Jewish in Everything but Being Jewish
Huppah Dreams
March 07, 2011
The happy couple.(NYT)
While we have highlighted choice Weddings/Celebrations announcements in the Sunday New York Times before, today The Scroll inaugurates “Huppah Dreams,” which (with apologies to Gawker’s Phyllis Nefler) will each Monday choose the most interestingly Jewish announcement from the weekend.
We begin with a curveball: This weekend’s most interestingly Jewish announcement is not technically Jewish at all. The bride is an art historian Harvard grad who is the daughter of a Long Island anesthesiologist. The bridegroom is a Penn grad whose parents are a radiologist and a nephrologist in, again, Long Island; he himself, moreover, is the Obama Administration’s “director for Israeli and Palestinian affairs on the national security staff.”
The catch, of course, is that this is the happy nuptials of Prem Kumar and Mary Oey and their spring ceremony (they were married Friday in court) will be Hindu. They’re not Jews, except in the sense that Asians are the new Jews. Mazel tov!
Mary Oey and Prem Kumar [NYT]
Related: Jews in Second Place [Slate]
Earlier: Time Traveling in the Weddings Section
Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.
