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Rabbi James Ponet, head of the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale, was joined by Rev. William Shillady, a Methodist minister. Clinton and Mezvinsky were reportedly married under a chuppa, in a ceremony that featured friends and family reciting the seven traditional blessings and a ketuba, the traditional Jewish wedding contract. The event took place before the end of Shabbat.Mezvinsky, who is Jewish, wore a yarmulke and prayer shawl.Ponet, a Reform rabbi, has been the Jewish chaplain at Yale since 1981. He currently teaches a college seminar with Dr. Ruth Westheimer on “The Family in the Jewish Tradition," according to the bio on the Slifka Center website. He and his wife, Elana, also "lead a weekly discussion in Slifka Dining Room on the value of peace in Jewish life and thought."