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The dinner last night did not have the pledge of allegiance, nor hatikva. But it did have tehillim, and boy did it have speeches.

There was almost exclusively separate seating but I sat with my wife anyway at a misfit table. And ate food I’d brought from the shmorg during the speeches, and then left and talked outside. I was sitting in the middle of room, so it wasn’t very inconspicuous when I left.