Haskel Lookstein, the New York rabbi who oversaw the conversion to Judaism of US President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka, criticizes the president’s response to the violent white supremacist protest in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Lookstein weighs in on the issue Wednesday along with other rabbis at Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun, a prominent modern Orthodox synagogue in Manhattan.
“We are appalled by this resurgence of bigotry and antisemitism, and the renewed vigor of the neo-Nazis, KKK, and alt-right,” the rabbis write in a letter to members of the synagogue and its affiliated Ramaz School. “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.
“We pray that our country heeds the voices of tolerance, and stays true to its vision of human rights and civil rights.”
— JTA
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