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You make the case for a fixed pushke on the wall that is locked.
I must attend a different class of minyan. Paper money isn’t noisy.
I’m with the Wolf.
Also, I live out of town. Our children went to day schools, not yeshivos, even if the school had the word yeshiva in the name.
The School libraries were sorely lacking.
They had full secular curiricula and from grade 3 the public library was a necessary place to research and do homework and projects.
Many books were put on reserve by the library matching the teachers’ reading lists. They could only be checked out with a child’s card. Children have a 4 book maximum check out limit in this area. This method kept unscrupulous parents from checking out all the books on a list to the detriment of other students.
Our town’s library has computers available for research use. The ones in the children’s section, accessible only by scanning the bar-code on the child’s library card have internet access that if highly filtered by age level.
Since Geordie613 can’t stand Os
Ob River, Siberia
empties into the Gulf of Ob
Doha…capital of Qatar
They don’t want us there, either
Ankara, Turkey
Bombers delight
“Why do bakeries bake chametz till the last minute. “
1. Because most people have stopped baking at home days (or even weeks) before Pesach and there is a demand for the product.
2. Why should their parnasah be cut? It’s tough enough that they will be shut for a minimum of 8 days with no sales, but fixed expenses such as rent, insurance continue.
3. As Queen Marie Antoinette said: “Let them eat cake.” Some customers want more than bread.
4. Why should employees have their hours cut and lose wages because you have decided no cakes and pastries should be baked?
5. Mrs. CTL’s family owned a kosher bakery, I worked as the purchasing agent for another kosher bakery more than 40 years ago. Neither establishment cut production before Pesach. There were retail and wholesale trade to be serviced. Nothing was ever put out on the street Erev Pesach…it was all given to local goyische institutions for distribution to the poor in our towns.
Are they (bochrim) falling over while they sleep?
Agra, India
Take your choice, they both end with an A
Home of the Taj Mahal
Ulan Bator, Capital of Mongolia
a childhood friend was posted to the US Embassy there.
Okinawa…………….
Postiong my own follow up so Geordie613 won’t be frustrated
Tokyo, Japan
Too many business trips there in the 80s
Queen……….
I didn’t know my great grandmothers, but certainly knew my grandmothers who were both alive until I was about 40. They both had a knippel…one was Litvak and the other Yekkeh. Neither used the term Knippel as neither spoke Yiddish.
My paternal grandmother had only sons so they were not taught about it. My maternal grandmother had only daughters and they were taught the importance of a knippel.
In the Great Depression of the 1930s when both grandfathers’ businesses went under it was the knippel that kept the family going. In the late 1930s my Oma’s knippel was instrumental in buying the freedom of the last 3 of her extended family still in Germany.
My father’s business partners put his business into bankruptcy in 1962 while my parents were in EY for 2 months. We survived on mom’s knippel while dad rebuilt his livelihood.
I have one sister, I remember my mother teaching her “if your husband gives you $100 per week to run the house, you take 10% off the top for the knippel, and 10% off the bottom for tzedaka, you can shop and cook wisely on 80% of what he thinks you need.’
I have one sister,when she married back in 1970, my brother and I gave her $1,000 to start her knippel. We told her that we never wanted her to be in the position of asking her husband for money to buy home a birthday gift, and that she must always have some money of her own.
We also told her that if it ever ran out, to come to us for a replenishment. Unfortunately, she has a sick husband (he has needed multiple transplants over the years) and a son whose expensive hearing aids were never covered by insurance. We B”H have been able to replenish the knippel over the years without my BIL knowing.
My wife’s family also has the tradition of the knippel, they are Litvaks from Vilna (her grandparents were born there). She taught our daughter’s take 10% off the top of all the wife’s personal income for the knippel.
A good husband knows that if you give your wife cash to buy something, don’t expect change…it goes in the knippel.
Geordie………
My wife and the girls were in one limousine, newlyweds ion a second and I was in a 3rd with male immediate family members, thus I had access to my laptop while being driven about 2 hours to NYC for the evening affair. I am just finishing up and am do in the ballroom in 3 minutes for the evening festivities.
Thanks for the good wishes
Queen an Syag L chochma
I have two words to say: Shalom Bayis.
My Father, Grandfather and Great Grandfather (Z”L) always taught me that it is Poppa’s job to make a living. Momma rules the roost and decides how that parnassah is spent…..
I am sure that I am only seeing about 75% of the bills for the chasunah. The rest is coming from momma’s Knippel. But, I’ll make sure to find a way for some unexpected funds to find their way into one of momma’s handbags.
We are enroute to NYC for the evening affair. The sheitelmachers and makeup ladies are waiting for the ladies in the hotel I and my brother, brother-in-law, adult nephews, male close cousins will gather in a reserved meeting room for Mincha and a L’Chaim……………
It’s the morning of the chasunah.
Poppa has been banished to his spare office above the garage.
The caterers and florists are in full swing. B”H we never got the snow predicted for Shabbos. The sun is shining and the ceremony will be in our garden as planned.
Momma and the Kallah have instructed Poppa to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open…clearly I have little say in what goes on today.
Tisch at 10:30, Chupah promptly at 11:15 Drinking and feasting at noon…all is well with the world
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
They don’t want us to visit
Queen,
When mutual friends of the dating couple (same age) decide that it would be a good idea to fix up Chaim and Sara. Often these friends are room mates or in the same shiur with them.
Back in my day it was common for girls in the dorm at Stern to fix up a fellow dorm mate with a guy at YU. The contact was usually between siblings or close cousins at the 2 schools, so the boy girl contact wasn’t unusual or improper.
Sometimes, by the time room mates have spent a couple of years living together, they have a better idea what might make a good match than a shadchan.
In those days parents didn’t demand resumes and didn’t have 100+ item checklists (demands). My eldest son is already married almost 30 years. My daughter getting married I”H this Sunday met her chusan in Law School. They were the 2 always being seated together at school functions and being served airline meals. After the second semester, a female Jewish professor strongly suggested they consider marriage, that neither one would be happy with a spouse without advanced secular education.
Da Nang, used to be South..now just: Viet Nam
The USA had a major Air Base there in the 1960s and early 70s.
DaasYochid……….
Right about Kof-K, not Chaf….been a long day. I had lots of respect for them 36 years ago when only the father was supervising limited items. Now not so much.
KVH was the top supervision in New England for Decades under Rabbi Halbfinger, did not require meat to be glatt, supervises the in store bakeries for most New England chains, such a Stop and Shop,Shaw’s. Big Y, etc.
Problem is that it was originally part of the Synagogue Council of Massachusetts that included non-orthodox (Euro Traditional but no mechitza) synagogues..and some of their pulpit rabbbis did local inspections. Last 10+ years if is part of the Orthodox only Rabbinical Council of New England with much higher standards.
Joseph……….
NO, not lower-end, but:
we are misnagid Litvak on paternal side and Yekkah on Maternal side.
Eldest son has a fix-up date about 20 years ago and took the young lady to a fleishige restaurant in NYC that was under O-U supervision. She refused to eat the beef because it wasn’t a particular chassidische shiciteh.
Among the major kosher supervisory organizations we eat O-U. O-K and Star-K without questioning the other hechsherim the product or establishment might have. I don’t consider that lower-end. For example, we don’t hold by Triangle-K, Chaf-K or KVH (even though we are New Englanders) without further information.
DaasYochid…………….
again my thanks.
It;s wonderful to have this on line community where we can argue about politics and narishkeit, but when it comes to the really important things we all pull together
Osaka, Japan
Sorry Geordie here’s another
DaasYochiod…………
Sorry, we were already at the hospital when you posted.
B”H she is already operated on and home. She will be ok for the Chasunah this weekend and further procedures can wait until after Pesach.
Name is Bina Chanah Bas Chayah Rochel
I always told my sons. Take the date out for a nice dinner in a fine restaurant.
#1 You’ll find out if she accepts your kashrut standards and avoid arguments later
#2 You’ll get to see her manners
#3 Even if the date’s a bust you get to enjoy a fine meal of your choice.
Of course JAP (prince or princess) rules apply….daddy will pay
BTW>>>I used this dame dating strategy almost 50 years ago and am very satisfied with the results.
Natrita, The airport and city that’s not so close to Tokyo, Japan
Geordie613
Your sentiments are appreciated. We actually have a Manchester here in CT, part of the original Hartford Colony settled in the early 1600s.
We live in the metro NYC area, so a one way nonstop on Condor from Manchester UK is about $400. Delta or British Air are $1700
Queen……………..
Mrs. CTL thought she could hold out until Monday (after the chasunah) for surgery, but as they say:
Der mentsh trakht un g-t lakht.
The surgeon has decided it must be done tomorrow morning. Sp we’ve a house full for the chasunah. The Chupah and luncheon are Sunday in our home and the feast Sunday night in NYC……………
and our children know nothing about it…yet.
Delhi, India………
Not the new one
Abba_S
No, that is the sole purpose of criminals in having these accounts.
My 27 year old works in Europe in the yachting industry and is paid in Euros. She has an offshore account for convenience. Her Yacht is registered in the Cayman Islands and her account is there. Most US banks are not easy to bank with internationally.
Every year when filling out US tax return, the box that says ‘have a foreign bank account’ is checked.
This account is for convenience and to avoid the stiff foreign transaction fees US banks charge on every little thing.
This is unlike the people we are hearing about in the Panama Papers.
WritersouTo be honest, I don’t remember. But it could have been about certain jobs being overpopulated. I was stressing the difference in competition in not living in the ghettos by choice such as Boro Park, Lakewood, and Monsey.
Opportunities and the way the Gentile community reacts to frum Jews is different when you are not considered a threat do to growing numbers
IMPORTANT HINT/TIP
Buy the absolute BEST knives you can afford, and a quality can opener and vegetable peeler. Don’t be tempted gto buy cheap as Pesach is only one week. You will be doing far more hand preparation in that week than in many months of the year.
I’m one of the few who loves Pesach and its cooking. We usually have anywhere from 24 to 36 staying for the entire holiday. B”H I have a separate Pesach Kitchen, but I have built up a collection of quality tools over the years.
Make a menu and stick to it. You are not running a restaurant (though our home seems like a hotel) and don’t need to have many choices for each meal and snack.
Hokaido, Japan’s second largest island
Karachi, Pakistan
Financial Capital and largest City
Seoul, South Korea
The war has never ended, oh make that a ‘conflict’
Zabol, Iran
The Iranians can have it. I’d not be chancing a trip there
Look at the Ketubah first. If handwritten all in Hebrew script you just sign in Hebrew Ploni ben Ploni, BUT it a printed commercial Ketubah that is in both Hebrew Script and English, you may be signing twice, once in Hebrew as Ploni ben Ploni, and again in English as John Doe.
My parents were wed in NYC more than 80 years ago. When mom went to file for Social Security benefits she was asked for a marriage license that was recorded with the city. Of course they didn’t have a marriage license, but they had a Hebrew/English Ketubah. The Social Security administration office made a photocopy of this witnessed (in English) document and awarded the benefits. B”H she collected for more than 30 years before passing away.
Nagoya, Japan
Gavra……….
don’t confuse Accountant with CPA. Many accountants don’t have degrees and pass exams, they work for private firms,
My nephew-in-law is a full charge bookkeeper for a compant. Does everything through Trial balance and quarterly returns. All he took was 2 bookkeeping courses in Community College while in Yeshiva. Later he self taught QuickBooks Pro.
(Lake) Albert…on the Unganda Border
7th l;argest lake in Africa. Named for the late Prince Albert..consort to Queen Victoria
Queen…you may have to change continents soon..this club is down to 3 members
Heidelberg……..take your choice: One in Gauteng, one in the Western Cape (South Africa)
Gondar, Ethiopia
way station for the trip to Israel for so many
writersoul
I come from a long line of business and or professional people who went to Yeshiva plus college and graduate schools.
My family arrived in the USA between 1868 and 1872. I’m 5th generation American born and my parents and grandparents all had college degrees. My children do as well.
This didn’t stop us from being frum. BUT, we mostly don’t live in overpopulated frum areas with limited opportunities to earn a good living. You want to stay in that self imposed ghetto? Then opportunities are more limited. BTW>>>when you get away from those areas the Gentile community is much more understanding and accommodating to Shabbos/Yuntif needs and schedules. Note: I said Gentile, not goiysche…treat them with respect and you get respect back. This is not like the antisemites left behind in Europe.
During the 1940s, Schneerson became a naturalized US citizen and, seeking to contribute to the war effort, he volunteered at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, using his electrical engineering background to draw wiring diagrams for the battleship USS Missouri (BB-63), and other classified military work.
I know many Chabad men who went to college and graduate schools earning doctoral degrees using them in business, industry and as professional educators.
In New Haven, where I grew up The Rebbe sent Rabbi, Dr. Maurice I Hecht to start the yeshiva during WWII. The previous Rebbe knew the importance of sending a man with full academic credentials when opening a school in a community containing Yale University. Rabbi Dr. Hecht was considered on equal status with non-Frum Congregation ‘rabbis’ such as Rabbi Dr Robert Goldburg and Rabbi Dr Arthur A Chiel. When money for a yeshiva,day school, camps, etc has to be raised from the Jewish community as a whole and the Menahel has to appear and speak in many public forums, being fully educated and polished with the title Dr. is important.
Harare, Zimbabwe…………
I remember visiting when it was a lovely and safe city called Salisbury.
Syag…………
Thanks for asking. They want to do surgery Thursday, daughter’s chasunah is next Sunday, trying to stabilize situation enough to put surgery off til next Monday. They did a minor procedure Friday, hoping to effect a reasonable delay.
Our children do not know what’s going on as we don’t want to take away from the prechasunah joy. B”H our two youngest daughters have taken charge of all the bridal activities leading up to the chasunah and have told wife and future mother in law to sit back and watch, let the youngster do the work.
Seriously considering going to our place in Florida for Pesach and ordering all the food from a caterer…immediate family only..so wife can rest and recuperate.
Orange River, South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho
Yes, it ran thru the heart of the Orange Free State, a Boer Republic that became part of the Union of South Africa. Now the Free State Province
Writersoul..
“Liberal arts colleges are not authorized to offer BSs.”
WRONG….don’t generalize.
MT St Mary College, of which I posted earlier, because a non-Jewish friend is a Professor there is a Liberal Arts College in New York State that offers BS degrees….40 % of undergraduates get a BS in nursing.
Meno…
it varies by institution. I just took a quick glance at the University of New Haven website (SIL is teaching a course there this summer)
“Mathematics (B.S.) (B.A.)”
There are math majors available with both degrees.
Many colleges who specialize in training teachers offer BA degrees in math.
I took a look at the on line catalog of Mt. Saint Mary College in Newburgh, as I know a non-Jewish professor there.
They offer a BA in Biology, a BA in Chemistry, a BA in Mathmatics, etc. They consider themselves to be primarily a Liberal arts college and most of their non Nursing degrees are BAs, even in what many consider sciences.
It’s a strange world out there…don’t assume things should be done in a logical manner.
I recognize the situation, but fail to see the problem.
Where is it written that post Purim and pre-Pesach there is no chometz????
There is no requirement to abstain early, or clean and kasher for Pesach 3 weeks in advance.
I love our annual ‘eat the chometz’ party. On the Motzei Shabbos a week before Pesach we invite a lot of guests and cook up all the fleishige chometz in the house and feast all night. On the Sunday we host a large brunch to use the milchiges. We’ve done this more than 30 years.
Then we just clean the kitchen and lock it up. In our case this doesn’t delay Pesach preparations as we have a separate Pesach kitchen on our second floor.