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Sounds like bitul Torah.
“Your hero Trump is a miserable human being”
He is indeed a miserable human being, whose personal life is antithetical to all the things we are supposed to value as Jews.
Examples:
He cheated on two wives.
He cheats his business partners and suppliers.
He abuses bankruptcy and eminent domain laws.
He illegally created a fraudulent university and bribed two state Attorneys-General to shut down their investigations of it.
His most prominent business ventures in recent deals have been beauty pageants and gambling casinos.
He repeatedly spouts the most slanderous lies about his political opponents (see the claim about Cruz’ father being involved in the Kennedy assassination).
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And his policies are even worse. His attempt to round up illegal immigrants will result in a police state the comparable to that of Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union. Don’t think you won’t get caught up in it. His tax plan, designed to benefit himself, will tank the economy and destroy the US dollar as a major world currency. His protectionist trade plans will create a trade war and likely a worldwide depression, just as similar policies did in the 1930s. He has already announced that the US will not be bound by its agreements to its allies — and he did not exclude Israel in that statement. He has pretty much announced that he wants to give Putin a free hand in Eastern Europe and the Middle East — and that means Assad and Assad’s terrorist buddies Hezbollah. His promotion of junk science regarding vaccines leaves us open to a major infectious disease catastrophe.
Wake up!
“someone who should be in jail for recklessly compromising national security”
Sorry, but the meme was disproven. The number of properly marked classified documents that Clinton sent out via email was zero.
“is responsible for deaths of Americans in Libya”
Wrong again. Multiple investigations run by Republicans have concluded that she was not responsible for those deaths. You might want to read them.
“was found to have committed a crime”
No, she wasn’t.
“is not at all clear if anyone else having done the same thing in ref. to the server would be indicted. Sanctioned, yes”
Nope. Not even sanctioned.
Once during the seven years I worked for defense contractors I left a document out on my desk that was marked Secret. The next morning I realized what had happened and immediately reported myself. There were no sanctions. And that was worse than what Clinton did.
“she was thrown out of the commission for unethical behavior”
That is also false.
“She should have left her husband when he started his extra – marital affairs”
Political wives have often stayed with their husbands when they were having affairs. Think Florence Harding, Eleanor Roosevelt, Mamie Eisenhower, Jackie Kennedy, Lady Bird Johnson — just to name five! (To be fair, Eisenhower’s love affair with Kay Summersby was before he entered politics — he was a mere General in charge of the war against Hitler.)
And what about Trump’s multiple extramarital affairs?
“they hate blacks more than Jews. They will accept a Jew in their group, but not a black!”
You have obviously never checked out the rabidly pro-Trump stormfront web site.
And praise HaShem for creating Willis Carrier, who invented air conditioning.
“Would you endorse someone who implied that your father was connected to the murder of jfk?”
I wouldn’t endorse ANYONE who claimed that someone other than Lee Harvey Oswald killed JFK.
The real question is why so many people are willing to endorse Trump given his unbelievable history of absolutely outrageous lies.
The United States had over 200 million people as of 1973.
Israel today has fewer than five million non-Charedi Jews.
The idea that Israel can survive with a purely voluntary army is fantasy.
“And it did so with an all-volunteer army.”
That isn’t true. There was a draft throughout the 1950s after Korea and prior to Vietnam. This despite a population of 180 million as of 1960. It was only the population growth (with the baby boomers becoming old enough to volunteer for military service), the end of the Vietnam War, and the massive cuts in defense spending that accompanied the end of the Vietnam War that allowed the US to drop the draft in 1973.
By comparison, Israel today has fewer than five million non-Charedi Jews. The combined active duty armed forces of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkey, and Iran constitute two million people, and I would trust none of those countries! The idea that Israel can survive with a purely voluntary army is fantasy.
I still have no idea what Pokemon is. Should I put aside my learning to find out?
Torah Academy of Bergen County. Amazing school. I spoke there a number of years ago about science and Torah. Boys only.
For girls there is Ma’ayanot Yeshiva High School.
Both are in Teaneck.
There is also the Frisch school which is co-ed. It is in Paramus.
Good luck!
You have legs to stand on. Both vanilla and chocolate are native to the New World and therefore there is no ancient Mesorah for Jews to eat either.
In case there are still people who are in denial about police racism, listen to what Sen. Tim Scott had to say today. And you can’t dismiss him as any kind of liberal.
“If we take g-d out of the picture”
Of course HaShem is in charge of everything. But it is also asur to rely on miracles. The Arab Rashaim would drive us into the sea and we are obligated to protect ourselves militarily. Datim participate in this but for the most part Charedim don’t.
The Torah perspective, as elucidated by Rav Sherirah Gaon a thousand years ago and agreed to by all halachic authorities since, is that medical conditions such as depression should be treated by people trained in medicine.
Good luck to you in your recovery!
SAR High School offers four foreign language options: French, Spanish, Latin, and Arabic. (Hebrew and Aramaic are not optional but mandatory. 😉 )
Arsenic is natural. I would not recommend eating it, even with a hechsher.
CTLAWYER,
Don’t know where you got your info, but something looked funny. I used to live in the E. O. Smith school district. Its foreign language options are Spanish, French, German, and Latin. No Greek. I confirmed that on its internet site.
So I went to Belchertown HS’s site and its foreign language options are Spanish, French, and Latin.
Winchester Public Schools’ site states that the foreign language options are John Handley High School are Spanish, French, German, and Latin.
Finally I did confirm that Boston Latin School, the oldest public school in America, does offer two years of classical Greek. Thank you for proving me wrong but you might want to let the folks who gave you that info that they should check things out.
If most Israelis become religious be had better hope that they are Dati and not Charedi because if the latter the IDF will dwindle down to nothing and the Arab rashaim will overrun us all.
I’m a statistician, not a demographer, but it appears that there must be a huge amount of going OTD among charedim in Israel. In 2015, United Torah Judaism received 5.0% of the vote in the Knesset election. Sixty years earlier, the Religious Torah Front had received 4.7%. With the much higher birthrate among charedim, there should have been a huge increase but there wasn’t any.
“If frum jews donated to UJA”
Almost all the frum Jews I know who have children are spending essentially all their disposable income on yeshiva tuition.
” this is all happening when the UJA spends 300 MILLION dollars a year and only 1 million on yeshivas”
Rabbi Greenberg was right. And when have charedi rabbis done anything like this?
“It would let the goverment some control over yeshivas and curriculum.”
Nothing wrong with teaching the standard government secular curriculum. This is done in religious schools in much of Europe, Canada, and Israel.
“do you pasken that a yeshiva can serve treif so they can pay their staff?”
I don’t pasken anything. I am not a rabbi. But personally, I would not serve any food at all rather than serve treif, and I would shut down my school rather than not pay my staff (which is illegal under both halachah and secular law).
“The typical high school graduate could read several languages, was familiar with the arts and culture of western civilization, and was familiar with the classical literature of his culture, typically in the original language (Latin, Greek and Hebrew).”
With the possible exception of Greek Orthodox Christian parochial schools, I have never heard of any high school in the past century teaching Greek. Latin is still often taught but Spanish and French are the most common languages in high schools in America today.
Apparently the Spanish tradition is that the MOTHER of the bull that kills a matador is put to death.
Bullfighting is one of many brutal goyish traditions that Jews shouldn’t follow.
“The yeshiva where my chavrusa teaches recently went four months without a paycheck.”
How can such a yeshiva be considered to be orthodox? It is a chiyuv from the Torah to pay workers on time.
And don’t reply by claiming that they didn’t have the money. I bet they didn’t substitute non-kosher food, which is cheaper than kosher food.
This is inexcusable.
Yeshiva University accepts students with no Jewish background at all. But it is not inexpensive.
Good luck!
I will repeat what I have said before, only with more detail.
Had Eric Garner been Jewish we would have been out on the streets protesting *en masse* the death of a person whose crime was to sell untaxed cigarettes. I would have locked up Garner for a long time — cigarettes kill far more people than Americans — but tax evasion is not a death penalty offense.
Ditto every other police shooting of an African American. Like Philando Castile whose crime was to have a busted taillight — and a legal concealed weapon for which he had a permit. (The National Rifle Association has been conspicuously silent regarding Castile’s death, raising justified outrage at its silence. Apparently it believes that only white people have a right to bear arms.)
When we refuse to be outraged at the violations of the rights of others, we pretend that we don’t have to worry about our own rights. And when they come for us, there will be nobody left to stand up with us.
‘I’m waiting for the libs here to say that the FBI are “Racist Pigs”!’
You won’t hear that from me.
“Killing people is wrong in general, regardless of the color of the people being killed or the people doing the killing.”
The Dallas police were absolutely right to take out the shooter who had already shot 11 people, five fatally. Until a shooter puts down his gun and surrenders, the faster you can stop him the better — and if lethal force is necessary, so be it.
” I also note that many of the founders held more liberal views”
To be honest I think most of the Founders did not see a major problem with slavery. The number who became abolitionists was clearly a minority. It was a major blind spot that would lead to a horrible Civil War two generations later.
“when I have both Joseph and CharlieHall disagreeing with me.”
The question was a yes or no question. You have to agree with Joseph or you have to agree with me. Or withdraw from the debate.
“This was not intended as a lesson in American history.”
An argument was made from history. I was simply debunking it.
“Horse feathers. All of it.”
I know that I have won the argument when the response is namecalling. What I said is truth and you know it.
“any of the actions of Avi Weiss”
This has nothing to do with Rabbi Weiss. Because he supports women voting I presume you oppose it?
“New Jersey allowed women to vote from the beginning, or at least since 1797.”
Women could not vote in New Jersey after 1807. Wyoming Territory would allow women to vote starting in 1869 followed by Utah in 1870.
“Trump is not great, but he is not nearly as fraudulent as Hillary.”
Only someone who (1) has been living in a cave for the past year, (2) is not sufficiently connected to reality to know fact from fiction, or (3) is a deceitful liar would call Trump less fraudulent than Hillary.
There was fraud in all of Trump’s bankruptcies.
There was fraud in Trump’s illegal fake university.
And Trump appears to have bribed two state Attorneys-General to stop investigations into his fraudulent fake university.
Trump’s public statements are so full of falsehoods that fact checkers can’t publish the debunkings fast enough to keep up. Just to give you an example, politifact.com has examined the truthfulness of 158 statements by Trump, 95 were rated “false”, or “pants on fire”. For Clinton, the number was 16 out of 120.
I guess Trump figures that if you lie often enough it won’t be possible to get countered. And you have drunk the Kool-Aid.
And that isn’t even the worst thing about him — A crook would be better than someone who incites nativism, racism, and anti-Semitism, which is the way Trump is building his campaign.
Nobody has ever come up with a decent definition of “Jewish Music”.
Practically all the major Broadway composers of the mid 20th century were Jewish. (Cole Porter was a notable exception.) Does that count as “Jewish music”?
How about Giacomo Meyerbeer, Fromental Halevy or Arnold Schoenberg?
“I have no idea why anyone in their right mind, Jewish or not, would appear on a reality show.”
Nor do I.
Yet another reason to vote against Trump.
“Without it we wouldn’t be this close to electing a volcanic tempered witch!”
We can thank the women of America for it is likely that they will be the ones to save us from having Donald Trump as President. That alone proves that it wasn’t a mistake. White male voters are all set to elect someone who lies so often he is a full employment program for fact checkers, who promotes junk science, whose tax plan would give the country ten trillion dollars more debt, who slavingly follows Vladimir Putin in every foreign policy matter, who has a history of doing business with organized crime, who ran an illegal fradulent university, and who incites anti-Semitic hatred as no major party candidate in history has ever done.
“There’s no question that post-WWII Jewry required this shift to “yeshivos where masses (of married men with families) learn every day”
There certainly IS such a question. The Modern Orthodox and Dati Leumi worlds never adopted the Kollel for Everyone system and are doing fine. They also aren’t requiring massive government subsidies for their survival.
“ideally a wife should be home with the children and the husband be the breadwinner”
Obviously inconsistent with the Kollel system.
“having a husband/father in full-time Limud Torah HaKedosha is surely one of the exceptions”
Well at least you admit that the Kollel lifestyle is an exception and not ideal.
“except America’s founding fathers, who also were slave holders”
Many were not slaveowners. And some became abolitionists.
“do you disagree that a woman’s place is in the home and that civilization for thousands of years, until roughly 100 years ago, always recognized and acted as such”
Factually inaccurate. There were plenty of women who worked outside their homes, at least in European and American society. For example, in Europe, huge numbers of Christian women became nuns and some had significant influence. And in rural America, labor shortages meant that women had to participate very actively in farm work. An interesting example: Lyndon Johnson’s grandmother was a cowgirl! Women also worked in factories from the early days of the industrial revolution.
“Jewish communities run schools and libraries, and provide welfare services including emergency health service – all more effectively and cheaply than the government”
That is not true. What Jewish libraries are there? Jewish welfare agencies get their funding from the government. And yeshivot with good special education cost a lot more than the per pupil expenditures at good public high schools.
“I surmise that Obama, then a young teenager, was next door in Kenya, during the Entebbe Raid.”
You surmise wrong. He was in Hawaii. The younger Barack Obama never visited Kenya until he was an adult.