Azerbaijan to co-host Hanukkah party at Trump’s DC hotel

Azerbaijan’s US embassy is hosting a Hanukkah party at a hotel owned by President-elect Donald Trump and his family.

The party will take place December 14 and will celebrate “freedom and diversity,” says the invitation, obtained by JTA, a signal of closer ties between the west Asian nation and Israel and some of its supporters in the United States. The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations is co-hosting the event.

Israel and Azerbaijan, a mostly Muslim nation on the Caspian Sea, have strengthened relations in recent years. Azerbaijan sent a firefighting plane to Israel last month as fires swept the country.

The Conference of Presidents, made up of the leadership of over 50 Jewish organizations, is a consensus body representing the organized Jewish community to the executive branch.

— JTA