So, I’m co-teaching data communications in Washington, DC. The venue is one that is obviously specifically for teaching commercial courses, and there are a number of them going on this particular week. Over the week, it becomes apparent that all of the other instructors are Jewish. I find this statistically odd, but otherwise unremarkable. The guy I’m co-teaching with is Jewish, and has recently had a heart attack. As with most such “death” scares, it has made him take religion seriously for the first time in a while, and there is some discussion in the mornings and at breaks as to aspects of the Torah that he is trying to follow, but that most of the other instructors aren’t.
One night, all of the instructors of the different seminars, about a dozen of us, decide to get together for dinner. A sushi restaurant is chosen. As we enter, my co-instructor, who has been wearing a yarmulke pretty much all week, takes it off. Some of the other instructors question this, and my co-instructor says that he would not want to give anyone the false impression that the food is kosher, since much of it isn’t.
We are served an appetizer of octopus cubes in a sweet-vinegar sauce. It is delicious. Some of the instructors note that my co-instructor is not eating his, and encourage him to try it. He demurs, saying that it is not kosher. This occasions some surprise from the other instructors, and they ask why it isn’t kosher. I, without really thinking about it, say that it hasn’t got fins and scales.
I suddenly become aware that the whole table has stopped talking, and look up. Everyone is looking at me. All of their faces seem to be asking the same question: how is it that this goy knows more about Jewish dietary law than we do?
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