Ivanka Trump’s rabbi makes list of GOP speakers

New York Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, who converted Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka and is currently at the center of a row in Israel’s rabbinical courts, will be among the speakers at the Republican National Convention, organizers say.

Ivanka herself is also among the speakers in Cleveland, as are Trump’s other three children and his wife Melania.

On Wednesday, Israel’s top rabbinical court cast doubt over another conversions performed by Lookstein and forced the women to undergo an expedited conversion in order to get married, in a widely pilloried move. The panel said Lookstein was not on its list of US rabbis who can perform conversions.

Lookstein is the rabbi emeritus of Kehilath Jeshurun, the Orthodox Manhattan congregation attended by Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner.

The speaker list for the convention, which begins next week, will also feature Las Vegas casino owner Phil Ruffin, actor and former underwear model Antonio Sabàto Jr., and college football star Tim Tebow. And in a slap at Democratic contender Hillary Clinton, Mark Geist and John Tiegen will also address the convention, both survivors of the deadly 2012 attack on the American diplomatic consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

“This impressive lineup of veterans, political outsiders, faith leaders and those who know Donald Trump the best — his family and longtime friends — represent a cross-section of real people facing the same challenges as every American household,” says Trump spokesman Jason Miller.