I’m in a weird situation – my mainly non-Jewish workplace knows I’m Jewish. I’ve taken time off for the high holidays, some of them have asked the usual “is it true that Jewish people XYZ” type questions, all of that jazz. I’m sort of the classic millennial Jew-ish-emphasis-on-ish archetype.
One of them has gotten it in his head that I keep kosher. I don’t keep kosher, I’ve said I don’t keep kosher, he’s seen me eat food at office events, etcetera. However, for the past month or so, ever since the high holidays came up, every time someone brings food in he’s gone out of his way to say “oh, I don’t think that’s kosher.” I always tell him, you know, it’s fine, I don’t keep kosher.
Every time a birthday comes up the office gets a cake from a specific bakery, and they’re always really good. For my birthday, they didn’t, they got a completely different cake. At first I didn’t get why, and figured it was a timing thing or something, and then I saw the kosher dairy label on the packaging. That one coworker sees me glancing at the packaging, mentions (of course) that it’s kosher, so don’t worry!
I’m not complaining, exactly. If I did keep kosher, it would have been a really nice gesture for them to take that into consideration around the high holidays especially. I completely get that. However, it’s kinda isolating that they keep making that assumption and singling me out, and it’s uncomfortable for me. So:
Tl;dr: How do I politely let my coworkers know that I don’t keep kosher and that they don’t have to be super vigilant about making sure that things are kosher? Should I even bring it up?
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