There's a ferment in Judaism today, a glorious artistic and spiritual creativity, that you miss when you hear only your same rabbi and your same study group. Each summer, Jews go shul-shopping, trying out new congregations and rabbis for those that feel most like home. Don't go to criticize. Social isolation was not diminished by the decision by Camp Ramah to exclude those whose mothers are not Jewish. But I want to go even further.
Jewish apartheid begins with adults.
We American Jews have far more in common even now than you'd believe from each movement's isolationists. Once you sit down together and hear Conservative Jews using a Reform melody for the prayer over bread, you can't miss the cross-fertilization that is going on. You are part of a great cultural transmission. Pass the golden egg. Marlene Adler Marks is senior columnist of The Jewish Journal.