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  • in reply to: The future of the democracy of the U.S. government #1981581
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    @AviK
    “CTL,
    1. You are correct if you mean that the government cannot make it only a public forum for liberals. However, it makes no sense to say that if they create a public forum they cannot create it because of the First Amendment.”
    This is not what I wrote. If the government creates the forum it IS subject to the First Amendment (creation is Government Action_.
    #2…what does paying have to do with it? If the forum (such as CompuServe or Aol in the old days) took fees from people in other states than their HQ it was Interstate Commerce and could be attacked under those rules. Gifts are not considered commerce (although the purchase and deliver may be commerce and interstate).

    in reply to: The future of the democracy of the U.S. government #1981575
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    @AviK
    Restaurants are places of public accommodation, which is why they are subject to the civil rights laws. Even if not one morsel of food crossed state lines. They operate with licenses from health department and subject to inspection.

    in reply to: Best shabbos leftovers #1981569
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    Brisket or Sauerbraten with onion gravy served over the stale challah for Sunday lunch

    in reply to: Where have all the Yekkes gone? #1981372
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    @always
    Why did my family move to America?
    I would have to break down 4 branches as I grew up hearing the stories from older generations.

    My Mother’s father’s grandfather was a cigar maker in southern Germany (Hoc Deutsch) running his own factory. He was made a large offer by an American manufacturer to come to Upstate NY in 1868 and run their cigar factory. They moved the entire family with 2nd class passage, bought them a house in the upstate city and paid him a large salary and 10% ownership in the factory. My grandfather moved to NYC to get a medical degree and stayed.
    My Mother’s Mother’s grandparents arrived in NYC from Frankfurt in 1869. The head of the family had been an attorney in Germany handling financial matters and he was brought over by a group of the ‘Our Crowd’ bankers (of the Goldman, Sachs ilk) to handle legal and financial issues concerning transactions and bond issues sold in Germany and Middle Europe. My grandmother was born in 1900 in the Yorkville section of Manhattan, where German was the neighborhood language.

    My Litvak Paternal Grandmother’s family started arriving in 1872, some traveling via England with a stay there of months or years. They were clothing or dry goods merchants and sought economic opportunities not available in the pale. Over a period of 10 years, the Great-great-grandparents, 9 children, 9 spouses and about 30 children arrived in Manhattan. By 1886 they were in Brooklyn and small towns throughout the northeast running the general or dry goods store. My Paternal grandmother was born 1896 in a small New England town where her uncle’s family ran the local department store until the 1960s. Her father, having only daughters moved them to Brooklyn about 1915 to find husbands, leaving the store to his brothers and nephews.
    My Litvak Paternal father’s family was last to arrive in 1878. Some cousins had moved to Chicago about 10 years earlier and left horse raising for the leather clothing and accessories business (because of the great meat processing business in Chicago, lots of cheap hides were available with great train transportation to ship finished goods). They brought my great Grandparents and their children to NY to set up a clothing manufacturing business, to add cloth items to the family line. My grandfather, was the youngest child and born in Manhattan about 1894. they had been making a fair living in the Pale, but did not like the chances of the sons being forced into the Czar’s army. The cousins in Chicago arranged the US immigration visas and passage by ship from Bremerhaven.

    None of the stories told spoke of leaving Europe because of anti-Semitism, and the Litvak side left before the 1880s pogroms hit their village (which is now in Belarus).

    To the best of my knowledge all the assorted extended family in these 4 branches had made it to the USA or England before WWI. My paternal Grandfather was a corporal in the US Army in WWI.

    in reply to: The future of the democracy of the U.S. government #1981315
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    @Always
    “I am not sure why humanity needs to offer control over their thoughts to corporations instead of writing on open internet, like this site does. ”

    NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YWN decides who can join/post, edits/moderates, approves/rejects posts posts. Ascribing First Amendment Rights would force posting of non-conforming religious content, sexually explicit content, anti-Semitic opinion, etc.

    BTW, I don’t know the business structure of YWN, it might be a corporation (or not).
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    In 1967 Joseph Einhorn ran for Mayor of New Haven on the Republican ticket. His wife had gone to Hunter College with my mother and played Mah Jongg with her on Thursdays night. Although, Democratic Ward Chairman and Chairlady, my parents voted for Joe. He lost, but so has every Republican city wide candidate in New Haven since 1953

    in reply to: The future of the democracy of the U.S. government #1981164
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    @AviK
    You defeated your own argument when you wrote that the government can create public forums on the internet. If the Government creates the forum, it is Government action and the First Amendment applies.
    Back in the early days of the internet, when we paid to belong/use the bulletin boards such as Compuserve, AOL, etc. The Interstate Commerce Clause might have applied. BUT, when there is no fee for Facebook, Instagram or Twitter it would be a far stretch to call participation Interstate Commerce.
    There are thousands of FB groups that are geographically local in scope. I am the admin or moderator of a number of them that require proof of local residency to join and/or participate. No Interstate Commerce there. My Democratic Town Committee has a private FB group. Only members of the DTC, who must be registered voters in the Town can see the group and participate, again nothing Interstate about it.

    in reply to: Where have all the Yekkes gone? #1981042
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    @always
    I believe Oma used the term to refer to those from tiny villages as opposed to the city folk in Germany.
    Our paternal family records going back to 1752 until they came to America about 1872 show the family raising and dealing in horses and having orchards and using the fruit to make distilled spirits. Sounds like a step above dirt farmers, but still agricultural life.

    in reply to: The future of the democracy of the U.S. government #1981045
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    @always
    I did not ask him how he planned to vote.
    That said your supposition about Jews and Democrats is inaccurate. When we were growing up the Republican Party of the northeast was liberal, and may Jews voted for people such as Nelson Rockefeller, Kenneth Keating, John V. Lindsay. Lowell Weicker, etc.

    in reply to: The future of the democracy of the U.S. government #1980862
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    @AviK
    Congress could pass a law that online forums were public forums, but it would lose a Constitutional challenge. Fairness Doctrine only applied to public airwaves and TV stations are licensed to operate at those frequencies for X years at a time.

    First Amendment rights cannot be applied to private business, unless they are acting in the government’s place. So if the Government rents space for a Post Office or Social Security office, the private landlord can’t ban Jews or Muslims from coming in the property, or distribution of literature on the sidewalk leading in, or other Free Speech protests

    in reply to: The future of the democracy of the U.S. government #1980863
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    @AviK
    The Picture ID should be currently valid.
    In CT Drivers Licenses are issued every 6 years.
    College or High School IDs are issued yearly
    Most Employee IDs are updated every few years

    in reply to: Where have all the Yekkes gone? #1980860
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    @Commonsaychel
    My Litvak Zaidy used to ask: Tell me are you Jewish or Galitzianer?
    My Oma would put him in his place, by calling Zaidy a ‘peasant from the east’

    This pecking order is such nonsense

    in reply to: The future of the democracy of the U.S. government #1980864
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    @Reb Eliezer
    The affidavit requires a lot of personal info that is verified with records in the Registrar’s office
    Full Legal Name
    Date and place of Birth
    Address
    Phone
    Social Security Number.

    Remember CT is a small state. Our town has only about 26,000 registered voters and 7 polling places. With 3 checkers from each party on duty at all times, plus two moderators, two asst, Registrars of Voters, two ballot clerks and two clerks working the tabulating machine the chances are near 100% that at least one of the poll workers will know any voter who shows up.
    I’ve worked the same polling location for 15 years, I probably know 60% of the voters who come in.
    I won’t know new arrivals in town or the 18 year olds voting the first time, but chances are they will be known.
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    Quick story….
    My father always went to NYC by train on Tuesdays and then voted on his way home from the train station, back in 1974 (before we had an ID requirement and drivers licenses didn’t have pictures), I was a poll worker. At 7:45PM a man walked in gave his address as his own and then my father’s name. I yelled out Challenge and asked the Moderator to have the man arrested. The moderator said how do you know? I said, that is not my father, whose name and address were given to get a ballot.
    Three minutes later my father walked in to vote. The policeman asked for his ID, then cuffed the first man and led him away.

    in reply to: Where have all the Yekkes gone? #1980795
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    @always
    I go to sleep between 11 and 12, I am up no later than 4 every day and have been most of my adult life. The early morning hours are quite productive time for me with few interruptions.
    I spend at least three mornings a week on calls to China that last 2-3 hours. This involves a business venture separate from my law practice.
    I always wear a watch, I’d feel naked without it, but don’t need it to know the time. My watches are all Swiss and will pass to my children or grandchildren at sometime in the future. My eldest grandson wears a watch that belonged to my maternal grandfather and is about 100 years old. The young man is named for his great-grandfather and it was appropriate for him to receive the watch when he was married.
    As for Swiss Jews, the current youngsters might be selling Swiss watches, not wearing them, but I haven’t been in Switzerland in about 7 years, so I don’t really know.

    in reply to: The future of the democracy of the U.S. government #1980790
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    @RebEliezer
    ‘currently we vote through signature recognition’

    WHOA…hold your horses. Each state sets their own rules.
    We do NOT use signature recognition in CT. Speaking as an asst. Registrar of Voters who works as a supervisor at the polls on Election Day: In CT voters are asked to present a picture ID, but not required, they can refuse and sign an affidavit that they are registered to vote and then vote. Their ballots are held separately and not put through the tabulating machine at the polling location. They are placed in a bag, which is sealed by the moderator and sent to Town Hall. The affidavit is verified and if acceptable the vote tabulated with absentee ballots.
    The checkers at the poll look at the picture ID and the person presenting it and see if it looks like the same person. They do NOT look at signatures. The voter does not sign anything at the polls and the signature from the voter registration form is not available to be checked.
    At this point we have many senior citizens voting who registered more than 60 years ago. Their signatures may be quite different from when the registered.
    I registered 49 years ago and my signature is not even close to what is was when I was 18. The Town Clerk was not required to retain original registrations all these years. The last twenty years’ applications have been digitized in our town.

    Please avoid the word WE when you have no idea if what you post is universal,

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    Because when Benjamin Franklin published this adage, there was no electric or gaslights in homes and businesses.
    People had to make the most of daylight hours to be productive and earn a living.
    Go try farming in the dark….That’s why we have Daylight Savings Time…to increase farm production.
    Candles were expensive, they gave limited light for work purposes.

    in reply to: The future of the democracy of the U.S. government #1980614
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    @AviK
    The First Amendment applies to GOVERNMENT ACTION. It has nothing to do with big tech or other private concerns.
    A private concern has the right to decide who it allows to post or not.
    If the government ordered a private concern to allow an individual to post, that would be a great threat to Democracy

    Way back when most TV and radio (in the USA) was broadcast over the ‘public airways’ and the FCC ordered equal time provisions for opposing viewpoints. That could NOT be extended to cable, satellite or internet platforms. It has since been dropped for broadcast networks, who claimed it was an unfair burden since most of the competition wasn’t subject to the same requirements

    in reply to: Where have all the Yekkes gone? #1980613
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    @always
    Alarm clocks?????????????????/
    Never saw one in Oma and Opa’s home, or my parents or my home.
    If you have to be up at a certain time you are up.
    Mrs. CTL was amazed early on in our marriage that I have an internal body clock and know the time close to the minute. Early this morning I got up to make a business call to China where it is 13 hours ahead. She asked me what time it was? I said should be hitting 3:00. She looked at a wall clock and said you’re wrong it’s only 2:59………I said better than it being 3:01.

    I understand that my grandchildren’s generation doesn’t wear watches or have alarm clocks, they are using their phones for those functions.

    in reply to: Where have all the Yekkes gone? #1979847
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    @Mesivta bachur

    The late Yekke….is dead
    No live Yekke worthy of the name is ever late.

    in reply to: Where have all the Yekkes gone? #1979480
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    @Reb Eliezer
    My wife and were married cover by my Opa’s and her father’s Taleisim. I never met her father, she was walked down the aisle by mother and step-father.
    My parents were alive for our sons weddings and were also covered by my Opa’s Tallis. Our daughters did not follow this custom as they followed traditions of their new husbands (none of whom had Yekke forebears_.

    in reply to: Where have all the Yekkes gone? #1979315
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    We were brought up with the attitude that if you are not 20 minutes early you are late. BUT you arrive exactly on time.
    10am appointment, you are parked outside the place and at 9:58 you exit the car, adjust your clothing, make sure you have everything you need and walk to the door. You ring the bell (or of a business location you enter exactly at 10am…NOT 9:59, NOT 10:01, but 10:00am.

    This comes from my Yekke mother.
    Just as Chicken soup is made with dill
    Yiddish never spoken in the house…..it was used/learned for business, but as OMA called it a gutter language it remained outside.
    BTW>>>>>before someone chimes in with what the Germans did to Jews who were so comfortable in Germany in the 1930s and 40s, our family left Germany for America in the 1860s. Our Litvish family were latecomers, arriving at Castle Garden (Battery Park) in 1872.

    in reply to: Constitutional Rights? #1979072
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    @Always
    Please don’t give up your day job, you’ll not make it in my profession
    “>> Amendments 1-10 were added soon after adoption of the Constitution

    There would not be enough states to sign constitution without bill of rights, so they should be considered part of the main body.”
    WRONG!!!!!!
    The Constitution went into effect on June 21, 1788 when New Hampshire became the 9th of the 13 States to ratify it (until then the US operated under the Articles of Confederation<wonder where the South took their name?>),
    There were actually 12 original Amendments passed by the First Congress sent for ratification to the States. Only #s 3-12 were ratified as of December 15th, 1791 and became known as the Bill of Rights and numbered as Amendments 1-10.

    The Constitution was ratified by the States and took effect 3 years before the Bill of Rights. Your assertion is incorrect.
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    ” if you have a general statement that anything not in constitution is reserved to states and people, this is enough to protect personal liberties.”

    No such statement exists, The correct statement is that ‘all powers not assigned to the Federal Government is reserved to the States.’ This is where we get the concept of States Rights, Nothing is reserved to the people. The Preamble puts it bluntly: We the People in order to….” The people have ceded their power to a representative form of government and retain rights only through the ballot box that can elect representatives.
    Over the years, the Federal Government has usurped powers by claiming things fall under their jurisdiction by using things such as the Interstate Commerce Clause, etc. The SCOTUS has been complicit in this power grab.
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    As for your remark about the First Amendment originally meaning Congress, this has been expanded to all levels of Government as all levels accept and operate with Federal funds comingled with state and local funds.
    Here in CT, all houses of worship had to be chartered by the State until the late 1800s. Our family belonged to three shuls in New Haven (yes out of town it is common to belong to multiple shuls in town, especially business owners do this to this day) all of whom were chartered by the State of Connecticut.
    Towns and villages got their names from the Congregational Church Parish (Puritans) whose pastor or Parish Council acted as local government and levied local taxes for the Constable, jail and school. This ended about 1840. The town I live in is made up of three of those Parishes and they are used as the names of the three main neighborhoods in town.

    in reply to: Where have all the Yekkes gone? #1979078
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    My mother’s side was Yekke, my father’s Litvak.
    Opa and Oma were quite unhappy that my mother married a peasant from the east (even though both my parents were third generation in America.
    My Opa was one of three brothers, but all fathered only daughters. My mother’s sister did marry a Yekke. He had one son and that son’s three male children (now in their 30s follow the Yekke ways.

    Opa bought me a Talis for my Bar Mitzvah. I wore it when I went to his shul in NY, but not in my Zaidy’s shul in Brooklyn. Mt father has asked the Rav in our shul in New Haven and was told that I should war it when in shul with my Opa to honor his tradition.

    the demise of the kehilla in Washington Heights has been a sharp blow to the Yekke Community. When I was a teen and twenty something their were loads of Yekkes in the Rockaways. My Opa and Oma had a summer place there, wintering in the city.

    in reply to: Constitutional Rights? #1978357
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    The Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution are two very different Documents written at different times by not necessarily the same people for different purposes.

    The Declaration says, we have had enough of being governed by the King of England and we thirteen colonies declare our Independence for the following reasons. The stirring terms such as: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, …” are used to gather support for the action among the populace.

    Having won the Revolutionary War, the former Colonies, now 13 States have to organize a system of Government for the new country: The Constitution is that system of Government.
    The Preamble lays out why it is needed:
    “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
    It has no reason to talk of ideals such as ‘unalienable rights’ as we were no longer English colonies in revolt, we were now the People of The United States.
    Like many new systems, it needed tweaking, thus the Bill of Rights..Amendments 1-10 were added soon after adoption of the Constitution and the establishment of our three branch government.

    One should NEVER attempt to combine the purpose of two radically different documents

    in reply to: Constitutional Rights? #1978356
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    Reb Eliezer

    There is NO law that separates religion and state in the USA.
    The First Amendment to the Constitution reads:
    “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof….”

    This means Congress may not pass a law establishing an official religion of the USA.. We have no ‘Church of the USA’ while there is a ‘Church of England’ and the English Monarch it titular head of the Church.
    Government meetings, sessions of Congress are free to open with prayers. In 1962 The Supreme Court ruled that there could be no school prayer. The members of Congress are adults (although they may not act that way, while young schoolchildren are impressionable and subject to indoctrination, and peer and teacher pressure.

    The second clause says that Congress may not interfere with the practice of religion. This is what allows minorities such as Jews to observe and practice our religion in the USA.

    Personally, I believe the second clause is far more important than the first. I could care less if there was an official Church of the USA id inhabitants could not be required to belong or adhere to the religion and no tax dollars spent on its buildings and operations….as long as Congress could not interfere with the practice of other religion.

    The term Separation of Church and State is not in the Constitution, but was used by Thomas Jefferson to explain the operation of the two clauses of the First Amendment referring to religion.

    in reply to: President Biden the new Regan #1978178
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    @AviK
    Reagan did not save the economy. His 1981 tax cuts were followed by 8 years of tax increases wiping out the cuts. He gave the breaks to the rich and harmed the middle class.

    I did not say he harmed the economy, I said his trickle down economics was the start of the destruction of the middle class. Please don’t put words in my mouth or shift the subject as if I had addressed what you shift to.
    Reagan was a senile former Democrat, former Labor Union President, the first divorced person to be elected President…some Family Values platform and an actor, B grade at that.

    in reply to: President Biden the new Regan #1978015
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    Rabbi………………….
    There never was a President Regan
    I detested him, but he deserves to have his name spelled correctly: REAGAN

    His trickle down voodoo economics was the start of the destruction of the American middle class.

    in reply to: conservatives’ liberal approach #1977316
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    @Always
    The FIRST AMENDMENT ONLY applies to Government action. A private business can censor your words, or not let you participate.

    YWN Mods censor regularly.

    in reply to: Scooter Explosion #1977019
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    Now we know why they are “self” funding

    in reply to: Bochurim Self-Funding #1975979
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    A Go Fund Me is NOT Self-Funding, it is schnoring!

    in reply to: setting up kiddush during mussuf #1975978
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    Who is setting up the Kiddush…………….
    Male members of the shul?
    Female members of the shul?
    Paid employees of the shul?
    The caterer’s staff?

    It makes a difference.

    in reply to: Bochurim Self-Funding #1975976
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    My brothers and I worked in daddy’s stores during breaks
    My Children and grandchildren worked in our offices during breaks.
    All were paid for their labor and then had spending money………………

    in reply to: Israel is the safest country for Jews #1975383
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    @bk613
    I was specifically not talking about bug cities and referenced crime in inner cities in my remarks.
    My parents had the foresight to leave NYC in 1952. We still own a house in Brooklyn and use it very occasionally (I haven’t been there since January 2020, before the Pandemic). Owning it for taxes, insurance and maintenance, it has made sense to hold onto it and a number of our next two generations lived in it while continuing their education in NYC.
    I have no interest in living in a large city, anywhere

    in reply to: Israel is the safest country for Jews #1975387
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    @lakwhut
    Arabs are NOT the biggest threat to Jews chutz laaretz. I don’t live in EY. Since Mrs. CTL cannot fly for medical reasons, I haven’t been in our home there in more than 5 years.

    Not all Muslims are Arabs, Not all Arabs are Muslims. The words are not interchangeable and neither are the threats each group poses to Jews.

    I feel far more comfortable with left wing POC in my area (including the large city we neighbor) than the Right wing Trump lovers with tatoos, American, Trump and Confederate flags on their pickup trucks. They express their Jew Hatred and Hitler love pretty openly while living in denial

    in reply to: Israel is the safest country for Jews #1974821
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    @lakewhut

    Your ignorance an political bias continues on and on. Get over it Trump LOST.

    I live in small CT Town with a Democrat administration with legislative body and all elected board and commissions having Democrat majorities (having ousted the Republicans who messed everything up for 8 years). In a state run by a Democrat Governor and legislature and all our Congressmen and Senators are Democrat.

    Jews are perfectly safe here (as safe as any other residents, and safer than people of color in our inner cities). Incidents of anti-semitic nature continue to fall year to year as tracked by ADL.

    We understand living in harmony with our neighbors. We don’t flaunt zoning and building codes with illegal synagogue in houses, or dorms in schools where not permitted by code. We don’t try to take over the school boards where we don’t send our kids to cut budgets for public education so we lower our tax bills while the whole community suffers.

    Bad behavior by frum Jews moving into not-first ring suburbs has brought about many anti-Jewish attacks…verbal and physical.
    Properly planned revitalization of old decrepit industrial cities (which had a125 year history of Jewish life) such as Waterbury and Naugatuck have been welcome. Even the new educational campus in Durham, a farming community that never had Jews has not brought about attacks on Jews.

    in reply to: Thank Biden for the Gas Shortage #1974235
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    @Health
    with no indentations, you posted no paragraphs………………………………
    They is a pronoun, it should refer to the previous plural proper noun, in this case Federal Government.
    It could not mean criminals as they don’t prosecute.

    I am not a mind reader. If you intended fior someone besides the Federal Government to have been the prosecuting authority, you should have posted it

    in reply to: Thank Biden for the Gas Shortage #1973823
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    @Health

    Keep telling lies
    ” now we have a Federal government that sides with criminals over e/o else.

    Look how they dealt with the Criminal named George Floyd.
    They prosecuted the Cops.
    They defunded the Cops.”

    The Federal Government did NOT prosecute and Police in the George Floyd murder, neither did the defund the police.

    Floyd’s murderer was prosecuted by the state. The police are funded by the city with some state assistance.

    STOP LYING….get it through your head, Trump is a LOSER. He couldn’t get reelected or take it in the courts.

    in reply to: Rebbetzin Without A Rov? #1973212
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    @Always
    Sorry,
    you view it as shul giving an honor, assigning her to teach without asking.
    A married professional with a J.D. and L.L.M sees it as they were trying to get something for nothing. They hired the husband at a salary for his services. They did not contract for her services.
    These were not classes on Shabbos or Yuntif, or at night, but smack in the middle of the business day.
    Before publishing and distributing the schedule, the shul should have asked her if she was willing and available to teach. For too long, shuls think the Rabbi’s wife is unpaid help, a bonus to his salary.

    in reply to: Rebbetzin Without A Rov? #1972606
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    @always
    Why was it wrong for her to laugh? She was at home with her husband, read the bulletin and laughed in amusement.
    Should she have picked up the phone and given the shul president a piece of her mind for the nerve to publish this without asking her and getting permission? Do you know her schedule was in my open for class times?

    Laughter was appropriate

    in reply to: Rebbetzin Without A Rov? #1972269
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    @UJM
    She practices almost exclusively in Federal Courts. She bills $750 at the District Court (trial) level, $1,000 at the Court of Appeals and $1500 if she has to appeal to the Supreme Court (she prefers not to go to DC, but has appeared a few times over the years).
    Her speciality is Federal Labor Law and discrimination in the workplace.

    in reply to: Rebbetzin Without A Rov? #1972191
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    @ujm
    “Can someone not be a rebbetzin if her husband is a Rov?”

    ABSOLUTELY
    20 years ago my nephew-in law took a shul pulpit in NJ. A few weeks after he started the shul bulletin came out and it listed a number of classes for ladies to be taught by my niece.
    She took one look at the bulletin and broke out laughing.
    My niece called the shul president and said: ‘you hired my husband to be Rav, you didn’t hire and aren’t paying me.’ The president replied that the former Rebbitzen always taught those classes, and for free. My niece said: ‘I’m an attorney, I have a practice and my time is billed at $400 per hour. If you would like to hire me send me a contract and a serious offer.’

    My nephew in-law notified the shul that he would perform the duties of his one year contract and was not interested in a renewal. He would prefer a congregation where everything was disclosed during negotiations and not after the contract was signed.
    20 years later, he is still a shul Rav and she is still a practicing attorney, not a Rebbetzin

    in reply to: Anyone else waiting for Tax Refund longer then usual? #1970087
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    Refund? Unless it is because of a tax credit, why would you loan money interest free to the US Government.
    This morning I finished the returns for personal and several family members. Having adjusted withholding and/or estimated payments during the year, 6 are sending payments to the government in amounts less than $100, the other is getting a refund, as a granddaughter had taxes withheld on Unemployment and the last Recovery bill made the first $10,000 (or so) tax free. She is getting back $700.

    I do not understand the attitude that a tax refund is forced savings, take x amount from your pay each check and bank it.

    in reply to: Census 2020 #1969392
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    Participant
    Your statement remains incorrect

    The Census did not count tourists. It counted those residing (not visiting) the US on April 1, 2020.
    We host some Chinese students. They are here for the school year on F1 visas. they are not tourists. They were counted. There presence was perfectly legal.

    Most people in the CR conveniently forget that the Census is not just for apportioning the members of the House of Representatives. It affects how much federal aid goes to states and municipalities. That’s why college students are counted at their school address. the municipality where the school is located is providing police, fire, ems and paved roads, etc.

    Having helped train Census Field Workers an am very familiar with the directives on who is to be counted and where. Trump tried to change it and could not get away with it.

    in reply to: Census 2020 #1969391
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    @Always
    Trump NEVER issued a memorandum to count ONLY voters.
    Children can’t vote and must be counted. Trump did not direct that children not be counted

    Stop posting lies

    in reply to: Census 2020 #1969319
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    @lakewhut
    #1 I didn’t go out of my way, I was reading the CR for amusement while taking a coffee break
    #2 I did not defend illegal….stop making false accusations. There is no defense of anyone in my comment, just an explanation of who must be counted.
    #3 What do Taliban incarcerated in Gitmo have do do with this topic?
    #4 What have people who have not been Mirandized have to do with this topic?

    #5 ALL people residing in America have to be counted in the Decennial Census. In this case they had to be residing here on April 1, 2020 even though the physical field count did not begin until July. The questions started: ‘were you living at this address on April 1, 2020

    #6 I have posted repeatedly that I DON’T PRACTICE CRIMINAL LAW. I don’t defend anyone in criminal cases.

    in reply to: Census 2020 #1969201
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    @participant
    READ Made Aliyah’s post before commenting on my reply

    MA did NOT say that tourists should be counted, he made the comment that if all people should be counted then tourists should be able to vote. A totally non-connected comment to the discussion that the Constitution requires all people residing in the US be counted. The Constitution does not say count voters. We are mandated to count minors, who are not eligible to vote, adults who are not registered to vote and felons who may have lost their right to vote (in some states).
    The 14th Amendment of the Constitution calls for counting the number of whole persons in each state, not citizens, not voters……………………..

    in reply to: Census 2020 #1969115
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    @madealiyah
    Your ignorance is amazing.

    The Constitution requires counting all people in the USA every 10 years. It does not count voters. Those under 18 cannot vote, neither can those who are not registered. Women didn’t get the vote til 1920 but had been counted for over 100 years.

    Your assertion about tourist is laughable, just like your comments

    in reply to: Census 2020 #1968966
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    @alway
    Trump’s directive to only count citizens was ruled unconstitutional by the Federal Courts, repeatedly. The Census Bureau did not sabotage anything. Trump was trying to sabotage the count of all persons in the US as required by the Constitution. It doesn’t say citizens in the Constitution.

    in reply to: Did Democrats learn About the French Revolution? #1967066
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    @lakewhut

    Wrong again, what a surprise.
    Yes I have studied the aftermath of the French Revolution. Not all was a disaster.
    Not fond of public beheadings or the reign and wars of Napoleon.
    I did like the emptying of the Bastile.

    Revolution is a change that can return to the beginning. The French started and ended with a King named Louis.

    in reply to: Did Democrats learn About the French Revolution? #1967067
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    @lakewhut
    This mob? which mob? the Trumpsters who invaded the Capitol and belong in prison for life?
    As for your comment of disposing of Jews after using them, it doesn’t matter if liberal, conservative; once they are no longer of use, Goyim get rid of Jews

    in reply to: Did Democrats learn About the French Revolution? #1966986
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    @lakewhut
    Learn history before slinging mud

    Many Democrats are well educated and studied the French Revolution.
    There is nothing similar about the current civil unrest in the USA and the French Revolution.

    #1 No one is trying to overthrow a monarch who rules by divine right
    #2 We have no official Estates or classes in the USA
    #3 All adult citizens are free to vote, although Republicans nationwide are trying to make it harder to do so
    #4 We have no official state religion to threaten the mob with hell or purgatory for not obeying the Divine Right monarch.
    #5 The Press and social media is not subject to the monarch’s censorship and coverage is LIVE, not delayed and available to the few who were literate (as in France of the 1780S).

    You need to get a life and stop wasting time with conspiracy theories

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