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GH, please give it a rest, if only for your own peace of mind. To maintain this level of hatred for so long is not healthy.

Whdn it comes to professionals, a large share of the credit should go to COLPA. A voluntary association of frum attorneys, it was founded in 1965 to legally represent the frum community in thier fight to be shomer shabbos on the job

BTW, CT proabortion women presume to speak for all women. Any objections to that?

Reb Eliezer, Medicaid will often pay for abortions

The problem with the emphasis at an early age on Gemorah exclusively is that many bochrim have little knowledge of neviim, hashkafa and Jewish history. We didn’t know why we wore our heads covered or what the tfilos meant. We spent 5 hours on Gemorah in high school . One year, we learned Mishlai, another year grammar, and, in our senior year, Jewish history. These were taught in the afternoon. The rebbeim, all products of prewar Lithuanian yeshivas where only the best were admitted, weren’t prepared to deal with students whose skills and talents ranged across the spectrum. Bochurs who were talented got a lot of attention, those not so gifted were left to drift.

My favorite story regarding mrdia distortion:

The CNN reporter describing the ” mostly peacefull ” demonstrations while over his shoulder you could clearly see the huge flames destroying businesses and homes.

As the saying goes, who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?

GH, you are confusing to different instances at a 2 different shiva houses.

Participant: he viewed it as a business related activity that was not appropriate to someone sitting shiva

More common than you think

I just remembered 3 awkward ( and true ) moments:

1. Local rav was sitting shiva. While I was there making a shiva call, two charity collectors came in. Ultimately, the rav , who didnt know them, asked if they knew his father. They said no, they just wanted him to sign a letter authorizing them to collect in the community . The rav politely refused.
2. A friend was sitting shiva at his parent’s home in Far Rockaway. He couldn’t believe the number of real estate agents who used shiva as an excuse to gain early entry and view the house. Some actually gave him their business card
3. Another friend ,about 5 years ago, was sitting shiva for his mother ( his father sat with him ). About 5 women visitors who neither knew were shadchanim using shiva to check out his father

Jack, you say they didn’t reopen , they redesignated. Pure semantics.

A pointless shiva. I have a half sister who I didnt know existed and was only seen once , and that was nearly 60 years ago. Why would I sit shiva for someone I don’t know, have zero feelings for and would only inconvenience myself and my wife?

Chaim , some small corrections. Daniel Bromberg did not create chapters and verses. Chapters were created in 1227 by Stephen Langton. ( Archbishop of Cantebury ) and verses by Rabbi in 1448. It was done to make it easier to link a commentary to a passuk.The first printed Gemorahs were done by the Soncinos and they created the format, not Bromberg, who simply copied their format, with one significant change.
Look at the bottom of any page in any Masechta , and you’ll see the first word in Rashi, Tosfos, and the Gemorah on the next page.Why? The Soncinos didn’t use page numbers and this was their way of making sure the pages got bound in the correct order.
Decades later, Bromberg modified th e Soncinos format to include page nunbers. He started the practise of labeling the first page of the Gemorah as Page 2 ( daf b ). Why? Not for any mystical reasons, but because he considered the title page to be Page 1. BTW , the Soncinos could only afford to print , i think, 2 ir 3 masechtos. Bromberg printed the entire Shas.
One more note. Rashi script had nothing to do with Rashi; it was a 15th century Sephardic script used by Soncinos and Bromberg when printing Rashi’s commentary to make it easier to distinguish Rashi from the text he was commenting on.

And Georgia rejected the lies of Biden, Stacey Abrams, CNN, MSNBC et al. As you recall, they claimed that Georgia’s new voting law requiring voter ID was discriminatory, racist , Jim Crow on steroids and designed to restrict voting. The Republicans said the law was designed to make it more difficult to cheat while making it easier overall to vote. Early indications are that over 800,00 votes were cast in early voting as opposed to 368,000 in the 2018 primary.
As a side thought, I’ve often felt that the only thing racist about voter ID is the Democratic belief that people of color somehow lack the intelligence to get an ID . Interviews with average black Americans express resentment at the thought that either they can’t use a computer or find their local DMV to get an ID .
TSA at airport screening, even notary publics requirs a photo ID and noone seems to have a problem providing one.

Ujm, that’s another untrue folklore story, despite whar your friend told you Because it was easy to fake , people with high blood pressure were routinely held over for a few days , under observation, to see if the pressure stayed up. In addition, they were subject to rexamination in the future .
I requested a physical in the early 70’s because I knew I would fail because of my eyes and a skin rash. At the final station, I was told that I failed, but just for my vision. The doctor said he did me a favor by leaving off the rash. If left on, the Army would keep calling me in to see if the rash was better. Since vision generally doesn’t improve, I’d never hear from the Army again if I failed for only vision. He was right.

What’s ironic is Rabbi Wasserman’s grandson, also Elchanan , went to zionist schools ( Yeshiva Ohel Moshe in Bensonhurst and Yeshiva of Flatbush High school). How do I know? I was in his class in YOM and my wife was in his high school class

I have a true name change story. The stepfather of a friend passed away a few years ago , and his name was Murphy. Apparently he had changed his name so he wouldn’t appear to be Jewish. My friend said the irony was that his stepfather spoke with a heavy , pronounced, Yiddish accent.

GH, I dont recall your objection to local District Judges issuing national rulings to stymie Trump actions
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Jack and RE
Your lack of history is breathtaking.
1. The Democrats used the filibuster 314 times while Trump was president. I don’t recall any objections on your parts
2. Schumer used the filibuster this week against a Republican proposal
3. Republican Senator Tom Cotton gave a fiery defense of the filibuster in the Senate, predicting dire consequences if this long standing Senate tradition was overturned. He concluded by saying he didn’t write the speech. It was written by, and delivered by, Senator Charles Schumer when Republicans controlled the Senate.
4. Democrats have stated that requiring valid IDs constitutes voter suppression for African-Americans and Latinos. Rep Burgess Owens, an African-American Representative from Utah, said from the House floor that he was offended that Democrats assummed people of color lacked the intelligence to obtain an ID.
5. Many Blue states, including Delaware, NY. NJ and Connecticut have provisions that make voting more restrictive than Georgia.

GH. The Virginia DOE website clearly stated that CRT was being taught in public schools. The left misrepresents the opposition to CRT, as you did. Slavery is part of our past and should be part of the history taught in school. Martin Luther King believed people should be judged on their character, not skin color. CRT often seeks to divide , by race, and by defining whites as inherently racist.

CTlawyer, do you actually think that the party that allows anti Semitic pronouncements by the Squad to go unpunished , and banned outdoor church and synogogue services because of covid while allowing BLM protests is the party of religious rights?

Soros has funded the ele ctoon of progressive DA’s that have been very soft on crime

Akuperma, sadly, ive observed your kind of backward reasoning before. You attribute the saving of the balance of European Jewry due to Hashem’s orchestrating Pearl Harbor.
In your way of thinking, couldn’t Hashem have avoided the deaths of ALL European Jewry ( and the loss of life at Pearl Harbor) by not allowing Hitler and the Japanese military from coming to power?

Ujm, not a good anolgy as you are choosing to assume that Thanksgiving is a Christian holiday..That may be your belief but don’t force it on others

CT, please don’t be condescending. His point is understandable. It’s not a newsflash to state that in kupat cholim, you get what you pay for. Like most government run health programs ( Medicare being a major exception ) costs are kept down by rationing care. The hospitals where I worked all had special all Included packages for elective surgeries ( i.e. knees, shoulders, hips, ) aimed at Canadiens looking at months long waits in Canada for arthroscopic or joint replacement elective surgeries.

I’m rerired.