Passover: It ain’t over yet! Here are some great articles that have come over the transom in the past week or so. For all of Tablet Magazine’s coverage, go here.
• What the Obamas ate, complete with recipes (including contributing editor Joan Nathan’s Moroccan charoset truffles). [White House]
• Blowtorch-wielding rabbis! Making a kitchen K for P is hardcore. [WSJ]
• Passover forces the Jewish thirtysomething (in this case, the great Dahlia Lithwick) to wonder: Who should lead the Seder? Resultant, deeper questions ensue. [Slate]
• Is Pharoah correctly perceived as a villain? #slatepitches [Slate]
• The Passover story’s lessons for contemporary military strategy and theory. This is cool. [Danger Room]
• The pedagogy behind the Four Sons. [GothamSchools]
• A dispatch from the Kinky Jews Passover Seder. “Kinky” actually turns out to be an understatement. [Unorthodox Gymnastics]
• From last year, quite possibly my favorite post I’ve ever written on The Scroll. [The Scroll]
Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.