jewish worlds apart

Well my entire Europe blog was accidentally deleted and I'm too lazy to redo that. But I've come up with another idea for this blog that might make it more interesting. . .Basically, I'm spending my summer working at two jobs among two very different yet related types. Two days a week I work in an office where the dress code is black-hat, and beards for men, long skirts and headcoverings for women (headcovering only for married women). The other two days a week I work in an office where most people have Jewish names, have at some point been affiliated with one Jewish synagogue/movement or another, and where Israel and Jewish culture are of paramount important, but it is an office without a dress code (except no jeans or sneakers), where work extends through the Jewish holidays and the paper goes to press as my friends at the other office (and myself) attend services and participate in religious rituals . . .
So from hereon, for the next couple of months, I will record the tidbits and pieces of insight I am able to glean into how Jewish identity manifests itself in these two different worlds that are at the same time really intimately, if uknowingly related. . .