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If these things really didn’t have a significance, it shouldn’t have bugged him any more than getting a quotation from Confucius. “Thank you ma’am for your concern, I’ll look at this when I have a chance” and then do what you choose afterwards, ought to be an appropriate response.

I think that's what he did.

I go out on a limb by saying these things DO have a significance. If the Christian story is true, and I assert that it is, then the Jewish people have a different role (not a “worse” role) than if it isn’t.

Yes . . . you "assert" that chr*stianity is true. Chr*stians have been "asserting" that chr*stianity is true for almost two thousand years (or seventeen hundred, depending on whether or not the whole thing was created out of whole cloth three centuries after the "fact"). But this assertion is based on absolutely nothing. Chr*stianity is "true" only because it "asserts" that it is true.

What kind of basis is that for a religion? First it claims that the Hebrew Bible prophesies about it. Then it "proves" these "prophecies" by merely invoking its own claims about them. It reads itself into the Jewish Bible no differently than Joseph Smith did. Then chr*stians have the hypocritical gall to criticize mormons for what they themselves have been doing for centuries.

Ultimately chr*stianity (like other false religions) is based on nothing but sentimentalism and tradition. "This is a chr*stian nation" is ultimately no different from the Leftist revolutionaries' "deze are de wayz of our pipples."

G-d spoke at Sinai, leaving no room for any future innovations. Therefore the "assertions" of chr*stians mean exactly bo diddley squat.

Jews carry an alleged oral law attributed to Sinai which allegedly declares Christianity impossible — the truth is that up through the earthly time of Jesus, Jewish pundits were very very interested in a Christ. Then when Jesus got followers and especially when the message began to include gentiles — all that Christ seeking got a lid slammed on it. Very political, very bigoted.

You also carry the old canard that the Roman church cobbled Christianity together. Biblical Christians know better; there is no historical document with more attestations than the pages of the New Testament.

You might try understanding better how the doctrines of biblical Christianity fit together before launching your totally ignorant, daintily expurgated-word flames at it. It's not hard to find such works in a normal Christian bookstore, e.g. Charles Ryrie's Basic Theology.