By COLlive reporter
Former president Donald Trump spoke at the Torah Umesorah conference in Florida on Friday, receiving a hero’s welcome.
Trump gave a speech before the annual President’s Conference of Torah Umesorah at his club, National Doral, in Miami. The event is part of a days-long gathering that brings together leaders, educators and askanim for the group, which promotes Torah-based religious education and Jewish private day schools.
The event comes at a particularly delicate time for Trump. Over the Thanksgiving holiday break, the former president hosted a dinner at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach with Kanye West and white nationalist Nick Fuentes.
During the speech, Trump enumerated his many acts as president in support of Israel and the Jewish people, including the moving of the Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, and many other actions for which he received pressure and criticism from other world leaders.
While he read the list to applause from the crowd, there was one item that got the loudest applause and a standing ovation from the participants, to Trump’s surprise.
“We commuted the antisemitic Iowa prison sentence of Sholom Rubashkin,” Trump said, a statement which was met with loud cheers.
“That gets a bigger hand than Jerusalem?” Trump asked.
Trump then asked about the welfare of Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin, the Lubavitcher meat packing plant executive who had been serving a cruel and unfair prison sentence until he was released on Chanukah in 2017 with the assistance of the President.
“Is he still healthy? Is he still around?” Trump asked, and then noted that “Every time I mention that, it gets a bigger hand,” than anything else.
“That was a terrible thing…” Trump said about the injustice. “I should have done that and just left,” Trump then quipped.
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People are still pushing the notion that Trump is an anti semite.
Could it be because he invited two Holocaust deniers to his house and had dinner with them?
The liberal media and the secular anti frum groups jump on Trump as if he hates Jews. When it comes to Biden and the rest of the lefty liberals they say nothing about the millions of dollars being sent to the Palestinian Authority that funds terrorist families whose members killed Jews. Trump stop the funding which was Pay to slay innocent Jews in Israel.
rubashkin and the embassy. that’s it. lay it on me, comment section.
Business back to America,
The wall,
Fighting terror,
The way he dealt with Iran,
The Covid Vaccine
There’s another 7 noticeable accomplishments
What the Biden gang is pressuring Israel not to build much needed housing for the large frum families in Israel. The DemocRATs are full of lefty Israel haters. Anyone with a half brain sees it. Now with a tough new religious government the issue of mehu Yehudi will finally be addressed as the Rebbe fought for so much. Non Halachic Jews are being registered as authentic Jews. It’s a dangerous situation. Trump was the best president for Israel in Americas history.
No, mihu Yehudi will not be addressed. The religious parties backed down.
As long as the chareidim are getting the money for yeshivos and the tziyonim are fighting to be allowed to go onto har habayis (R”L), no one cares about the upkeep of the Jewish nation.
Right-wing/Left-wing — everyone cares about their agenda only. Not about wrong or right.
Happens to be that the right-wing agenda is usually more aligned with the truth than the left.
The enthusiastic reception given to him at a TU event after he hosted Ye(mach Shemo) was a chilul Hashem of major proportions.