Editing Passover Seder (section)

===White House Passover Seder===
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[[File:Barack Obama hosts a Seder dinner 2009.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The Obamas host the first [[White House Passover Seder]] in 2009 (White House photo).]]
In 2009 President [[Barack Obama]] began conducting an annual Passover seder in the [[Family Dining Room#2015 Obama redecoration|Old Family Dining Room]] of the [[White House]], marking the first time that a sitting US president hosted a Seder in the White House.<ref name=huff>{{cite web |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/14/white-house-seder-_n_5146629.html|title=How Three Jewish Junior Obama Staffers Brought The First Passover Seder to the White House|first= Paul Brandeis |last=Raushenbush|date=14 April 2014|access-date=3 April 2016|work=[[The Huffington Post]]}}</ref><ref name=cs>{{cite web |url= http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/USA-Update/2013/0325/Why-Obama-a-Christian-hosts-a-Passover-seder-each-year-at-White-House|title= Why Obama, a Christian, hosts a Passover seder each year at White House|first=David T.|last=Cook|date=25 March 2013|access-date=3 April 2016|work=[[The Christian Science Monitor]]}}</ref> The private dinner for about 20 guests,<ref name=for>{{cite web |url= http://forward.com/news/173508/how-is-the-white-house-seder-different-from-all-ot/|title=How is the White House Seder Different from All Others?|first=Devra|last=Ferst|date=21 March 2013|access-date=3 April 2016|work=[[The Forward]]}}</ref> both Jewish and non-Jewish – including the President and his family, members of the President's and First Lady's staffs, and friends and their families<ref name=hill>{{cite web |url= https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/237766-israeli-relations-put-focus-on-white-house-seder/|title= Iran deal, Israeli tensions put focus on White House Seder|first=Jordan|last=Fabian|date=3 April 2015|access-date=3 April 2016|work=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]}}</ref> – features the reading of the Haggadah, traditional rituals such as the hiding of the afikoman and the cup of Elijah, and the reading of the [[Emancipation Proclamation]].<ref name=huff/>