Proof that Obama uses the Maxwell House Haggadah.
But you have to wade through a lot of self-promotion for his Hagaddah. I was sent a copy of this Hagaddah to review (The New American Hagaddah) and am not nearly as fond of it as he is. I’ll post on this soon. The New American Haggadah is impractical, over-styled, unwieldy, and the commentary is difficult to incorporate into a seder.
Goldberg’s article revolves around the use of the Maxwell House hagaddah and Obama’s deep Jewish connections.
When I handed him the Haggadah, President Obama, who famously stages his own seders at the White House, (which is a very nice philo-Semitic thing to do, IMHO) spent a moment leafing through it and making approving noises. Then he said (as I told the Times): “Does this mean we can’t use the Maxwell House Haggadah anymore?”
He then comes to his thesis:
George W. Bush was, in his own way, a philo-Semite, but he never would have made such an M.O.T. kind of joke (see the end of this post if you’re not sure what M.O.T. means). Once again, Barack Obama was riffing off the cosmic joke that he is somehow anti-Semitic, when in fact, as many people understand, he is the most Jewish president we’ve ever had (except for Rutherford B. Hayes). No president, not even Bill Clinton, has traveled so widely in Jewish circles, been taught by so many Jewish law professors, and had so many Jewish mentors, colleagues, and friends, and advisers as Barack Obama (though it is true that every so often he appoints a gentile to serve as White House chief of staff). And so no President, I’m guessing, would know that the Maxwell House Haggadah — the flimsy, wine-stained, rote, anti-intellectual Haggadah you get when you buy a can of coffee at Shoprite) — is the target, alternatively, of great derision and veneration among American Jews (at least, I’m told there are people who venerate it). I’ll grapple with the meaning of Obama’s Jewishness later, but the dispute between the Jewish right and the Jewish left over Obama is actually not about whether he is anti-Jewish or pro-Jewish, but over what sort of Jew he actually is.
He also explains that his why Obama goes to Aipac and not JStreet.
Because Aipac is a Maxwell House Haggadah.
I guess the people of Mississippi didn’t get the memo that Obama is actually a Jew and not a Muslim.
President Obama, who famously stages his own seders
In fact, they are staged several days, if not weeks, beforehand, and during the day (the seder MUST be at night).
Of course he’s a Jew. Not just because of the seders. His wife’s cousin is a rabbi. And didn’t you see that picture of his with a yarmulke on at the Western Wall?
And the name? Barrack? c’mon, we all know his name is really Baruch. He’s obviously some kind of falasha or other African Jew, passing.
Sorry, not buying it. I’ve known Catholics who hold seders for no other reason than they know Jesus was a Jew and the last super was in fact a seder. Unlike many of the Fox News nuts, I believe the president is a devote Christian in his own way and this may be part of that expression. Let’s face it. It’s good PR too. As for having many Jewish professors, who hasn’t?
If you watched the president faun over Neville Chamberlain’s reincarnate this past week and compare that to his ice cold relationship with Bibi, it does not paint a picture of a philo-semite president. The man has not even visited Israel as president. I don’t think he hates Israel so much as he is indifferent to Israel.
You know, Trotsky was a Jew too. Let’s put him on a flag.
I come back here from time to time:
Not a single word mentioning the passing of a great Jew (from adoption even) who fought against anti-Semitism daily, Andrew Breitbart. Yet several posts trying to convince Jews that the shmuck Obama is good for Jews and Israel. Truly pathetic.
Thank g-d he’s not a Jew. But if he was, he’d be running J Street. You guys couldn’t tell a politician pulling the wool over your eyes from a contraceptive if a Fluke hit you in the balls.
I’ll take Obama and let the Muslims have Breitbart.
Joel, didn’t you know?
All the best Jews are…
What sort of Jew is Obama? He is an anti semite.