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I Just flew out on a short business trip and guess what, the flight attendant was a gay man, I know because I was seated near the galley and he was talking about his boyfriend to the other flight attendants.
The person who took my order coffee shop in the airport was a trans.
and guess what? I survived and so will you

@syag, the donations of $1000 and up I personally know the tzvek, [ kerem yisomim, person lost a job] or the organization has no salaried people such as Kupat Ezra in Monsey. The rest are easy to find out with 2 minutes of a read of a return. Yes I check it out same way I check out product reviews and TripAdvisor reviews other then a person coming to shul who I give a Dollar or Five.
PS read some 990 forms on some of the place you will find it very informative.

@catch yourself,
The big difference is that if someone is a CEO at Southwest airlines / Walmart / Pepsi, the CEO salary and benefit package is set by the Board of Directors who are elected by the shareholders.
When I have Camp Simcha/ Tomchai Shabbos/ Masbia/ Hatzolah/ Project Yes etc.etc. hitting me up for donations I am a shareholder by donating the money and I am entitled to know if the CEO is earning a six figure salary and high end car lease on my chesbon.

Sickening, I read what some guys are making at non profits and I wanted to throw up

@n0m, why don’t you date her? this maybe the first YWN shidduch

look online to the IRS form 990, it breaks down the salary of the top ten employees

n0m, that’s the 50K question

Totally off topic but this topic veered from racism to halacha of saving lives, I was in Halifax NS and in the Jewish Steerage victims are buried in the Jewish Cemetery there.

@147: A lot also depend on the level of acrimony between the parents, there was a case where the hate was so bad it made the front page of the tabloids, when the son got married the parents could not act mature enough to set aside the disagreements and the cops needed to be called to the wedding for break up the fight.

Facts are less then 1% of people in NY area test positive theses days, its basically over, why not open camps

@Joseph, if that’s what you think you have some major issues with reality.
@ Someone, Exactly we need to live morals not with worry who the flight attendant lives with.

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@Joesph, it is certainly not going to get him mizrach vant in most botay medresh and not a huge plus on the resume. I was bringing this as an example not my personal opinion.
My personal opinion is that I would sooner do a shiddich with an honest poor person then with a rich crook.

Your going to get married, my advice for you is that shadchonim try to match a negative with negative so to speak, so be prepared that they will try to red you every misfit in town, ie father in prison, people with mental health issues etc etc. Wait for the right one and don’t let yourself get bullied.

@someone, hate to break it to you, but this a ruling of a secular jurisprudence system, they are not paskining halachah, they are very separate and distinct. Frankly I doubt if Judge Sotomayor or Roberts ever hear of the Malbim and rightfully could not care less what his opinion is.
If you have a dispute with a yid that belong is bais din, and frankly I get sick when I see two yidden sue in civil court, in the case of Bostock he was not Jewish and nor were the elected officials of Clayton County.

My guess is about 2/3rds of the male flight attendants are gay therefore I should stop flying or just not be hyper focused on other peoples sexuality.
I am a Chasidisher Yingerman who works outside the daled amos of Monsey, I have worked with Gays, Lesbians, Bi and Trans and found them to be competent employees who just do the job and go home.

@charliehall
“However, now that we are loudly blasting De Blasio, who has kowtowed to charedi leadership more than any non Jewish politician ever”
Really now? I think you have no grasp of reality, name me 5 things he did that benefited Charedi Jews.
He was the worse mayor for the frum olam since David Dinkins and the Crown Heights Riot.
wait he once hugged Avi Weiss, does that count has doing something positive for Frum People?

@Huju, Bob Grant’s comments were mild compared to the racist anti white drivel I use to hear on WBAI

@truebt
Do you raise donkeys to do the mitzva of petter chomor?

two points,
1 The Torah is not egalitarian, everything from laws of inheritance to witnesses to service in the bais hamikdosh is not equal, in spite of attempts by people like Avi Weiss, it is not equal nor will it ever be.
2. Having worked in both corporate America and the government I can tell you that if your halfway competent and black doors will open for you and never are open for anyone else, so to say that there is prevalent racism out there is bogus.

@Eli51, Really? that’s a shocker, after Reb Naftali Jeager kept on hocking against davening with minyan

@ Godol Hatorah: “They are fortunate because I suspect many frum families don’t have the time, resources or motivation to pursue this type of summer vacation.”
The resources are there this year as is the time, the money they saved in camp fees can be used for a road trip, its most likely be far less was camp cost unless they went on full scholarship.

The practical learning that they pick up during the trips stays with them for life.
For example we went tidal bore rafting in Nova Scotia where during the high tide the river reverses flow and my kids learnt about high tides and low tide and the gravitation pull that differs during the month.
We also visited the Jewish Cemetery in Halifax NS were the Jewish steerage victims of the Titanic are buried.
At Yellowstone a Ranger explained to the elk migrated to a area of the park that then were never in after the wolf were introduced
In Gatlinburg we went to the crafts village and saw how various item are made.

It would be a shame to squander the opportunity given now that camps have been canceled.
PS with the internet its very easy set up minyanim with your fellow travelers.

@dovidbt, religious exemptions was cover in the Mastercake decision last year, there are religious exemptions.

@Yehudayona,
“To add to what Huju said, you spread droplets when you talk or sing. The louder you are, the more droplets you spread”
for the past month there has been loud protests in the New York area with very loud screaming and vast majority no wearing masks and zero social distancing, yet NYS, NJ and CT is showing testing less then 1% positives on all tests for the past two weeks.

3 factors:
1. NYC as a whole took a hard turn to the left, someone like Rudy could never get elected today.
2 The ethnic Europeans who we were able to count on help with to push a common agenda no longer exist they all move away, for example Benonhurst and Bay Ridge were mostly Irish and Italians, Greenpoint was Polish, certain areas of the Bronx were Albanians, most of these moved away and those districts went left.
3. The Frum people became the issue, with Footsteps Etc., books by Deen, Feldman and Company, it became fashionable to knock the Frum community. This led to formation of groups like Preserve Ramapo/Rockland, Save Monroe, Rise up Orange County.
So anyone running for office has to make a decision who they want to support the Frum or the Anti Frum, there is no common ground anymore.

@yehudayona, Actually the head of infectious diseases for Montefiore [ a major teaching hospital vs a community hospital] disputes Dr. Glatt opinion.

To all the people who posted here that they live in Israel because of the mitzva, just curious if you raise donkeys too because of mitzva of petter chomor and raise sheep because of the mitzva of Raish hagez