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@2015, I guess I missed the joke, stick to your day job

@ Dov R, its amazing what doors open when you flash a piece of paper with Ben Franklin on it

@particpant, this goes far beyond words,
When a shul in Florida banning people from the amud and getting a kibbud because they participated in a outdoor minyan.
When a mosed bans someone because he was active in misirah.
When friendship stop because of ones view of the others compliance or lack there of.
when someone posts this in the CR
“but I am immodest enough to think that my chances are not enhanced by davening with possible/potential murderers, but maybe even decreased for the sin of associating with such people.

@AAQ, its always the people who claim to most open minded end up being the most close minded least tolerant people with no use for anyones opinion but their own.
PS quite a number of place already dont allow use of the shuls, aliyas, to daven for the amud for people who were active in snitching during covid, so it works both way. Anyway that was covered in a differnt thread lets keep this to the summer plans

Flew to London and most the passangers were very lax about the mask compliance and flight crew was very relaxed about the whole thing, finnaly the who cares mentality is starting to settle in

@ Dovrosenbaum, most employees in the so called Jewish Funeral homes are not jewish, Riverside for example is owned by by a company called SCI that owns 1500 funeral homes across the US, they were once sued for allowing an autopsy on a frum yid and the funeral director said he was from the south and worked for SCI and temporarly assigned to Riverside and said he didnt know frum people had issues with a autopsy.

@Reb E, we are talking about someone who is pretend to be Jewish, not a yid who does not observe shobbos, huge difference

@AAQ,”so I am fine staying with civilization for now (or staying 6 ft from it, to be precise).”
neh thats far too risky try an underground bunker on a Israel with MRE.
But if you change your mind you have a standing invitation

@the kneidel, and who appoints the commision? the state legislature

NY CA IL will most likey eliminate a GOP seat, my guess in ny the 22 or 27 will be on the chopping block, Co and Or will add a Dem seat, so a total change of 5.
Mi. OH. PA. and WV will eleminate a Dem seat, Fl. MT NC and Tx will add GOP seats so a total change of 9. the control of the house can flip in 2022

After reading the comments section writting in a major English languge Israeli newspaper about this story my feelings got stronger, the comments were full of people saying gotcha now come to J, yes we have to be more vigilant who we being into our homes. For every Rabbi Dovid Gottlieb there is a Michael Elk, I feel used like someone you invited into your house and they stoled your wife jewlery or a molester who came to your house for a meal and attacked your child,

@mindful, I applogize for the tone but not the substance of what I wrote before.
“This is a tragedy of our scosiety. He is worried for a message being not kosher, more than pushing away a Jew!

All these breaches of holocho can be fixed now. These are minor issues compared to the fact that the cast majority of Jews in the world are completely separated from Judaism!
And this attitude that protecting yourself is more important than reaching out to a fellow Jew is the cause of it.”
The Torah says in seder devarim, yihay mechanecha kosdosh,we need to keep out camps holy, nowhere in the torah does it say we need to reach out to non frum.
these are very serious breaches possibly causing mamzayim, pusel sefray torah etc. frankly what happened here makes my skin crawl

@AAQ, here is your proof that you can know how to learn and be a goy gumer even a missonary.
PS he was very vigilant about using a mask and keeping social distance beause R Meir Twersky said so

@mindful, “The missionary had no success in converting anyone. Frum people are not susceptible to this” are you naive or just plain stupid? you had a goy gumer who in fact is a galach masquerading as a sofer stam and a kohen and being podeh haben, his wife a 100% non jew is buried in a Jewish cemetary, there are very serious breaches of halacach becuase this.

Could you please tone down the way you address people you disagree with? Thanks in advance-29

@gadol as someone who works in the insurance industry most travel insurance policies anti worth the paper its printed on, they exclude the heck out of the policies.
PS if your going to cyprus they have some really good deals on cruises to Israel, if you go to Malta let me know that is was like.

@AAQ, I was planning to travel Afghanistan and Pakistan but I could not find space on the flights so my second choice was Sudan and Yemen, but I ended up buying tickets to Costa Rica check on godaven if you want to join me, last summer was amazing I davened with a minyan in the Grand Canyon, Bryce, Lake Powell [60 people] and Zion National Park [ im a tziony].
PS if you join me my minyan does not require masks but I provide leckach and pronfent after davening

New example of Covid hypocacy:

Blocking off middle seats on airplanes can significantly reduce the risk of COVID-19 exposure, according to a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. At this point, however, nearly all major domestic airlines have stopped blocking middle seats

We’ve all known for a while now that wearing masks and social distancing are two of the best ways to prevent COVID from spreading. Turns out the same is true on airlines. “Distancing can have a significant protective effect,” said James Bennett, a research engineer at the CDC who worked on the study.
Bennett explained just how much a difference it makes when airlines block middle seats varies.
“At the low end, we were looking at a 23% reduction in exposure, just from the fact of not being seated right next to another passenger if they happen to be infectious,” he said. At the high end, it’s a 57% reduction in exposure.
Airlines response:
“Multiple scientific studies confirm that the layers of protection significantly reduce risk, and research continues to demonstrate that the risk of transmission onboard aircraft is very low,” a spokesperson for Airlines for America told Insider, indicating no changes would be recommended to airlines.
In other words we are very carefull till it effects our bottom line so we won’t block the middle seats