Bookends

My day started with the Judith Butler Symposium at Columbia Law, which was great because legal criticism and free breakfast pastries are in very close competition for my favorite things and they are unstoppable when combined. My day ended with what I thought was a meeting with a couple of visiting Israeli activists but ended up being a whole two hour gay Shabbat ceremony where I sat trying not to look extremely confused and more or less failing miserably. That said, progressive faith traditions and free challah are close enough to my favorite things that I called this a wash.