White House photo of the day, April 6, 2012 (Passover Seder Dinner) - pic

[Kadie]

President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama host a Passover Seder Dinner for family, staff and friends, in the Old Family Dining Room of the White House, April 6, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

[Renew Deal]

1. Who's the boy sitting between Malia and Sasha?

[Tx4obama]

5. Looks like a 'man' to me. n/t

[gateley]

2. That's wonderful. I'm glad the girls are getting a chance to experience this and witness

the respect for those of other Faiths.

[jwirr]

3. Having been a part of such an experience I can testify that it is a beautiful moving ceremony.

[starroute]

4. Remember that Michelle has a cousin who's a rabbi

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/news/jewish-world-meet-michelle-obama-s-cousin-the-rabbi-1.253431

While Barack Obama has struggled to capture the Jewish vote, it turns out that one of his wife's cousins is the country's most prominent black rabbi - a fact that has gone largely unnoticed.

Michelle Obama, wife of the Democratic presidential nominee, and Rabbi Capers Funnye, spiritual leader of a mostly black synagogue on Chicago's South Side, are first cousins once removed. Funnye's mother, Verdelle Robinson Funnye (born Verdelle Robinson) and Michelle Obama's paternal grandfather, Frasier Robinson Jr., were brother and sister.

Funnye (pronounced fuh-NAY) is chief rabbi at the Beth Shalom B'nai Zaken Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation in southwest Chicago. He is well-known in Jewish circles for acting as a bridge between mainstream Jewry and the much smaller, and largely separate, world of black Jewish congregations, sometimes known as black Hebrews or Israelites. He has often urged the larger Jewish community to be more accepting of Jews who are not white.

[gateley]

6. I didn't know that! I hope he was invited! nt

[monmouth]

7. I was hoping there would be a pic. Seems to grow evey year. Love it...n/t