Ivanka Trump’s rabbi bails on RNC convocation gig

Published July 15, 2016 7:42pm ET



New York Rabbi Haskel Lookstein has reportedly reversed his acceptance of an invitation from Donald Trump’s daughter to deliver the convocation at next week’s Republican National Convention in Cleveland.

“Unfortunately, when my name appeared on a list of speakers at the convention, without the context of the invocation I had been invited to present, the whole matter turned from rabbinic to political, something which was never intended,” Lookstein wrote in an email to his congregation, obtained by Politico.

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