frummiehouse (at) gmail (dot) com is the fastest way to reach me.

Best,
Rebecca

That trajectory from diagnosis to acceptance is a jagged one. I’m glad that you have found a way to carve out time for your professional calling. For now, writing is providing that for me. Though I do miss the pulpit…

IF you need any ideas, feel free to shoot me an email.

My colleague Debra Brosan and I would like to interview you as part of research we are doing on an article dealing with the role of the rabbi in a networked congregation. Rebecca Sirbu gave us your name. Is there a direct email by which we can contact you to explain this further?

Regards,

Barry

I do understand. Again, having extensive experience in apologetic debates I very familiar with the habit of Christians to attempt to change the debate. This is when the best tact is a hard redirection to return to the agreed upon format. If the moderator doesn’t do his/her “job” then it falls to the debaters.

I am writing a book at this time comparing the Christian claims to the Jewish positions. Getting good comments to the initial drafts.

Shabbat shalom,

David

When I was invited to participate in the HuffingtonPost Live discussion, it was with the express purpose of dealing with the very same usurption you mention in your comment. I deliberately chose not to respond to any of Pastors Brian and Tara’s doctrinal points. It became clear after just a few moments that the Lewises were attempting to hijack the entire discussion in order to share their particular beliefs with viewers and I was not going to engage in such a debate.

Thanks so much for stopping by and contributing to this ongoing conversation.

Shabbat Shalom!

While there are those who found your responses, Rabbi, to be good, I found them to be woefully inadequate and misdirected in such an apologetic debate. You focused on the wrong discussion points and left the viewer questioning the efficacy of your positions. As someone who has been, now, on both sides of the argument, and has experienced a modicum of success in such debates I would have selected a substantially different tact, along with different counter-points.

Pastors Brian and Tara are only expressing the growing Christian teachings regarding Christianity’s “Jewish Roots,” and thus appeared well versed in their doctrinal positions and passionate in their adherence to the deception that has been propagated for the past few decades starting in the 1960′s, but found their origins 2,000 years ago.

Our challenge, as Jews, is to become just as educated as the Christian missionaries and those Jews who have become apostate by accepting their deception. We must know how to answer the Christian claims and to exposed them for what they are false, inadequate and totally lacking in true validity from the Hebrew Bible. Until we accomplish this we, our children and our Jewish communities will remain weak and ready targets for Christian missionary efforts.

David

Wow. I really hope we can connect sometime face to face. You see, I was a Jewish Educator. I received my Masters in Jewish Education, was a Principal of a synagogue religious school and was on the fast track to becoming a strong educator in the Jewish community. Then the reality of Autism hit. My son has non-verbal autism. It has taken me a full 5 years to adjust to realities and changes we have had to make to accommodate him. Of course, we are still in the process. I am now a religious school teacher and with the help of a very capable babysitter I can teach at my synagogue twice a week (on Thursdays and Sundays). We are struggling to keep our son in the religious school that he is in; which is a school for special needs kids called Gateways. He is 9 and of course, his Bar Mitzvah is around the corner. I am already starting to get ideas. This walk is a great idea.