{"id":93560,"date":"2016-04-17T05:59:21","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T13:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=93560"},"modified":"2016-04-17T05:59:21","modified_gmt":"2016-04-17T13:59:21","slug":"trump-meets-with-orthodox-jews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=93560","title":{"rendered":"Trump Meets With Orthodox Jews"},"content":{"rendered":"

JTA<\/a> – There were a few things Donald Trump made clear when he met Thursday with a select group of Jewish reporters, almost all of them Orthodox, at his corporate offices in Manhattan.
\nFox News anchor Megyn Kelly was the one who initiated Wednesday\u2019s one-on-one powwow with Trump to mend fences, not him. He\u2019s a great friend of Israel. He has many Orthodox Jewish friends, including his chief lawyer, Jason D. Greenblatt. And he considers himself a very loyal boss.
\nBut in a 20-minute question-and-answer session that touched on religious liberty in the workplace, U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and federal education tax credits, Trump offered scant details.
\nOn some substantive policy questions, the Republican front-runner for president didn\u2019t answer at all, instead delegating the question to Greenblatt, a real estate attorney from Teaneck, New Jersey \u2014 one of two people he said he\u2019d appoint as his White House Israel policy advisers.
\nHere\u2019s Trump\u2019s answer to a question on whether religious employers should have the right to discriminate on the basis of religion when it comes to hiring:
\n\u201cThat\u2019s the question that\u2019s been asked and discussed very brilliantly on many different levels over the last short period of time,\u201d Trump said. \u201cAnd I\u2019m going to really leave that decision to you. That\u2019s your personal decision. What would your answer be to that question?\u201d
\nWhen asked about tax-exempt status for religious groups, Trump said, \u201cIt\u2019s really become a very big point of discussion and a very complex point of discussion and it\u2019s something that I\u2019m very interested in and I\u2019m really forming policy on it and I\u2019m actually going to be announcing something that I actually think you\u2019re going to be very happy with. OK?\u201d
\nOn a question about Jewish settlements in the West Bank, Trump turned to Greenblatt and said, \u201cHow do you feel about that, Jason, the settlements?\u201d
\nGreenblatt: \u201cI think the settlements should stay but I think they have to work something out so that both sides are able to live in peace and safety.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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