According to the Torah a garment made of cotton does not need Tzitzis. It is only a later Rabbinic ordinance that garments made of cotton also need Tzitzis. Therefore, one who wishes to fulfill this Mitzvah with its ultimate standards will opt to have a wall garment since that garment is...
Sort of, but I'd like to see your evidence of why they disliked those ten commandments? Do you really think people wanted to murder and steal in order to have a relationship w/ G-d?
Maybe it's my English but from the way I read that, you basically are saying only through X can you get Y. Then you say the rest are X. Then you say X is bad. But then you say, through X you can't have Y.
what the hell...
Well, your situation is slightly different. While JonM's Jewishness would never be questioned, you run into a slightly different wall. Possibly, when you get to Israel, a valid conversion might be possible...
Orthodox can tell the difference between someone who is starting to become observant and someone who is not observant, so I wouldn't worry about giving the perception that something is okay except to reform jews who already don't care.
From reading your posts, I can see you're really trying. Let me give you a comparison, think of it as if you want a million dollars. Each 1000$ is a step to that million dollars. Think of the Kippa as one baby step in returning to Judaism. You can't just get a million dollars at once, but...
Do you have ANY idea how disrespectful it is to even compare Bush with Hitler, especially on a forum that has Jews who have lost the majority of their family to that *******?