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William Shatner, of “Star Trek” fame, wished followers a happy Passover from his family. In the accompanying image, what looks like two layers of a cake (or perhaps three stout matzahs) rest on a cake plate in front of a 10-branched menorah that goes boldly where no Chanukah lamp has gone before.
Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R-N.Y.) included an image of a menorah—this one with seven branches—in his Passover well wishes. Seven floppy-looking square matzahs peek out from under some sort of dried herb alongside more than half a dozen walnuts and a cup of wine.
Walnuts figure into the Passover dish charoset, and there is an indication that some may include them on “alternate” seder plates, but they aren’t typically a part of the seder plate.
The pro-Israel Dutch politician Geert Wilders shared a Passover greeting with some peculiar items on the seder plate, but not nearly as unusual as the items on the seder plate in a post from U.S. Central Command, which is part of the Pentagon.
In its six visible compartments, the CENTCOM seder plate contains a walnut shell, shelled walnuts, an egg, chickpeas, a drumstick and some sort of leafy vegetable, perhaps collard greens.
Per 2020 Pew Research Center data, 62% of U.S. Jews reported having held or attended a Passover seder the prior year, which was more than other Jewish holidays.
