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(IsraelNN.com) Ivanka Trump, the daughter of real estate magnate Donald Trump, has declined to comment on the reports in the American media on Wednesday that she is converting to Judaism due to her boyfriend Jared Kushner. Both Trump and Kushner are both deeply involved in the U.S. real estate industry. Trump is the Vice President of Real Estate Development and Acquisitions at the Trump Organization. Kushner runs one of New York's top real estate developers, Kushner Properties.

According to the New York Post, the former model has been diligently adopting Jewish beliefs and practices, and has chosen Modern Orthodox Rabbi Haskel Lookstein of New York's Upper East Side to convert her to the religion. A source told the newspaper, "She and Jared were in shul [synagogue] during all the holidays and ate in the sukkah [festival tabernacle] every night."