After 17 years in Israel, our family has temporarily relocated to Brooklyn. For a week after we arrived, our pious Jewish neighbors ignored us. Then, on Shabbat, three of them finally approached us, one after another—to tell us that the neighborhood eruv we were using really didn't exist and that we were profaning the Sabbath. In Israel, Jewish nationhood is in the air; you can forget that Jews around the world don't feel the same way. Here, you'll find people who are devoted to learning Torah or observing the commandments or who proudly proclaim their "Jewish identity." But Jews who dig Jews—Haredi, modern Orthodox, secular, and points in between? There aren't too many.
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