A "seder" is an ancient Jewish endurance contest where people gather around a table; drink awful, terrible wine; sing songs; eat foods inspired, in the most literal sense imaginable, by construction materials; and celebrate the liberation of Joe Lieberman's ancestors from Barack Obama's ancestors.

Obama will be the first president to host one tonight, and owing to an e-mail snafu from his press shop, which sent the presidential schedule out to reporters with internal annotations from White House staff, we now know that some Jews were upset:

From: [REDACTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 6:55 PM
To: [REDACTED]
Subject: RE: DRAFT: DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FOR WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 2009

Apparently Jewish here and in neighboring states are now calling wondering why they have not been invited.

You can't win with these people, Barack! So who was invited? A whole lot of goyim, including adviser Valerie Jarrett and personal assistant Reggie Love. His two highest profile Jewish staffers, Rahm Emmanuel and David Axelrod, aren't going to be there, according to the Huffington Post's guest list.

If every Jew in the tri-state area had been invited, we have it on good authority that they would have complained about how crowded it was.

We asked a slightly more observant Jew to translate the lines. She in turn asked an even more Jewier Jew who, finally, asked the Jewiest type of Jew, a rabbi, for clarification. Word from on high is that the place was a Chevra Kadisha. The Chevra Kadisha is the religious group that cleans and washes the dead before burial. They also were responsible, largely, for waiting with the corpse before burial to guard against theft. This is one of the biggest mitzvot one can perform. (That and pretending not to be disgusted by the crumbly lips of your grandmother.)

All this means that one point in time, not too long ago, Chickie Pig's was filled with deceased Jewry. Now it's just filled with prosciutto and drunken overflow from neighborhood bars.