Meet Jacob the Bar Mitzvah Boy’s Dad

By Anne Cohen April 13, 2015

Passover went out with a bang this year. To celebrate the last matzo box making it into the trash, Saturday Night Live brought in an unexpected guest: Introducing podiatrist Billy Crystal as Jacob the Bar Mitzvah Boy’s dad!

The father-son duo came to explain why Passover is different from all other nights (Highlight: “The third reason Passover is different from other nights, is that we dip twice. I don’t know about you, but I always dip my food twice. Once in salsa, and once in guacamole!”). You do the math.

Anne Cohen was the Forward’s deputy digital media editor. When she’s not looking for the secret Jewish history of Voodoo in New Orleans, or making lists about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, she writes for The Assimilator. She graduated from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism with an M.S. magazine concentration in 2012.

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