2020

Ivanka prays at Ohel

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Ivanka Trump visited the tomb of the Lubavitcher rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, last Thursday.

Smartphone video posted on social media captured President Donald Trump’s daughter emerging, masked, on from the Ohel, a modest structure in the Old Montefiore Cemetery in Springfield Gardens, Queens, where Schneerson is buried with his father-in-law.

Trump had just completed his second debate with Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee, in Tennessee.

Ivanka Trump was praying for her father’s reelection, according to Yeshiva World News, which did not give attribution for the claim. In 2016, she and her husband, Jared Kushner, visited the ohel to pray for her father’s election.

Ivanka Trump and Kushner are self-identified as Orthodox Jews. Praying at the ohel of the rebbe, who died in 1994, is considered by many Jews to be especially powerful.