One of Jared Kushner's employees really wants him to take down Donald Trump

Jared Kushner stands with his wife's family at a rally.
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Writer Dana Schwartz took it upon herself to make sure that Jared Kushner realizes the effect his father-in-law Donald Trump's comments are having on the Jewish community. In a powerful open letter published Tuesday in the Observer, Schwartz, a Jewish employee at the paper — which is one of several owned by Kushner's publishing company — detailed the "hateful" responses she received after she called a tweet of Trump's anti-Semitic because it depicted Hillary Clinton's face alongside what appeared to be a Star of David.

Though Kushner, as well as his daughter and his wife, Ivanka Trump, are Jewish, he has yet to comment on Trump's controversial tweet:

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