SHOW NOTES: <a href= "https://jewishbooks.blogspot.com/2025/04/bonus-passover-interview-next-year-in.html"> https://jewishbooks.blogspot.com/2025/04/bonus-passover-interview-next-year-in.html</a>  Next Year in the White House: Barack Obama's First Presidential Seder, written by Richard Michelson and illustrated by E.B. Lewis, is a nonfiction picture book that gives us the true backstory of how Passover first came to be celebrated in the White House. It's a stunning book; it received starred reviews from Kirkus and Booklist, and was named to the Association of Jewish Libraries' Spring 2025 Holiday Highlights list. Because this is a true story, I was able to interview one of the "characters" -- Eric Lesser, seen in the photo above, walking with President Obama. Lesser worked on the Obama campaign trail in 2008, and later became a White House aide. He's also served as a Massachusetts State Senator. He agreed to answer ten questions about the events covered in Next Year in the White House. <a href= "https://jewishbooks.blogspot.com/2025/04/bonus-passover-interview-next-year-in.html"> Read the interview on The Book of Life blog</a>. LEARN MORE: <ul> <li> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/2507/9780593711583" target= "_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Buy</a> or <a href= "https://search.worldcat.org/formats-editions/1501874441" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">borrow</a> Next Year in the White House </li> <li> Websites of author <a href="https://www.richardmichelson.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Richard Michelson</a> and illustrator <a href="https://eblewis.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">E.B. Lewis</a> </li> <li> <a href= "https://forward.com/culture/books/708697/next-year-in-the-white-house-seder-obama/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Article in The Forward about the book</a> </li> <li> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/ericlesser/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Eric Lesser's Instagram</a> </li> <li> A <a href= "https://www.whitehousehistory.org/passover-celebrations-in-the-white-house" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">history</a> of Passover celebrations in the White House </li> <li> <a href= "http://jewishlibraries.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Spring-2025-List-Holiday-Highlights.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Spring 2025 Holiday Highlights booklist</a> (includes Next Year at the White House) </li> <li><a href= "https://bookoflifepodcast.substack.com/welcome">Subscribe to The Book of Life's Substack newsletter</a></li> </ul>

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