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@anom
Wrong, wrong, wrong!When hiring you are required to have the employee fll out a W-9 which requires providing you (the employer) with the listed forms of ID showing eligibility to work; such as birth certificate, passport, drivers license, social security card, etc.
You sign that you have examined these ids and person complies with the law and keep copies of there ids,
You also have to have them fill out a W-4 for tax withholding. You must withhold applicable taxes and Social Security and Medicare and file tax returns remitting the withholding and your employer’s obligations as well.Follow the law!
I made it a point not to discuss American politics in shul.
I know my view is not the same as most of the mispallim.
However, my party won my state, the other mispallim take solace in winning country wide.None of this is appropriate discussion in the Beis Medrash
@Neville
I did not write public schools are above any and all corruption. Please don’t put words in my mouth.
I addressed the fact that the typical adjunct teaching community college is likely to be working full time in his/her field and less of an ideologue than the full time university academics.
Out of state tuition to state universities is much cheaper than private universities.
In New England to save taxpayers money the 6 state university systems try to avoid duplicative programs with limited enrollment and high cost and admit students from the other 5 states at in state tuition cost.
This has been around for decades.
As for student loans, the borrower voluntarily signed a promissory note, received the services and should pay for it.
I am willing to make some accommodations for students who were defrauded by for profit schools who closed down, and student stuck with no transferable credits.
Also loan payment credits for working in areas of great need for wages below the going rate in more popular areas (teachers, doctors, nurses in remote underserved locales).Many in the CR are aware that I may be a social liberal, but am a fiscal conservative.
In my grandparents’ time (1910s) an 8th grade education was sufficient to earn a living and perform most common work tasks), in my parents time (1930s) a high school education sufficed, today a college or technical education is needed. I believe society as a whole benefits from a dictated workforce and am willing to pay for it through my taxes.BTW, for those who will raise the issue of ‘illegal aliens’ receiving free college education: the Connecticut plan for free community college for high school graduates requires the student fill out the Fafsa form and all grants are paid directly to the school. The Fafsa is only open to US Citizens
@Keith
I did not propose community college as a total college education, but a way to 1/2 a BA of BS at zero cost to student for tuition (as it is in CT).
My grandsons are taking all there required math, science and English courses, so when they transfer to University as as juniors they will be taking only courses in their majors. Knowing they are going into law they will be taking economics, accounting, finance, history and polisci. They will avoid most of the humanitities where students are subjected to revisionist thinking.
Since their parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles are all college educated professionals the boys can be steered to appropriate classes@Neville
The Pale of Settlement was a great swath of the Russian Empire where Jews were permitted to live. It in clouded parts of present day Poland, Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Belarus and the Ukraine ( among others).
The market town of Suwslki was 50% Jewish, a provincial capital in both Poland and Lithuania and even under Prussian control at times.Borders were very fluid which was the reaso. For my description
@Neville
I am not a cancel student loans advocate.I paid for my own Ivy League education, MBA, Law School
My kids were offered the cost of a state university education paid for by me, if they chose private, they were responsible for the difference in cost. They paid off their student loans.
I have two grandsons learning during the day and getting the free Community College education at night. After completing the free Associates they will switch to paid college for the rest of BA degree and then law school, then enter family firm.
@Keith
City College, Hunter, Community Colleges are commuter schools. No dorms, Spartan or otherwise.
No meal plans in the free tuitionI have taught in Community colleges as an adjunct (probably half the staff is) ; tend to be professionals working in the field, not the ideologues who work full time in academia
I am very tired of Jewish one issue voters who keep harping on which candidate is best for Israel.
This is an election for President of the United States being chosen by US citizens.
If Israelis were elected a head of State they should choose who is best for Israel. Americans must choose who is best for the United States. It is possible to be the same person
@Baal-habooze
Lay off the booze because it is making you post lies
Trump would love what happened in 2016 to happen again in 2016: he won
The last time was 2020 and he lost.No one stoke the election from him. He lost the popular vote both times.
Every major case about voter fraud went through the courts and found against Trump’s false claims of fraud. Many ruled on by Federal judges he appointed.I have been an election official for decades and from experience there is almost no voter fraud.
Last year I did have to have one potential voter arrested for fraud; a Republican. Who was a convicted felon and ineligible to vote and attempted to vote his father’s name. Both had the same name and address (not a Junior). I had a printout of the felons list from Secretary of State for voting district which included date of birth which matched his drivers license). The attempt to fraudulently vote caused his parole to be revoked and he is back behind bars finishing his original sentence.
So this was a slimy Republican caughtUJM….
OOT it is often a struggle to get a minyan each day for Schacharis and Mincha/Maariv.
There are usually not enough frum people around during the day for multiple minyanim in a shul.There are 9 Frum synagogues in my town, plus independent minyanim.
The shul I attend for Mincha/Maariv weekdays was the only shul saying Tachanun this week. It is Nusach Ashkenaz according to the Lita (Litvak) ritual.
It attracted a 25% bump in attendance from Sunday through today (Wednesday) of Ashkenazim who normally attend other shuls but wanted to daven in a minyan where Tachanun was being said.BTW>>>> during Chol HaMoed Sukkos I attended this shul for Schacharis so I would not feel totally out of place davening with Tephillin on.
My paternal side came to the US from the Lithuanian section of the Pale of Settlement in 1872, we still hold to those traditions and Nusach
@Faux
#2
Free CollegeThis what built the Jewish American middl class in the NY area.
My parents attended City College (father) and Hunter College (mother) in the 1930s for the cost of subway fare. Books, notebooks, writing utensils were provided at no cost,My home state of Connecticut provides free Community College (Associates Degree) to any recent graduate of high school in the state.
I have no problem with my tax dollars funding higher public education.
I feel the same about this as K-12, free public education for all; if you want a private education fund it yourselfWhy aren’t we voting in this poll, because your post is illiterate….
No one is gunnu do anything.There are two elections coming, the plebiscite of the people Nov 5th, the the vote of the Electoral College in December.
Trump has lost the plebiscite twice in a row and I expect him to lose again November 5.
He is 1:2 in the Electoral College.
I expect VP Harris to win the Plebiscite November 5 and hope she also wins the Electoral College election.
@jdf007
you didn’t know anyone with intermarried parents until you reached college in another state………………………….I have no idea how old you are. I might guess your home state is NY
I have an 81 year old sister in law whose Jewish mother married an Italian Catholic in NYC in 1932 with the agreement that the children would be raised as observant Jews and Kashrus and Shabbos observed in home.
I had a number of classmates in elementary school (1950s) with only one Jewish parent.
Not all of us came from families who were living in a Shtetl back in 1824, my maternal side was living in a city in Germany. My paternal side lived in a provincial capital in Congress Poland (formerly Lithuania) within the Russian Pale. The Town had 4000 inhabitants in the 1820s, half Jewish.
@Akuperma
Wrong again! The USSR invaded Poland in September 1939 joining on the side of the Nazis in trying to conquer and divide territory.
That was their entry into the war.
It was not until Germany invaded the USSR in 1941 that the USSR formally joined the Allies in the war against the Axis powers.Eastern Europe was a war zone from September 1939 with highly disrupted transportation, food supply, utilities etc.
The USSR borders were not truly open to nonessential visitors after September 1939. Internal travel was highly restricted as well, Jews were not free to travel from Moscow or Leningrad to The Ukraine, nor were most ordinary USSR citizens. The Kremlin restricted travel to avoid stirring up nationalism and having insurrections in the individual republics.
I got As in geography and European. World and US history.
Nice try.@akuperma
Good thing you are not in the High School History classes I teach in retirement.
“…..during the last war they had in the area (1941-1945).”WWII started September 1, 1939, the day Germany invaded Poland!
The US was not involved until the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor December 7, 1942.
Poland was a war zone 26 months by then, Ukraine part of the USSR was at war very soon after Poland.
No change.
I was brought up a Zionist and still support a Jewish homeland governed by Jews.Don’t approve of labeling or segmenting Jews, I am a frum Jew of Northern European ancestry.
@ujm
I have already posted that I do not trust the honesty and ability of private operators spending public education tax dollars
I cited examples of fraud@AAQ
Thieve misunderstandings are a collateral damage of reading the CR in my phone which makes it hard to go back and forth to posts. Also leads to many typos on my part@Menachem Shmei
Why would you even think that an out of office politician (Obama) pressures Israel to do anything?
He has no governmental power?Your question may be valid to ask of Biden, and Schumer who wield some power.
VPs gave zero power. Harris’ power will arrive on January 20, 2025 when she is sworn in as President.@DovidBT
Actually vouchers allow you to claim other taxpayers’ dollars and spend them in ways that align with your values.I have had running disagreements with local taxpayers who live in lower end homes in my CT community.
They clam an entitlement in the schools because of property tax. They pay a. Average of $7000 per year, but the town spends $25000 per year in each public school student.
I pay $28000 per year on the main CTL compound house and have never had a child in public schools.The proposal for vouchers would give those taxpayers paying $7000 in local property taxes $25,000 a year in local tax dollars to spend outside the public education system. I object to this.
It takes a minimum of 18 less students in our local schools to eliminate a common teacher. Have to shed 100+ students to eliminate an art or music teacher and 120 to get rid of a gym teacher. 600 have to go to get rid of a librarian
@AAQ
I never posted about anti-Semitic activities.I spent most of my two days at the convention in meetings (both National committees such as rules and state delegation), I wasn’t attending any events hosted by non delegates such as Agudah.
I spent almost no time in the convention floor, those days are long gone for me@coffeeaddict
I would never confuse assault with harass.
#1 posted and I questioned about an assault by Democrats on Agudah
You posted a link to an article that I read. There is no mention that the protesters were Democrats.
So far all we have is a false claim posted by #1 and your inability to provide verificationBTW> assault is the instilling fear of imminent physical harm or danger.
@AAQ
The premise of a government provided basic education is not something in examined that crept into my mind.
In a non-Agrarian, post Industrial Revolution society which has long outlawed child labor a mandatory basic education is necessary to provide functional and employable citizens.Your premier of controls and testing has been shown to be unworkable by the yeshiva general education scandals in NY during the past decade.
As a taxpayer I oppose my tax dollars being spent in private institutions. Already in CT the municipalities have to pay the cost of the school nurse, special education and provide in town busing (under same mileage requirements) for private schools as public. I was in a commission that investigated and shut down a private school (not religion affiliated) that misclassified 80 students as SPEd over 6 years. All 80 were admitted to top universities upon graduation. No medical diagnoses could be produced for the. SPEd classifications just a school’s social workers notes.
$26 million was stolen from local taxpayers. The school has been put on probation by the accrediting agency and a lien placed. In another 16 months the town will likely foreclose and sell the property to satisfy the debt.Decades ago I was on the board of a Jewish day school. The students never received a fleishige lunch. This infuriated me because the freezers were loaded with cases of kosher chicken provided by the USDA (along with things like peanut butter, pasta, canned vegetables). I asked the school cook why she never served chicken to the students and was told the menahel sent chicken to his home and that of his assorted relatives teaching in the school each month while the students lived on pasta and fried matzo for lunch .
Unfortunately, life experience has taught me that private institutions cannot be trusted with public money. An administration that mishandles public funds can be voted out of office
No, names were NOT changed at Ellis Island (for all you latecomers who arrived there, my family came in 1868 and 1872).
Ships passenger manifests were compiled at the port of Embarkation in Europe and went from the ship to the immigration authorities at Ellis Island. Immigrants were processed with the names they used to board the ship.Many immigrants assumed Americanized names upon landing in Manhattan or elsewhere after leaving Island.
My late FIL, left Hamburg with his first name o. The manifest listed as Erich. As soon. As he settled in the US he Americanized the spelling to Eric (I not discuss family name whose ending changed from ch to ck). When becoming a citizen he was permitted to formally change his name without having to go to court and pay fees.
@CofffeeAddict
I read that article. No mention is made of an “assault” on Agudah by Democrats which is the claim #1 made and to which I responded.
The article talks about anti-Israel protesters.
My questions to #1 stand as not answered and no proof/evidence offered of such an assault on Agudath by Democrats.
@DovidBT
If you were a MLB player hitting .333 they’d pay you millions.
@UJM
Failing schools should be closed, their administration and staffed sacked.
I went to public school in the inner city during the race riots of the 60s but got a fine education.
Eliminate tenure, get rid of unfunded mandates and improve the schools .
This is a different issue than taxpayers paying for private education which I oppose.
I also oppose Charter School which lets the operators skim the first 15% of taxpayer money.
NYers are generally renters so don’t get the fact that out of town the better the public schools the higher your home value.@CoffeeAddict
Non-politicians speaking Tuesday at DNC included:Jack Carter (Grandson of President Jimmy Carter)
Jack Schlossberg (grandson of JFK)
Both possible future politicians
Kyle Sweetzer, firmer Trump voter who jumped ship
Stephanie Grisham, former White House Press Secretary for Trump (political appointee but not a politician
Nabela Noor (internet content creator)
Kenneth Stribling (retired Teamster)
Ken Chennault (business executive)
Ana Navarro (media personality)
The vast majority of speakers are politicians which is as it should be at a political convention. Speeches are aimed at delegates and guests who are supporting the party, not the general public.
I made a 2am charter flight back home this morning and was in court at 9. This may have been my last national convention, time gif the younger generation to take over
Can’t narrow to one, here are three:
I oppose school vouchers, if anyone wants to send their children to private schools then the taxpayer should not pay.
I am opposed to private gun ownership in the US unless a member of the National Guard (well organized militia in 2nd Amendment), law enforcement, correction officer, bank guard.
I am against legalized marijuana, I don’t want someone high behind the wheel if a motorized vehicle.
@1
Verbal assault?
Physical assault?
On the organization or an individual?I have read no details, please enlighten me.
In the past I have been in Opposition to son of their demands/policies and my opposition could be considered verbal assault when in attack mode
@CoffeeAddict
Do you really dislike me deeply?@AAQ
President Biden made no such announcement and as he had previously released his delegates, he could not win the nomination.
I am in Chicago through tonight’s session, but must be in CT tomorrow on legal business. I will tender my proxy and not vote in the roll call later during the convention.I got to see many long time friends and this is likely my final convention. A far cry from 1968 in Chicago which was my first (flour pass a a teen, not a delegate).
Not all shuls allow this overindulgence regarding alcohol.
As CR members know, I remarried and moved to NY.
My new shul does not allow alcohol at Kiddush. The shul Rav makes the public Kiddush on grape juice.
I asked about this policy when I wanted to make a Kiddush to celebrate my marriage. I was told that since this was a personal simcha I was permitted to bring in one bottle of alcohol and had to have an official pourer to make sure no teens or children had any.
After the Kiddush the shammes tied what was left of the bottle in a plastic grocery bag and told me to take it home (there is an eruv) no alcohol is allowed to remain in the shul.Not all states allow write in votes or gave restrictions.
In CT (where I have been an Asst Registrar of voters for decades) you can only write in a name that has previously registered with the Secretary of State as a write in candidate. If you write in a name that has not been preregistered and qualified, your ballot will not be counted by the tabulating machineI saw this last year for the first time and thought it inappropriate.
I also grew up in a shul where we sat on faux wood grain cardboard boxes that the funeral directors use to provide for those in aveilus.
In the shul I attended yesterday the long cushions were removed from the pews and placed along the walls. I sat on the 3” high cushion with my back against the wall for support.
The only one who brought in a low beach chair was the 80 year old Rav, he explained that he needed the arms on the chair in order to be able to get up at chatzos.@Sam Klein
Sorry to burst your bubble, but China is NOT a complete Communist country. It is totalitarian but has much privately owned property and business.
Don’t know how many times you have been to China, I have made more than 20 trips on the past dozen years and derive a great deal of my income from wealthy Chinese entrepreneurs who send their sons to be educated in the USA. The pay about $100k per year for high school then full costs for university here.
There is untold private wealth in China and that is not Communist.
China is a Socialist Totalitarian country@Ari Knobler
My paternal side left Suwalki for the USA in 1872 but I remember my great grandfather using that pronunciation.
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As for Yiddish being jargon, that is a polite word.
My Oma (maternal side came from Germany in 1868) called it a ‘gutter tongue’
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When I was in high school 54 years ago Yiddish was offered as one of 12 foreign languages. I signed up and took the first week of classes.
Zaidah asked me what I learned and I gave a few examples.
He said, your teacher is a Galitzianer, drop the class.@AAQ
I am saying the VP could/should not have received info on POTUS medical state unless he approved the release to her by the medical professionals.
If his agreement to release info to her did not include permission to share with others, she should not.I would not ask a third party for this info, but given the opportunity I would ask Biden.
You ignored my question about adding Harris’s husband’s last name to hers
@AAQ
First why do you call the VP Harris-Emhoff, a name she does not use.
My new wife did not take my last name, my daughters do not use their husbands’ last names in their professional lives.Second,
I would not pose the question you ask.
There is the law of the land called HIPAA and unless the President chose to share medical information with the VP, it could not legally be disclosed to her.
Even if legally disclosed to her (by his consent), she could not legally share the information with me@CoffeeA
Being Pragmatic, Biden got the overwhelming majority of votes in the Democratic primaries last spring.
Voters knew they were voting for Biden/Harris and that she would take over if he could not complete a term.
Voters who were opposed to Harris could have voted for another candidate or uncommitted.The Rules of the Party are published and not a surprise, but many people Don other to discover what they say until something unusual pops up.
Having been Rules Committee Chairman in the CT State Democrat Party and on the national Party Rules Committee in the past I am more aware than the average voter.
If delegates chosen by the state parties do not want to vote for Harris, they are not bound to do so. However, the vast majority of delegates will vote for what is best for the Party in order to retain the White House. At this point that seems to be to nominate Harris as the Democrat Presidential Candidate.
This has been the consensus of the many conversations, texts, emails that I have had with colleagues across the country.As I often preach and point out, America is not a Democracy and does not operate as one (with the exception of a few small New England Towns still run by Town Meetings). America is a Republic. Voters elect representatives (in this case delegates) to represent them and the representatives are empowered to cast votes based on current information and developments at the time of the vote. No delegates were elected based in an unwavering commitment to vote Biden. In fact in most states delegates are not elected, but the State Party appoints them based on the results of the primary vote. Again there are also Super Delegates who hold voting rights based on office and may not reflect the results of a primary.
I am not here to electioneer, my explanations are here as an educational service to CR readers. I never try to persuade anyone here to vote for or against a candidate or Party. I have voted a split ticket in virtually every election since 1972.
@Coffee A
It is not about the will of the people, it is about Party Rules which govern who is and how they are chosen to be the party’s nominee.To quote am Old American Express Commercial: “Membership has its privilege”
If you are not a member of the Democrat Party you have no right to determine who the nominee should be (I oppose open primaries).Many of us worked log and hard for our party investing time and money and were wiling to support an incumbent and not show him the door for younger, less experienced people. The President was not convinced to step aside by young bucks, he listened to the reason and experience of senior party members, such as 84 year old Nancy Pelosi ( ho has spent about as many years in Government as Biden).
Many delegates were willing to accept a weakened, aging incumbent as our candidate because it was believed he could defeat EX-President Trump. When it became apparent that was no longer the case it was time for a change. I for one, would rather have had a President Biden running on 5 cylinders than another term of Trump destroying what little is left of our personal liberties.
I don’t know how old you are, or your schooling. I am old enough to have rejoiced when the Supreme Court ruled the forced Christian Prayer I was forced to endure in public elementary school Unconstitutional back in 1962. I was thrilled when President Johnson and the Dems passed the Civil Rights Act. and we could not be legally discriminated against because we are Jews
@lostspark
I do not expect the President to resign and let Harris ascend. The backlash would be too great in a close election.Beshear is a fine choice, but I am not eager to remove a winning D governor who could be the one to choose Mitch McConnell’s replacement if necessary mid term
Coffee
Harris will get the nomination. The phones have been worked and she has more than enough pledged delegates to secure victory in the roll call vote.
BTW, I received a call asking for my vote, I said that my proxy should be called as I have not revoked it yet.The possible alternatives have come out and endorsed her, so as to preserve their Presidential hopes for the future.
The big question is who she will pick as a running mate and how fast?
The sooner the better for her campaign.The current arithmetic says that I should not revoke my proxy and attend in person.
@skripa
You are correct that the money donated to the Biden/Harris Campaign Fund can be used by a ticket that has on of them in it.
It won’t happen, but if someone else (John Doe) got the nomination for President and chose Harris as running mate, that campaign could use the funds.AAQ
If I go, I’ll post
What is interesting is that the D Parties of NC, SC and TN have stated their delegates will vote Harris.
However, state laws and rules don’t apply at the National Convention of a political party. It is decided law that only Party Rules apply. The rues of the Democrat Party state that the delegates at the convention decide the nominee, they are not bound by the state party or primary results (after first ballot or if the candidate is no longer running).
I have sat on the Rules Committee in the past, this will be an interesting year
Whitmer says she will not run, but in the past non-candidates have been drafted.
The CT State Dem Committee seems to be united behind Harris, but cannot direct delegates how to vote. Biden won all the delegates decided by primary and they are now free. The general population does not realize that in addition to primary chosen delegates, each state has a number of super delegates, Senators, Congressmen, etc.The madness has begun………………………….
I had not planned to attend this year’s Democrat National Convention and had tendered a proxy.
I had stated earlier in the CR that if Biden dropped out I might withdraw my proxy and attend.I have had more than 50 phone calls. emails and texts this morning seeking my support for various candidates.
I do not support VP Harris, although I have explained why it would be very hard to remove her from the ticket.
I do not support Newsom
I like Whitmer, Pritzker, Shapiro but think Harris will get the nd.The first Democrat National Convention I attended as a floor guest was 1968 in Chicago when Mayor Dailey’s goons attacked demonstrators in the streets. I attended as a delegate 5 times and thought I was through. It is tempting to attend this historic convention. Each state has different rules regarding those Electoral College Members who have been hosen based on pledges to Biden. Lots of horse trading will be going on
Your comment makes no sense.
Why should the Democrat or an US political party care about “Achenu kol Beis Yisroel?”If you mean Jewish members of the Democrat Party, say so! It is not the party’s place to take stands on items of a religious nature.
This Jewish D does care about Achenu Kol Beis Yisroel and I vote by the individual candidates not a party line. As the 2024 Democrat Party Platform
Will not be adopted until August I cannot say if I will support or oppose it.AAQ
You could not have voted for a Vice Presidential candidate if you wanted.
Only the Presidential Candidate appears on the ballot and is voted for. The VP choice of the party gets a free ride with the winning Presidential candidate.No voter was able to cast a vote for that person since the VP position had no place in the ballot.
I still am an Asst. Registrar of Voters and know election laws and procedures
@AAQ
I am not saying the masses are racist (I don’t apply that word broadly). I am saying that groups have ethnic and other preferences and extend them to voting.Being honest:
We like to live amongst our own kind
We vote for Jewish candidates
We look for and use Jewish professionals (medical, legal, accounting, etc.)
We shop at Jewish owned businesses.Does this make us racist? Not unless we refuse to do any of these things because the person is not of our own kind.