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  • in reply to: why did our conservative news site go liberal? #1925327
    commonsaychel
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    @jackk, for someone to get thanks they must do something to deserve that thanks, to the best of my knowledge this was the first time that gedolim wrote such a letter of thanks.
    PS my Grandfather ztl was a member of the Rabbis march to Washington and Roosevelt yemach shemo refused to meet them.

    in reply to: why did our conservative news site go liberal? #1925279
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    @ Dass, not to my knowledge, he is a an extremely successful businessman theses day, if you know the MTJ people you know who i am talking about

    in reply to: why did our conservative news site go liberal? #1925256
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    @Jackk, You are wrong, hakoros hatov is very much a torahdiker haskafer, I am a close friend of the driver of Reb Moshe and he told me Reb Moshe use to write thank you notes all the time

    in reply to: go learn torah #1925181
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    I see you joined 5 days ago, and posted 6 times, your right, now practice what you preach.

    in reply to: Unity #1925021
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    Gibberish in gibberish for the sake of gibberish!
    Well said

    in reply to: Don’t we ever learn from our mistakes? #1924975
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    @ChananiaL, granted we need to help them, but how do we stop this endless cycle from repeating over and over

    in reply to: Democrats cheated, Biden won #1924768
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    Get over it

    in reply to: Unity #1924767
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    This post is getting stranger by the minute

    in reply to: Unity #1924720
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    Explain this in plain English please

    in reply to: 6 new moetzes members – einay haedah #1924590
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    the Novominska rebbe ztl and Rav Levin ztl are some pretty big shoes to fill

    in reply to: Anti-Face Mask YWNCR #1924447
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    your lack of boundaries sometimes leaves me speechless-29

    in reply to: “Give me liberty or give death”! #1924040
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    @charliehall, your point of view runs counter to the basis of modern orthodoxy.

    in reply to: why did our conservative news site go liberal? #1923679
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    @godoalhatorah, The GOP was here before Trump and will be here after Trump, same as the Democats and Clinton or Obama

    in reply to: Anti-Face Mask YWNCR #1923658
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    @AriHalevi, You can also die in a head on collision wearing a seat belt, die of food poisoning, have a heart attack or stroke from worrying too much.
    You will eventually die, we all will.

    in reply to: U.S. Supreme Court opinion supports freedom of religion #1923640
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    @yserbius123, and that is why we have 3 branches of government to prevent people like “Cuomo and DeBlasio from going nuclear”, in this case the checks work, you want to be told how to live your live you can always move to Cuba, we have not reach there YET.

    in reply to: why did our conservative news site go liberal? #1923528
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    because YWN reports on fact not fiction or wishful thinking, Trump lost get over it.
    PS before you accuse me of being some lefty, I am a Republican Committeeman for over 25 years and a former member of the GOP executive committee.

    in reply to: Don’t we ever learn from our mistakes? #1923478
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    @theprohet and the connection to drug couriers???

    in reply to: U.S. Supreme Court opinion supports freedom of religion #1923338
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    Hodu Lashem Key Tov, Hashem send the refuah before the makkah, He replaced Ginzberg with Barret.

    in reply to: Don’t we ever learn from our mistakes? #1923320
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    @ari256, I wish they would ask a Rov before they would carry drugs to Europe.
    @Goldilock and Rational, I have a son who is on the naïve side and a gitter neshumah, when he went to learn in Israel he was told in no uncertain terms that he told not do any favor and take anything back for anyone.

    in reply to: Don’t we ever learn from our mistakes? #1923148
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    @coffee addict, well someone should tell thwm what the cash an trip comes with 2 years in prison

    in reply to: Chanukah parties #1923145
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    if you need guidance consult your local rov

    in reply to: Chanukah parties #1923026
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    If you need a ad to tell you what to do I feel bad for you.

    in reply to: How far is too far? #1923025
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    Get a life, he lost

    in reply to: Census 2020 and the frum community. #1921958
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    @CTLawyer, it depends of what State is losing the representatives for example NY will likely lose at least one or two seat based on projections, if they combine Bowman and AOC into a fair fight primary district it would be a win win and I would gladly forgo any federal funding to get rid of one of them.
    In the terms of support of Israel most the states projected to lose seats are from states that have the least support of Israel including your Senator Chris Murphy and shift to state where they support Israel, so no great loss.
    As to the counting of illegals I don’t think it is so bad, a lot of them live in areas bordering the Frum areas, i.e. Lakewood in NJ, Spring Valley and Hillcrest in Rockland and the outskirt of Monroe in Orange it is a net benefit for the frum people, they get counted but can’t vote.

    Lastly on a hyperlocal level there will be a shift in power to the frum in Rockland and Orange County NY and in Ocean County NJ because the amount of people who moved there and the growth KIH of the frum families.

    in reply to: how the frum olam voted #1921557
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    @Charlie, Sadly attacking the frum community in Rockland is a bipartisan sport, some of the most vicious attacks and legislation came from the State Delegation, Ellen Jaffee was a Democrat who cause a tremendous amount of grief to the frum community and we finally showed her the door, the fact that the frum vote threw her out was duly noted in her classless concession speech, the other Democratic Assemblyman who represents Rockland and is equal to Jaffee’s hate stands a good chance of the same in 2022.

    In the State Senate race it was two flawed candidate, Elijah Melnick who made it a point to attack the frum community v Bill Weber one of the leaders of Preserve Ramapo, quite a number of people skipped this vote or voted for Weber holding the nose viewing him as the lesser of two evils.

    In the congressional race Jones is a protégé of AOC and that was enough for a lot of people to skip that on the ballot.
    The fact is that the storm is brewing failed to get the desired results and the Democrat’s control the County Legislature and the district lines that will follow next year.
    BTW the population power shift is to the Frum community who will now control Rockland County Legislature after redistricting, if the GOP runs against the community they will stay in the minority otherwise they will get a shot the majority.
    PS the frum vote went to the Democrat for county clerk

    in reply to: how the frum olam voted #1921548
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    @Charlie, Sadly attacking the frum community in Rockland is a bipartisan sport, some of the most vicious attacks and legislation came from the State Delegation, Ellen Jaffee was a Democrat who cause a tremendous amount of grief to the frum community and we finally showed her the door, the fact that the frum vote threw her out was duly noted in her classless concession speech, the other Democratic Assemblyman who represents Rockland and is equal to Jaffee’s hate stands a good chance of the same in 2022.

    In the State Senate race it was two flawed candidate, Elijah Melnick who made it a point to attack the frum community v Bill Weber one of the leaders of Preserve Ramapo, quite a number of people skipped this vote or voted for Weber holding the nose viewing him as the lesser of two evils.

    In the congressional race Jones is a protégé of AOC and that was enough for a lot of people to skip that on the ballot.
    The fact is that the storm is brewing failed to get the desired results and the Democrat’s control the County Legislature and the district lines that will follow next year.

    in reply to: Fallacy of Identity politics #1920907
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    @CharlieHall
    “Trump didn’t “flip” the Rio Grande Valley. He just did better than Republicans usually do there.”

    This is what happened in Starr County. After losing the county by 60 percentage points to Hillary Clinton, President Donald Trump lost it by just 5% to Joe Biden.

    In neighboring Zapata County, which Clinton won by 33 percentage points in 2016, voters didn’t just swing more to the right — the county flipped all the way red.

    And that trend continued all the way up and down the Texas-Mexico border, where Trump won 14 of the 28 counties that Clinton had nearly swept in 2016 while winning by an average of 33 percentage points.
    Btw the two congressional seat that flipped in Florida had Cook Report PVI of D+5 and D+6 and were rated Safe Democratic

    in reply to: Fallacy of Identity politics #1920842
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    @Charlie Hall there is a orthodox Jewish bloc, perhaps not a identifiable MO Jewish bloc because they are intermingled with non orthodox Jewish for example on the UWS its amounts to 5-10% of the total vote, and slightly higher in the Bronx.
    The 48, 41, 62 and 93 assembly districts are majority frum and you can detect election patterns from that, if you look at clusters of election districts in the frum areas in KGH, Forest Hills, Far Rockaway and the five towns you can detect voting patterns.
    Bashing someone in a Young Israel social hall does not constitute a voting pattern anymore than praising someone in a Chasidisher kavah stebble.

    in reply to: Raphael Warnock #1920832
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    @Ct Lawyer, anti Israel is the new anti semitism a/k/a anti Jew, sadly black anti Jewish sentiment is alive and well in the black community, proof the 3 Jews murdered in a hate crime in the US in 2019 were killed by Blacks.

    @Jackk
    The only campaign who I worked on was a local assembly race that btw flipped red, Just was reading up on the Candidates and what I read about Warnock scared the daylights out of me, I check with a few of my friend who live in Atlanta and he has ZERO relationship with the Orthodox community there. He is and has been a vocal anti Israeli.

    @CharlieHall
    , its fine I made a campaign contribution to Loeffler to counterbalance yours, I also suggest you spend some time learning hilchos Loshen Hora and the definition of motzi shem ra and toles.

    in reply to: Fallacy of Identity politics #1920492
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    @Jackk, your wrong, Trumps team knew that the Cuban vote is different than the Venezuelan vote and that is different than the Mexican vote and that is different the Puerto Rican vote.
    That is why he won about 60% of the Florida Latino vote and flipped the Rio Grande Valley after Hillary won that with 60% of the vote. sorry numbers don’t lie.
    PS The Latino GOP vote flipped 2 blue congressional districts red in Miami

    in reply to: The Great blue wave that crashed #1920249
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    @huju, I wrote notwithstanding Trump’s loss, this is not about him, he lost, its about how the blue wave morphed into a red riptide and what caused it

    in reply to: The Great blue wave that crashed #1920075
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    @Gadolhatorah, your reasoning does not explain why the Democrat’s has such a disaster on Nov 3rd

    in reply to: Exodus From NYC #1919918
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    A article in the NY Post shows that over 300,000 households have left NYC,

    Top ZIP codes New Yorkers exited between March 1 and Oct. 31, 2020, with the number of change of address requests for each area:

    1. Upper West Side, 10023: 3,368
    2. Upper West Side, 10025: 3,000
    3. Murray Hill, 10016: 2,889
    4. Upper West Side, 10024: 2,708
    5. Chelsea/Greenwich Village, 10011: 2,520
    6. Upper East Side, 10128: 2,165
    7. Downtown Brooklyn, 11201: 1,836
    8. Gramercy/East Village, 10003: 1,677
    9. Upper East Side, 10028: 1,631
    10. Midtown East, 10022: 1,410
    11. Midtown West, 10019: 1,484
    12. Upper East Side, 10021: 1,506
    13. Chelsea, 10001: 1,222
    14. West Village, 10014: 1,192
    15. Park Slope, Brooklyn, 11215: 1,006
    16. Rose Hill/Peter Cooper Village, 10010: 1,002
    17. Midtown, 10018: 987
    18. Tribeca/Chinatown, 10013: 899
    19. Midtown, 10036: 837
    20. East Village, 10009: 728

    in reply to: Deep trouble ahead for the yeshivas under Biden #1919665
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    @huhu all the evidence you need is that someone like Randi Weingarten is under consideration.

    in reply to: Deep trouble ahead for the yeshivas under Biden #1919639
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    @akuperm: “Given the results of the Congressional elections, Biden is unlikely to do anything especially radical about any policy.” I guess hashem sent the refuah before the Makkah, but they can still make peoples lives misrable with rules and regs.
    BTW I am 100% agreement with you about the overdependence of the yeshiva on government funds, my father told me that when all this started in the 50s and 60s they were a sizable minority who were opposed to using government funds for yeshivas.

    in reply to: election campaign spending #1919328
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    I just saw the numbers out of the 17th CD NY, Josh Eisen spent $205 per vote for the 5,700 votes he got, i guess there is nothing worse then a fool and his money

    in reply to: Trump support or a shift in thinking #1919310
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    @se2015, your wrong, it did have overnight , for some reason you are focusing at the national level, take Jerry Nadler for example he always won big in Boro Park from the year he was he was elected and now a unknown who didn’t campaign won BP 17,000 to 3,700, Monsey usually votes Democratic and went GOP 3 to 1 for down ballot people

    in reply to: Trump support or a shift in thinking #1919237
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    @alwaysaskquestions,” I don’t think there was much of a shift. If you saw exit polls showing otherwise, let me know. Both sides brought people who did not vote last time.”

    Read what I wrote “What is interesting is the seismic shift in voting Republican in the Frum olam”
    I am not talking about exit polls in Oskosh WI. Kalamazoo Mi or Pine Bluff Ar. I am talking about right here in our frum community, and it happened, read my first post about the results.

    in reply to: Trump support or a shift in thinking #1919243
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    @se2015, “Of course that doesn’t explain the blind attachment to an immoral party over the last few years.”
    Yup that is probably it, there was a blind attachment to the Democrats that still exists in certain parts of MO and secular Jewish community, the Democrat’s attracted every immoral tilth and the Frum voted for them anyway holding the nose [ with the exception of Rav Avigdor Miller ztl and a small group of his followers], We watched as those who hate us being welcome in open arms into the Democratic Party till this year they said enough is enough and swung to the GOP

    in reply to: Will Biden Throw Israel Under the Bus? #1919108
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    they would thrown under the bus in a nanosecond to appease AOC and the now 100 members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

    in reply to: Trump support or a shift in thinking #1919001
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    @always ask questions, and what exactly does that explain the huge shift to the GOP for other candidates?

    in reply to: Election Fraud #1918958
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    Lets see who is singing the count each vote song? its every Congressional Democrat who is trailing, ie Suazzi, Rose, Balter, etc. etc. Its every Democratic State Senator and Assembly Member who is trailing

    in reply to: Trump support or a shift in thinking #1918915
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    @smerel and withheld, this is not about the frum/ Jewish support of Trump vs other ethnic groups but the huge shift of support by frum to the GOP down ballot that never occurred before, for example Jerry Nadler was trounced in Boro Park 17,000 to 3,700 by a nobody who never campaigned. Was it because Nadler took a lead roll in the impeachment, came out against the embassy move and in favor of the Iran deal or is it a shift in the default allegiance to the GOP?

    in reply to: Affinity for Donald Trump #1918904
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    @Ruvain, Frum is generally used to describe an Orthodox Jew a/k/a a Shomer Shabbos, Avi Berkowitz was the first “Frum” person who worked in the west wing.

    in reply to: Do American Jews care about Eretz Yisroel? #1918814
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    @crazykanoiy, you say look the the party as a whole and you will see its centrist, that is a laugh, look at the projected numbers for the 2020, the Blue Dog Coalition is projected to shrink to to 17 and the Progressive caucus to grow to 100.

    @CharlieHall
    , any Congressmember who is gay and opposes Israel is nuts, Hamas excutes people if they are gay. Jones was J street endorsed but I am not worried, he won in a 7 way primary and if tacks far left he is a one termer.

    in reply to: Trump support or a shift in thinking #1918673
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    @CharlieHall,Bloomberg was a democrat who use the GOP as a flag of convenience

    in reply to: Affinity for Donald Trump #1918540
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    @Reb E & GH, this is a whole other thread about the character vs issue, this deals about the level of his support not about him as a person.
    GH, the support went beyond beeping minivans on the GSP, look at the election returns.

    in reply to: Do American Jews care about Eretz Yisroel? #1918442
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    @Charlie Hall, the mere fact that BLM even ever had the vitriolic Anti Semitic – Anti Israel position should scare the heck out of every Jew, they retracted the statment after a huge amount of negitive PR, a Leopard never changes its spots.
    As to your second part of your statement

    “Protests were “necessary,” the Democratic candidate for Vice President said, as “the people’s voices must be heard, and it is often the people who must speak to get their government to do what it is supposed to do, but may not do naturally unless the people speak loudly — and obviously peacefully.”
    Harris also praised the “brilliance” and “impact” of Black Lives Matter, without criticizing the ongoing violence at rallies held in the organization’s name in cities across the country, nor the shooting of two police officers in Louisville. “I actually believe that ‘Black Lives Matter’ has been the most significant agent for change within the criminal justice system,” the former California Attorney General said.”
    Give me a break, I stand by my words 1000%.

    in reply to: Do American Jews care about Eretz Yisroel? #1918449
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    @crazyKanoiy, are you kidding me?? the 17th CD is a Liberal stronghold? That Rockland and Westchester Counties, Trump won Rockland with 65% of the vote and Jones opponent won 40% of the Westchester vote in spite of not campaigning and spending the grand total of $10,000 on her campaign.
    Bigger proof the the national democratic congressional sentiments is the the fact the blue dog coalition is 26 members a mere 10% of the Congressional Democrats and Congressional Progressive Caucus has 95 members of 40% of the Democratic congress members.

    in reply to: Do American Jews care about Eretz Yisroel? #1918267
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    @CrazyKano “The one Democratic poll that matters is the Democratic primary which was won by one of the most centrist Democrats in the pack ”
    Lets see, Bowman beat Engle, Jones replace Lowy, sadly I think your out of touch with reality.
    PS Josh Gottheimer race was rated safe Democratic from the onset, all of Teaneck could of voted for the other guy and he would have still won.

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