Posted 7:29 AM by Tal G
What follows is an email exchange with a reader..

From: xxxxxx@aol.com
To: telly_o@softhome.net
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 10:32:04 EDT
Subject: Donahue

I am a 50 yo Jewish backround social worker from Northern California. I was touched to tears by your appearance on Donahue.... I believe that you are very much on target with your approach.

I wish you and your wife good luck and good life in your struggle to help heal this inflamed world that we live in. We are starting to learn the history of that region more fully as the crisis calls our attention there.

It is complex and deeply laden with fear especially for people of Jewish backround who have been thoroughly warned about antisemitism in the world. The world needs to restructure how it sees religions that speak to territorial mandates and special priviledges.....

That is a tall order! I would ask you to be careful re your welfare and focus more on educating all of us , rather than getting within the gunrange of the soldiers. You are more of an asset to the future alive with all you intelligence and knowledge, than a dead martyr who will be quickly forgotten and ideologically dismissed by 99% of the people. With all that said, thank you for what you and your wife are doing!

From: telly_o@softhome.net
To: xxxxxx@aol.com
Subject: Re: Donahue

Hello there,

Thank you for your msg.

However, I don't think that my wife and I are the people who you saw on the Donahue show.

Who is it that you are looking for?


From: xxxxxxxx@aol.com
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 10:22:53 EDT
Subject: Re: Donahue

Thanks for writing back.....I was talking about Adam Shapiro.... I thought your page was "his".....Hm......lol....