My name is Jack, and I'm a student from Washington D.C. studying in Israel for four months.  In Jewish history class on Thursday, we were talking about if all of the choices for how to partake in Judaism have led us all too far from each other.  Yesterday, I was walking around the Kotel, and it suddenly occurred to me, as I looked at all of the other guys wearing yalmulkes, I realized that I was wearing a ski cap with "Steelers" (the name of my favorite American football team) written on it, while walking around the Western Wall.  Today, during Shabbat services, we said a prayer to the tune of the song "Hey There Delilah".  I then started to think about the question of, have we come too far from our roots as Jews?  With everything that we, as reform Jews do differently from tradition, do we move too far away from our starting point?  In my opinion, we have not.  I believe that every time we do something differently, it enables us to become more connected in our own specific way. If we all tried to connect in only one way, more than half of us would likely not be successful.  It is important for us to remember that we are all our own person, and we each require separate methods to partake in Judaism.