Next year in the White House: A Seder tradition

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President Obama hosts a traditional Passover Seder dinner in April 2009. Some friends and White House employees and their families joined the Obama family.  /Pete Souza | White HouseThe staff of the Office of the President of the United States have held Seders since at least the late 1990s, during the administration of President Bill Clinton. In April 2009, President Barack Obama included a second-night Seder in his official schedule.

This was the first time that a sitting President is known to have hosted and observed a Seder at the White House. President Obama participated in his first Seder while on the presidential campaign trail in 2008 and has hosted one each year since moving into the White House.