President Trump to Hold a Passover Seder Tonight in the White House

Eric Cortellessa : Apr 10, 2017
The Times of Israel

The White House Seder began as an annual tradition under former President Barak Obama.

(Washington, DC) — [Reprinted with permission of the Times of Israel] US President Donald Trump will host a White House Passover seder Monday night, an administration official told The Times of Israel on Sunday, confirming that the new administration will continue a tradition started by former president Barack Obama … (Photo Credit: Pete Souza/The White House)

Trump is the first president with immediate family members who are Jewish. His daughter Ivanka married Kushner, an Orthodox Jew, in 2009. Before tying the knot, she underwent a rigorous Orthodox conversion process under the tutelage of Rabbi Haskel Lookstein at the Upper East Side's Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun.

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