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And the airport is similar to the snowplows. While there is no need to have regular scheduled air travel, you need to have the airport open in case of medical emergencies. We do that with hospitals!
I can’t see why there would be a problem with having the snowplows run on Shabat, ESPECIALLY in a Jewish area. If you have a life threatening medical emergency and the ambulances can’t get to you because of snow, you might well die. This is pikuach nefesh!
“R’ Meir Shapiro z”l served in the Sejm (polish Parliment)”
Rav Hirsch served in the Moravian Parliament.
Two Chief Rabbis of the UK served in that country’s House of Lords.
Many frum people have served in the Knesset and a few in the Cabinet.
And there have been at least two frum Jews who have served in the US Congress.
“not only did obama NOT pardon him, he went out of his way to say that he was NOT pardoning him, and won’t even allow for liveable conditions”
He certainly has livable conditions. But indeed Obama will never pardon him. Nor would Bush. The only President in recent memory to engage in political pardons is Clinton, and both Presidents Bush and Obama were horrified and vowed never to do that. There was never a realistic chance that either would release Pollard early.
So Pollard is out of prison and the President is Barack Obama.
I had been saying for years that he was going to be released on November 21, 2015, and I got massive pushback, most of it unbelievably nasty, from people claiming to be Pollard supporters.
It turned out that I *was* wrong. He was released November 20, 2015.
We have had two in Colorado Springs in the past four days. 🙁
The Yeshiva World News Coffee Room is NOT the French National Assembly.
Haloween and New Year’s Day (January 1) are, however, Christian holidays and Jews should avoid them. (Most Christians don’t know that they are both Christian holidays, but they are.)
“Rav Hutner held it was”
But it is also a Jewish holiday: 100% of the congregations in New York (one out of one) dispensed with Tachanun and added additional psalms to the service way back in 1789. The Mesorah was established over a century before Rav Hutner z’tz’l was born.
I don’t like herring.
No wonder I landed in an Open Orthodox synagogue.
I don’t own a black hat. If they don’t want me I go somewhere else.
“The problem is given US law its hard to preserve the look of ANY town”
No, it isn’t. Zoning and architectural preservation laws allow that. Visit many small towns in New England, for example.
Now, if you are one of those right wing nutcases I grew up with who would usually follow the world “zoning” with the word “communist” you will think that that is a horrible thing, but most of America has gotten over this nonsense.
I happened to have a nice conversation yesterday with the non-Jewish owner of a kosher restaurant in a Jewish neighborhood that has become more and more orthodox over time. He had opened the restaurant 25 years ago as a non-kosher establishment but didn’t get a lot of business. Jews from the neighborhood would occasionally walk in and ask why he didn’t become kosher as his food looked appealing. After a few years of mediocre sales he went to the rabbi of the largest Orthodox synagogue in the area and asked if he could become kosher. He immediately agreed to close the restaurant on Shabat. A few months later he was kosher and he has had more business than he can handle for over 21 years! He also likes having Saturday off so he can spend time with his family and watch college football on television. 🙂
“But should the Germans and Irish have a place for them also? Where their culture and history can thrive as well? Or should everything be a free-for-all where every town is nothing but a mish-mash of everything?”
And the problem with that is?
FWIW there are still identifiably Irish neighborhoods in the Bronx and Yonkers.
Call 911 or Hatzalah.
Not even a shilah.
“Would you want Chinese coming into Yerushalayim in droves”
Chinese people have been moving into the Lower East Side in droves.
“I do not think there is anything wrong with discrimination and enforcement regarding the culture and look of a city.”
Precisely what anti-Semitic goyim said back when Jews wanted to move into their neighborhoods. Example: Way back when the only synagogue in Riverdale was a Reform Synagogue, the Irish and German residents tried to keep Jews out. Today Riverdale has eight Orthodox synagogues thanks to Big Government enforcing Fair Housing Laws.
Jews DID have a bad rap in the 1930s. In addition to having a lot of identifiable Organized Crime figures in our numbers (Wikipedia lists over a hundred) there was a disproportionate number of anarchists and communists in our Tribe. And people seriously argued that letting refugees from Europe into the US would allow the Nazis to sneak people in who claimed to be refugees.
Meanwhile, most of the 11/13 terrorists in France were EU citizens from Visa Waiver Program countries who could have traveled to the US at any time with no vetting. All the hullabaloo about Syrian refugees is just fanning the flames of bigotry while doing nothing whatsoever to keep dangerous people out of the country.
“So what exactly is the meaning of that second reason?”
One of the many innovations in Orthodox Judaism that occurred long before Open Orthodoxy.
I love to cook, especially North Indian cuisine.
“Every Jew needs a rabbi. He’s your final authority. Ask him your questions.”
Joseph and I agree on something.
Mashiach is coming.
Other than the atonal music of Arnold Schoenberg, I can’t think of any Jewish music that hasn’t been influenced by non-Jewish musical styles.
Chanukah presents to adults???
And people claim Open Orthodoxy doesn’t follow Jewish traditions?????
“And I’d trust the IDF to keep me safe more than the American military any day (here more likely to make us less safe by engaging in unnecessary wars).”
Do not EVER blame the American military for getting us into unnecessary wars. They follow the orders of the elected civilians like George W. Bush.
Especially on Veterans Day.
‘On the contrary, “making aliyah” is perhaps the greatest mitzvah in their theology’
The source for that is Chazal.
“and with it Zionism.”
And if Zionism goes so go the lives of six million Jews. The IDF is the only thing preventing a second Shoah. Charedim who refuse to serve in the IDF forget that their relatives were hauled off the the gas chambers right along with the Maskilim. Hamas, Hezbollah, and Islamic State won’t distinguish religious from non-religious.
Many of us have large school debts that we could never pay on an Israeli salary. And it is asur to deliberately refuse to pay debts that you owe.
“Too bad Charlie wasnt around to teach”
Too bad Joseph has never learned Sefer Tehilim.
“You could be for the state or against the state – that argument was for before 1948. As a matter of practicality the state exists today “
One could be for or against gravity. But if you jump off a tall building, your opinion regarding gravity is irrelevant. Similarly, should the anti-Zionists here manage to succeed in abolishing the Medinah there will be another Shoah. Anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism.
“academic Bible and Talmud like most OO are more into “
YU teaches academic Bible and Talmud. Yeshivat Chovevei Torah does not.
I have never studied either.
“To quote several major Rabbonim, in two to three generations they won’t be following any Halachah at all.”
They are Neviim? I guess they have repealed Yeridot HaDorot.
And people complain about Open Orthodoxy???
“run away as fast as we can”
Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
“Kol kvudah bas melech pnima:
That verse in Tehillim is referring to a non-Jewish woman.
“that the establishment of the State of Israel is required by halacha and is the beginning of the Geula”
I don’t hold either of those positions.
“the establishment of the State of Israel was not only prohibited by Torah, but is also a dumb idea, and that the zionists are similar to Shabbatai Zvi and the Frankists, and no good end will come of this”
I don’t hold these, either.
” the Litvaks appreciated that Chassidim survived and thrived and remained extremely devoted and frum.”
Eventually we will see that with “Open Orthodox”.
“And that includes the baptist ministers who join in.”
Nope. No Baptist ministers in sight.
I have installed Windows 10 on three different computers and have had no trouble. The installation went very smoothly, no program fails to work, and the performance is actually better.
I have to salute Microsoft for doing a great job on this.
“the chareidi world doesn’t accept their view (mostly on zionism and gender issues) as acceptable under the Torah”
Universal kollel and total rejection of secular education are highly problematic from a Torah perspective.
“2 rabbis are applying for a Rabbinate job, One is OO and one is a YU Rabbi”
No such shul cares what AI says.
“Can everyone now say outloud that OO founder and leader Avi Weiss is not frum?”
To say that would be motzi shem ra. Even his most bitter opponents had to admit that he is a kosher eid.
At the “Open Orthodox” shul I attend we even say birkat kohanim at Musaf, not Shacharit, on Simchat Torah. The Rema would be pleased. 😉
“whats your take on Joe ‘only in America’ Biden bowing out?”
Well I had actually been called by the Quinnipiac poll a few months ago and I had told them that I preferred him to all the other Democrats running them.
Went to a Sefardic Minyan this Shabat. Birkat Kohanim at Shacharit and Mussaf.
Well this week we have had attacks targeting Jews right here in New York City. Will the the anti-Zionists here change their memes about galut being so safe?
“Ask your local nonorthodox maharat”
All the ones I have ever met are orthodox.
If I were put in charge of Brooklyn Jewry I would immediately resign.
Party labels don’t mean much in New York, or in Louisiana (where the sitting Republican Lt. Governor just endorsed the Democratic candidate for Governor).
I would ask a Sefardic rabbi.
I took it over 25 years ago when it was paper and pencil.
The math section is easy — junior high school level. The problem is that it requires speed — when I took it there were 60 math questions that you had to complete in 60 minutes.
The analytic section is also easy, but don’t get into pilpul. Simple propositional logic gets the job done. And again, speed is essential.
The verbal section is very hard. You need a large English vocabulary to do well.
I prepped using Princeton Review material.
How important a good score is depends on what your goals are. It is much easier to get into grad school than people think, especially if you are an English speaking American.
Hillary would be center-right by European standards. Basically about where Likud is in Israel. Bernie would be center-left by European standards, basically about where Labor is in Israel. All the Republicans except for Pataki, Graham, and (maybe) Kasich would be far right extremists by European standards, comparable to no party in Israel.
“He’s quite possibly more liberal than Hillary.”
Not based on his record as Governor of Ohio.
“And, the candidate with arguably the best record for the environment on EITHER side is Chris Christie”
Pataki is even better.
“35% of Democrat support going to a Socialist “
Not sure what makes Bernie a Socialist. Other than single payer national health insurance, I can’t think of anything else he wants the federal government to run.