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The seems an extreme way to deal with students with un-woke behavior (use the wrong pronoun for a boy dressed as a girl, and you get beaten). This could catch on.
The Democrats have always been the party of patronage and handing out goodies to supporters. The Republicans (and the Whigs before) them have always been the party that preferred a government that respects merit more than identity and supports creating a pro-business climate. Both parties have a history of tolerating larceny. This all goes back at least to the period of John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson, and has been amazingly consistent (even while views on race or foreign affairs have shifted).
The idea behind a Jewish state was to get away from the control that Torah had over the Jewish community (as they sing: to be a free people, free from the yoke of Torah).
Most rabbanim at the time thought this was a bad idea. One underlying reason is the values necessary to maintain a state would inevitably clash with Torah values (e.g. learning how to fight wars instead of learning how to do mitsvos). Also it was obvious that the goyim would object and when goyim object to something they tend to express themselves violently).
When being politically incorrect is a crime, people like Trump will be cancelled, and either thrown in jail or “reeducated”. He has a legitimate dispute over ownership of personal papers, and instead of litigating it in the courts, the Democrats just sent in the FBI to seize the paper by making a false claim they were stolen government property (which needs to be determined in a civil proceeding).
The real crime is political incorrectness, and Trump is clearly guilty. In Britain they could pass a bill of attainder, but in America they need to fake criminal charges.Since most of us are also politically incorrect (be realistic, being frum is offensive to the WOKE, our necks are on the line as well), we should worry. The solution is to make sure the Democrats do not get solid control of the Congress, since a solidly blue Congress and a Democratic president means their WOKE base will define the agenda.
If Trump takes control of the Republican party (and it appears he has done so, and his endorsement tilts primaries), there is a serious threat of a massive blue wave in the 2022 and 2024 elections. Note how Trump made the Senate “blue” by turning two Republican seats in Georgia into Democratic seats – and it appears he is doing the same thing nationally.
1. If they are going to give place names in the Latin alphabet (the script of the Romans, the Crusaders, the Nazis, etc.), why not throw in the Arabic script (who until the mid-20th century were at most a nuisance).
2. Especially if you base your demographics on Eretz Yisrael rather than Medinat Yisrael, a large percentage of Israel’s population speaks Arabic as a first language. Except for rich “Anglo-Saxons” (more likely to be tourists than Israelis), very few Israeli speak English. Also note that a considerable percentage of those Arabic speakers hold Israeli citizenship, and have made clear they prefer to live in democratic (small “D”) and secular (relatively) state than be part of the rather fascistic fanatically Islam world.
3. Israel is in the Middle East (Ha-Shem’s choice, if a quiet uninhabited island was preferred Sefer Shemos would have include boat building instructions and a nautical map to either New Zealand or Madigascar) – and our neighbor’s speak Arabic. Note that both the Hareidim and the Zionists (except for a minority of “Religious zionists” desire peaceful relations with the Arabs.
To distinguish between dress up like you think people dressed up in the distant past (what the moderns say the hareidim to), or whether just is this fashion evolving in a natural way, albeit along different principals than affect the hiloni world (e.g who felt obliged to stop wearing hats since President Kennedy did, or to stop wearing kapotas since King George did) – consider radical change in hareidi fashion that have taken place over the last 120 years. If the changes didn’t result in outpourings of outrage, it supports my argument that this is just a matter of fashion evolving in a natural way. Consider: non-leather dress shoes (other than on Yom Kippur and Tisha B’Av); the use of fake light-weight fabrics especially in warm weather; the adoption of the bra; the discontinuance of fur hats on a daily basis (though some continue to wear them on Shabbos or if it is very cold); the adoption by men of long pants (200+ years ago men wore short pants with high socks, and 500 years ago men usually did not wear pants at all). Hareidim are not reinactors or affecting a perceived archaic style of dress; their fashions change like everyone else, but they have their own fashion sense so it sometimes evolves in different directions (unlike “moderns” who think it is cool to ape the goyim).
Gadolha-dorah: The matter of the extent the president has authority to declassify and transfer papers is the subject of civil litigation. Trump certainly believed, and has a respectable legal argument that he was within his rights, meaning the papers in question are his personal property, and not the governments. Trump was the first non-president with no background in government service, and it is to be expect that he did, and continues to bring, new perspectives and with them new legal issues that have never been litigated. Unless you consider Trump himself to be an alien power, there is no basis to threaten to bring charges for espionage. And under the 4th amendment, the government has no business using a criminal search warrant to seize property that whose status is being litigated. If the Supreme Court had already ruled against an ex-president in a similar situation, Trump would have no basis – but this is a new legal issue. If the American people in their infinite wisdom elect someone with no experience in government, politics or the military – they have expect such issues, since what is conventional wisdom among the political elites is neither reasonable to everyone else, nor necessarily even lawful.
Fashion change constantly. You can usually date photograph by looking at the clothing worn and how being groom themselves. Factors affecting Yidden include what the local goyim wear, what are rabbanim wear (the equivalent for for goyim are what their leading political figures and movie stars wear), and various halachic factors (modesty, looking better on Shabbos than the rest of the week). Fashions even among Yidden constantly change, and while it is interesting from a sociological perspective, from a halachic perspective “there is nothing to look at”).
Among fashion changes in the 20th century including the switch to manufactured fabrics (rather than linen, wool and cotton). Women switching to a “bra”. Most people giving up formal wearing of hats (a trend we ignored). Men switch to “short” dress coats (something rejected in part by many hareidim especially on Shabbos, the goyim switched when private cars became popular). Footwear has changed radically. People like President John Kennedy (who misplaced his top hat during his inauguration) and King/Emperor George V influence the world at large (when he stopped wearing a kapote as his standard normal daily work clothes), but Yidden not so much.
It appears that the Democrats regard the “Deplorables” as illegal aliens and enemies of state, and therefor taking one’s papers (which on Jan. 19, 2021, Trump has the authority to declassify and transfer to his personal ownership) is the same as helping Joe Stalin and the socialists destroy the United States. It is a major leap that the “Deplorables” are now to be considered as traitors and rebels with no constitutional rights.
We should not forget that to the “woke”, the “people of faith” are also “deplorable”, so don’t be shocked when the FBI raids the Agudah looking for evidence that they are furthering politically incorrect ideas.
Customs often migrate between cultures. The is human nature.
The major similarity is the belief that the world was created by a Creator, rather than having occurred as a random processes of uncontrolled events, that we are here “on purpose”, and not “by accident”. Presumably we all got that idea from Adam ha-Rishon, who is the closest to having first hand knowledge of the events in question.
ubiquitin’s: a search warrant issued in violation of the 4th amendment is not only void, but renders inadmissable as evidence any and all documents seized pursuant to the search warrant. If Trump’s lawyers are able to argue that in fact ownership of the papers was in dispute, there was no lawful basis for the search warrant. That the Attorney General has a record suggesting personal hatred of Trump doesn’t help the government’s case. The statute in question is problematic. It states that a violation renders the person unable to hold Federal office, but the Constitution also sets forth requirements to be President which Congress can not change suggesting that the law doesn’t actually cover the President. Then there is the question as to who can a record as confidential or classified, but if this is within the power of the executive branch, and since the president is head of the executive branch, Trump would clearly be able to take what he pleases. Ambiguity as to whether a crime even occurred would result in the search warrant be thrown out (and if those requesting it had a partisan motivation, they might be in legal trouble themselves).
If the fourth amendment (“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated …”) doesn’t apply to the rich and powerful, what rights exist for the rest of us. If a politician can use the legal system to punish their political enemies, what chance do the rest of us have? Are we all rightless “deplorables” at the mercy of the ruling elites?
In many ways, the same issue arose during America’s (pre-Independence, when we were part of England) early history. Those in control of the government (small “r” Republicans), with army support, executed King Charles after a “kangaroo court” (albeit that term would be an anachronism in the 17th century). Public opinion (which mattered even though democracy with a small “d” was still in the future) realized that if the king has no right to due process (something that England, and its colonies, had begun to value starting in the middle ages), than no one has.
As head of the executive branch, Trump had a arguable right to declassify and take home any papers (other presidents tend to donate them to libraries or archives). If there is a dispute over the extent of those powers, it is a civil dispute, not a criminal dispute. Those who object so go into a court and request an injunction against Trump, allowing Trump to argue back that he was authorized to take those papers. Finding a Democratic (large “D”) judge to sign a search warrant, rather than seeking a subpoena in a civil proceeding (with Trump having the right to a lawyer and to participate in the proceeding) is a grievous breach of due process typical of a third world country. It is not the American way (though Obama did say that he opposed American “exceptionalism”) and a big part of what makes America “special” is due process and rule of law, which is lacking in most countries).
Whether you embrace “Trump derangement syndrome” or consider Trump to be as close to a messiah as you are likely ever to encounter, consider how you wouyld feel if someone who hates you can arrange to have the cops break into your house and seize your stuff without giving you legal recourse (other than suing to get your stuff back). That was an issue that was supposedly settled in 1791, and apparently it still is an issue.
The original posting suggests there was no objection to her being Shomer Shabbos, only to her being hareidi. Given the zionist belief, especially among Religious Zionists, that Hareidincan not possibly be functional in the “modern world”, a hareidi in a job requiring secular education and skills is seen as a threat for challenging their bigotted assumptions about hareidim.
Unfair, there are many countries where the police routinely harass leaders of the opposition. Indeed that is the norm in most countries. It is just American exceptionalism to believe in things such as fair play and free speech and due process. Next think you know, you’ll be objecting to canceling teachers and media people who don’t hold correct views.
Realization of the zionist dream – to be free from the yoke of Torah and Mitsvos.
Not likely. A good deal of Lincoln, T. Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and Reagan still exists under a Republican label. If Trump and his supporters can’t reconcile themselves, they’ll have to form their own party. While Romney couldn’t win without the “deplorables”, Trump couldn’t win without the support of the established Republicans.
The Democrats have moved so far to the left, that they no longer the party of Roosevelt, Kennedy, etc. A more likely scenario is there will be three parties in the future, a “Progressive” (non-democratic, socialist, woke, authoritarian, elitist), a MAGA (populist, “deplorables”), and one (or perhaps two) moderate parties in the middle. In fact, that’s already happened, and what is left to see is how they organize themselves.
The primary cause of inflation is government spending, so the way to cut inflation is for the government to stop spending money. Appropriating more money is the way to increase inflation. It is like a fireman who feels the way to put out a fire is to give it more fuel and air. The very establishment (un-MAGA like, dull at times) Wall Street Journal said the name of the bill is so dishonest, that it insults used car salesmen (who have a somewhat deserved reputation for mislabeling things).
Even when they were farmers, Jews did not live in isolated homesteads (the way Americans do), but would live in a village from which everyone would walk to their fields (as is probably the case in most of the world), and would go to a regional center for market days. That would have especially been true of Jews living in northern Europe during the last 1000 years (and remember the topic under discussion is keeping warm in winter, which is an issue in places where you can go several months with temperatures being clearly above freezing – but never was an issue in Eretz Yisrael).
Palestinian Arabs come in all “flavors” based on religion and class. When you realize they are not monolithic, you understand why many of them prefer to live under Israeli rule than under Islamic rule. the “nationalists” are deliberate indifferent to killing those they perceive as enemies, and they are also somewhat incompetent in military matters (which explains why the Israelis look good in conflicts with them) so even if they aim at a target there is minimal likelihood they will hit it.
There is no indication he or his ancestors kept Shabbos or kashrus, so kis conversion would have been as valid as those arranged by the zionist government for secular non-Jewish immigrants of Jewish descent. Note there were several “kings” (more or less Roman vassals than monarchs) with that name, and some were definitely halachicly Jewish based on maternal descent from women who were definitely Jewish.
Bayis Sheini (corresponding to the “Classical period” in European history), was a warm period. It was probably warmer than it is today.
One didn’t find large Jewish communities in cold areas until the late Middle Ages (which is when a major cold period, lasting in the 19th century) began. Houses were generally built with good insulation and people dressed warmly (wool was the main fabric). You normally didn’t find people wearing their “summer” clothes while indoors during the winter. Jews rarely lived on isolated homesteads, since that would mean not having a minyan or schools.
You Tube always asks you “Do you want to see this (almost) naked lady” or “Do you want to hear a woman signing”. If fact, almost all sites with “inappropriate” materials ask you if you want to see them, or are set up so you have to go looking for it. It’s really no different from the real world (unless a man makes an effort to see a naked lady, he won’t just see one walking down the street).
There is no prohibition of women signing. The prohibition is on men listening to them. On YouTube, no one makes you listen or watch anything – you have to click on something to make it play.
A recession has historically been defined as consecutive quarters in which the economy shrinks. One has never had a recession with falling unemployment and rising wages, which usually indicate prosperity. It might have to do with a shrinking labor force due to the goyim (most of them anyway) having cut back on children, which isn’t something the government controls.
So the politicians are lying are hateful, merely dumb and confused.
Republicans are too disunited and don’t have clear ideas on policy (at least ones they all agree one). Many of them are too busy claiming vote fraud in 2020 to deal with new issues. Also they are divided between Neocons (who want to vigorously oppose the Russians and Chinese), and “America First” types who want to avoid foreign wars. Even if the Republicans get control of either house, they won’t have a strong enough majority to do anything.
If Ha-Shem wanted children to be clones of their parents, He would have stuck to a single-gender configuration (similar to unicellular organisms, e.g. amoeba). Remember that according to our traditions, that was the original plan, but that seem to work so Ha-Shem created genders and invented a system of sexual reproduction (rather than relying on cells splitting and cloning off exact replicas). And who are we to question Ha-Shem policies in such matters.
Jackk : The way the Democrats (going WOKE), and the Republicans (going MAGA) are going, in 2025 the two parties won’t be the “Democrats and the Republicans” (at least in fact, one should note that the post-civil war Democrats while keeping the name with substantially different than the antebellum version).
Hard to catch since it is NOT spread by coughing or breathing, and not fatal. People “like” scary stories, but this is one that is easy to ignore.
The new acne. Not even life threatening. While not sexually transmitted, it will be hard to catch it since it is spread by coughing. However it may be a good economic opportunity for those in the medical sciences business, since people are getting bored with Covid19 so that’s not much money to be made from a new coronavirus.
RE: “It is impossible for a third party to win.”
Ever hear of the REPUBLICANS. The two major parties were badly divided, and they won majority of the electoral votes with roughly 40% of the popular vote, and largely dominated American politics for the next 50 years. The fanatic MAGA and WOKE movements, denouncing the previous party establishments as RINOs and DINOs, with attachments to fake issues (voting fraud, personal pronouns, etc.) are the opening needed. Many Democrats will refuse to go WOKE, many Republicans are already turned off by Trump (which is why he lost in 2020).
Defeated candidates have managed to end up winning the White House (Nixon lost being Governor of California, and then won the Presidency). Abraham Lincoln ran and lost for Senate, and then won the Presidency.
If the Republicans run Trump (or a fanatic MAGA isolationist), and the Democrats run Biden (or even better, run an enthusiastic WOKE candidate), there will be an opportunity for a third party founded by the “ruins” of the moderate wings of the Democratic and Republican parties. Cheney and Romney (and perhaps Collins or Murkowski) are possible founders of a new party. McMullin if he wins a Senate seat would be a very strong possibility. Among Democrats, candidates, or at least founders, of a third party would include former Senator Lieberman, Manchin and perhaps Tulsi Gabbard from Hawaii.
For a third party to win, both the Democrats and Republicans have to move to radical extremes. The third party doesn’t need to win a majority of electoral votes, but only enough to force the election into the House of Representatives where being the second choice of both parties would be enough to win.
MAGA on the right
WOKE on the left
Room for a 3rd party in the centeranything that promotes early mortality is actually not a problem, since it benefits society to kill off old people after they have finished their productive years and in the future will be living off savings (including retirement accounts and pensions), which with their demise can be repurposed for more useful things
alcohol, on the other hand, often kills people in their most productive years, which hurts society
yeshiva kids wanting to be “cool” like the goyim is a self-limiting problem, since if their big concern in life is to be like the goyim, they won’t stay in a “uncool” yeshiva environment
Most secular “Jews” are probably not Jews any, and almost certainly most of their grandchildren won’t be. In addition, most of the non-frum Jews in fact engage in avodah zarah, and at the very least reject the very existence of Ha-Shem and Torah. While they find it cute that we frummies act as if they are long lost cousins, they act shocked that we reject the social and cultural values that are the norm in the non-frum communities of those of Jewish descent (many of which can not be discussed on YWN). People like Nadler and Schumer (and the list goes on) are not part of out community. Their successes not only do not reflect favorably on us, but in fact are seen by them as proof that for Jews the only way to success to to reject Ha-Shem and deny Torah. YWN should stop acting as if non-frum persons who claim Jewish ancestry are part of our community.
Just because someone is halachically Jewish (had a Jewish mother, father irrelevant), or is a person of obvious Jewish descent (e.g. has a Jewish surname and claims to be Jewish), does not make them “one of us”. For someone to be part of our community, i.e. the Jewish community, the minimum is that the person openly keep kashrus and Shabbos. It is silly to consider someone, such as the politician in question who does not even claim to keep Shabbos and kashrus, to be Jewish. Most people you will meet have Jewish ancestors (going back to ancient times), but that doesn’t mean we should look at them as Jews.
It really should be “Frum world news” but “frum” has multiple meanings and is not understandable to anyone outside the “frum” community. As the “yeshiva” is probably the defining institution of all frum Jews, the name is fine.
The airlines will probably refuse to carry them since an airline is liable if a passenger is denied entrance, and Ukraine has made clear that they don’t want hordes of tourists. In case you haven’t followed the news of what the goyim are up to, Russia invaded Ukraine last winter and they are having a full scale war including bombing of civilian targets in cities, and unless one is anxious to get to Olam ha-Ba as soon as possible, tourist in a war zone is somewhat ill advised.
People (not just Yidden, goyim too) often prefer books. Books are easier to read than screens and much more portable (they often fit in pockets, and never run out of power). They also have some books that very expensive, or hard to use in an online format (e.g. atlases).
Libraries also provide access to online resources that would be very expensive for individuals (ones that have paywalls and/or expensive subscription fees). They also provide public access to the internet for free (albeit with less privacy than a personal home computer, though that doesn’t affect Yidden so much since “of course” we never look at sites that require great privacy).
If he is leaving yeshiva to start working, does that not suggest the he never worked while being in yeshiva. I recall having been a student many years ago, and as I recall it involved much work. If the young people these days do not perceive yeshiva (or schools in general, as this seems to be a broader problem) as being “work”, we have a serious problem.
If you can afford a Tesla, I suspect that a great many frum organization will move you to the top of their lists of people who clearly have enough wealth that they can be called on to help fill up our community’s financial needs.
1. The Russians may not be bluffing (also, Putin has painted himself into a corner and might be desperate).
2. One has no idea what the Russian targets will be of if they can hit targets at all (so even if they aim at New York, it might not be a total “wipe out” that a well aimed H-Bomb would cause). Based on what is happening in the Ukraine, Russian weapons may underperform, and western counter-weapons may exceed expectations.
3. The biggest problem if one survives an attack will be getting food, since New York City is totally dependent on supplies coming from elsewhereIt may not be so dumb for several reasons.
The situation in Europe is deteriorating, and Russia is threatening to go nuclear.
Events in Ukraine suggest the Russians may have trouble hitting the side of a barn, so a nuclear attack on New York City might not result in instant death and destruction (e.g. they’ll miss and hit the Catskills or Suffolk County by mistake), so the attack will be survivable.
Out standard for judging goyim is based on halacha. The Evangelicals do most of the seven (or eight if you count having children) mitsvos. Secularists take pride in killing inconvenient babies and all sorts of sexual perversions, (and lets not ask about the fairness of their courts, or disbelief in the Creator, or dreaming up new sorts of avodah zarah to believe in). For the most, I find the Evangelicals to be fairly mentsch-like, and their weird belief in their mistranslations to be a bit amusing.
Goyim generally want to convert Jews. It is in their nature, whether they are Evangelicals, or Catholics, or Secularists (the list goes on) or whatever. Our continued existence is a refutation of all they hold dear. We are the oldest on-going culture in the world, and the fact that in our very long experience we haven’t “seen the light” is a problem for them. The answer is for Yidden to stick to Torah and Mitsvos, and trust that Ha-Shem will convince our neighbors to be non-violent and not too obnoxious.
A lot of small non-profits are “sort of ” sketchy in that the people running them are also deriving their parnassah from them. As long as people (donors in particular) understand this (e.g. a shtiebel in which the Rav runs the shul and gets most of his livelihood from donated money) it is as much an ethical problem as a legal problem since the government expects non-profits to be run by independent boards who hire staff (rather than by staff which recruits a friendly board).
This is common throughout society (not just Yidden). As long as the person running the non-profit is doing a good job providing services, and sticks to a modest lifestyle, there is no problem.
The alternative would be to have big, quasi-government, bureaucracies doing the same job, and they would probably be less efficient and less responsive to needs of users (just look as the “non-profit” hospitals with seven-figure salaries for managers).
What Musk is saying is that from an economic (rather than social or entertainment or political) perspective, Twitter is a “scam”. Allegedly, they are lying to advertisers in order to get the advertisers to pay them big money by claiming that “fake accounts”, such as “bots” (programs that fake being users) are really users. If in fact it turns out to be true (and the matter will be litigated since Twitter will be suing Musk, and Musk will need to prove this to win the case), the owners and managers of Twitter might be facing serious criminal charges. This has nothing to do with politics, and great deal to do with how many tech businesses have been disrespecting the law of economics and accounting.
Comparing the early 21st to the mid-20th century, Americans have less “hang ups” about non-WASP ethnicities of all types, and significantly greater toleration of religious groups other than the “mainline” Protestant churches. We are benefits of this increased diversity.
Imagine how Boro Park families would feel if the first salvo of World War III were happening in the Catskill?
In all fairness, many Americans went to watch the Battle of Bull Run (and got in the way of the soldiers). After seeing a real live battle, it seems that battlefield tourism (while the battle was going on) lost popularity.
jackk: Restricting non-criminals from gun ownership (what the Democrats are proposing) will in no way hamper criminals. Similarly, disarming or abolishing the police (another focus of much of the Democratic policy) will not result disarming or abolishing criminals. American culture is a function of 400 years of immigration policies which recruited large number of criminals (flee arrest/execution in their homelands) and rebels fed up with aristocratic societies (such of those in Europe) in which the elites had a monopoly on power and used it to ripoff everyone else.
Gun control would probably work well in countries with a long tradition of people accepting their place in society and being content to be ruled over by an elite which has a monopoly on power including gun ownership. For the most part, those who wanted to be rid of being ruled over have long ago packed the bags for the “wild west” of American, and left their sheepish cousins behind.
The bottom line is you can’t undo 400 years of cultural evolution by legislative fiat, and the US should accept its gun culture as something that can’t be easily changed and concentrate on disarming criminals and mentally ill persons and follow the “red state” solution (usually ignored in left wing media) of allowing armed citizens to shoot would be mass killers before they can do much harm.