{"id":22100,"date":"2010-08-05T11:02:57","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T19:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=22100"},"modified":"2010-08-05T11:02:57","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T19:02:57","slug":"rahm-emanuels-orthodox-rabbi-does-not-condemn-clinton-mezvinsky-intermarriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=22100","title":{"rendered":"Rahm Emanuel’s Orthodox Rabbi Does NOT Condemn Clinton-Mezvinsky Intermarriage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rob Eshman emails: In an under-the-radar but utterly groundbreaking post at the blog “Morethodoxy<\/a>,” Rabbi Asher Lopatin, the Orthodox leader of Anshe Sholom B’nai Israel, a Modern Orthodox synagogue in Chicago– which White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel attends– challenged the overwhelming sentiment of Orthodox Jewry and offered a qualified “welcome” to the marriage of Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky.<\/p>\n

Orthodox Jews firmly oppose intermarriage. Clinton, a Methodist, wed Mezvinsky, a Jew, at a ceremony in New York last week. The wedding was conducted by a minister and a Reform rabbi. Traditional Jews decry intermarriage, which they say contributes to the assimilation, if not the disappaerance, of Jewry.<\/p>\n

But Rabbi Lopatin took a different tack<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“We are living in a world where what was once taboo, intermarriage, has the possibility to expose millions – millions of Jews – to a tallit they may never have known about,” he wrote. “And it was a Reconstructionist rabbi Ponet who did the ‘dirty’ work. For now, Orthodox rabbis, even Conservative, don\u2019t want anything to do with an intermarriage. But this Mezvinsky guy was willing to wear a tallis and a kippa in all the pictures – should we shun him forever? No, certainly after the wedding, we welcome him – and Chelsea as well.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rob Eshman emails: In an under-the-radar but utterly groundbreaking post at the blog “Morethodoxy,” Rabbi Asher Lopatin, the Orthodox leader of Anshe Sholom B’nai Israel, a Modern Orthodox synagogue in Chicago– which White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel attends– … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23126,11230,1949,1910,32284,1701],"class_list":["post-22100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodoxy","tag-marc-mezvinsky","tag-nai-israel","tag-orthodox-rabbi","tag-orthodox-synagogue","tag-rahm-emanuel","tag-reform-rabbi"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t