Aww
Last year, in the thick of the Pennsylvania primary a group of traveling Obama campaign staff couldn’t get home for seder. Instead, like the Jews in Exodus, they had to prepare a seder in haste. One junior staffer found space for the impromptu meal in the basement of a Harrisburg Sheraton. He gathered the traditional seder foods from the hotel kitchen, and from a cousin who was in college nearby.
The staffers invited then-candidate Obama. But they were surprised when he showed up, along with aide Valerie Jarrett and Obama family friend Marty Nesbitt. All three reportedly plan to attend the gathering tomorrow night.
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It is traditional that at the end of the seder participants say the words “next year in Jerusalem” to signify the Jewish return to a homeland. The Obama campaign group ended last year’s Sedar with the added line “next year in the White House.” The White House official says that at tomorrow’s gathering the small group will reflect on everything that’s happened in the last year. [-]
