Mayer was able to assist this person directly, and a tremendous outpouring of support from contributors to the bulletin board no doubt also buoyed his spirits. You can scan the bios, check out the list of categories and choose your rabbi. What is true for correspondents is true for me as well. I can be much more direct about both my sympathies and my responses. He adds that only about half the correspondents take him up on his offer to forward a name.
Anonymity is the key, according to Klein.
Some rabbis, like Gerald Zelizer, feel that the Internet can convey only limited spirituality, precisely because it can't encompass fully the sensual aspect of being there in the flesh, the tastes, sights and sounds of religious experience. If the Internet has become the confessional booth of post-modernity, it is also fast becoming the voting booth. Burning issues are discussed online the way they used to be at town meetings and bowling alleys, only with far greater impact. A tide of angry e-mails put a great deal of pressure on the chains and on Jewish organizations. Many likely responded without pausing to seek out all the facts of the matter, a hazard of e-mail's immediacy.