I think it's really a shame that all the emphasis is put on Hebrew, and no longer on Yiddish. Culturally, it provided so much in Jewish life. It's weird, I went from not feeling in with the in-crowd in Hebrew school with kids who probably didn't really care about what they were learning (it was only for socializing), to feeling like my uber-Israel obsessed college-aged peers are part of a club that I can't be in because I'm not religious, don't speak Hebrew or find any personal connection to Israel. For me, I relate more to the whole Eastern European Jewish thing. I think there's a lot to be said for non-religious Yiddish/Jewish culture.