Michelle Obama's Cousin the Rabbi

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1019188.html

Haaretz is a leading Israeli publication (and a personal favorite of mine).

It is worth noting that he converted under the supervision of Orthodox and Conservative rabbis.

From Haaretz:

[Michelle Obama's cousin] is well-known in Jewish circles for acting as a bridge between mainstream Jewry and the much smaller, and largely separate, world of black Jewish congregations...