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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was raised conservative and bat mitzvah'd. I recognize the prayer before the opening of the ark, and many of the Friday night Shabbat songs, but that's mostly it. A good rabbi has a good story in their sermon in my opinion.

I don't know what I'm singing in hebrew; I just like the rhythm of the songs I've known since childhood. Maybe just look for a shorter service. I think an hour is plenty, and nothing more than an hour and a half. 90 minutes would be my personal limit.

In ten years I've been to temple exactly once though, so whatever. [i]I don't think going to temple is what makes you Jewish, you know? [/i]

BTW, my dad's twin sister went to a reform temple. My cousins are no less Jewish than I am. This is Judaism - we have guilt over calling our mothers. NOT over how Jewy we are. [/quote]

No being born to a Jewish mother (or a Jewish father per Reform and Recon)  is what makes you Jewish, unless you are a Jew by choice.   Going to synagogue is one of the things that makes you a practitioner of Judaism, though. [/quote]

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