Hi John and Doves!
    Eretz Israel is a great dichotomy and a great
paradox at the same time
   There are two divisions between Jews - that being
the Ashkenazi and the Sephardic Jew.
Ashkenazis do not marry Separdics and vice a versa.
Each has their own synagogues and they do not go to
the other.
 
The Ashkenazi Jew comes from Europe and is only about
10% of the population, but they control the political
and economic spectrum.
   The Sephardic Jew comes from Spain, the arab world,
Babylon ,Persia,India etc. They comprise 90% of the
population, but are on the lower economic scale. Most
Sephardic Jews are religious, around where I live,
walking in a half mile radius in either direction, one
can find at least 30 different synagogues.
   Among this great division of Ashkenazi and
Sephardic comes the secular and religious.

   Half of the population is religious and the other
half secular, more or less.
It becomes very confusing because normally Israeli’s
that are religious (“dati”)
wear the “kippa” if they are male and the women cover
their heads with special hats.
But there are many people who don’t wear the outward
religious signs that are religious in their hearts and
then there are also many religious looking people that
only look religious for some pretext: wanting to be
part of a group, etc, etc.

   Many secular Jews keep the Kashrut food laws and
then there are some “religious” Jews who think that it
is okay to eat “fake” shrimp and other forbidden
“trayf foods.”
Also there are many, many different religious sects
among the Jews just like there are among the
Christians. There are ultra orthodox,orthodox Jews,
Haredi, National Religious, Conservative, Reform, etc.
 

   There are even Jews that are religious but only
belong to certain political parties. Usually all
religious Jews wear a certain type of “kippa” to
distinguish themselves from another group.
A Haredi Man who wears a black kippa would NEVER wear
the knitted kippa of the National Religious group.
Likewise a National Religious man would never wear a
black kippa of the Haredi. Among the Haredi themselves
are many different groups all competing among
themselves.

   Jewish groups are just like the Christian groups:
each group thinks that they have the answer to life
and are following Elohim in the correct way.
Add to this phenoma, approximately 1.5 million Russian
Jews, who don’t know what they are and have formed
their own sub-culture with their own Russian language
newpapers, TV stations, radio stations and food stores
where everything is Russian.
It gets more romantic and beautiful when one adds the
colorful and unique Jews from Ethiopia who also are
mostly “dati” and speak the delightful language of
Amharic.

   There are at least 10,000 or more Messianic Jews
here with believing sysngogues and churches spread
across the land.

   Unfortunately, just like in the gentile world, with
the Truth there is always the great deception.
  So you have Jews becoming catholics, mormons, even
jehovah witnesses. It gets worse. WE Jews are looking
to return to Elohim so there is also a plethora of
eastern cults and religions, even palm and tea reading
and “astro projection classes”.

   It gets worse still, there are even Jews involved
in the satanic cult and mother-goddess worship!!!
  So please pray that the veil is pulled from our
eyes. A nation born again in a day.!!! Wow! I can't
wait!

God bless ,
Brother David