Rabbi close to Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner slams President Trump's Charlottesville rhetoric

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    The rabbi that helped Ivanka Trump convert to Judaism sent a condemning letter to his congregation on Wednesday evening, slamming President Trump's "two sides" rhetoric in response to Charlottesville.

    According to a letter published by NYMag, Rabbi Emeritus Haskel Lookstein joined his religious colleagues in calling out the violence and hatred present during a protest turned deadly last weekend.

    “We are appalled by this resurgence of bigotry and antisemitism, and the renewed vigor of the neo-Nazis, KKK, and alt-right," the letter reads. "While we avoid politics, we are deeply troubled by the moral equivalency and equivocation President Trump has offered in his response to this act of violence."

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