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Wishing Everyone
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their family at Passover every year.
"Joe would always show up with a
box of magnificent cannoli," she said.
"The first year we put them aside and
thanked him and tried to explain the
whole Passover thing. But year after
year, Joe arrived with his cherished
box of cannoli. And not wanting to
offend him, we decided to eat the can-
noli before the seder. It was our pre-
gefilte fish course"
Her parents and Joe are gone now,
and "to this day, no seder feels com-
plete without his cannoli," Shearer
said.
A couple of years ago, Rabbi Krakoff
was unable to convince a pastor not to

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heavily spread maror (bitter herb) on
his piece of matzah.
"Well, after taking a bite, I literally
watched his nostrils flare and his eyes
well up:' Krakoff said. "The maror was
stronger than he could ever imagine in
his life. Our friend slammed his hands
down on the table and spontaneously
shouted: 'Jesus Christ!' He then cov-
ered his mouth:'
The pastor apologized to the gather-
ing, "but we reassured him it was OK.
No one was offended — we all thought
it was hilarious. We joked it was the
first time Elijah and Jesus ever came to
our seder."

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Inclusive Seders from page 34

Some people in the community
val meal.
feel it is improper to invite non-
"Jewish law," Lupovitch said,
Jews to a Passover seder.
"permits cooking on festivals
They may quote their rabbi as
– as opposed to Shabbat, when
forbidding such attendance at
cooking is prohibited – but only
their Passover meals.
for individuals who are observing
Others say the justification is
the festival; that is, for Jews but
that, during Passover, Jews are
not for non-Jews. For this reason,
in a mourning state of mind, hav-
the sages were concerned lest a
ing to think about the 40 years of
Jew, who was not aware of this
exile and why they must give up
discrepancy, might inadvertently
leavened foods and eat matzah.
cook for the non-Jewish guest
Howard Lupovitch, history pro-
while cooking a yom tov meal for
fessor and director of the Cohn-
Jewish guests.
Haddow Center for Judaic Studies
"Thus, the problem of a non-
at Wayne State University, dis-
Jew participating in seder has
putes the idea that there is a
nothing to do with the seder
specific Jewish law pro-
itself, but rather cooking
hibiting non-Jews at the
for a non-Jew on a festi-
seder.
val. As long as the food for
He said that the mis-
the seder is not prepared
conception that there is
on yom tov, halachically
such a law stems from
speaking, having non-Jews
two specific rabbinic
at a seder is not prohib-
concerns.
ited. And with regard to a
"The first is the bibli- Howard
seder that falls on Shabbat,
cal prohibition on gen-
the problem does not exist
Lupovitc h
tiles eating the Korban
at all [because the cooking
Pesach (the paschal lamb sacri-
would be done before Shabbat].
fice), which is prohibited explicitly
"Instead," he said, "This taboo
by Exodus 12:43," he said.
is an example of a custom or pref-
Because the seder com-
erence that morphed into a wide-
memorates this sacrifice, Jews
spread practice, buoyed by the
through the ages have consid-
fact that, until relatively recently
ered it improper to include non-
in our history, comparatively
Jews. Because this sacrifice is
few Jews were close enough
no longer an actual part of the
with their non-Jewish neighbors
seder, this concern or prohibition
to consider inviting them to an
on non-Jews eating the Korban
event as intimate and familial as
Pesach no longer applies.
a seder."
A more technical concern
stems from the broader problem
- Esther Allweiss Inqber
of inviting non-Jews to any festi-

