President Barack Obama on Shabbos temporarily set aside the pressures of trying to calm the world’s trouble spots and assumed the role of spectator for something more joyous: the wedding of his family’s longtime chef and friend.
Chef Sam Kass, who grew up in a Jewish family, and MSNBC host Alex Wagner were tying the knot at Blue Hill at Stone Barns, a farm-to-table restaurant, just north of New York City.
Obama and Kass have a close relationship, which Obama highlighted earlier this month by spending several hours at dinner at Kass’ apartment amid the turmoil in Iraq, Ukraine and Ferguson, Missouri.
It’s long been said that time is a president’s most precious commodity. That Obama would spend five hours at Kass’ home on one of the aide’s final evenings as a bachelor was a testament to their bond.
Obama’s rounds of golf are often his only other outings that last as long – and those games sometimes include Kass.
Obama, his wife, Michelle, and their daughters, Malia and Sasha, attended the ceremony and reception at the restaurant, which is a favorite of both Kass and Mrs. Obama. The first lady hosted the spouses of world leaders there in 2010.
Kass began preparing meals for the Obamas when the family lived in Chicago and the Obamas persuaded him to join them at the White House. He is now among the Obamas’ longest-serving aides.
Besides preparing the family’s meals most weeknights, Kass also serves as senior nutrition policy adviser and executive director of the first lady’s anti-childhood obesity initiative. Read more.
{Matzav.com}
I think the Matzav editors were asleep at the wheel.
Can you please remove this “news” story?
SHE IS **NOT ** JEWISH
This is not news to celebrate
THIS IS A TIME TO CRY
Not sure why a Jew marrying out of the fold is newsworthy on a site that purports to reflect Torah values.
It was also on Shabbos so there was some Chillul Shabbos too. What is Matzav thinking of?
to all the fools, Alex is a woman. It is a woman’s name. She is an anchor on television
But a jew that prepares treif food? This should be removed.
Mazel tub
Married a shiksah
On shabbos
Traif food
Mixed seating
Kol Isha .
Posul Aid us
Its Elul wake up
This is just as big a Simcha, as Chelsea Clinton marrying her “Jewish” husband. Phe!
SHE is not Jewish? Isn’t Alex a man’s name?
uhmmm, Matzav this is a frum website; who cares about a Jew marrying a shiksa?!
does this belong here?
Sam & Alex!!!!????
Why is this filth on a site for Orthodox Jews??????
I hope he does not have to prepare pork meals for the president. That is not exactly a dignity for a jew.
Alex Wagner who is not jewish is actually very disgustingly anti-Israel. I was watching her facial and enunciation during the Israeli war recently and she came clearly across as antagonistic to the jewish feelings. How surprising she is treating herself to become the new Delilah. I hope she does not ruin this poor man’s life. Get a divorce as fast as possible and run fast! This is the intermarriage that goes on constantly in our lost brotherhood around the world and the reality is that a woman who is not jewish married to a jew is a disgrace to every son’s father’s home. How horrible!!!!
Look news is to shmooz
and for one to choose
and let it be for those
who think it is a ruse
He married a Nawchriya on Shabbos.
Reportedly when Hillary Clinton’s daughter
married on Shabbos
there were Sheva Brachos.
There is no mention of that at this event.
nothing like marrying a shikshe to make parents sit shivah.
A Jew married a non-Jew. The wedding was on Shabbos in a treif restaurant. Do we really need to know about it?
I don’t agree with the above. It’s Kass’ quandry, not Obama’s (whether or not he was the shadchan). This seems to me to be Matzav-newsworthy, because it adds a very interesting nuance to Obama’s attitude to Jews.
Drunk in middle of Elul?? Whats wrong with you??
Surprisingly, it says that he was raised in a Jewish home, instead of it being written ‘he’s Jewish’; could be he’s adopted and not even Jewish, we hope.
Biggest social event since the wedding of Huma Abedin to Anthony Wiener….
That was ineresting