Jared was seen making his way to the Shul with their 4-year-old son Joseph about an hour before the rest of the family left their Washington D.C. home.
Ivanka was accompanied by their 7-year-old daughter Arabella and 2-year-old son Theodore, each of whom rode scooters. Several Secret Service members accompanied them as well.
Photos via Daily Mail
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For the usual skeptics, the entire walk from the Kushner/Trump house on Tracy place to the Lubavitch shul just west of Connecticut Avenue (by the Hilton hotel) is within the Downtown D.C. Eruv. The eruv is under the joint supervision of the Kesher Israel shul’s Rav Chaim Shafner, and Rav Chaim Lachter, a leading expert on eruvin, from Shaarei Orah in Teaneck, and also a dayan on the Beis Din of Elizabeth. However, I doubt that either of them has opined on the use of scooters by the yinglach on yom kippur
Beautiful Family Ivanka momish looks like a Rebitzin They should have continued Hatzlacha in the new year
and the sheailah with scooters is?? some poskim even allow bikes; all allow carriages. some people ask a psak about how often to breathe??
Lol @GH, always the first to come to the rescue of the less observant, while faithfully trashing and smashing the more observant every chance she gets. A git gebenchte yur.
Some Heimish women could learn a bit of Tznius from Ivanka.
to gadolhadorah: scooters work the same way strollers do. no electricity. no battery. in the article about the little boy who was nebach hit by a car on 13th avenue on Yom Kippur you see women with their white Yom Kippur turbans [which means they are Chassidim] pushing strollers. I did not see your comment there about the strollers. wonder why?
I don’t understand the reason for the scooters. Are the kids unable to walk the required distance?
Just ONE day after YK.
Nothing changed. Same crap different day.
Scooters and bikes are not Shaabosdik/Yom Tovdik. As well as playing ball outside. I don’t know of anyone who has said that strollers are not Shaabosdik
Chillul Hashem! … Kiddsuh Hashem! …. Chillul Hashem! Kiddush Hashem! LOL
Toi, it appears to me that you are the one doing the trashing
Oy gevalt. Loz em alein.
They are doing the best they know how, and hopefully growing stronger, as we all should.
They are a young family, which means bH they are in their prime for working on themselves and what they transmit to their children… and no different from anyone in terms of dealing with their personal and unique nisyonos.
Persinally, not that it’s my business, but I would love to see their next move to be using their Jewish names. Wouldn’t that be quite something! I mean, one day Arabella may start feeling rather uncomfortable to have a name that starts with Arab. Just thinking…
P.S. Yes, I know how to spell “personally,” and many other big words. My keyboard aim, on the other hand…
I’m not a big fan of the Trumpkopf (as if I need to reiterate that point) but I do believe that w/o Jared and Ivanka in the WH every day, it could be a lot worse and that they may actually be able to moderate his policies and protect him from his own worst impulses. Having said that, I find they conduct themselves with dignity and appear to have as normal a family life as possible living in the fishbowl of D.C. My comment about the scooters was not a criticism and I’ve seen them used by much frummer yiddeshe families. I agree with those who note its not “assur” per se (unless your local rav/posek tells you not to show up at shul with your kids riding scooters). However, to me certain things are “shabbasdik”and some are not. Scooters to me are not while I’m OK with strollers if the kids cant walk. Call me old fashioned.
Shmirat Shabbat Khilchoto says scooters are ok on Shabbat
Seems to me that comments like I wish they would use Hebrew names and questioning the eruv are classical judging. In fact if you look at most comments on this site, judging is involved. We are a day out of YK. By me pointing out all this judging I am judging. I don’t know what the answer is but maybe when we see someone who was not brought up in our beautiful faith attempting to observe, we should just say kol ha kavod.
“…Ivanka momish looks like a Rebitzin…” Do you know many rebitzin that can afford to pay $2k+ for a dress ? Modesty and good taste can be found for far less.
Multiple rabbonim have explicitly paskened on scooters that there’s no issue of Shabbos. The only problem with bikes is that you may fix the chain if it comes off, so a non-motorized vehicle without a chain is fine. Every chareidi neighborhood in Eretz Yisroel, Lakewood, Monsey, and other places are filled with scootering kids on Shabbos and Yom Tov.
Scooters may not be shabbosdik for adults, but they’re definitely shabbosdik for children. The Shulchon Oruch explicitly makes such a distinction with regards to running on Shabbos — it’s forbidden for adults, for whom running is work, but permitted for children and teenagers, for whom it is a pleasure.
regarding ball see hilchos shabbos simon 301 seuf 45(?)( around there.)reason not..might fall in reshus hurabim and one will persue it. but l’halacha a minor may . a gadol not..but each to his posek
How does not covering your hair make you look like a rebbetzin?
Ooops sorry – it’s a sheitle….
What really concerns me is:- How come only Arabella who is only 7 years old, got it right, and is wearing a White Dress? Why isn’t Ivanka wearing a White Dress instead of a dark dress? & why aren’t Jared and their 2 sons wearing white ties & white Kippot, as is usual garb for Yom-Kippur. B’H they are also wearing appropriate footwear for Yom-Kippur.
shoes is doirase…white kittle(only- kipppah gartel not even minhuk ) etc is minhuk . so for them let them pass
Shimen, ball-playing on Shabbos is in siman 308; it’s a question of muktzeh.
147, since when are white ties and kippot, or white dresses, traditional on Yom Kippur. I spent all day in shul and didn’t see a single white tie or kippah. I wasn’t looking at the women’s section but I doubt there were more white dresses there than normal. Married men wear white kittles over their clothes, but the clothes themselves are not usually white.
No, Ivanka doesn’t cover her hair, and that’s wrong, but in her community this is common so how should she know better? She undoubtedly thinks covering ones hair is a chumra that’s not expected of her.
milhouse
ball, your right 308 /45see MISHNE BRUREH 158
And why is not covering hair more of a problem then many of our shaitel wearing women who wear skirts well above their knees? That too is erva and in my humble opinion a lot worse.
One of my occasional guilty pleasures is looking at comments on DailyMail.com. Other than die-hard Trump haters, most view Ivanka as a refined and classy lady and a wonderful mother. She wears beautiful clothes and unlike other female celebrities, doesn’t take them off in pubic. News photographs won’t show her wearing one commonly seen form of frum levush–a pair of handcuffs.
Amil Zola…what a ridiculous post. Would you like a list of Rebbetzins, chassidish or otherwise, that can afford $2k dresses? Inquire within.
99% silly comments
She is dressed more Tzniusdig (aside from the non-sheitel) than unfortunately too many women in our ‘Chareidi’ neighborhoods
Amil Zola,
Your hate filled post reeks of jealousy. If she can afford a nice, tzniusdik and expensive dress for Yom Tov, good for her. She is spending her wealth for the right purpose.
MILHOUSE, in my shul the main event happens during Neilah when my black kippah (serugah) turns entirely white. the moment that occurs marks the halakhic end of YK at a biblical level.
This dress is very modest, but Ivanka also wears sleeveless dresses with low necklines, and trousers.
Shimen, shoes is derabonon (as are washing, anointing, and the other thing). Only eating and drinking is mid’oraisa.
By the way, I once met a giyores who for years thought covering her hair was only a chumra, because nobody had told her it was a halacha. They were sure she wouldn’t accept it, so they thought better she should be shogeges. When she found out she was upset, because she wouid have done it if she’d known it was required.
On the other hand I also met a giyores who said that when her mikveh date was coming up the rov finally screwed up the courage to raise the subject with her, and said “we have to talk about your hair”. She replied “Rabbi, what about my hair? You’ve never seen it! I knew that married Jewish women must cover their hair so I bought a wig before I ever started seeing you!”
there doing there best dont look for the bad they are taking one step after the other