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I know that at some JCC’s have separate male and female hours (in Baltimore the local JCC has a room that is separate for one-gender only, with separate hours for males and females = in addition to the larger fitness room which is mixed). ARE THEY ARENY INDEPENDENT “FRUM” SINGLE GENDER FITNESS FACILITIES THAT ARE PRIVATELY OWNED OR AT LEAST OPERATED BY FRUM ORGANIZATIONS, ANYWHERE?

Most children are unprepared for adult life. In pre-modern times, children generally worked with adults doing adult things (housework, caring for children, working in the father’s business, etc.) and learning how to be adults. In the 21st century most children go to school, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but that leaves them unprepared for the adult role of being heads of their own families. It isn’t a problem limited to Jews. In fact, in most industrialized countries, one sees a rapidly falling birth rate which is probably the best indicator that the children are unable to successfully transition to adult roles, which is already having a devastating effect on some countries (e.g. labor shortages, inability to fund social security systems, etc.).

Trump will win. He can give the speech anywhere (in fact, it is only a 20th century custom for it to be a speech). He can choose an audience that will be very supportive, rather than a Congress mos tof whose members hate him with a passion. Pelosi will win points with her base for “dissing” the President, but to most people it will seem that she is now the one shredding law and custom.

It’s real to the people looking for shidduchim.
Always has been that’s way.
Then they get married.
And produce the next generation, which grows up and has a shidduch crisis (see first line)

Exception to the above loop: Adam ha-Rishon has a real problem finding a shidduch and needed divine intervention and some really complicated surgery.

Trump is no more unhinged than his critics. He has managed to capture two issues (protectionism and immigration) that had been parts of the Democrats platforms and made them his own, much to the consternation of the Republicans which favored liberal immigration and free trade (both being highly pro-business, albeit anti-labor, policies). Assuming the Democrats continue to move radically to the left, there will be an opportunity for a centrist moderate (someone pro-business, for consistent internationalist muscular foreign policies, etc.) to run as a fusion as moderates of both parties, together, outnumber the Trump or Socialist bases that appear to now control their respective parties.

Historically, women were supposed to earn too much so they could support their families while did something more useful, such as learning. In our tradition, unlike the goyim, maniliness (being “macho”) was based on Torah and Mitsvos, not being a good earner.

Such a breach of custom would backfire totally.

If the helper is your spouse or child or younger sibling, it will have no impact. One doesn’t customarily pay family members for helping. Paying a family member to induce them to help around the house does not require paying taxes or paying the minimum wage and if you start charging the kid for room and board, that also is not a taxable event).

If you hire a non-family member, you have to pay the minimum wage including various employment taxes based on the wages you pay. Failure to do so can get you in big trouble (serious fines, paying back taxes with interest, and even jail).

The non-denomination prayers would strike any Jew, except for a “Reform” of their so-called “Classical” wing, as being strictly Protestant. Everyone understood it as such, Jews and Catholics who were serious about their children’s religious upbringing avoided public schools. In the example cited above, note the language. Have you ever heard a Jew in Hebrew use the word “Thee” (an archaic English form with no equivalent in Hebrew)? In fact, did you ever hear of a Jewish school starting the day with such a prayer, in English. Indeed, most frum Jews never use the word “god” since to us it refers to someone like Thor or Zeus or some goyish entity. While most Jewish schools start with davening, our davening is totally different than their “prayers”.

The ban on prayer in pubic school is only on the government selecting and leading prayers. Students and teachers are free to pray to their heart’s content – but they can’t require others to join them. The standard for student prayer is “reasonable accommodation”. The past practice of having the teachers lead Protestant prayers was the problem.

While Trump has alienated the “core” of the Republican party (which going back to Reagan favored an aggressive foreign policy, fiscal responsibility, free trade and support for immigration, if only as a source of cheap labor), Trump has his own base, and the Democrats appear more likely to pick a radical left-winger who will alienate much of the Democratic and Independent electorate. In an election that is about “the lesser of two evils”, it is hard to predict the outcome, and there is an opportunity for a middle-of-the-road third party sounding like what both major parties sounded like in the 20th century (when everyone complained they sounded alike).

If the frummer yeshivos win, the more modern ones are covered. If the frummer ones lose, then the more modern ones can challenge law on different grounds (e.g. that they get better results than the public schools in secular subjects and that therefore the hours requriements are arbitrary and capricious). The frummer yeshivos will have to argue hat, either, 1) their achievement is equal or better than the minimum achievement required in the lowest-performing public schools, 2) that the academic requirements are arbitrary and capricious, 3) the whole concept of government regulation of parochial schools is unconstitutional.

Joseph: The Blaine amendment, which is in many state constitutions, has been upheld frequently. It is based on the “establishment” clause, on the theory than any religious institution that is publicly funded becomes established.

And would you really want to have the government having a “Secretary of Religious Affairs” deciding which Rav would work in which shul, and what their Shabbos drasha would be. At the very least, government funded yeshivos would be required to toe the line ideologically, and that would be as bad as New York’s current plan to force yeshiovos to adopt secular, un-frum curricula.

Given that the Democrats appear to being taking a sharp turn to the left, rejecting the heritage of Bill Clinton (1992 version), Carter (1976 version), Johnson, Kennedy, Truman and Roosevelt, there isn’t much choice for Jews. We “cling to religion” (their words, not our’s), meaning we are deplorables to be crushed.

P.S. One probably shouldn’t blame Roosevelt for anti-Jewish policies that were supported by the American Jewish community (run by Reform Jews, who didn’t want hordes of Eastern European Jews dropping in). They actively lobbied against “rescue” (and surprise, their grandchildren are the ones who want to get rid of deplorable people who cling to old fashioned religion).

Well, if they robots are frum, why can’t they post?

1. Ha-Shem got upset at us for being too happy when Ha-Shem drowned the Egyptians, so we are supposed to celebrate a war over the Greeks.

2. Most of the “Greeks” were OTD Yidden. Note the many parts of the “al ha-Nissim” that only make sense if you assume they were Jews (Tahorim over Tameiim – but goyim are neither, specificially saying we won over minim, not goyim, etc.). We should make a big deal over killing Yidden (even if they were OTD)???????

3. We won a battle but lost the war. That period in Jewish history ended with the Hellenized Romans destroying Yerusalayim.

edited for more respectful phraseology 

Because many Americans can’t cope with the idea that something bad happened to them that they couldn’t prevent unless there is someone to blame (and more importantly, to sue). We Yidden say “הכל בידי שמים חוץ מיראת שמים” and accept that not everything in the universe is under our control, and sometimes bad things happen regardless of whatgever actions we take. Secular society doesn’t see it that way.

1. Old people normally die. It’s younger people dying we should get up set over.

2. Any who works for the Federal government (or is on a “Federal” schedule , common among contractors in the greater Washington era), gets Wednesday off so they can get to minyan without a hassle.

If Trump first Mueller it would be an admission that Trump engaged in impeachable offenses. It would have the same effect as the “Saturday night massacre” in 1973. Trump’s best strategy for re-election would be to focus on showing the anti-Trump were on a witch hunt, and to make the “own” anything that goes wrong (see, the economy tanked, because you wouldn’t listen me but went into “resistance” and abusing rights). Trump will want to argue that Mueller’s witch-hunt threatens anyone who expresses politically incorrect views. He can discredit the Democrats charge that Trump is a Russian “manchurian candidate” by asking the Congress for a massive appropriation to assist the military in opposing Russian expansion.

The above is what is making many Democrats concerned, since much of their caucus is in “reistance mode” with a heart set on impeachment, and they remembered what happened in 1998 when the Republicans decided Clinton impeachable and the country didn’t agree.

Non-political: Jews traditionally regarded that the poor had an entitlement to be given tsadakkah, and those with the means had an obligation to provide it. The goyim borrowed the concept from us. Under American law, there are no economic entitlements. The constitution gives you rights to vote, free exercise of religion, right to a jury trial – those are entitlements. There are no entitlements to get money. Programs such as social security, medicare, medicaid, food stamps, WIC, etc., are pure charity. The government is under no obligation to give you the money, but has voted to do so (and could at any time stop doing so). While Jews (and some others) have managed to convince most Americans that it is a good thing to give “welfare” to those in need, it is purely a matter of getting most voters to feel charitable enough to divert their tax dollars. — What the Amreicans (fum Jews in particular) call “entitlements” are charitable programs whereby the government has stated anyone meeting a certain condition gets a set benefit, which is cheaper than requiring a special statute to be passed for each individual giving them a special benefit (which was done at one time, and proved unworkable).

RebYidd23: You identify with white nationalists and rapists??? Most of us identify with people raising families (man, woman, and their children), trying to support themselves, trying to raise the families in their own cultgural and religious traditions. And these are the people that the Democrats consider to be deplorables clinging to outmoded religious ideas.

Because over the last 50 years the Democrats have become increasingly anti-religious, while the Republicans are increasingly welcoming to peoples of all religions. If the Democrats regard people who “clink to religion” to be “deplorables” (taking the words of their most recent national candidates, in context), don’t be shocked that the Democrats have problem attracting non-secular voters. Fifty years ago this was not the case.

1. The frei Jews have always done everything they can to sabotage Torah, and this latest attempt in New York will fail either because they can’t apply a higher standard to frum schools than they apply to the worst public schools (equal protection), and may run into discrimination (first amendment, free exercise) matters as well. Any Yid who thought they could get the government to pay for yeshivos was being very naive and displayed ignorance of who government work (when they pay the fiddler, they always call the tune). It should be noted that America has two political camps, one of which is friendly to Yiddishkeit (the “reds”), and the other contains some elements (mainly frei Jews) who are anti-Semitic. At worse (or perhaps best), I suspect frum Jews will increasingly move out of New York to places that are cheaper to live in and where the ultra-secular fanatics have little political influence (and note the growth of yeshivos in “red” states in the last generation). The worst that will happen is you will have to listen to Hebrew spoken with a very un-New York drawl or twang.

2. Shootings such as Pittsburg are not unheard of in America, and have rarely been aimed at Jews. Given American’s origins as a refuge for excaped (and deported/exiled) criminals, and its founding by an act of armed rebellion against the lawful (and elected) government, one should not be shocked that America has always been relatively violent. Unlike Europe, that violence is not directed primarily at us.

3. Israel is run by a well-entrenched secular ruling class that sees our destruction as a primary goal. In addition the country is surrounded by well armed (but fortunately, highly disorganized and very inept) enemies who wish us dead and have been trying to kill as many Jews as possible for longer than most of us have been alive.

Maybe parents who don’t care enough to get vaccinations are less inclined to take their children to a doctor for any reason. If someone distrusts doctors in general, they are not likely to take a sick (as opposed to injured) child to the ER. Indeed, one can suggest that two should correlate since the core factor is distrust of standard medicine.

Death rates might be more interesting since statistics for child mortality aren’t directly a function of parent attitudes.

And all this modern medicine complicates life. A major factor in the rise in divorces is due to medical care (previously, few marriages lasted more than ten years before one of the spouses died – if you didn’t like yhour spouse you could reasonably expect to be rid of each in the foreseeable future). And then there is the problem of overcrowding in schools – until recently most chidlren died before reaching school age, reducing class size significantly (just look at a typical class and imagine how uncrowded it would in half the students weren’t there). And supporting old people is becoming a global crisis, almost totally the fault of the medical profession which has raised life expectancy by several decades over the last century.