Celebrities Tweet for Passover
Graphic by Angelie Zaslavsky
From reality stars to A-list celebrities, Hollywood players have taken to their Twitter accounts to spread sweet Passover wishes, and make the occasional joke. We’ve rounded up our favorites. Here are the highlights:
Whitney Port: “Missing my fam on passover!!! I’m going to make haroset in honor of them”
Conan O’Brien: “Jewish fun fact: If you celebrate Passover on top of an overpass, you go back in time.”
Demi Moore: “Happy Pesach!”
Ashton Kutcher: “Happy Passover.”
Elizabeth Banks: “Happy Passover. Great seder last night. Outfoxed by scrappy little kid though in hunt for Afikomen. Can’t win ‘em all.”
Samantha Ronson: “Happy Passover to all you Jews out there. To everyone else, thank your lucky stars you don’t have to give up bread.”
Nicole Richie: “Only in LA am I the minority because I don’t have Passover dinner tonight.”
Jenna Elfman: “Have a lovely Passover, to all who are celebrating this evening!”
Rain Wilson: “Some old Hasidim start to look a lot like they’re huge ZZ Top fans (my wife’s joke & she’s ½ Jew).”
Joan Rivers: “I spend Passover with gay friends. Two of the four questions were on Liza Minnelli.”
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