Brooklyn, NY – After years as one of Washington’s most eligible bachelors, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-Brooklyn, Queens) is engaged to Huma Abedin, a glamorous top aide to Secretary of State Clinton.
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A source close to the couple confirmed that Weiner, 44, proposed to Abedin, 33, over Memorial Day weekend.
No date’s been set, but the power couple is “thrilled” about the upcoming nuptials, the source said.
So is another woman in Weiner’s life.
“I think it’s wonderful,” the pol’s mother, Fran, told the Daily News. “She’s lovely. What more can I say?”
She said it wasn’t clear how their wedding ceremony might accommodate the pair’s different faiths. Weiner, a staunch defender of Israel in Congress, is Jewish; Abedin is Muslim.
“Anything that makes them happy,” Fran Weiner said.
Weiner, who went public with the romance last spring after brushing off months of rumors, ran for mayor in 2005. He mulled running again this year, but ruled it out in May, claiming a desire to focus on Congress – and “build a family.”
Abedin was born in Michigan to a Pakistani mother and an Indian father. She grew up in Saudi Arabia and attended college in the United States.
After interning in the First Lady’s office in 1996, Abedin became a linchpin of Clinton’s entourage, and was described by admirers as maintaining both her flawless couture and her calm in the throes of Clinton’s presidential campaign.
I guess its like shabbos, you can tell anyone when to drive or whom to marry, I guess the ony good part is that she could do the driving on shabbos, I’m not sure if the issur of shvisas baiso applies to arabs
He is his own worst enemy
I guess its like shabbos, you cant tell anyone when to drive or whom to marry, I guess the ony good part is that she could do the driving on shabbos, I’m not sure if the issur of shvisas baiso applies to arabs
Another intermarriage, sad.
what can one say? it can happen to any jewish family . this intermarriage is a scourge on our religion. we live in a society where many of us run away from our heritage .Maybe some rabbonim are focused on the wrong things and not teaching us to enough to love our heritage
Mazal tov and alla akbar
Yuch. Like his mother, my grandmother always says about her family, “Anything that makes them happy.” While my extended secular family marries goyim and does other toevos.
Antony is not Jewish. is mother was “convertd” by a conservative clergyman.
Remember this on Election day
maybe this will be the start of friendly relations between jews and muslims, why is this so bad
i dont no y anyone would b surprised about this unfortunately we no hes not a religious man- this is what happens
Zein Mamah is a Yid? Ich meint nisht.
His father is jewish his mother is not. The intermarrige took place in the last generation. He is a goy just as she is.He flaunts his “jewishness” for political puposes only.
Ok so he doesnt keep kosher, at least now he’ll eat halal !
His father is jewish his mother is not. The intermarrige took place in the last generation. He is a goy just as she is.He flaunts his “jewishness” for political puposes only.
Oy Vaiz Mir. Two goyim get married and they blame the rabbis!!!!!!
they will call thier children abdul i bangha weinner
If he went to shul, he would have heard this week’s sedra about what Pinchus did and why.
You can bring a horse to water but you can’t make him drink.
Is he the guy who looks like Jabba the Hutt?
Abi nisht tzvishen yidin
now he can sell her the
chametz erev pesach
how convenient!!!
The only fight between them will be, he will eat ham, but she as a Muslim never! Leider.
everybody out there talk is cheap and action speaks louder then words. throw that bum out of Congress. we do not need such a person to represent us religious yidden by a person who does share our same values.
Probably will name their son Barak Hussein Weiner
“what can one say? it can happen to any jewish family . this intermarriage is a scourge on our religion. we live in a society where many of us run away from our heritage .Maybe some rabbonim are focused on the wrong things and not teaching us to enough to love our heritage”
Maybe some rabbonim are too focused on our heritage and not enough on loving our fellow human being that people have lost interest in our self-centered, antiquated, soulless religion.
Just because his last name sounds Jewish, that doesn’t make him one. He’s allowed to marry a non Jewess, he’s not Jewish. What’s all the fuss about. His father was the baal aveiroh, not him.
The real lesson here is — we now know the end result of his father’s choice. The chain was broken back then and who knows where it will end up.
So the mother likes the daughter in law…. I suppose she’s happy this will end the rumors about all the men… or at least for a while.
“everybody out there talk is cheap and action speaks louder then words. throw that bum out of Congress. we do not need such a person to represent us religious yidden by a person who does share our same values.”
Please don’t elect someone like yourselves, it would only give justification to anti-semitism.
Just waiting to see how many “frum” politians will attend the wedding, which is clearly assur
Look, when Noach Dear ran against him, he (Noach) stumped in shuls on shabbos saying that wecouldn’t allow a faigele to represent us in Congress. Guess he was wrong!!
wow what a story. there poor children. According to her the children will be jewish because the father is jewish. And according to him the children will be muslim because she is muslim. Wow what a mixed up child
anthony weiner is probably fed up with the shidduch scene, so he had no other option but to marry a goy.
what a nice shiduch.
If they have a daughter they can call her Hagar! A boy Ibrahim!
Boruch Hashem he is going to marry a goy, just like him and not a Jewess, ‘cuz he’s not Jewish.
the posters here prove the they dont care for chilill hashem only when it suits them. when stones were thrown etc at the demonstration against chilill shabbos boy were the ‘so called’ chilill hasem complians so vemonous, but here where there is a true chillil hasem (for those who know the true meaning of chillul hadhem), as the oilom thinks he’s jewish, where is the outcry for chilill hashem? not one poster. this prooveswhat we always say, the anti frum dont care for chilil hashem , loshen hora moitzi shem rah ahavas yisroel etc only whem they can use it for their propaganda against shomrei torah..
#16 who says shes religious muslim…shes also marrying out of faith
#48 .. probably not jewish either
At first I was disappointed that we were losing another Jew to intermarriage. However now that I learn that he is a goy, I don’t mind
If his mother really isn’t jewish than the chilul hashem would be if he WOULD marry a jewish girl.
I heard from my cat’s dog’s uncle’s rabbit, that he thinks he heard from a chashuv Odom Godol (probably a concert ban rabbi) that this is a great Shidduch. See, this is the answer to the Shidduch Crisis.
#66 yes, you sound like those anti semites who always preface their vehmon with
‘some of my closest friends are ‘jewish’ “
All these posts are really none of our business just his and hers, like towels in the bathroom! He picked her so I guess they will have a private wedding (civil ceremony) with a Judge officiating. That way they will keep religion out of their marriage! He can be whatever he is, she can be whatever she is!! That’s the way the cookie crumbles! That’s why we have to watch our kids!!
Just remember at the next election that neither is he Jewish, nor will he have Jewish interests in mind if he’s married to an Arab. Just keep it in mind!
The real “shayla” is what will all those in the frum community who “chanfah” to Weiner do? Will they remain his friends? Will the Agudah still take his money? Or will someone stand up and say “enough is enough.” My bet, we’ll see him at next year’s Agudah dinner with his new wife.
I would be more concerned if this bum married a frum or anÝ kind of jew, atleast now we know what jew he is
This imposter used to speak at my shuls annual melava malka (before he was elected to Congress) and he always spoke about “we Jews” and “our Torah”, etc. He should have come clean and said he was not a Jew halachikly.
Just to be clear, if he was a Gentile and didnt show up as an imposter of a Jew- I would not have any problems with him.
We dont need any more PHONY EREV Rav Jews.
I have known Anthony Weiner since we were kids. He is ABSOLUTELY Jewish al pi halacha. This rumor “against him” (that he’s not Jewish) was started years ago to hurt his chances for running for office. I know that it may make you feel better to pretend that he is not a Jew but he is. Learn to live with the facts. This is galus.
#*) ‘learn to live with the facts’ …can you explain? ‘this is galus’ can you explain .i dont understand your wording and what your saying
Will he convert to Islam? or will she convert to Judaism? Or will they make a new religion? Monday is still open and perhaps Obama can be their OFFICIAL god