{"id":27914,"date":"2017-04-10T07:12:36","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T07:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/?p=27914"},"modified":"2017-04-10T07:12:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T07:12:36","slug":"holiday-happy-passover-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/holiday-happy-passover-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"HOLIDAY: HAPPY PASSOVER 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

HAPPY PASSOVER 2017<\/h1>\n

Passover begins tonight, and, as it approached, I realized that I didn’t have a clue of what to write here for this holiday this year. And then a situation presented itself the other night, and I knew that was it.<\/p>\n

\"images\"<\/a>I was out with someone I thought was a good friend the other night. I had met her several years ago because she was a fan of my show first, so that should mean that she double<\/em>-likes me, shouldn’t it? And she\u2019s an observant Jewish woman who lives very close to me, with a husband and two grown children.<\/p>\n

I had invited her out somewhere last week, and on the way, she mentioned that she was cooking for Passover. In surprise, I asked, \u201cYou\u2019re doing Passover at your house?!\u201d (Most of my pals go elsewhere for this holiday.) When she answered in the affirmative, I followed-up with, \u201cAnd you didn\u2019t invite me<\/em>?\u201d (Here\u2019s where I have to remind you all that, even though I have Mr. X, for whom I am grateful on a daily basis, we\u2019re not of the same ethnic persuasion, and I have absolutely no other family. So Jewish holidays can be hard for me. I\u2019ve already had some pretty painful ones, and always hope to never have any others like them. If you\u2019re curious about my three worst ones, you can read about them here: itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/holiday-happy-passover-2013<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

\"images\"<\/a>She laughingly told me that it was just her family, which I could have understood, but then she added, \u201cAnd I have so many people coming!\u201d That really chapped my hide because\u2014why couldn\u2019t she have added one more?<\/p>\n

Before I reveal the unbelievable bon mot she ended with, let me tell you something right here, so that you don\u2019t spend even one second feeling bad for me–I\u2019m going to a seder at another<\/em> friend\u2019s house, where I often spend these family-oriented holidays, knock on wood. But the woman that night didn\u2019t know that.<\/p>\n

And the Jewish way is to include everyone<\/em> who wishes to celebrate, even if they\u2019re not Jewish themselves. We\u2019re not supposed to ever leave anyone out.<\/p>\n

So, I reminded that friend, who prides herself on observing Jewish tenets, of that. And I told her of another time I had been left out as teen-ager, which somehow still causes me pain. And also of another time I was forced to uninvite<\/em> a young friend to the seder of a family I very close to, which made me decide that I had to end my friendship with the couple who was hosting it. (Just to clarify\u2014they knew the girl very well, and were aware that she had just lost her grandmother. And the husband had already given me permission to bring her with me, and then made me uninvite her, which is even worse than saying no to begin with!)<\/p>\n

And after all that pain came pouring out of me the other night, to that supposed friend who was telling me about her own upcoming seder, this is what she answered with: \u201cDon\u2019t worry\u2014you never have to be alone on Jewish holidays here ever again, because you can always…go to Chabad<\/em>!!!\u201d I still can’t believe it! It actually makes me laugh, rather than feel bad, though.<\/p>\n

\"passover-slider-1\"<\/a>I\u2019m glad that community places like that are there for others, by the way; it\u2019s just that I\u2019ve lived in LA so long, and have so many Jewish pals, that the thought of having to have a holiday with a bunch of lone strangers is very strange.<\/p>\n

But much worse is the thought that a Jewish person I know, who\u2019s supposedly a friend, would tell me to go there, rather than to come to her own house!!! How shameful is that?!<\/p>\n

So, anyhow, I\u2019m sharing this to remind all my Jewish readers of the proper<\/em> way to celebrate this important all-inclusive<\/em> holiday for us. And, if you are hosting a seder yourself, please keep all of this in mind.<\/p>\n

And to everyone<\/em> who does this holiday, in any<\/em> way at all, no matter your official religion, I wish you a very happy and peaceful (and delicious, too, of course,) Passover!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HAPPY PASSOVER 2017 Passover begins tonight, and, as it approached, I realized that I didn’t have a clue of what to write here for this holiday this year. And then a situation presented itself the other night, and I knew that was it. I was out with someone I thought was a good friend the<\/p>\n

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