Reply To: davening in public

Joseph – Yes, there is such a story. So, what, practically speaking, would you do in the case described above re:

(a) greeting people in the middle of bentching?
(b) responding to the outstretched hand of the lady in the middle of bentching, which, as we discussed earlier, the Steipler and the Chazon Ish both rule that I must let myself be burned alive rather than shake her hand?