Family and friends of Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky have been pretty tight lipped about the couple’s July 31 wedding. Not much more is known beyond the location – the village of Rhinebeck in upstate New York – and that Bill Clinton would like to lose some weight before the wedding. The question on the mind of most people in the Jewish community seems to be whether or not it will be a Jewish wedding, or at least have Jewish elements. Will a rabbi officiate? Will there be a chuppah? Will Mezvinsky, who was raised a Conservative Jew, step on a glass at the end of the ceremony? In a long piece on the blog Politics Daily, David Gibson explores the interfaith angle of the wedding and tries to figure out what it means for the Jewish community.

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