Hello, loves. Nice to see you all. YepYep. Just spent the past 30 hours at a conference the "non-web" part of my office was hosting (for the record, the "web" part of my office -- and of the whole College of Arts and Sciences -- consists entirely of me *waves merrily from behind a pile of zip disks*). In any event, this was a big conference for Jewish folks to come and discuss lots of Jewish Intellectual Things, and I signed up to help, sacrificing a perfectly good Sunday's worth of lying around watching football with Marc, in exchange for overtime and comp time hours. Feeding Jewish people, particularly those who are very serious about being Jewish, is an activity jaw-dropping in scope. We had both "kosher-style" and Kosher meals, and I'm still not all that clear on the difference between them. Later in the evening, after my coworkers and I painstakingly made sure the meat and dairy foods were on separate tables, wagged collective fingers at the catering staff for trying to smuggle in pork, and had massive conniptions because we were afraid we'd be short on Kosher meals, one of the head honchoes told my coworker Laura that if it came right down to it, one of the attendee rabbis had the authority to "just make all the food kosher." What?? Just like that? How does that work? Does he just wave his arms and say some hebrew? Are there rules about this sort of thing, or can he be like, "Hey, that cheeseburger looks tasty. Abra-cadabra, it's kosher!" I asked Laura if I could ask the rabbi to make me kosher, but she said that wouldn't be a good idea. Disclaimer: This post is in no way meant to offend or ridicule Jewish folks. I'm genuinely curious about this stuff. If you can answer my questions, email kate-at-sixlayerkate-dot-com.
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