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Starbucks has 🌟 k heksher for limited number of drinks, decreased this year.
The Jewish guy is not the ceo anymore, an Indian one is.
Starbucks is fighting unionization as hard as they can … maybe find a Non unionized store
Starbucks did issue a statement in response that is well … pareve, read it and decide whether it is up to your taste
Maybe this article from the front page gives you a hint:
HaRav Zilberstein wrote: “To my dear brothers and friends – I heard that there are bomb shelters that are filled with various belongings, including Sukkah parts. In our many sins, the Midas HaDin is dominant now and bomb shelters must be available – it is a matter of pikuach nefesh.”
“Therefore, I turn to you, dear brothers, at the order of the Mara D’Asrah, to immediately evacuate the bomb shelters – within 24 hours – and it will be pleasant for those who heed this. And if [some residents] chalilah don’t do so, the Vaad HaBayis [building committee] has permission to clear the shelter against their will.”
Pekak,
There is a difference between not panicking and not taking precautions. I hope you bought hearing aid for your cousin.Avira, I don’t want for this to sound like bickering and your post has a lot of good points, but for the benefit of those who might use your example the wrong way: if you happened to be in a place where people make fun of the emergency siren, you should have learnt in a more religious neighborhood. And you know what I mran: having a hat is not the only sign of religiousity; having a working head and respecting challenges Hashem sends is required also.
Chaim,
Presumably at the higher levels they were told that the high-tech wall is doing the job. They also felt smart that were listening to hamas conversations, confirming their views. So, they leveraged resources for other priorities, including other threats, that they considered more important.Could the prime minister also personally walk along the perimeter and review all technical info about new uavs and mine field making? Maybe, but I am afraid there were 100 crazy things happening in Israel that he had to pay attention to. That is where the whole society is at fault for messing up priorities.
So, Israeli government is capable of quickly correcting for the errors and increased cabinet surely has expertise and variety of opinions. Harder to know what wad going on in the peacetime army. If some inferior leaders were appointed over time, IF, it may be challenging to change them in days.
The same wishful thinking of peace dividends happened in other places.. that is why US and EU are scrambling for munitions, Ukraine is going back for months in places they lost in a week.
I don’t know what was edited out, but overall we seem to be discussing what happened rather than blaming, and Chaim’s points are informed. There is a lot of data in public domain right now to have a reasonable discussion. You can’t stop people from trying to comprehend the tragedy and it is better to have an informed discussion here, under your watchful moderation, than listen to inane rumors. What is true is that official inquiry will have to wait.
“I don’t know what was edited out…” Exactly
Similarity to 1973 is that in both cases government was in the hands of experienced people with previous record of success. Maybe, we should appreciate that when we have a win, it is often a nes and not our zechuyos, and we should not rely on a stam repeat without any additional effort. Or, according to the gemora theory that nes eats up zechuyos, then there may be less left for the second case …
A systemic explanation that I hear from some analysts that it is derech olam that achieving sholom with a bad entity through strength leads to inevitable “peace dividend” that politicians milk to get popularity – redirect expenses, fight against or for windmills, and they shape military leadership that is not too aggressive, and, to top that, you get wishful thinking interpreting enemy behavior l’tzad zechus (interesting how halakha leads us here to the right result – no tzad zechus to reshayim).
Chaim, agree with your list, add to that
4) interpreting enemy exercises near the wall as political events, given that there were peaceful gestures at the momentWhether there is Bibi’s fault is not very important. If he were a untested leader, this would be a determining event. Given that he is an experienced leader, the question might be – did he lose his abilities due to age, changed environment, too much politics, etc. If not, then he might still be the best person to fix things going forward. And as we know from the story of Rabban Gamliel, dismissing a distinguished leader is not that simple, even when he is not always right. I mean here people who appreciate his service, those who disagree with him are in their right to vote for someone else, of course.
Also, please note that however tragic the events are now, Israel still has functioning military and intelligence. Nobody is expected to be always successful in a war.
We should appreciate how much internal fights affect leadership. When a country is running elections for several years, prime minister is under several trials, reservists threaten not to show up for service, etc, this surely affect how government is functioning.
A lot of preceding events were about not accepting other Yidden as brothers because you disagree with them. So, try the opposite. In my town, we had people from different shitos coming together for tehilim – those who usually say tefilos for Tzahal and those who do not.. I wonder whether any shuls that do not – took upon themselves to say such tefilos at least temporarily. Anyone?
There is a video of an Israeli soldier going around, saying that we have left fighting right, right fighting left, forgetting that we have real enemies. Understandably, most of us are less connected to the situation as this soldier, but these ideas should propagate.
this is not a random attack, events are continuing, and it is time to all work together, especially when a leader has experience, whether you agree with that experience or not. There will be commissions after to learn the lessons.
Amil, you also need to look beyond the starting rate. People trapped in multi generational situation where work is not valued, May not be able to jump out quickly, it requires time and adjustment. But while economics of Jewish community may be similar to others, we have Torah sources that would help if that torah was actually taught properly.
Chaim, answering briefly for Same reason.. as gemora mentions, there is a difference between a professional skill and a business. Businesses come and go and create a lot of opportunities for aveiros. If people are afraid of seeing inappropriately dressed people, what about being locked in an inappropriate business relationship? What about businesses where everyone else hires cheap illegals or underpays taxes, you’ll have to be competitive?
I am very much enjoying intersection of high tech and business, but I mostly value the business part for freedom from annoying bosses. I think any profession where you can run an honest small business is good.
I am not a navi to say which jobs will be good in the future, I work in data analysis and machine learning before ai became cool (again), and while there is hype, there are a lot of real products also
Chaim, yes, I just saw that WSJ article – other professional jobs have increased starting pay lately (contrary to your feeling), but not accounting … I heard about people going into nursing homes a lot .. In theory, this _is_ a professional job that requires some education, formal or not. In practice, this is one of the scarier occupation where it seems that one earns good money by violating respect to sheva and kavod habriut… there aer so many of these homes that get bad grades, newspaper front pages and even prison times.
I also don’t think everyone should go to Ivies, to the opposite, one should choose education corresponding to expected job. Say, women who plan to be involved with kids, may not choose to get ivy education, unless they qualify for financial aid
I posted earlier something here that I was not sure is appropriate and seems that mods kindly agreed with that (unless the post was eaten by software). The conundrum here is – on one hand, some info may be considered Lashon Hara. On the other hand, pretending that everyone is on board here is also Hillul Hashem.
I am not sure how to resolve this. One possible solution would be not to mention questionable personalities at all, but that would keep their personality cult continue growing under the radar.
Bochur,
I think you have a very simplified version of what Zionists are saying (whether original or modern) based on something you heard from a friend who really does not like them. To claim intellectual honesty, you would need to find out more.As to Israeli intellectual honesty, I can quote one Israeli professor I knew: he was not observant himself, and his teenage son started making snide remarks about dosim. So, the father said – if you want to have an opinion about such weighty topics, you need to know what you are talking about, so go get a class. So, the son went to learn – and soon stopped eating at his father’s house. Now, things can happen with everyone, check the mezuzahs, etc, BUT when professor’s second son grew up, he repeated the same shpiel (knowing the risks!) – with the same result. Both of the sons are observant, one was an advisor to a right-wing Israeli government.
right, if I recall my calculation ^, after 244 iterations, you are below 1/60th and it will be botel beshishi, or in some cases we use 1/100 for botel, that would be power of 274
Chaim,
you need to match work plan with educational cost. If you plan on a fulltime job in finance, then it makes sense to get loans and graduate from Columbia. If you are planning on being a p/t accountant, then a local community or online college will be appropriate.you need to look at underlying causes of this worrisome trend to “making money”?
Are they involved in unregulated interstate commerce? Then, they may be picking up levush and accent from their mafia friends.
Are they getting, H’V, college education? Then, they start dropping Rs in Hahvahd …
Are they stam printing money at home? Then, they will stay “heimish”
Time to close this thread.
Chaim, if you indeed live in an unfortunate place with such values, maybe you should move to a more erliche place. In my humble experience, places where many people work professional jobs, there is less of showing off and the kids are less confused.
DaMoshe on tuition: jewish community is mostly neutral on this: Both parents and teachers belong to the community. So if tuition increased, it means a combination of increase in learning, decrease of class size, higher pay for teachers who belong to the same community, more people not paying tuition, higher overhead supporting administration who are also members of the community. So nobody from outside to blame
DaMoshe on housing costs: in 1965, average house size was 460 sq ft per person, now it is 1100. Go back to 500 sq ft per person and your costs will be cheaper
Ujm is a famous talmid of not a real Scotsman mesorah: define frum as Monsey, and then discover that all frummies live in Monsey
Chaim, I obviously meant borrowing at 2% earlier. General rule: assets go up during inflation, and printing money 💰 in the past several years was a good predictor of inflation. There was not much risk of borrowing at 2%. Of course, as you are saying, one should keep cash to make sure payments can be met during market fluctuations. This is all al pi Rambam who, I recall, recommends job and property before getting married.. there was probably more in the financial literacy shiur in your yeshiva, not sure why you missed that
Coffee, this ain’t that simple. Multiple sources are quoting the same April 2020 article as if it were new. Unlikely that many people made same mistake at the same time. So, your local paper editor copied this from somewhere
It is either someone did an innocent mistake and others quoted it or someone maliciously spread the information around. Second option is more likely: such wide propagation is usually based on original mass mailing. In either case, a simple lesson is to not trust anything online.Can you ask the paper where they source their stories. Let’s find out how disinformation travels.
Apparently, young Nehama Leibovitz told her father that she learned at school that one should behave better between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. Her father replied that yes but one should also behave better between Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashana.
I agree that 2016 vote is Trump’s upper bound, but 2020 is his lower bound: Do you know people who changed their vote fro. T to B after watching B in office? But higher chsnce of B voters changing or not coming. So it will be a very close election.
And the main fight will not be changing votes of some Choni Hameogel but which side will show up. So even more Russian collusion and laptops from azazel
Ctl, so implement Romney care in CT, then NY, etc. I have no problem with that. Why make everything federal?
As to ec, who said one vote 🗳 is fundamental . Keeping agreements/contracts is fundamental. We call it bris … states agreed to a constitution and there should be no changes unless there’s an overwhelming agreement on the change.
This is like making a contract, and then saying disregard some Clauses, they were there just to make you sign it.
A simple remedy from a mild inflation is to hold property instead of cash. Borrow at 2% before inflation and then watch your property value inflate 5% annually.
Of course, you need some safety cushion in case feds raise rates too high leading to depression
Shimon, where is it in halocho that not paying debts is a mitzva?
I didn’t know liquor is osur on chol
Coffee ☕️ withdrawal after Yom Kippur causing sudden gullibility syndrome?
Gadolhadofy, my apologies, I think you are correcting me repeatedly on this story.
Qwerty > impress on people that Moshiach will bring all Jews together
Right. Maybe this is a way to evaluate claims. If the claims are divisive, they are not kosher and vice versa
Statistics of bad outcomes of divorces need to be compared not to the happy marriages, but to unhappy marriages that did not end in divorces.
One thing to consider: according to R Twersky, if one parent is abusive (including verbal) and the other parent does not stop the abuser (maybe because s/he can’t), children might later forgive the abuser (it was beyond his control) but blame the second parent for not standing up to it.
Marriages used to be grand affairs and bar mitzvas just shnapps with herring. Now, it reversed. How come?
Bar mitzvas used to be just the first time of putting tefillin on, now it may be, R’L, the only time – so deserves a huge celebration. Marriages, to the opposite, used to be once-a-lifetime …
DaMoshe > He did not see a healthy relationship between his parents,
R Pliskin addresses this in his book “Marriage” (highly recommend).
You ask such a person – did you ever witness a healthy family, but only a couple of days a year being a guest somewhere, majority of my memories are of unhealthy one.
Then, a solution: continuously play in your mind positive experiences you had, and then majority of your memories would be of healthy events and you can apply them to your family life.
ACA v RomneyCare. I am not an expert to judge whether these systems are similar or just a marketing trick by Obamacarers. But a clear difference is that RC was a state plan. If it was so successful, there would be other states creating similar ones. Obama could have promoted it in IL or DC (did he?).
Maybe after say 10-15 states did well, there would be some (weak) argument to have a federal system. Otherwise, it just does not sound true.
CTL,
so you feel suspicious of Trump’s victory because he relied on the venerable institution of electoral college? First, you obviously referee a game by the rules it is played. It would be silly to declare a victory in a basketball game to the team who possessed the ball more time or had less fouls. If the rules would be based on proportional vote, both sides would campaign differently and it would have been a different game.Furthermore, electoral college reflects an agreement that States reached in order to join together in a (highly successful) Union. Most people who argue for abolishing it are either ignorami or hope that others are. I am sure CTL is none of these, so maybe you can explain why you are trying to pressure citizens into abandoning it. Note that that agreement was achieved as a complicated peshara between multiple parties. Should serve as a good lesson in only making changes that only a large majority will be happy with.
On ACA: my experience as a small business owner is similar to Dr Pepper – huge increases in deductibles and gradual increase in premiums for business medical insurance. My overheads are tolerable only because my employees run huge salaries as professionals. I can’t imagine what is happening with small companies and low-tech employees. I presume they all use subsidized plans, so market is destroyed.
choices went from 4 to 2, or almost 1.
Duchening is not such a big deal, Sephardim do it daily chutz laaretz
Many people who post on political issues talk the way you’d never allow yourself on a Torah topic. Just saw an article in Jewish Action from someone in OU bemoaning the same thing. If you practiced to be objective and respectful to other opinions and to facts in your Torah learning, you should be able to use his skill when talking about other things. And if you can disregard facts in political discussions, there is a chance your Torah learning is also lacking.
It is also totally useless other than therapy – most of us read or heard political opinions in other media, hearing it once again on YWN will not change anyone’s opinion.
Arguing requires two sides. So, one side may choose not to argue and concentrate on other aspects of life. See Gemoras about Rav’s wife who would cook him a wrong dish, but he ate it up.
Maybe lack of a rebbe is the problem? If one spends time learning esoteric topics, he at minimum needs close personal guidance. Sichos are not sufficient
Last time rh was on shabbos, we got vaccine developed, but we also elected Biden who couldn’t find those vaccines in the oval room. We also got people upset that the government prevented them from making each other sick. Nebach. Be careful what you daven for.
Volozhin yeshiva did not provide meals, and Russian government also. Students ate at homes. If you want to be zoche to have a yeshiva in your town, feed yeshiva students in your house once a week like in olden days. You’ll get zechus Torah edited, the anti frum comments are getting quite offensive
Qwerty, r Kamenetsky said so because shiur b Ivrit showed that the yeshiva cared about klal Yisrael, allowing Sephardim to access these classes. THAT is a pre requisite for a movement to contain a potential moshiach
From this point of view, Chabad hugely qualifies due to their great work, but at the same time disqualifies with this silly partisanship… hope both Chabad and their critics fix their own problems and compete in caring for the klal rather than in putting each other down.