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None of the perpetrators of the atrocities you mention are still alive and can benefit from your buying English, Spanish or Italian products.
But there are still Germans alive who participated in the Nazi regime and army who’ll not be getting our money. They stole every pfennig my MIL had…should she go buy a Leica camera and give them more? I don’t think so.
I seldom wear a black hat. My great grandfather made hats, my father and grandfather were in the men’s clothing business. IO am an attorney who practices in the general public.
That said, I wear hats, but they match the suit I’m wearing, generally charcoal gray or midnight blue. Years ago, a wise old attorney (not Jewish) here in Connecticut told me. “The judge wears a black robe, you are not the judge and should wear a different color out of respect.”
So I wear Black for Shabbos and Yuntif when my life is revolved around Yidden.
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My MIL was born in Leipsig. She lost her family and belongings in the Shoah. After WWII the East Germans wouldn’t pay reparations as the West did.
When the Berlin Wall fell and Germany reunified, she pressed her claims for land, buildings, money, etc. The new Unified Germany said :we need to spend our money bring former East Germans up to the standard of living we enjoy in the Former West Germany. Tough Luck.
We don’t fly German owned airlines. We don’t buy German cameras or electronics or anything else marked made in Germany. If it was so important to use the funds she should have received in reparations to raise the standard of living in Germany, we won’t contribute to it.
popa_bar_abba
This is not the name of my niece, but I would be proud to have such an accomplished woman in the family.
@Popa-bar=abba
Only one member of my family teaches at at Harvard, my neice (by marriage) whose father and grandfather were Appellate Court Judges. It is not unusual that she would have married into a family of lawyers and that her FIL, MY BIL teaches at another Massachusetts Law School.
People often go into the family trade, be it shmattes, diamonds, Rabbinics, medicine or law. They’ve grown up listening t the dining table stories, seeing and hearing the experiences of the parents and helping out in the office from the time they can run a copy machine or file alphabetically.
Furthermore, my post is to show that NY is NOT the exclusive home to religious Jews in America. My family moved on from NY more than 100 years ago. My BIL’s family arrived in New England in the early 1880s after the first pogroms in Russia.
#1–I didn’t go to Cornell, I went to Pennsylvania, and it wasn’t the 80s
My niece is currently a Professor of Law at Harvard. She teaches Criminal Law. Her first year students have midterms.
My BIL teaches Property and Real Estate Law at another Massachusetts Law School. Property Law has weekly quizzes and a midterm. Real Estate Law has a midterm.
Legal Writing and Motions courses often have homework assignments that must be handed in. Courses in Constitutional Law and Torts generally do not.
I wouldn’t pity my students for the workload. I also provide them free tutoring for the Bar Exam. Last year, my students taking the CT and Mass Bar Exams had a 94% pass Rate on the first try, NY was 93%.
Your observation about getting a Government job being easier from a T14 school may be true in states such as NY, BUT in other states that have few Law Schools (Connecticut has only 3, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine each have one) a candidate will have a better chance getting a state or local government job if they graduated from a local Law School.
Many law schools focus on teaching the NBE tested major subjects and local state law. They may teach none of the law that is particular to another state.
Each year I give a CT Bar Review Class for Massachusetts Law School Grads who plan to take the CT Bar Exam. Almost no one takes Administrative Law during law school in Massachusetts, but CT tests it. There is an Admin Law Essay about 3 out of time times the Bar Exam is given. Similarly, Columbia Law will not teach CT Constitutional Law which is also tested.
I point all this out to show that there are no one-size fits all answers. Each state’s Bar Exam requirements are different. For example, many students fret about the MPRE exam that many states require (with varying passing scores). In Connecticut, a law grad need not take the MPRE if he/she passed a law school Ethics course with a minimum of a ‘B’ within 4 years of taking the Bar Exam, If not the MPRE with a minimum grade of 80 is required.
Lastly, For those who wish to initially practice in CT, MA, or VT and do not want to take the LSAT and spend $150K on their Law Education, There is a Non-ABA approved Law School-Massachusetts School of Law, in Andover, MA which does not require the LSAT, costs about half and whose graduates can take the listed Bar Exams. After practicing a certain number of years they are also eligible to take many other state’s exams including NY.
Since Wisey has resurrected this year old post, let me offer some comments (I am a Lawyer, I practice in CT, and I teach at Law School (as an adjunct in Juvenile and Family Law).
Not all Law Schools are the same, and if you are not looking to join a major downtown firm and work 2000 plus hours the first few years, it doesn’t make much difference where you go tgo Law School. Only that you pass the Bar Exam and probably use connections to get interviews and a starter job.
There has been much false information posted above. Some professors teaching certain courses do give homework in Law School. A Law student should figure to spend 3 hours in outside study or work for every class hour. Thus a fifteen credit semester means 15 hours per week in class and 45 hours additional preparation.
It is also false that there are NO tests except for semester finals. I attended an Ivy League Law School and Property, Civil Procedure, Criminal Law and Ethics all had weekly tests as well as finals. Except for senior level courses all my law classes had midterm exams.
The classes I teach have midterm, final and 3 major research projects each semester.
Back to the BTL or Conventional degree question. If you are taking the Bar Exam in NY or Maryland, the BTL is not so unusual.
REMEMBER: When making application to take the Bar Exam the candidate must supply his/her College Transcripts as well as Law School Transcript. Out of town a BTL may not be recognized as a legitimate degree. Last year the Bar Committee contacted me to find out what it was. In the specific applicant’s case it really wasn’t equivalent to a 4 year BS or BA and he was not permitted to take the Bar Exam…and lost his $750 application fee.
Before taking any of these comments seriously, make some calls to the Law Schools you’d like to attend and the Bar Examining Committee in the State in which you’d like to practice. Then make your decision.
Since the girls use my last name and the fact they had a different birth father is unknown in our community and we don’t know if their late father had remarried or had children before he died, it’s a heads up for the Schadchan if the potential bochur has their birth father’s last name possible relationship needs to be checked out.
It is important to know how long ago the parents divorced, how old was the child, are parents now married to someone else, was the child raised in shared or sole custody and was/is there contact with the divorced parent and his/her family?
My current wife and I both are divorced from our first spouses.
I had no children with wife number one. She asked for a divorce after two years of marriage to return to the country of her birth to care for an ill parent. I could not get a work visa for that country and we could not get visas to mover her parents here.
My wife was divorced by her first husband after 4 years of marriage. Her ex decided he wanted to see the world and shouldn’t have married right out of Yeshiva. My wife got sole custody of their one and three year old girls. They never saw the father again (in fact he died a few years after the divorce in a car accident) his parents and sibling are long dead as well. The girls had no contact with paternal relatives.
I married her before the girls were two and five and now fifteen years later the girls know no other parents, but our happy nuclear family. There are no 1/2 siblings. They have no real memory of a father other than myself and there is no reason that these early divorces should affect a shidduch. I adopted the girls legally before they turned 6 and they have my last name.
It is not common knowledge in our community that my wife and I are previously divorced, BUT I disclose it to the shadchan for purposes of avoiding mamzeros issues only.
Know all the details before you make a blanket statement about disqaulifying children of a divorce from marriage consideration.
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