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Now, a new report says there was a good reason for the bad timing — the Ivanka and Kushner were unaware of the humanitarian crisis because of religious obligations.
According to Vanity Fair sources, the pair may have innocently taken to Instagram because as Orthodox Jews they would have been observing Shabbat from Friday night to Saturday evening. Removed from technology and work during that period, the Trump-Kushner family would have been unaware of POTUS’s executive order and the public outcry in response. A source noted to Vanity Fair that “Kushner and his wife were aware of the fallout from the executive order only in an oblique way until after sundown and the photograph was posted to social media.”
But here’s the thing: The Jewish Sabbath, or Shabbat, occurs from sundown on Friday evenings and ends at sundown on Saturday evening. And sundown this past Saturday, Jan. 28, was at 5:25 P.M. in Washington, D.C.
The executive order was signed at 4:42 pm on Jan. 27, 16 minutes before sundown, before Shabbat was over. The photo in question was shared just after midnight, at 12:07 A.M. on Sunday morning — meaning over seven hours had passed during which the family would have seemingly had the opportunity to catch up on major world events before sharing their selfie.
Another detail: The $5000 Carolina Herrera dress that Ivanka is wearing in the photo is a shoulder-baring style that’s counter to the norms of Orthodox standards of modesty to which practitioners generally adhere. (Ivanka also wore a one-shouldered jumpsuit to the third presidential debate back in October, so it’s clearly a style with which she is comfortable.)
It seems fair to reckon that either this was a newbie mistake, or that the couple might have known something about what was going on in the country which their family member now governs, opted to boast about their luxurious clothing and glamorous social life nonetheless.
Vanity Fair‘s sources suggest it’s most likely the former: Ivanka “feels terrible about the post, and does not want something like that to happen again,” said one.
Another noted that while the post was “idiotic” and belayed “naiveté in not understanding her surroundings or circumstances,” there’s a major difference between Ivanka and her father: “She can adjust her behavior accordingly, and she’s open to doing that.”