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Actually the idea of adding Mexico to the United States was strongly supported by the Democrats in the 19th century. The Whigs objected. Leading problem was that the Mexicans were Catholics, spoke Spanish, used Roman law and were slightly off color.

It also should be noted that Mexico is ALSO very much opposed to open borders, which is why all the Central Americans fleeing incompetent or corrupt governments end up at the US border having passed through Mexico, which was unwilling to grant them refugee status.

The serious advocacy for liberalized immigrations come from employers (who have to be polite about it, since it doesn’t look good to put out a sign “Help wanted – good workers willing to work at low wages”, and those seeking to move to the United States to take the jobs that Americans don’t want (at least, not at the aforementined low wages).

The zionists (and secular Jews in general) believe that the goyim are inherently good and worthy of emualation and being assimilated into, and therefore have to hold that the holocaust was something radically out of the ordinary. Therefore it rates a special day, and much special attention.

A frum historian will more likely come to the conclusion that the holocaust wasn’t all that “special”, and was merely a mid-20th century manifestation of what we have seen for many, many centuries (and millenia), going back to the origin of Tisha B’Av. If we had a full day fast every time the goyim persecuted us, we would risk starvation.

Should not the answer to the question “can one ride a self-driving car on Shabbos” be the same as the answer to the question “can you ride in a car driven by a non-Jew on Shabbos”?

It has always been “nominally” a Jewish state, albeit run by apikoresim, that rejects halacha, and persecutes Bnei Torah. Note as well that Stalin set up a Jewish state, likewise run by apikoresim, that rejected halacha and persecuted Bnei Torah.

If you need to ask such a question, ever, you already have the answer.

Dear Other Person: Those are for very large or new houses, probably closer to Baltimore County (and that is very important, especially to people who want to make use of the Baltimore County Public School system, which many modern Orthodox do). However the Hasidic population in Baltimore is concentrated in the area between Glen Avenue and Clark’s Lane, along Park Heights Avenue, which consists of older housing stock which is where the inexpensive housing is to be found. While 20th century houses are be definition “not new”, they are a lot cheaper the the newer “McMansions” – and they are well situated for those who prefer living in a neighborhood full of people wearing a kapotes.

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For example, look at the book “Our crowd” written by a secular Jew totally uninterested in halacha. The book has a totally unrelated purpose, And then check how many of the families mentioned (who came to the United States before the American Civil War) were intermarried. Furthermore, due to the American custom of women adopting the husband’s surname, it means that the people with “Jewish” names are the least likely to be Jewish.

Among Eastern European Jews, the movement towards assimilation began only in the late 19th century, so it is easier to trace.

How many “Reform” Jews are motivated by ideology is questionable. In a typical Reform “Temple” there is a small inner-circle of ideological “Reform”, and a large number of “twice-a-year” types whose motivation is a desire to have an unburdened Jewish affiliation. If you do not county the nominal Reform as part of Reform, i.e. base the estimate of who is a non-assimilated Jew on who engages in some form of Jewish religious life on a daily basis, then instead of Reform and Conservative dominating American Jewry (the conventional analysis based on synagogue memebers and “high holiday” attendance) you end up with Orthodox Jews (all of whom engage in “Jewish” activities daily even if only making a bracha or wearing distinctive clothes) as the overwhelming majority of American Jews.

Most non-Orthodox Jews in America perceive themselves as Americans and have little interest or knowledge of Yiddishkeit. From all perspectives, political, social, ecnomical and increasingly genetic, they are a distinct people from the frum community. The split is largely complete. Asking what to do about assimilation today makes no more sense that asking what to do about the holocaust — it’s done, it’s over, its history, and we need to live with the consequences.

Any natural food is “not kosher” until you clean it and check for bugs. It would be rather hard for humans to eat raw corn on the cob.

Probably because they get a good deal financially on the AP (Associated Press) which has become a leading purveyor of “fake news”, whereas the more reliable new sources such as Fox and the Wall Street Journal are disinclined to be aggregated at a reasonable price. Note the bias is not “anti-Trump” as much as anti-Republican and anti-Conservative.

Would a shul of thieves (or inside traders, or just plain old fashioned gonifs) be such a controversy? Just because a Yid is flunking at one mitsva does not exempt them from the rest. And frankly, would we want such persons, even if they are otherwise frum, in our shuls?

The parents are free to take their children and either enter the United States legally at a border crossing (if their papers are in order), or return home. No one is making them cross in the middle of a wilderness, knowing it is illegal. None of them are fleeing anything so horrible that they would qualify for asylum.

Trump has asked permission to keep the parents and children together while they are being held pending a decision on deporting them, but Congress needs to pass a statute to allow it.

One can make an argument that all criminals are insane. One standard for insanity is based on whether the person would commit the crime knowing he would be caught, as in, even though there was a policeman standing next to him. An important rule of criminal law is that while ignorance of law is not an excuse, ignorance of fact is an excuse.

Since there is reason to believe that most criminals are unaware that Ha-Shem rules the world, and is constantly observing their actions, and punished wrong-doers, most criminals should be considered insane since they lack knowledge of the reality that Ha-Shem is present and judges their action.

Frankly, hanging makes a lot more sense.

The online courses will look “good” for someone applying to a lawschool. While a law school can admit anyone regardless of background (something that lets not just yeshiva students, but others such as music majors, engineers, literature majors, etc., go to law school when their undergradutae studies don’t led to jobs), to be a success in law school (and law) requires good communication skills, familiarity with the social sciences and knowledge of history sufficient to understand the background of the legal system.

One assumes the student really likes the idea of practising law, and doesn’t think he is apply for a “pot of gold.” Only a handful of students (usually from elite universities, often with good family connections) end up in the six-figure incomes out of law schools, and a yeshiva student is very unlike to qualify. If one is clever and hard working, one can build a career in law. Given the costs of legal education, and the prospect of a yeshiva student not getting into an elite law school nor ending up with a high paying “associate” position at a “Big Law” firm – the student is advised to minimize costs (go to a cheap local law school that one can commute to).

Define “Beckishe”. Are you talking about a silk coat with fancy embroidery (hundreds of dollars)? Do you mean plain (wool/poly or poly) “kapote”, which is a double-breasted frock coat (perhaps $100 if you shop around)? If you want something for Purim, consider checking the “steampunk” or “reinactor” oriented shops, who base their merchandise on what was popular the last time long coats were popular among the goyim (i.e. before King George V stopped wearing them on a regular basis, and they almost immediately went out of fashion except among Jews, similar to what John Kennedy did to hats).

Reform “rabbis” have a job similar to most Protestant clergy, and tend to be well paid. Unlike rabbanim, who are professional scholars, the “reform” clergy have many “priestly” functions adopted from the Christians, particularly leading formal public services. Given that secular Jews tend to be rich (remember, getting rich was and is the main attraction of secularism for Jews), it is rational they will pay their servants well.

You should take up reading history. If you think it is bad now, in the past it was worse. Much worse. Very much worse. I suspect the original question is from someone young enough that they don’t remember the Cold War, and that World War II was something their grandparents or great-grand-parents talked about.

As for guns, having them during a pogrom would have been nice. If one reads the accounts of the pogrom in York (really the only pogrom in an English-speaking country), they had weapons even though it was strictly illegal for Jews to bear arms (didn’t do them much good, the accounts of them are a eulogy). There were European shuls built like small fortresses with firing holes (didn’t help). It should be noted that the Poles were well armed in 1939, and it didn’t stop the Nazis. If Ha-Shem decides to destroy American Jewry, there really isn’t much you can do about. If you are worred about security, focus on davening and learning (and remember that if worse comes to worst, all you assets will be destroyed and your debts will be cancelled).

1. Once you agree to allow secular culture in Eretz Yisrael (we had the option to ally with the Muslims against the zionists, and we did not do so), you are stuck. “Eurovision” is no more a “hillul ha-Shem” than the rest of zionist culture. It doesn’t make any sense to object to “Eurovision” unless yuou are objecting to the rest of secular entertaininment (which frequently involves undress male and female performers, as that is the nature of their culture). Indeed, since almost all performers in “Eurovision” are goyim, it is much less of a Hillul ha-Shem then the typical secular entertainment in Eretz Yisrael.

2. If the zionists get “Eurovision” in Jerusalem it would be a major accomplishment for them since all the European countries do not consider any part of Jerusalem to be part of Israel. Don’t be surprised if it gets moved to the internationally recognized capital of Israel: Tel Aviv.

The current “marijuana stocks” are for small companies that are likely to be pushed aside when larger well-established companies enter the business. In effect you have two problems buy stocks in that industry. If the movement towards legalization reverses, you own shares in a company whose main activity is illegal. If the movement towards legalization continues, the companies in similar businesses (tobacco, food, alcohol, etc.) are likely to move in and crush the small players you are investing in.

If you are not a professional investor, you are likely to get burned playing the stock market.

1. You can go to any graduate school that doesn’t require specific course work to get admitted, or you can take the necessary courses and rely on the BTL to meet the required undergraduate degree (this includes law and medical school).

2. You can apply for any job that requires an undergraduate degree but does not specify anything more, If there are specific courses required in addition to an undergraduate degree, you can take said courses.

Because such a ban would also prohibit all forms of “Kiruv”, which, as seen by the hiloni ruling class, involves socially undesirable Orthodox Jews conducting missionary activities aimed at non-religious Israelis. To most secular Israelis (who are atheists, and very committed to that belief), the Christian missionaries are non-threatening and more amusing and deluded than anything else whereas the frum “missionaries” have a serious record of causing many Jewish youth to go off the zionist derekh and embrace the “yoke of Torah and Mitsvos” (the “yoke” which the zionist anthem sings about being free of). We should remember that to frum Jews, who accept the existence of a creator, the Christians are at least “serious”, but to most secular Jews anyone supporting the idea of a “creator” or “ruler” of the universe is totally off his rocker.

If a restaurant wants to pay for two sets of supervision, it could easily be certified as both “kosher” and “halal” since there is a tremendous overlap – but just because it is certified as one, doesn’t mean it qualifies for the other with additional certification. Indeed, I’ve seen products with certifications for hallal, kosher and vegan.

What Ha-Shem wants to do with the weather is not really something we can “dictate”. Whether “climate change” is good or bad is subject to debate (warm weather means fewer deaths from snow and ice and cold, and a longer growing season). The climate has been changing constantly throughout our history (which is longer than most Americans “remember”). During the period of Bayis Sheini and during the period of the Rishonim it was warmer than at present, based on historical records of what crops grew where, and what rivers froze in the winter. Cooler periods such as the “Dark ages” and the Early Modern Period tended to be associated with famines and falling populations, and often horrific migrations (e.g. western European invading the Americas and doing many bad things to the inhabitants).

As climate has been constantly changing (and if you hold by paleontology, it appears that at times Greenland was green, and Antarctica was tree covered as well), it would seem that davening for a particular climate might be a bet dubious, though one supposes there is no harm is asking Ha-Shem to violate the natural order. Politically, our leaders should be wary of anyone asking for people to give up their standard of living in the belief that it will affect the weather, and suspicious that the “environmentalists” have developed a quasi-religious in their dogmas going far beyond science or public policy.

Some kosher is not hallal, and some hallal is not kosher. however the rules are similar enough that a vendor could produce items that are both kosher and hallal with minimal difficulty (other than politics due to the current real estate dispute in Eretz Yisrael).

In Britain, “normal” English is well defined as being the accent taught to the upper class. In America there are regional accidents, though mid-western (mid-Amerca) became standard as a result of the civil war (when someone from Illinois accepted the surrender from a Virginian). Of course, America has been very open to absorbing words from a variety of languages (and to a lesser extent, British English as well), including Yiddish. One can argue that whatever people are using is by definition “normal”. So normal English includes that spoken in Brooklyn.

Note that some countries (France and Israel come to mind) have government agencies defining what is “normal”, though it should be noted that real people tend to speak without regard to bureaucratic requirements as to what is normal. To most Americans, the idea of an official “normal” English is laughable.

None of the examples cited are mitsvos. They are things that halacha allows that have become obsolete for reasons unrelated to halacha.

Economically, slavery is a bad deal (the owner of an eved Ivri got stick with massive bills for wife and kids, even though they didn’t do any work, and the eved Kaanani turned out to be highly inefficient once capitalism was invented several centuries ago – it seems that paying workers make them work a lot harder than an unpaid worker). Polygamy was never practical (most men have trouble supporting one wife and set of kids). Marrying first cousins seriously increases the risk of genetic disorders in the children, something unknown until the 20th century. Another factor is that due to improvements of transportation and communications everyone has a bigger pool of possible spouses (it no longer takes months for a letter from Jerusalem to western Europe, and travelling to Eretz Yisrae from Europe is no longer a life-threatening once in a lifetime effort).