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My Yeshivish granddaughters go to Bas Mikroh. I think they’re happy there. YSV may have Yeshivish crowd too, but, I only know more modern kids who go there.

this is a weird question. we make havdala on our dining room table, with a becher, silver candle holder and silver besomim holder.

I’ve used A&B, but, they add matzoh meal. I’ve used Freund’s which doesn’t add matzoh meal, but, it’s too sweet. They are both very good, but, when I have time I make my own gefilte fish and it’s the best (also expensive, I don’t add any fillers)

First of all it does not matter how you spell menschlichkeit in English because it is not an English word, but, I believe this is the most accepted spelling. Second of all, I do believe that one should hold the door for someone coming after them. You should always check if someone is behind you and hold the door until he/she gets through or holds the door him/herself.I also think you should say thank you for any courtesy given whether it is door holding or moving over in the street or a chore that your kids or husband do, even if it’s their job. I thank my mailperson for delivering mail even though she is paid to do so etc.Everyone should teach their kids basic common courtesy toward others and also how to say thank you etc.

I don’t know what kind of cooking facilities you have, like how many frying pans you can have on the stove at once or do you have a commercial griddle that’s large enough to make a whole lot at once. I’d say you need at least 3 or 4 latkes (small size) or 1 or 2 large latkes per person, maybe even more depending on everyone’s appetites and how much other food you’re serving. look up a recipe on line, see how much it makes and multiply it by how many portions you need. you can partially fry them to get them crisp on the outside and then finish baking them in the oven to free up your frying pans.If you put some lemon juice or citric acid in the latke mixture it won’t turn black or ruin the taste. Why don’t you call someone who cooks for a yeshiva or a camp and ask him what to do. I imagine it would take sevral hours and although they can be frozen, they taste better fresh. You can refrigerate them for a few days and reheat them. Good Luck and Happy Chanuka!

I have no problem washing out chrain, or grape juice, but, I never tried orange soda, never buy it or drink it.Cola is good for cleaning car battery terminals.

Take a hot bath with half cup of apple cider vinegar and soak for about 20 minutes, trying to get most of yourself covered with the water. Then go to bed for the rest of the night.Apple cider vinegar helps to detoxify oneself.

I’ve had soups other than chicken on Fri. night and it just felt like something was missing.

There once was a Cat in a Hat

Who made a mess in someone’s flat

He got Thing one and Thing two

to clean up the whole zoo

And then he skiddaddled -Stat!

Many people in the alternative health field believe (rightfully so) that raw unpasteurized, non-homogenized milk is a beneficial food and pasteurized homogenized milk is not good for you. I am of the same belief and I grew up drinking such milk as a child, and even now I also acquire such milk from time to time.It tastes very good and as long as the cows it comes from are healthy the milk is a very healthful product.

Sounds like games I used to play in school during class

to: to: Im in a dillemma. Im very concious to make sure my skirts cover my knee at all times. I just bought a very nice straight skirt- when im standing it covers way below my knee (at least 4 inches) And when im sitting it also covers. But when i got into a car my skirt rode up a little to make me feel uncomfortable. I really like the skirt and it covers all the time its just cars thats the problem. I don’t know what to do. I don’t think lengthening it will help. Is it wrong to wear it and just be extra careful while getting in a car?

answer:I forgot to add, maybe you can have a kick pleat put into the skirt to give it a little more width.

I always make a basic salad with a little olive oil, freshly squeezed lemon juice,and a little salt, that’s all. Its easy and very good.Fresh lemon juice is far better than the bottled kind.I just cut up the veggies, pour on the seasonings, mix it up, and – it’s done!

I would love to go bike riding, but, haven’t done so since I got married many years ago. I don’t think it would portray me as a tsniudik woman if I rode around on a bike (maybe in a secluded area, if one can be found, I would still ride a bike). There are some things that one just has to forgo if you want to do Avodas Hashem in the proper way. As for shells over T shirts, I think if they are figure revealing, they just aren’t proper. Who started this style anyway? Was it someone Jewish or is it coming from the goyim? What’s wrong if we Jewish women and girls proudly wear our own style of tsniusdik clothing, made with a modest look, not eye catching and figure revealing? I think one can look quite nice in looser clothing.

I think that although covering one’s hair with a natural looking sheitel is technically not ossur as far as hair covering is concerned, it may be ossur for mar-as ayin, that it looks like one’s hair is not covered, and also if it is so eye catching that it makes men want to look at a woman, then it is an issue of lack of tsnius. Just like one shouldn’t wear clothing that make a man look at a woman, her sheitel should also not be attention getting.

I personally would be very happy not to wear a sheitel. I only wear one so I shouldn’t stand out a different from anyone else, and I admire those who are not ashamed to wear other headcoverings at simchos. (Usually I do not wear sheitels, only when going out on Shabbos or to a simcha) If I am in Eretz Yisroel, I go out even on Shabbos without a sheitel because so many women there do, and if I am in a community where sheitels are ossur, I for sure don’t wear one.I would be very happy if all the rabbonim would assur sheitels altogether.

because I am a Jewish Princess.

Until I lived in Lakewood,I thought people were either frum regular or frum chassidish, or modern orthodox or not religious at all.Now that I am here many years, I realize that there are all sorts of yeshivos so you can be yeshivish Lakewood, Yeshivish Ner Yisroel, Yeshivish Torah Vodaas, etc. Within the framework of yeshivish you can be more or less modern, more or less chassidish, more or less Zionist, more or less gashmiusdik,more or less tsniusdik etc. If you live in a town that is based around a yeshiva and your husband learned there, then you are yeshivish. If you moved there because it was better than living in the city for various reasons, then you may or may not be yeshivish.

It’s hard but it can be done. My husband was in kollel for 5 years and when he started working money was still tight. You don’t have to live in the lap of luxury, you have to learn to sacrifice your olam hazeh for your olam haboh, but, isn’t that what we’re here for any way? I have several sons in kollel and they’re not being supported (yes, we give them occasional help from time to time, but, not on a regular basis, because we have a large family and have to give everyone something and we’re not rich)

It’s being frum, and ehrliche, not too worldly,with it but, not too modern, a bissel chassidish is okay, black suit, black hat, white shirt, good hashkofos.

Why do Jewish women feel they have to flaunt everything? If it attracts men, it is wrong. A woman has to be attractive to her husband and look neat and properly covered up at all times, in and out of the house.If her appearance causes men to look at her, she is doing something wrong. We should not be letting goyishe fashion designers dictate how we should be dressing and the Jewish clothing manufacturers can fashion very nice tzniusdik clothing. Those who dress otherwise probably know better but, don’t want to be told what to do. I don’t know why the writers of these letters continues to daven in such a place and if his Rov tolerates such behavior, he should chosose another Rov and another shul. It sounds like a house of sin to me and not a proper place to daven.