commonsaychel

@AAQ, I am not about to have this thread hijacked with my rav is bigger then your rav etc.
But lets be frank Aguda of Balitmore has how many members? hardly a powerhouse, his opinion outside of Balitmore has minimal impact and for the record some shuls in balitmore open every early in the pandemic in spite of a huge political cost.
My big issue is the hubris of people telling others on how to run their lives, shuls, yeshivas.

Interesting, that Godal Huju, Reb E and the left of centers are MIA on this, guilt feelings maybe???

@yseribius “I do not believe I require mechila.” wow hubris personified

@yserbius,
“This shul was maligned intensely within the community for daring to reopen, and for being “careless” once other places started reopening. Some mosrim took it upon themselves to harass the shul with repeated calls to the health department, including one made on Shabbos intended to disrupt the davening.” so what you’re saying is that these lowlifes who harassed the shul should not be held accountable?

What is interesting to me is that Randi Weingarten of the UFI is now screaming the loudest about amnesty after fighting every attempt to open schools and the test scores show a huge drop, BH the yeshiva had enough sense to continue so the damage was minimal, this in spite of CR members calling them rotzchim.

where is the common denominator between the congressional races and Trump behavior? other then the fact Max Rose has goyim for children and Trump has yidden for grandchildren.

from Lohud:

One unique factor had no relation to larger political tides: the large number of Orthodox voters in Orange and Rockland and the galvanizing issue that led many to vote Republican, even if that meant disregarding the endorsements of their leaders. That issue was the state push to require more secular education in Hasidic schools, a move that infuriated those voters and drew them to Zeldin, who forcefully supported their cause.
The net result went both ways, with Orthodox votes helping a Democrat in one congressional district and a Republican in another. Ryan, a Democrat, won the 18th District race by 2,173 votes and had a net gain of 1,510 votes in Orange County’s Kiryas Joel, a Satmar Hasidic community where Ryan was endorsed by leaders but many voters cast ballots for Schmitt instead. (The vote split was 4,039-2,529 for Ryan and Schmitt. In the 17th District, heavy support from Rockland’s Orthodox voters helped carry Lawler past Maloney, despite endorsements for Maloney by leaders of the Hasidic villages of New Square and Kaser. No precise breakdown was available on Wednesday, but Yossi Gestetner, co-founder of the Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council, estimated a massive turnout of 20,000 Orthodox voters and said they voted overwhelmingly for Lawler.
Aside from his support on the yeshiva issue, Lawler had earned Orthodox backing through his responsiveness to their interests as a state assemblyman for the last two years.

NY CD 17 [rockland], flipped, CD 4 [5 towns] flipped CD 19 {sullivan] flipped. NJ 7 [linden] flipped

I was in the 5 towns today and that race is neck and neck

@Sam Klein Hakol beday shomayim chutz me yiras shomayim, at that incluses topics like you posted about you going to a local mesivta vs a out of town mesivta, so please stay on topic.

and what does that have to do with congressional elections being a toss up, stick to the topic at hand