Susan Silverman brings humor, faith to adoption! VIDEO INTERVIEW - Mr. Media Interviews by Bob Andel

Today's Guest: Susan Silverman, rabbi, international adoption activist, author, Casting Lots: Creating a Family in a Beautiful Broken World
 

Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Rabbi Susan Silverman by clicking on the video player above! 

Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of full-grown adults who would like a shot at being adopted by the Silverman clan… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida!

Rabbi Susan Silverman is a bit of an alarmist.

Don’t believe me? Just read her book.

From the Prologue:

Page xi:
“At recess, I’d puposely get an out in kickball in exchange for my parents still being alive when the 3 p.m. bell rang and the school day was over.”

SUSAN SILVERMAN podcast excerpt: "People are more likely to adopt if they feel their community has their back. I would say to people, create a situation in which you can adopt. If you have that in your heart and that capacity in your life, take the risk!"
You can LISTEN to this interview with RABBI SUSAN SILVERMAN, author of CASTING LOTS: CREATING A FAMILY IN A BEAUTIFUL, BROKEN WORLD, by clicking the audio player above!

And on Page 90, as a grown-ass married woman and mother:
“Once, upon hearing of a crash in Russia, I actually figured out how (my husband) could have ended up on that flight, a scenario that included a wrong gate and an absentminded ticketing agent. I had recently spent half the night dialing and re-dialing the front desk of his hotel, asking the same clerk to put me through to his room. I had left messages, but what if he didn’t check them? What if the red light on the hotel-room phone was out? What if he were lying dead in the gutter RIGHT NOW?

“…God created the world through poetic speech. I patrolled mine through vigilant bitchiness.”
Don’t misunderstand – I’m not making fun of Susan. (Okay, maybe a little. I am married; I know the drill.)

As the first-