New Children’s Book Details Obama’s First Presidential Seder

New Children’s Book Details Obama’s First Presidential Seder

Miles away from home on the 2008 presidential campaign trail, three junior staffers hosted a Passover seder in a nondescript hotel meeting room in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Herbie Ziskend, one of the staffers spending his days on the campaign trail, realized that he wasn’t going to have a chance to go home for the holiday. His colleague, Eric Lesser, called a family member and coordinated to have traditional Passover foods, seder plates and Hagg…