I grew up what could be categorized as “Conservadox” and felt like I had a foot in both worlds. I also went to a pluralistic day school for middle school and had friends from every Jewish denomination. I like to think this affected how I grew up viewing and understand fellow Jews

I saw the positives of many of movements, but it also didn’t blind me to their faults and biases. I also saw how many sects/movements saw themselves as the “right” one to be. I saw all the internal arguments about which rabbi wouldn’t do what with so and so, and everything

Today I think I know rabbis I’m almost every movement as well. Ranging from Chabad to reform and reconstruction. I even have a sibling who is a conservative rabbi. And again, I see and hear so many wonderful things from these people and their movements.

But I still see many problems as well. Yes from Orthodox Jews. But also no, movements like reform are not exempt from this either. There’s a lot of room to improve and treat other Jews better across the board.

I will also say that in Israel it’s different because of the obscene amount of power the Ultra-Orthodox have in the country. I could rant about the awful things in Israeli rabbinate for hours, especially in regards to women’s issues like agunot. So it’s a different ballgame

And my grammar in this thread is atrocious but oh well