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Best of the Web: The Passover Edition

A Facebook Haggadah is born. Sample: “Joseph and Pharaoh are now friends…. Pharaoh sent The Israelites Bread of Affliction.”

Ever wonder what happens to the leavened goods in Israel during Passover? PRI’s The World talks to Hussein Jaber, a Muslim catering manager at a Jerusalem hotel who gets them all!

Barack Obama hosts what is believed to be the first Seder by a sitting president at the White House.

Not sure about the whole parting of the Red Sea thing or the burning bush? Slate comes to the rescue with “A Skeptic’s Guide to Passover.”

Moment Magazine’s Joan Alpert explains why charoset is on the Seder plate and ModernDomestic makes matzoh!


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Nonna Gorilovskaya

Nonna Gorilovskaya is the founder and editor of Women and Foreign Policy. She is a senior editor at Moment Magazine and a researcher for NiemanWatchdog.org, a project of Harvard University's Nieman Foundation for Journalism. Prior to her adventures in journalism, she studied the role of nationalism in the breakup of the Soviet Union as a U.S. Fulbright scholar to Armenia. She is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley, where she grew addicted to lattes, and St. Antony's College, Oxford, where she acquired a fondness for Guinness and the phrase "jolly good."

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Journalism; Gender Issues; Social Policy

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