Monica Lewinsky's former rabbi who publicly condemned Bill Clinton during the sex scandal gave the benediction minutes after the former President took the stage at the Democratic National Convention tonight.

awkward pairing was likely overlooked by organizers because Rabbi David Wolpe is such a well-known figure in the Jewish community.
Time may not have healed all wounds, however, as Rabbi Wolpe was very critical of Mr Clinton throughout the scandal and wrote an op-ed three years ago reiterating those feelings.
The Lewinskys attended the Rabbi's Sinai Temple in Los Angeles for years and Monica went to its affiliated Sinai Akiba Academy religious school before heading to college, and eventually, the White House.
As the then-22-year-old intern's name became a national buzzword for having repeated sexual encounters with the then-President, her Rabbi came to her defense and criticized Mr Clinton.
'He was a brilliant, talented, extraordinary child, and for the leader of the United States we need an adult,' the Associated Press reported Rabbi Wolpe saying in a synagogue service around the time of the 1998 scandal.
That ferocity dimmed slightly in the following decade, but it didn't disappear completely.
In a column about another politician's affair, Rabbi Wolpe brought up Clinton again saying that it was more the cover up and slander that brought the disgrace with that instance..