The Weekly World News, as always, got the dish on what really happened at the White House Seder:
A team of Rabbis, Jewish Scholars, and Project Runway winner Christian Siriano were brought in to design the event.
At the beginning of the service a plate of traditional and symbolic foods will be at the head of the table. Fresh organic horseradish root will provide the bitter herbs symbolizing the bitterness of slavery, handmade adzuki paste will symbolize the mortar slaves worked with, along with three matzos symbolizing “slaves bread†made by Mario Battali and each costing $400.
To represent the tears of the Jewish slaves, there will be glasses of actual tears collected in Jerusalem from widows watching Yentl.
The Haggedah, the story of the Jewish exodus from slavery, will be read aloud by the President while behind him it is projected on a screen in a CGI animation designed by George Lucas’ Industrial Light and Magic studio and presented in 3-D. All necessary 3-D glasses have been blessed by a Rabbi and deemed kosher.
Here’s my favorite part:
For added effect, a 4 square foot section of the Wailing Wall has been brought in from Israel. Guests will pour small amounts of Manischewitz at its base in remembrance of those who have died along the way, while the Washington Men’s choir sings a Hebrew translation of the Bone Thugs ‘n Harmony song Crossroads.
I love the Weekly World News. It’s gotta go on my sidebar.
In Babylon 5 the one Jewish character was played by Claudia Christian, so the irony of bringing in someone named Christian for a Jewish observance, isn’t new.
But the “Wailing Wall?” That’s offensive.