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If you are good at the STEM (science, engineering, technology, and mathematics) subjects but don’t want to do them for a living, a patent lawyer is an option. Most patent lawyers work for the government, large corporations or big firms (rather than hanging out a shingle in Boro Park). Because most people going into law lack a background in STEM subjects, it is probably a good career prospect if you want to be a lawyer. The usual caveats about lawyers having trouble finding work are less applicable if you have an unusual undergraduate background and skills that are in demand.

If you “undergraduate” is a BTL based on yeshiva credits, you are totally not in the ballpark.

Undergraduate you should get a degree heavy in STEM (exposed to all sciences, major in one, perhaps in general engineering). Take course in technical writing since writing skills are necessary. Learn enough of government/history of the United States so you don’t make a fool of yourself.

An elite school is probably the best for law school, though undergraduate is less critical as long as you have a strong STEM background.

ISIS (a.k.a. Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or increasingly Islamic State) is no less a threat to Klal Yisrael than were the Communists or Nazis. Again, from a “this world” perspective, our survival will largely depend on the Americans (without whom the Third Reich would rule the world today, or the Communists would have achieved the global dictatorship). While we would undoubtedly survive an Islamic conquest, just as we would have survived a thousand year global Reich, or a global “dictatorship of the proletariat” – suffice to say we’ll have more to worry about than which hecksher to buy and where to go on vacation.

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While the above deals with “this world” (the world of ???), frum Jews deal more with the world of ??? and have no option other than to concentrate on Torah and Mitsvos and allow Ha-Shem to take care of matters.

Most Roman script langauges use capitalization to make it easier to read. By capitalizing the first word of a sentence it makes it easier to locate the start of the sentence. By capitalizing proper nouns, it makes it clearer what (or who) you are talking about. People raised as Anglophones fine the semitic languages lack of capitals to be annoying.

There was a disasterous shidduch crisis among the “baby boomers” – but it was among the seculars, and in particular the secular Jews. Many of the non-frum Jews of the baby boomer generation failed miserably at reproducing. As a result, subsequent generations are radically reduced. Combined with our birth rate, that “crisis” is a major reason why the percentage of Shomer Shabbos among Jews has climbed radically over the last 50 years.

The primary “proof” of a shidduch crisis is a falling birth rate and what that results in (schools closing for lack of students, pediatricians retraining to specialize in geiatrics, etc.).

Is any translation “kosher” (which means fit, not necessarily as food). Is it possible to translate from Hebrew into English without losing most of the context? Hebrew is as similar to English as either language is to Chinese or Cherokee. Just consider the problem of translating between Hebrew with at most three tenses (really only two, the “present” is a gerund kludged into use as a present), and English with over a dozen very exact tenses.

One can always be a lawyer and also avoid halachic issues, but as is often the case in many professions, respecting halacha will come with a price. Some types of legal work are clearly against halacha (e.g. assisting someone in a divorce in extorting money from the ex-spouse by refusing to give a “get” as ordered by Beis Din). Others are murky (convicting the innocent and acquitting the guilty in criminal cases). — The same is true in other professions. Just because you are a doctor doesn’t mean you have to perform (“elective”) abortions. Just because you work in the corporate world doesn’t mean you have to be an insider trader. Just because you are a professional athlete doesn’t mean you have to take prohibitted drugs. Just because you run a kosher restaurant doesn’t mean you have to compromise on kashruth. However in general, it is more profitable to be cheat than be honest – in any profession.

If you are entering law since the subject is interesting, you can find honest work and a respectable living. If you are entering law since you think it is an easy way to get rich, you will be miserable and be sorely tempted to cheat.

The customs about not telling (among Jews, and others) dates back to the time when most babies didn’t make it, and you were almost as likely to be planning on attending a funeral (for the mother) rather than a bris. That is now history, ???? ???.

I just noticed this topic.

If you don’t have money for food on Hol ha-Moed, of course you can sell your hat!

In the real world, the father would have arranged (through a will or gifts and/or through private contractual agreements with the creditors) to protect the interests of the son who converted together with the family (regardless of how halacha characterized the relationship). This of course is irrelevant to the legal principles being discussed in the gemarra.

As is common in any legal system in which the full details of actual cases are not reported (i.e. like almost every other legal system in the world other than the Anglo-American system), the discussion of the case in the gemarra focuses on details related to the legal issue being discussed. The real world is always messier with “facts not on point”.

frumnotyeshivish: In a democracy you are stuck with the idiots you elected, even if you don’t vote for them. Plenty of Germans never voted for Hitler or Tojo (both of whom were democratically elected). The majority of the Palestinians want a government that will resist Israel and will not give up the Palestinian claim on Eretz Yisrael – and their government does what the people want. It was their decision to build tunnels instead of bomb shelters, and rockets instead of industrial goods. — And its unfair to talk about “children” since we normally let parents decide on behalf of their children, and until recently even in the United States, a high percentage of soldiers were too young to have ever voted, so that’s no hiddush. Wars aren’t supposed to be nice or pleasant, and they almost never are.

1. Mommies and little kids are civilians.

2. “Human shields” implies hostage, not spectators. The videos I have seen suggest that Palestinian civilians are standing near their troops to watch. This suggests that are not “human shields” (which is a war crime), but are “fans” of the Hamas soldiers (which is very unwise)

3. One should remember that Hamas is the democratically elected government, not a criminal organization that grabbed power. And the “terrorists” are actually the legitimate soldiers of that government. It should not be shocking that the Gazans want to wish their army well and root for “their team” .

4. No one claims that the Gazans are especially bright or clever.

Hunting for sport is clearly prohibited. Hunting for food is permitted – however you would have to capture the animals to slaughter them halachically. I’ve heard of people hunting with goyim and giving the goy the animal to eat. However I don’t think anyone would allow killing animals for fun.

Why do you have a car in a city with a well developed system of public transportation? Part of the reason you pay high prices in New York is that you don’t need the expense of a car (including car payment, insurance and operating costs).

Do you want to be a special education teacher? If so, the answer is “yes” (but be a bit wary of a masters that doesn’t get you certifified by the government as a teacher – it might not be worth the time and money involved). Frum schools generally don’t care “bubkes” about certification, but many special education programs are structured such that you can have a publicly funded program for frum kids using (and requiring) state certified teachers. But then again, do you want to specializing in dealing with kids with serious mental and physical problems?

The original definition (“de jure”) refers to a woman whose husband is missing. In the past it was more common (men often went on long trips for business reasons, or were caught up in wars). The modern use of the term refers to a woman whose husband is refusing a court order to give a “get” (and would be easily solved, as it was in the past, by courts enforcing their orders).

Sam2: We have changed the ability to work at night through improved lights. Our bodies’ design is not under our control, and being noctural (sleeping days, working nights) is problematic for one’s health.

1. Probably not if by stealing the food someone else’s would starve to death.

2. “Survive” does not include ice cream, nice fleisigs, wine, etc. It means enough to stay alive. Not enough to feel like you are a normal middle class consumer.

rebyidd23: 1) Lawyers can be very useful; 2) Unless a lawyer works for the government, a big non-profit or “Big law”, lawyers don’t have jobs – they are self-employed business people whose success largely depends on their own energies and wits.

Veltz Meshugener: If you want to be a lawyer, go for it. There are plenty of people in need of legal services. In New York one would say “in the outer boroughs” – but really it is a function of class more than geography. The bar exam isn’t that hard – most people pass it and those who go to “bad” law schools usually do better than the “good” (probably since “bad” law schools prepare you for practice in one jurisdiction, “good” law schools are bigger on theory). If you idea of a “living wage” involves six or seven figures (US dollars, no decimal point), most lawyers don’t earn a living wage – indeed the only fields in which you get that sort of incomes are professional athletes in major league sports, seucessful businesses, and many people who follow the Madoff career tract — but if you like the idea of being a lawyer, and are content to be middle class, go for it.

1. Pick a career first, major based on career.

2. If you don’t like science, and are looking for an easy major, don’t expect it to have a high income. The easier the major, the more likely it is to attract many people, and therefore the lower the pay (cf. law of supply and demand)

But you don’t need to learn math in school. Some might argue that one learns better out of school. Education is about learning and acquiring knowledge needed for life. School is about keeping kids off the street and out of their parents hair, but under the right conditions one can learn in a school.

School is NOT mandatory.

Under both Jewish and American law, school is not mandatory. All American states, public international law, and Halacha all recognize a right of parents to educate their children at home.

Schools however are more efficient, which is why most parents prefer them to various alternatives (e.g. home schooling, hiring tutors, etc.)

If she is over the age of 12, by halacha the parents have no say in whom she marries.

One is always free to home school one’s children. It works fine if both parents are 200% committed, and have sufficient Torah and secular educations to handle all subjects. When one includes opportunity costs, it’s cheaper to use the frum schools. In all fairness, even for kids who are never home schooled, their academic success is largely a function of their parents not the schools – so if a parent is unhappy with their kid’s education, they should compalin to a mirror.

Consider that the goyim gave up their classic curriculum and replaced it with a modern one (about 150 years ago), but we are trying to keep our classic curriculum intacts (i.e. Torah) while adding a modern one, we are doing fine. Of course we are going broke and the kids are driven crazy, but that’s by design.

American Indian names reflect how the individual relates to their “spirits”. It is at the least, the “dust” of Avodah Zarah. An equivalent concept in western though is “saint’s names” or “patron saints”. Even in jest, frum Yidden wouldn’t even joke about who your patron saint is, or which avodah zarah is protecting you!