Saturday 19 April 2008, had been a beautiful day, but there were no windows in a conference room at the Sheraton in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where the conference table was set for the Seder dinner, the ritual feast that marks the Jewish festival of Passover.
This particular Seder would gain great significance, however, as a tradition that would pass from this Harrisburg hotel room to the White House, where it would become the first ever celebrated there. On Thursday, the same celebrants who began the tradition, back when they were young staffers on the campaign trail for then senator Barack Obama, will sit down again together for Passover with the president for the ninth and final time.
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