and Gerad Kushnir was played, of course, according to a religious ceremony. , under the chuppah, Ivanka-Yael continually strove to take her husband by the arm, and the rabbi had to remind the bride again and again that until all the necessary words were said, she and the groom had no right to touch each other.
After the wedding, for 7 days, as prescribed by Jewish tradition, every evening feasts were organized with "sheva brakhot" ("seven blessings"). One of such feasts was attended by about a thousand guests - almost all relatives of the large Kushnir family.
She prayed at the grave of Lubavitch Rebe
For the Almighty to send victory to her father.
Now Ivanka-Yael and Jerad Kushnir are raising three children - the third grandson of Donald Trump was born during the election campaign. However, the star couple constantly came to the attention of the media before that, and not only as participants in social events.
So last fall, journalists filmed Ivanka and Gerad as they left the synagogue in festive clothes.
"The charming Ivanka Trump holds her husband by the arm, and Gerad is holding a bag of fruit and a bouquet of flowers that he bought for his wife," read the caption under one of the photographs.
Although, if the journalists had shown great conscientiousness, they would have found out that Gerad Kushnir is holding not a bouquet, but a lulav, which the Jews offer during prayer on the holiday of Sukkot. And the box contains not fruit, but an etrog, which is part of the lulav.
Not so long ago, one of the journalists invited Ivanka-Yael to a restaurant for an interview. She warned that she could only eat vegetarian food there.
We observe kosher, ”she explained.
What other commandments of Judaism do you keep? The journalist asked for some reason, shocked by these words.
Another Saturday, the laws of family cleanliness, and everything else. Of course, we do not observe everything as strictly and scrupulously as the ultra-Orthodox, but at the same time, to a much greater extent than, alas, other young Jewish families in America do.
And it doesn't burden you? - the journalist did not calm down.
What are you? - answered Ivanka. - The further, the more I understand that most of the commandments of Judaism are aimed at ensuring that a person has a truly happy family. For example, on Saturday, like it or not, the spouses find themselves together and can sort out all the relationships, resolve all conflicts and truly get closer to each other. True, my father refused to understand for a long time why for 25 hours I could not answer the phone, but it seems that now even he is used to it.
The Jewishness of Yael-Ivanka and Gerad Kushnir is manifested, of course, not only in the fact that they regularly attend the synagogue, observe kashrut, the Sabbath, and the commandments about the purity of family life, but, as already mentioned, in their active participation in the life of the Jewish community of New York and donate a lot of money to Jewish schools and various community events. In addition, Ivanka and her husband do not hide that they are great patriots of Israel, although they still have not decided where they will buy an apartment - in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv.
How Trump Vodka appeared
But as for the political views of Ivonka, they remain a mystery. It is known, for example, that in 2007, she donated money to the campaign of Hillary Clinton.
However, this may be due to the fact that Ivanka-Yael is a friend of Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of Bill and Hillary Clinton. Chelsea, as you know, is also married to a Jew, but the conversion did not take place. It is known that the friends agreed, regardless of the outcome of the presidential elections, to arrange a "get-together" in November.
Be that as it may, it is known that it was at the insistence of his daughter that Trump sent a note to the Wailing Wall on the eve of the election, and Ivonka herself prayed at the grave of the Lubavitcher Rebbe that God would send her father a victory.
How much Donald Trump respects his Jewish son-in-law (or, rather, that he knows how to extract money from any situation) is evidenced by the existence of Trump vodka with the brand name “kosher le-Pesach”.
According to legend, this kind of vodka was born in the following way.
Once Donald Trump was visiting his daughter, and was surprised why his signature vodka was not among the many drinks on the table.
Now Pesach, - explained his daughter and son-in-law. - Vodka is made from wheat, and therefore is not kosher on Passover. This is a law that cannot be circumvented.
Trump began to ask the rabbi sitting opposite him whether this was true, and he confirmed that vodka, like everything leavened, is prohibited on Passover.
And if it is not made from cereals? - specified Tramp.
Well, then maybe she'll be kosher.
Let's say, from corn ...
What are you, corn is a "kitniet", it is also forbidden to Ashkenazi Jews on Passover.
And from potatoes or sweet potatoes?
If only from potatoes or sweet potatoes, then it, of course, will be kosher, - answered the rabbi.
Well, I always knew that there is no law that cannot be circumvented by law - even if you are told that it is impossible! - the future president stated with satisfaction.
By the way, in the Chabad community of New York, "Lechaim" in honor of Trump's victory was made precisely in glasses of Trump vodka, which Ivonka put up in unmeasured quantities.