Hi Darrell,

Having been in Israel a month ago teaching some of the people who should be at your conference, I hope they were there! The community there is very polarized, and slanderous denunciations are flying fast and furious, especially against those who are positive about Jewish life, which some there unwisely and inaccurately are terming "the leaven of the Scribed and Pharisees." I will be astonished if your Conference truly represented a cross section of the people who should have been there because the level of intolerance, slander, and acrimony has been so high.

Would love an email on the matter.

With higher than usual curiosity.

Stuart