JTA — Jake Tapper thinks this year might have been the first time he celebrated Passover without friends and family. During his two-week trip this April, Tapper said he was forced to celebrate the holiday alone, but a local Orthodox rabbi gave him matzah and other Seder supplies. “Believe it or not, there is a local Orthodox rabbi,” he told Colbert. When they land on Mars, there’s going to be a [Chabad] Lubavitcher rabbi.” Tapper was joking about the Hasidic Chabad-Lubavitch movement, which places emissaries in far-flung countries around the world. Tapper then described offering President Volodymyr Zelensky — whom Tapper interviewed, and who is Jewish — a box of matzah.

Source: CNN June 09, 2022 13:17 UTC