Friendly Reminders

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I’ve been thinking I really need to daven more for Jared and Ivanka’s shalom bayis than for my own. Seriously.

Because while the fate of my children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren rests on my shalom bayis; the fate of the entire Jewish people rests on theirs. If something sours in that marriage and Ivanka gets hurt, I’m afraid Trump will turn against us.

When Trump was elected, I heard the collective sigh of relief. Finally, a president who loves the Jewish people! He even has Jewish grandchildren! Once he’s the sheriff, all the hostages will be home within a fortnight, we thought. Hamas would capitulate, the Houthis would capitulate, the Iranians would capitulate. I even heard from a source close to MK Simcha Rothman that Mr. Rothman requested that Bibi ask Trump for authorization to begin building the Third Beis Hamikdash, to which Bibi responded, “No, I won’t ask, I’m afraid he’ll say yes.”

I watch as the families of hostages plead with Trump to help bring their loved ones home, watch those who were released thank Trump profusely, and I think of the poor innkeeper dancing in a bear costume before the poritz. We rely on Trump so much, we needed Mike Huckabee to reassure us, “Trump still loves you,” when he didn’t include Israel in his first tour of the Middle East.

Now we’re not so sure about Trump anymore. There’s talk of tension between him and Bibi; he signed a ceasefire with the Houthis behind Israel’s back; described a potential archenemy, Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa as, “an attractive, smart man;” and a bad nuclear deal is on the horizon