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If it’s warm out I don’t usually serve hot food (I know, sacrilege) so I’ll serve gilled chicken cutlets, home-cooked corned beef, peppered overnight roast, chicken salad, cold cuts or something else room temperature.
If it’s cold I like to cook some sort of fleishig stew. This week I made a wheat berry beef stew with dried mushrooms. Sometimes I serve baked beans or black bean soup with hot dogs/sausages, and I also make kasha stew with turkey or chicken chunks.
I like some heat with everything but then I burnt out my taste buds years ago 🙂
Thinking hard – are you looking for mains, sides, traditional fall dishes, traditional Chanuka dishes, or what?
How about a butternut squash soup? Microwave the squash, season with your choice of ginger/curry/cumin, add garlic, salt & pepper, a pinch of sugar if you like, a box of vegetable broth and a cup of milk or cream. Cook then blend.
Mmmmm. You know what the corn kugel really needs? Hot sauce! Seriously – just a few shakes will add some flavor.
We’re having our family dinner at lunchtime so people can get home to light. No turkey, though – they are very expensive and nobody likes turkey that much. If we had (a) more people and (b) more money, I would go for the Turducken from Evergreen. Only $190.
Art – it sounds like you are in terrible, terrible pain. You are not alone! Please reach out for help – try Yitty Leibel Helpline 718-435-7669. Hatzlacha rabba!
Redefine Jewish community. You need enough Jews for a comfortable minyan, not a minyan on every block. My kids will probably end up out of town because housing expenses here are crazy.
Say they met through mutual friends. And maybe the website should get shadchanus …
I think that is beautiful! And in my experience, I think that in your age range you’re probably more likely to find these traits in someone who was previously married than in someone who never was, although there certainly are people who have not yet married who are happy and genuinely want others to be happy as well. Hatzlacha rabba!
Wendy, along with many others, was involved in an ill-conceived Iowa film tax credit program that cost the state many times what it was expected to cost and ended with several state employees losing their jobs.
The issue here is not innocence but different penalties for different people committing the same offense. Wendy’s sentence was disproportionately harsh.
The “others” I was referring to include Shalom Mordechai Rubashkin and Jonathan Pollard, both of whom also received grossly disproportionate sentences; Yanky Ostreicher, caught up in a nightmarish political scandal in Bolivia; Alan Gross, who was convicted by Cuba of subversion for delivering humanitarian aid (electronic equipment) to the Jewish community; and Warren Weinstein, an aid worker in his 70s who was kidnapped by al Qaeda in Pakistan. Of course there are also the Israeli POW/MIAs.
You can disagree with the politics or actions of these individuals, but the bottom line is that they are all Jews in desperate need of a yeshua.
Thanks so much for letting us know! Davening for good news on the others, too …
There is no “the Rabbonim.” Different groups have different standards and you know what? That’s OK. We’re all klal Yisrael and we all follow the same Torah but we are not and were never intended to be clones.
I personally wear long skirts and I find it quite amusing that I would be kicked out of your typical Bais Yaakov (I’m way past HS so that’s not really an issue) when in the alte babba’s day a girl wearing today’s BY uniform would have been run out of town for her short skirt.
I agree that it’s appalling the way some frum women dress, and it’s also appalling that some frum men can’t shut their mouths in shul, and and and. We all have stuff to work on. Yes, the way people dress does affect others and if that’s really your top concern, move to Williamsburg. Oh, wait, you’ll still see everything on the street. I guess New Square or Kiryas Joel might work, except that even there the household help wear what they please. I guess you’re stuck. Maybe smear some Vaseline on your glasses.
And by the way, I wouldn’t be so quick to say the laxity in shmiras halashon is less of a problem than the laxity in tznius.
And then there were the guests who took home my towels …
The Labor Department or college office should help you – that’s lot better than just looking online at Monster or something.
Are there any frum businesses (not chessed orgs!) in your area, where Shabbos won’t be an issue? Alternately, maybe you can look for an office job in a non-frum setting, where it’s 9-5 Monday through Friday? Most places should accommodate leaving a little early winter Fridays if you explain how you’re happy to come in early or stay late to make up the time. Maybe a medical office?
As an aside, what kind of tax forms were you asked to fill out before getting an offer with details? Don’t provide your social security number. If you’re applying at a major corporation where they want to run a background check that’s one thing but by that point you’ll know how much they’re paying.
Hatzlacha rabbah!
If your network is keeping you trapped in volunteer positions, it sounds like you need a better network 🙂
Do you have access to a state Department of Labor office (you can probably even search online) or a community college guidance office?
Maybe you can walk into local establishments and ask if they’re hiring?
I had asked Naomi about donating online and she didn’t know if that would get to the right account.
My teenage daughter in NY had severe abdominal pains so we took her to our pediatrician who sent us to the emergency room. She was seen, scanned for appendicitis and some other stuff and sent home in a few hours. My friend’s teenage daughter in Israel had similar symptoms but she sat in the hospital for close to 24 hours. In my experience the care in Israel is generally high quality but the system is overburdened. Not enough money = not enough facilities and providers. Although I do have to say it was nice walking out of the hospital with my newborn and a check from the government rather than a bill 🙂
I would love to see the citations proving that the Torah requires universal healthcare.
I can’t speak for anyone else but I can tell you I am vehemently opposed to socialized medicine. When you separate the people who pay from the people who use the service, the consumers have no idea what anything costs and no incentive to make fiscally responsible decisions. This ends up overburdening the system so that healthcare is not truly universally available. If someone lives long enough, they might eventually get help. The Lockerbie bomber was released because he was expected to die of prostate cancer within a few months but he ended up living another 3 years. Scotland’s healthcare protocols did not offer treatment that was provided in Libya. Do you want to live under a healthcare system worse than Libya’s?
Our system in the US has the same problem of people not having any idea what their healthcare costs. If you’ve ever had basic lab work done you know that insurance pays pennies on the dollar. Why maintain the charade of charging $100 for a test that’s reimbursed at $7? So people without insurance can subsidize the insured? Of course people without insurance can’t always pay their bills but maybe their bills wouldn’t be so high if everyone was expected to pay the fair price for the test.
You think universal healthcare will prevent financial ruin due to medical bills? I guess it might, if people are prohibited from paying for care outside their insurance plan and if they are prohibited from leaving the country to obtain medical care elsewhere. Neither of these methods will guarantee the best medical care but if avoiding financial ruin is the primary goal then I suppose you could call it a success.
I spoke with Naomi at Chai Lifeline and she said I could post her cell phone number for credit card donations. 908-770-5145
Refuah shelaima!!!
Do you know if we can donate online, maybe by putting Dov’s name in the “additional comments” section of the Chai Lifeline form?
It’s not so clear that ma’aser is due on cash or cash equivalents. D’oraisa it’s on agricultural products and it’s a machlokes whether the obligation extends to money. Even accepting that ma’aser does apply to money, there are differences of opinion as to which expenses reduce the amount of income subject to ma’aser.
Doctors and doulas serve different purposes. It isn’t undermining your doctor to have someone else on your birthing team. Some women have a mother or sister who can stay with them (logistics and personalities work) and for those women, that’s great. That isn’t always an option, and a doula who has had her own children and/or has participated in other births can help the laboring mother in ways her husband can’t.
By the way, midwives don’t all share the same philosophies and styles. Some are more “medically” inclined while others are more “natural.” Don’t make assumptions – ask.
B’sha’a tova!
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Great idea for a thread!
Many of the heimishe canned products and spices are kosher l’pesach year round so I buy them whenever they go on sale. Even if they aren’t on sale it’s definitely easier to spread out the shopping.
If you watch the sales at the grocery chains you can usually get Kedem grape juice at decent prices. They put it on sale purim-pesach time.
Please note that regular A&B gefilte fish is marked chametz.
Hershi – it sounds like you have a specific organization in mind. Care to share?
Like I said, I don’t know of any organizations working with the homeless. Could someone provide a name?
I cannot singlehandedly solve the homeless problem and I don’t know of any organizations that are working on it, so I am asking for a practical suggestion. Of course we can always daven and general tzedaka is certainly a good thing, but what can any of us do about THIS problem?
Reb D – that is shocking! What can ordinary people do to help?
I also work full days so what I often do is cook supper the night before. For example, I’ll prepare Monday’s supper on Sunday. Monday evening, after we’ve eaten, done homework, etc., I’ll put up Tuesday’s supper. Reheating is quick and I’m not limited to things that don’t take long to cook.
I’m a huge proponent of cook once, eat twice. You can either freeze half of what you’ve made or just serve it a couple of days later – depends how picky your family is about planned-overs, aka leftovers.
Black beans: dry black beans, 1 large can tomatoes (diced/crushed/whatever, or use fresh tomatoes), salt, pepper, chili powder, garlic, cumin, basil and/or oregano.
Lentils can be made with the same seasonings as black beans, or you could cook the lentils with chopped tomatoes, sliced carrots, garlic and thyme for a different flavor profile.
And maybe she thinks you’re a cheapo who has no idea what it costs to run a household. The two of you, together, need to understand your spending habits and what money means to you.
I guess that depends which studies you read … Interested parties should contact their doctors instead of relying on coffee room experts 🙂
The scientific literature indicates that it starts earlier.
I have no idea who, if anyone, the original poster has been going out with. It seems that while neither men nor women are perfect and we all have issues, the men are pickier than the women and it seems to be much tougher for a 30-something woman to get a date than for a man of the same age.
Health – Men DO have biological clocks, they are just less obvious than women’s. And while sometimes people who are decades apart in age do just fine together, people of the same generation are more likely to find common ground.
I heard the radio report about the first plane and I kind of brushed it off, thinking it was a small plane and it was early and the building is probably pretty empty so maybe no-one would be hurt too badly.
I was in the car listening to 880 when they said the second plane hit and my blood froze.
We turned on the office TV to see what was going on, then we sprang into action. At the time I was working for a company that sold medications used in treating burn victims and we figured our hospitals would run short but unfortunately, the victims never made it out. We coordinated a police escort into the City and my minivan was a first responder.
What do you consider inexpensive? Are you looking to stay in a hotel and if so, how many rooms do you plan to take? They may not let you all stay in one room.
Go for it! As a frum woman, I appreciate having frum women doctors.
It’s not so clear that the world is 5772 years old. Or young.
If anyone has info about Jewish children available for adoption, please ask the mods to contact me. I know people who are DESPERATE to adopt. Thank you.
The kids probably have no idea what that is. Pity on them 🙂
It’s no so clear that we must give ma’aser on money at all. This is a VERY complicated area and Wolf is 100% right.
Awwww. I’m touched 🙂
I’ve been crazy busy (good things, B”H) and I just don’t have time for that much coffee.
The Fisker Karma is gorgeous but, and I know I’m spoiled, I prefer cars that actually run …
Yaakov Chai ben Margalit (son of R’ Ovadia Yosef)
List price – $11,500 Bais Yaakov type elementary in Monsey, including registration & building fund, dinner extra. Worth every penny!
Some chassidim (and Sephardim, I believe) do not eat fish and dairy together. Not new.