Word: seder
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First, sell the milk and honey. Obama is the first President to hold a Passover seder in the White House, but he seems to be forgetting the main point of the service: the story of Moses is, above all, a story. It's a narrative of hope. Details are fine for negotiating policy, but it's the vision of milk and honey that gets people to plunge into...
...American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which opposes public U.S. pressure on Israel, hasn't taken an explicit stance on the settlements dispute. Obama has also surrounded himself with the kind of advisers (Rahm Emanuel, Hillary Clinton and Dennis Ross) and made the kind of symbolic gestures (holding a seder at the White House and condemning Holocaust denial in Cairo) that reassure many American Jews. Historically, Israel's American supporters have used their strength in Congress to box Presidents in a corner. But when Netanyahu came to Washington last month, even reliably pro-Israel Jewish members of Congress gave...
Last week, President Barack Obama hosted a friends and family seder in the White House's old family dining room. And the unleavened event was led by none other than one-time Harvard Dems President Eric P. Lesser '07. Lesser, who could not be reached for comment, is currently a personal aide to Obama adviser David Axelrod. During the campaign, he served as a ground logistics coordinator (read: baggage handler...
Passover began at sundown on Wednesday. It commemorates the Exodus from Egypt over 3000 years ago, when the Jewish people escaped but didn't have time to let their bread rise. Thursday night's seder at the White House reportedly featured a reading of the Haggadah and traditional Jewish goodies like kugel and a roasted...
...rolled and baked within 18 minutes - otherwise it will begin to rise. Judaism takes its bread rules very seriously; in 2001, Israel's Interior Ministry even conducted raids on local restaurants to make sure they weren't serving leavened bread during Passover. (Read about the President's White House Seder...