Obama’s Jewish Personal Chef Weds

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sam-kassPresident 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}


22 COMMENTS

  1. 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!!!!

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

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