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Well, she didn’t convert … yet. But former First Daughter Chelsea Clinton, 30, did get married under a chuppah last Saturday in a ceremony co-officiated by a Jewish clergy member, Rabbi James Ponet, head of the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale University. The rabbi was joined at the ceremony by Rev. William Shillady, a Methodist minister.
The wedding of Ms. Clinton and her groom, Marc Mezvinsky, 32, featured friends and family members reciting the seven traditional blessings and a ketubah, the traditional Jewish wedding contract. The event took place Saturday night before the end of the Shabbat.
Mr. Mezvinsky wore a yarmulke and tallit at the ceremony, an image that was beamed around the world. Among those in attendance was the groom’s mom, Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinksy, 68, a former Pennsylvania congresswoman and a graduate of Forest Park Senior High School’s class of 1959.
A Reform rabbi, Rabbi Ponet has been at Yale since 1981. He currently teaches a college seminar with Dr. Ruth Westheimer on “The Family in the Jewish Tradition,” according to the bio on the Slifka Center website. He and his wife, Elana, also “lead a weekly discussion in Slifka Dining Room on the value of peace in Jewish life and thought.”