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takahmamash, I think I remember finding Bosco syrup in Israel at some point, but it was a bit too grainy for my liking, Could be mistaken, though. It’s been a while. 😀
They cover your feet. Check.
Do you feel modest when you wear them?
This is what happens when I boil them for too long or don’t seal them properly. 😛
Alternatively, you could call it lasagna.
I miss being a velociraptor who catches worms.
What’s “shtickle” mean?
I didn’t hate the Pesach dessert cakes we bought this year – would actually eat them year-round if there was nothing better on hand.
feet
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Bais Yaakov
pleated skirts
denim skirts
hemlines
thread
sewing
knitting
scarves
time travelI have my issues with Zionism and the Zionist movement. (I’m not against them, but we could get along better.) Benefits of this movement, however, include:
* There are Jewish people living in the part of the world Biblically known as Eretz Yisroel.
* Thanks to the Zionists, there is a Jewish state where Jews can theoretically move to if the rest of the world does, indeed, become a dangerous place for us.
* Kosher chewing gum from big-name brands, like Orbit and Bazooka.I was not a supporter of Billary Clinton during the 2016 election. Benefits of her running and getting as far as she did include:
* Proof that women can run for president and get as far as being selected as a mainstream party’s candidate.
* Inspiration for more qualified and honest women to run for president in the future.
* …?I don’t need a calendar, a date converter, or anything. I just send a letter to my LOR’s grave any time I have a question. Or, sometimes, I think of a question and open a book of my LOR’s correspondence to a random page to get my answer. It works every time, even if I’m not on the level to understand what some lady’s old shaitel has to do with the time I should recite Havdalah.
😛
Honestly, I think popular culture tells kids not to like vegetables. If I hadn’t read storybooks about kids who struggled to eat their vegetables, I probably would’ve kept on eating them. The fictional kids made a good case that vetables are squishy and yucky and I was an impressionable young one.
I’m late to the Purim party but I much prefer open-top hamentaschen. Unless I know for a fact that all closed-top hamentaschen have poppy seeds inside. That way, I know what flavor I’m getting.
Something to keep in mind for next year, I guess. 😛
Bananas are a great source of potassium.
With naturally artificial flavors. 😛
I agree, full-length pictures border on extreme … and a tad creepy, too.
I have to daven with my eyes open, or I won’t be able to read my siddur!
Oh well, I guess the fact that I don’t rely on memory for reciting prayers means I’m not pious enough. 😛
I agree with RebYidd23. So long as gravity exists and Murphy’s Law remains unbreakable, I strongly recommend bringing at least one spare outfit. 🙂
Thank you so much for sharing this story, DaMoshe.
“I will occasionally email various posters identities to each other in the hopes of resolving the shidduch crisis”
*hides*
Please check your email
just kidding
Stupidity should be a disqualifying condition. But alas, it isn’t.
Bump 🙂
*Waves shyly* I know this thread’s a year old, but I came across two resources for you if you’re still looking to publish your writings:
The Writers’ Cafe Magazine – I’m not sure if they’re still current, but they seem to be a literary publication for frum writers. Their criteria looks pretty flexible, and the sample stories are neat!
Yehudis Magazine – I think they’re a more recent frum publication for Jewish teen girls and women, specifically. It looks like they only accept submissions through their website/by email, though…. (Not sure if that’s still an issue for you.)
Hope those help – keep writing! 🙂
kj chusid, it’s not Fishy, it’s Feishy!
Well, it’s harder to hide all those E10 video games, PG-rated movies, and rock ‘n’ roll music if the parents come unannounced. That’s how it has always been, from childhood to adulthood. 😛
*Grabs the preciousssss custard donuts*
Sheesh! You don’t want to know….
“Be nice to EVERYONE you meet. They may be your relatives someday.”
-Oomis
Love it! For more context and a beautiful story, see: http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/who-needs-professional-shadchanim-anyways#post-591186
Hey, Shopping! Thanks for bringing this subject up.
While I believe that women and men have different roles in Judaism, I also believe that women and men should have equal social and employment opportunities in the secular world. (Whether they should take full advantage of these opportunities is another story entirely. Maybe a girl doesn’t want to work in a STEM field, and really would rather be a stay-at-home mom – but I digress….) In that sense, I think it’s possible to support [at least some] feminist values and live a frum Jewish lifestyle without conflict.
Not everyone defines “frum feminism” this way; the majority of people I see calling themselves “frum feminists” on the Web tend to support things that seem to conflict with Orthodox Jewish values. Many appear to be feminists advocating for pro-feminist changes within Judaism, not feminists who happen to be frum Jews. I have my reasons for not openly associated with others who call themselves “frum feminists” … and the feminist movement as a whole.
Any Boston Cream donuts, skripka? I’ve been searching for some good ones all week. XD
kj chusid, Thanks so much for sharing your insights on the Chanuka miracles. I think I’ve been subject to a little of this Zionist pro-war agenda this year (e.g. the miracle of the oil being an “insignificant midrash” for children and the war aspects being the one true miracle; that “real Jews” fight wars while “wimps” just sit in front of their menorahs eating latkes….) And I thought I was doing so well on the “The world’s gonna go boom by President Billary, move to Israel NOW!!!” front. I’ll admit here (where I’m fairly anonymous) that they got me this time! 😛
Anyway, I think your post was G-d’s ways of gently putting me back in my place. Thank you, kj chusid.
The word “Hellenist” sounds a teeny, tiny bit like “Chiloni.” Coincidence?
I didn’t know Popa was the OP until I opened this thread, so I had this rant prepared:
In all seriousness, not all folks are cut out for the army. And not all folks are cut out for attending a university campus either. One shouldn’t be forced to take part, nor should one be forced to not take part. People need to be educated about their options (and in the case of Charedim and the [Israeli] army, they should have real options), and make informed decisions about what path they wish to take.
That said, Popa, ha! You made me look!
Excellent question, no worries. 🙂 Maybe your school would have access to their contact information. Hatzlacha raba!
Cranberries are definitely in season, so if you’re serious (and even if you’re not – any cholent is good cholent), I’ll give that a try!
What type of juice, @Joseph? I’ve been experimenting with cholent-esque concoctions, but I’m not confident enough with the results that I can call them anything more than plain old “stew.”
Beef shnitzel.
What I find so horrific is that this sort of atrocity happens all the time in Israel by the same nation of terrorists, and NOBODY in the secular world talks about that.
*That’s where He can be found!”
How about…. “Hashem is here / Hashem is there / Hashem is truly everywhere! Up, down, right left, all around / Here, there, and everywhere / That’s where he can be found!”
@flatbusher – “When Moshiach comes, IYH we will all go.” Amein to that. That’s my plan. 🙂
I am coming here knowing that the OP may attempt to refute whatever I say, and whether his arguments make sense, I realize it’s not worth arguing back. The OP seems very set in his ways.
“Eretz Yisrael has been overrun by uncouth vulgar barbarians with disgusting habits who will stop at nothing to uproot Torah, and about whom there is little we are able or even willing to do about it.
Not to mention the country is under constant attack by very annoying Yismaelim.” – akuperma
As someone who has lived in Israel in B”H a time of relative quiet, I have to agree with akuperma on this one.
I love the Holy Land, but I see no compelling reason to live there, especially now.
My dear friends who still live in the state of Israel assure me constantly that a) it’s actually really safe in Israel right now, despite all that silly the “propaganda” the media is propagating about terrorism in Israel right now, and b) we should all leave America because the very same things that are going on in Israel right now could happen here.
Well, they’re happening in Israel right now on a very grand scale, believe it or not. Here, not so much, if at all. I live here, so I know. Right now, at this very moment in time, I am a lot safer living “chutz la’aretz.” (It cracks me up how for some, the whole world revolves around Israel. Everywhere and everyone else is just a “chutznick.”)
How many murdered yeshiva bochurim, Jewish girls who fall trap to the sadistic young Ibrahims and Youssefs of the Muslim community, whole families being murdered in their sleep, and innocent pedestrians getting stabbed and maimed in the streets, will it take before people realize just how flipping unsafe (and STUPID) it is to live in Israel right now? And that’s just physical danger. Spiritual danger is a WHOLE other story!
You may say I’m living in a bubble, that I’m blocking out all rhyme and reason propagated by the good religious Zionists, encouraging me to save my soul before America goes boom. (Some, dual citizens of the US and Israel, speak of such an idea with such relish, it makes me sick.) I say that aliyah-pushers should take a good look at their own backyard and realize the first place that would go kablooey in a Muslim anti-Israeli/anti-Semitic attack is the so-called Jewish State. Don’t give me your anti-American fear-mongering headcanons. Israeli-American dual citizens especially, I (like most Americans) don’t like President Obama or his policies any more than you do, but you should be ASHAMED of yourselves with the evil you wish daily on your fellow Jewish American people.
I hope and pray that Hashem will continue to watch over every Jew in the world, from Israel, to America, to Madagascar, and the moon. And if I had a dollar for every time someone has told me G-d only watches over the Jews Israel, I could buy plane tickets to fly all my Israeli family and friends (and even my frenemies) to real safety!
If we didn’t pigeonhole the Jewish people into little boxes and constantly negatively highlight how people are different, maybe we’d have peace between these two “factions”. I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m just Jewish. That’s enough categorizing for me.
How about the one that goes….
“Oy na na na na nay oy na na na na na nay-ay-ay”?
Will Benny be there?
You know, Benny Friedman. Who else would I be talking about on a forum for frum people? 😀
I think that many people are used to things being very routine. Seeing something different takes people by surprise, and, caught off guard, they aren’t always sure how to handle it. Oftentimes, I see people reacting to difference with fear. Folks should learn to better roll with the punches and deal with it realistically.
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Bakery bread. It won’t last as long because it’ll be eaten up quickly because it tastes better! 😛
@Joe katz – Thank you for sharing this message. I hope a day will come when our nation won’t need tragedies as a motivator to unite.
Bli neder, I will work on judging others more favorably.