President and Mrs. Jimmy Carter participated in a traditional seder on the first night of Passover last Saturday night at the Washington apartment of his close friend and counsel, Atlanta lawyer Robert Lipshutz and Mrs. Lipshutz.
Lipshutz, who was president for three years of The Temple, a Reform congregation in Atlanta formed two years after the Civil War ended, led the service. The Union of American Hebrew Congregation’s Haggadahs which have been in the Lipshutz family for years, were used. Both the President and Mrs. Carter read from them at the service. The usual symbols of the Passover seder were in evidence. It is believed to have been the President’s first seder. Mrs. Carter, however, had attended a seder previously, at least once.
At the dinner, which lasted more than two hours, were Lipshutz’s daughter, Judy and a stepson. Bobby Rosenberg; a cousin, Andy Marks. who is a Washington lawyer; Joyce Starr of the White House staff; and Robbie Altschuler, of Boston, a George Washington University student who is the son of Mrs. Harriet Altschuler Zimmerman. Both Dr. Starr and Mrs. Zimmerman served in the President’s election campaign headquarters in Atlanta. (By Joseph Polakoff)
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