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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Jew here

Jews are required to pray 3 times a day.  For me,  it is preferable to pray in a group of 10 or more men but women do not have that requirement.

Kosher entails a host of rules.  As stated by a PP, for meat it means only certain animals are kosher (must have split hooves and view it's cud). The animal must also be free of wounds and blemishes and then slaughtered in a particular manner.  Then only certain parts of the animal are kosher and the meat music be soaked and salted to remove all the blood.

Additionally,  milk and meat may not be cooked or consumed together. 
Vegetables are all kosher,  except insects are not so vegetables have to be carefully Checked to ensure no bugs are consumed.

There are additional rules for fish (must have fins and scales) and birds (must not be predators). [/quote]

You're talking about orthodox jews, right?  These rules don't apply to all jews, do they?[/quote]

This does apply to all Jews. Most of us just don't do it. Conservative and Reform movements emerged to make it "ok" for Jews not to keep kosher, etc. [/quote]

This is incorrect.   Conservative Judaism considers kashrut a binding part of halacha. There are some differences from Orthodoxy on certain details (some obvious ones are the treatment of rennet in cheesemaking, the use of wine made by non-jews "staam yayin", and the eating of swordfish)  Now most conservative congregations include many people who are not observant (or not fully observant), but that used to be true of many orthodox congregations, and is of course still quite true of many chabad congregations.  Note that many orthodox congregations where everyone is observant of kashrut, include some congregants who neglect other parts of halacha, like loshon hara (gossip) and mitzot relating to business ethics, etc.  We are all struggling to be more observant in our own ways.

Reform does not consider halacha (other than ethical commandments) to be binding, but does encourage Jews to consider keeping the form of kashrut that they as individuals find meaningful. And the circumstances of its founding are much more complex than the above. [/quote]

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