Rob Reiner: Jared Kushner ‘turned his back’ on Judaism

Jewish filmmaker says Trump campaign is ‘completely comfortable with the idea that anti-Semitic and racist groups are supporting them’

ed note–in all the parlaying that has taken place this election season with people seizing upon Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner ‘being a Jew’, no one has bothered to consider the alternative, which is that maybe he really isn’t.

Yes, it happens. There are the Gilad Atzmons, Henry Makows, Brother Nathanael Kapners, etc of the world who grew up with all that nonsense but who made the choice to walk away from it all in return for the peaceful, productive life that comes from living in a state of brotherhood with mankind rather than a state of perpetual war. The fact that Trump’s daughter ‘converted’–well, says who? She doesn’t dress/act like an Orthodox Jewess. She wears fashionable clothing, hasn’t shaved her head as Orthodox Jewish women are forced to do, allows herself to be photographed and lives an EXTREMELY vogue, out-front-and-center lifestyle, and therefore, the possibility arises that in fact the entire ‘conversion’ schtick was something done for the purpose of public consumption in the run-up to this presidential election when Trump knew the Jews were going to try and bring him down with all their typical black magic of alleging his ‘anti-Shemitism’.

Either way, judging from Reiner’s own words, it is obvious from a JEWISH perspective that Kushner helping Trump become POTUS was something not viewed as favorable to the aims of Judaism.

JTA

American filmmaker Rob Reiner accused President-elect Donald Trump’s Jewish son-in-law of turning his back on his religion.

“I don’t understand Jared Kushner at all. What is he doing? He’s turning his back on his religion and his heritage just so he can make money? I don’t get it. I just can’t wrap my mind around it,” Reiner, who is Jewish, told The Daily Beast in an interview published over the weekend.

Kushner is a Modern Orthodox Jew, and Ivanka Trump converted to Judaism under Orthodox auspices to marry him.

Reiner, who also is a Democrat and publicly supported Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, pointed out that Kushner’s brothers-in-law Eric and Don Jr. were retweeting memes from anti-Semitic websites and welcoming support from anti-Semitic and racist groups.

“The whole time while all those anti-Semitic memes were being passed on throughout the campaign, [Trump] certainly must have known, and his sons Eric and Don Jr. must have known they were retweeting things from anti-Semitic websites,” Reiner said. “Even if you want to cut them all the slack in the world, they have never to this day said, ‘This is absolutely unacceptable and abhorrent that we are being supported by these groups of people.’ They’ve never said it! So they’re completely comfortable with the idea that anti-Semitic and racist groups are supporting them.”

Meanwhile, The Daily Beast also reported that Stephen Bannon, the man Trump appointed as his chief White House strategist, is profiting off of Reiner shows such as “Seinfeld,” after being involved in a deal with his production company Castle Rock Entertainment in the 90s, when he ran a boutique investment bank Bannon & Company.