The time Hillary Clinton came to the rabbi’s family seder – and stayed for hours (CLINTON GROUP)

[Lucinda]

JTA Article HERE

The time Hillary Clinton came to the rabbi’s family seder – and stayed for hours
By Uriel Heilman
April 10, 2016 12:01pm

"...During the Maggid section, which recounts the Jews’ oppression in Egypt before their eventual exodus, each participant around the table read a different section. Hillary Clinton had the part about a verse from Deuteronomy that translates as “My father was a wandering Aramean.” She talked about contemporary parallels of discrimination, including the ethnic conflict in Kosovo. Then she did a humorous riff on her own experience with wandering.

“She said, ‘My husband was a wandering politician, we went from Arkansas to Washington, we were oppressed by the press,’” Bob Fine recalled. “She just did a satire of it that was spectacular.”

Though Hillary Clinton said it was her first time ever at a traditional family seder, it was hardly her first Passover. She said that when she was a college student at Wellesley she had helped Jewish friends prepare seders, and as the First Lady of Arkansas and then the United States she had attended numerous communal seder events.

The thing that seemed to delight Clinton most, the Fines recalled, was the opportunity it gave her to get to know Chelsea’s college friends who had come for the seder.

“She came more as a mom than the first lady or a Senate candidate,” Josh Fine said.

During dinner, Clinton asked each of the young people around the table what they were studying, where they were from and what they wanted to do after college.

Josh Fine was in his third year of law school at Harvard, and he mentioned that he had submitted a speech as part of applying to be the law school commencement speaker. When Clinton called the Fines a few weeks after the seder to thank them for their hospitality, Josh was surprised to learn that Clinton had inquired about whether he had gotten the graduation speaking gig..."


There is quite a bit more before and after the selected section.

[Hekate]

1. KnR. Good Pesach, all.

[Iamaartist]

3. ..son in-law

Hillary's son-in-law is Jewish also....

[DesertRat]

4. Thank you for posting this