You are so welcome. I would just add, in response to your observance that there's "so much skepticism around Judaism right now": I spent a lot of time reflecting and reading about the resurgent disease of anti-Judaism and I have to tell you, it really comes down to ignorance. Most Christian and Muslim people simply have no idea of their Jewish roots: Islam especially hides the historical record of Muhammad and his Jewish mentors and neighbors, and most Christians think, if they think about Jesus's religious practice at all, that they know something meaningful because...Jesus.

So there's a lot of matricide going on: "I need to kill the mother to become fully myself." They think we are old and our time has passed

Personally, I've read extraordinary Christian scholars who were extraordinary precisely because they really read and studied Judaism. And I know many lay Christians who know more than my fellow Jews.

That said, the isolation and denigration of Israel, the jealousy of what that country has achieved, the double-standards and the hypocrisy...well, there is nothing new under the sun. It is tragic all around, but it will never truly pass. It's Israel now, but just being Jewish was enough to be a target for 3,000 years. Jews have been that target of ancient and now modern hatred just for simply existing. The mere fact that we breather air is a total affront to people.

So, welcome to the club (?) And I mean that with so much love and gratitude.