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Who Is Jared Kushner? | The New Yorker
The Kushner family history—from lying on immigration forms to becoming major Democratic donors—often seems at odds with the initiatives Jared supports in his father-in-law’s Administration.
Trump son-in-law and advisor Jared Kushner.
Examines the Kushner's, from a Jewish family in Nazi Europe to today.
This piece was drawn from “American Oligarchs: The Kushners, The Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power,” by Andrea Bernstein, forthcoming from Norton.
The Kushner family history—from lying on immigration forms to becoming major Democratic donors—often seems at odds with the initiatives Jared supports in his father-in-law’s Administration.
Trump son-in-law and advisor Jared Kushner.
1/6/20
After the Second World War, anti-Semitic immigration laws sharply limited the number of Jews allowed into the United States. In 1949, in order to increase his chances of obtaining an American visa, Rae’s husband and Jared’s grandfather, Yossel Berkowitz, posed as his father-in-law’s son, listing Kushner as his name on U.S. immigration paperwork, and renaming himself Joseph Kushner. As a result, his son Charles was called Charles Kushner, not Charles Berkowitz, and his grandson was Jared Kushner, not Jared Berkowitz. Jared’s wife’s married name would be Ivanka Kushner, not Ivanka Berkowitz.....
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Examines the Kushner's, from a Jewish family in Nazi Europe to today.
This piece was drawn from “American Oligarchs: The Kushners, The Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power,” by Andrea Bernstein, forthcoming from Norton.