Cameron Diaz married Benji Madden, the guitarist for the popular punk rock band Good Charlotte, at her Beverly Hills home on Monday.
In an interesting twist, the couple had a Jewish ceremony — despite the fact that neither appears to be Jewish.
Diaz’s father was Cuban, and her mother has English and German ancestry. Madden, who started Good Charlotte with his twin brother Joel, was born to Robin Madden and Roger Combs. There is no evidence that he has any Jewish ancestry.
So why the Jewish wedding? US Weekly reported that the ceremony was complete with crushed glass, heartfelt chants of “mazal tov” and even a traditional Yichud ritual, during which the newlyweds were left by themselves in a private room after they said their vows.
The other possible phenomenon at work is the Jewish wedding’s transformation into a chic cultural statement.
Rachel Shukert expands on this in Tablet:
"For the first time in the history of America, Jewishness — and not just the bagels-and-lox part — is aspirational. There’s a Seder in the White House, and rabbis gave the invocation at the conventions of both major political parties … Ralph Lauren built an empire giving us all WASP anxiety; now the WASPs want to be Jews."
The truth behind the Diaz-Madden wedding may turn out to be more straightforward, but having a Jewish wedding — even if the couple isn’t Jewish — might just be the next trend in Hollywood.
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What? No. This is unacceptable. I’m speechless. They’ve never respected our culture before, and now Jew Envy is a thing?
@tumblr SJWs: none of you wanna call this cultural appropriation? bc it fuckin is.
fuck goyim