Time for all Americans to embrace the Passover story

As the sun sets tomorrow evening and the Sabbath wanes, Jewish people around the world will be welcoming in the holiday of Passover, with the holiday’s most notable event, the Passover Seder.

The Passover Seder is a family and community gathering characterized by a festive and elaborate meal, complete with symbolic foods, inserted into the middle of the re-telling of the story of our Exodus from Egypt.

The stage is set with the lighting of holiday candles accompanied by the prayer that reminds us of the Torah commandment that mandates our telling of the story of our liberation “in every genera...