Reply To: Would you become religious/Jewish?

It seems that most of my generation are more religious than the way they were raised – think dress style, entertainment, mingling with the opposite gender, etc. The question is, how much of this is with deep thought and conviction, and how much are we following the crowd? I have become more deeply involved in yiddishkeit largely for the values, the traditions, the sense of history – not to mention rejecting the popular depraved culture. Some of the trends, such as ladies dressing mostly in black for a simcha, or walking into a hall through separate entrances, I do with a little less conviction.