Will Chelsea Convert?

The Daily Beast ^ | 12/02/09 | Samuel P. Jacobs

[OldDeckHand]

Chelsea Clinton is Methodist. Her new fiancé is Jewish. From Ivanka Trump to Ed Koch, Jewish Americans talk to The Daily Beast’s Samuel P. Jacobs about the question every mother-in-law wants answered.

“The great thing about America is everyone wants to marry a Jewish boy.” —Harvard professor of Yiddish literature Ruth Wisse

All summer long, Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky were dogged by rumors of an engagement. A Martha’s Vineyard wedding was in the works—and then it wasn’t. Over Thanksgiving, the couple at last made it official. So now that the former first daughter has finally announced her plans to marry a nice Jewish boy, round two of the nuptial guessing game begins: Will Chelsea head to the mikvah?

“As a rabbi, I would be delighted to see Chelsea convert. That would be my dream scenario,” says Rabbi David Wolpe of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles. Wolpe once worked for Mezvinsky’s father when he was the former congressman’s advance man. Young Marc, now working at a hedge fund, “was a wonderful, thoughtful, and very vibrant sort of kid,” Wolpe adds.

[OldDeckHand]

"Methodist denomination don’t believe the Bible is the word of God nor Christ is the son of God."

I had no idea. I knew that they were a liberal bunch, but why even call yourself a Christian denomination if that's the road you're going to go down?

[sheik yerbouty]

I can just see Beelzeflubba telling this guy that she’s already broken in”..

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Chelsea’s father escaped prison only because he was President. She’s marrying up.

Not really, his father did not escape prison. Only got out last year.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Right. Most people should care about this as much as Tiger Woods wrapping his Cadillac Escalade around a tree or a couple of Obama egg heads crashing a State Dinner at the White House.

My taxes don't go up (they never seem to go down), it doesn't help me land a new job, it doesn't pay my mortgage and it doesn't keep my neighbor's dog off my lawn, and it doesn't keep Obama, the Republicans or the Democrats from destroying my country.

[Arthur McGowan]

I think it’s more honorable to go to prison than to avoid it by wielding political clout.

[Bluebird Singing]

A pro-abortion Methodist marries a pro-abortion Jew. The last thing that matters is which religion either one of them might pretend to believe in.

Exactly.

[devere]

ridiculous article

[Jimmy Valentine]

So. You don't think that a red headed shicksa with two momserum ganeffs as parents could ever be considered hamish!!??

It's a shanda! I'm telling everyone! Nu?