Is Chelsea Clinton Good for the Jews?

Global media and Jewish websites are preoccupied with the Chelsea Clinton-Mark Mezvinsky wedding, writes Aliza Lavi on Ynet, and with good
reason.

Clinton is the daughter of American politics' royal family and many Jews look upon her marriage to a member of the tribe with pride. But precisely the problem with this power pairing, writes Lavi, is that it is not a problem.

The wedding, writes Lavi, a professor at Bar-Ilan University and author of the acclaimed "A Jewish Woman's Prayer Book" is yet another symptom of an era "where large parts of the young generation of U.S. Jews are no longer with us."

Most young American Jews, she writes, do not view Israel as part of their Jewish essence, and are more likely to subscribe to a universalistic
ethic of tikkun olam.

Why is this a problem? Because the Jewish people are a "national-religious collective that aims to preserve its uniqueness." The only way to preserve an endangered minority identity, suggests Lavi, is if a majority of its members
marry each other.