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Once every few months, there are promotions that when you
transfer your AMEX points to certain programs, you can get
a 30-50% bonus. Dansdeals always informs of those deals.
The best programs to transfer points to, are Aeroplan and ANA,
and you can make business class tickets around the world.
Selling / bartering your points goes against the terms and conditions of the AMEX points program, and all airline programs.
Stores have humongous overhead. They have to pay rent, and have full-time employees manning it. An amazon store, can have a warehouse in the middle of nowhere, (where rent is cheap), and employee wages are lower. Also be aware that items like e.g. cameras, there is barely any mark up at all, and many stores make their profit solely on accessories, etc.
Now, I do feel good going to a store, and supporting the local business owners. However, it’s upsetting to spend so much time waiting to be attended to, (as they are attending to other customers), and then finding out that the size of the shoes I want is not in stock. So, I do prefer
as a convenience to buy everything online.
Many Israelis are known to fly Royal Jordanian, as they offer cheaper flights to south-east Asia, where as El Al is very expensive, and takes longer flights paths, as to avoid flying over hostile countries.
Flying Royal Jordanian might feel awkward, as it mostly serves passengers transiting to various
Arab countries. I hear the terminal there is also quite shabby, although a brand new terminal is
supposed to open up very shortly.
Amman is a stones throw from Jerusalem, and Palestinians who do not hold Israeli passports, are prohibited from flying out from Ben Gurion and fly out from Amman instead.
I see you are able to order a kosher meal on Royal Jordanian 🙂
A couple thousand North Korean defectors manage to flee
across the border each year, and their plight is very well
documented. If anyone is caught escaping the country, or
repatriated by China, their punishments are extremely severe.
There is plenty of documentation on life in North Korea.
And it’s well known that in the 90’s, an estimated two million
people died from famine. Video footage back then, clearly
showed sickly emaciated children, some with stick-thin bodies.
Although journalists do not have access to North Korea, the
thousands of defectors each year provide a gold-mine of
information.
And every single year, there are reports from defectors about
cannibalism, and bodies being dug up after funeral.
I am sure their army gets preferential treatment, and are well
fed.
All of their citizens are brainwashed. Have you seen the footage
of the mass hysteria when Kim Jong-il passed away?
Chopin, Franz Liszt, Ravel, Schubert, Schumann, Christian Sinding, and Rachmaninov are my favorite composers!
North Korea has concentration camps, holding about 200,000 people deemed hostile to the region. Man, ladies and children work 16 hours a day, and are forced to survive by eating rats and picking corn kernels out of animal waste. Tens of thousands die from malnutrition, and other diseases.
Rav Yisroel Reisman seems to be very clear, and easy to understand.
Yes, they for sure used Dor Yeshorim. They decided to go ahead anyways, basing on the Igros Kodesh.
And it was a shidduch made in heaven, they were an inseparable couple, and very devoted to each other.
If G-d only wants 10%, why does the IRS want more?
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I guess it refers to people that actually worship idols. It’s questionable if there is real idol worship today, as it was thousands of years ago. Do people still bow down and pray to idols made out of stone, believing that they have divine powers?
5fivetowns: Maybe Avrohom Avinu was a Brisker and did not wear tzitzis on shabbos?
See: Gemoroh Sanhedrin 58B, and Rambam (Melachim 10:11)
A Boyaner chosid once defined me the Neturei Karta as a bunch of attention seeking people,
that want to be known as rabonim, without being talmidei chachomim.
Well Tay Sachs is considered almost extinct, I have seen reports showing in recent years, no Jews
were born having it, in Israel or the US.
The Mumbai shluchim, Rabbi and Mrs. Holtzberg hy”d, had two children with Tay Sachs. Despite
the results of their Dor Yeshorim tests, they got married.
I have heard from Poskim over a decade ago, that since it’s not enforceable, one has the
heter of “zuto shel yam”.
I just think that blackhatwannabe, should first research if the Mir is the right place for him.
If you are only coming for the Summer, it’s not the place to go. If you are not from an yeshiva, that feeds its bochorim into the Mir, you will not fit in, and will have little socially there. e.g. Bochorim that learned in yeshivas that feed only to Brisk or R’ Kaplan, etc. will not find their place in the Mir.
Although you can come before applying, not everyone gets accepted. You have to have letters of recommendation from your previous yeshivas, and go through a Farher.
And once admitted, good luck finding a place to sit. The bulletin boards there always have ads for empty beds in diras.
Also, be aware that the Mir is lately enforcing that bochorim even in private diras, (not in the dorm) do not have laptops, or internet connections.
First you have to apply, and get accepted to the Mir. And if you are asking on the forums here, (with all respect) sounds like you would neither belong or fit there.
Rav Shlomo Brevda ZT”L emphasized that in shidduchim, to find out if the person has a close kesher with a Rav. If not, then if chas v’shalom problems arise, there will be nobody to talk to.
Gateshead is not for everybody. Many Americans get very homesick very fast. The weather
there is terrible, and the atmosphere to walk on the streets can be unpleasant.
He is becoming crazier by the minute. He always had some screws loose.
What difference is, where a person learned. A person can go to to a yeshiva or seminary that has the best name/most prestigious, and spend the entire zman not opening up a book, staying up till morning socializing. I have seen it all too often.
The Boro Park to Manhattan bus has nothing to do with B&H itself, other than lots of the passengers on two of the buses happen to work there.
I would prefer Minchas Yitzchak or Ezras Torah, in Yerushalyim.
I have never read it, but there is one up for sale on amazon.com for $450.
Because fire hydrants in New York City in the late 19th century were called johnny pumps.
Be aware of this law:. Between sunrise and sunset, a passenger vehicle may stand alongside a fire hydrant as long as a driver remains behind the wheel and is ready to move the vehicle if required to do so.
I once got a ticket in Brooklyn for standing in front of a pump at night. $115.
You forgot to mention triple parking! People are too lazy to walk, so pulling up at the nearest
driveway or pump is not an option.
Facebook says they use an algorithm that takes into account the people who interact most with you publicly.
Most shuls make a mishebeirach for those who take on the fast, it’s in the siddur.
Usually people who take on private fasts (behab is not communal), do not advertise
to the world that they are fasting.
Many places have minyanim for Mincha, that layn parshas vayechal and haftorah of dirshu,
which can be done when there is at least six or seven of the minyan fasting.
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Nusach ari Chabad says it.
I just show the cop my pilot’s license, and they usually let me go.
There was a strong Karaite community in Lithuania, and they
were mostly based in a town called Trakai 20 minutes away
from Vilna.
While the Jews were about all killed in the holoacust, the Karaites
were left untouched.
The Karaites have their own cemetery, and are not considered Jewish.
E. Europe countries are now part of the European Union, and are allowed to come to the US under the Visa Waiver Program. e.g. Czech, Solavia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Hungary, and Slovenia.
If somebody wants to kill themselves, they should go to an empty field, and do it there. Instead of putting us in danger.
I have worked for a company, where we had a contract
to wire hundreds of (catholic) schools to high speed
Internet. With some expertise, one can create a system
that cannot be defeated. Sounds to me that the yeshiva,
does not have a professional firewall/internet filtering
solution. It has to be impossible to defeat, else parents
would have the right to sue, if their kids get exposed
to inappropriate things.
The best solution at home, is to install K9 web protection,
which is free. (do a google search for it). As long as
nobody knows the password, the only way to defeat it, is to
reinstall the operating system.
Not in the United States, but you can just buy a regular CY
yogurt, and drain it in a cheesecloth lined strainer. Put the strainer over a bowl and put in the refrigerator overnight.
regrets replace dreams.
livigent.com has a commercial solution — with it’s filter system, it detects human skin in images, and repaints it to a different color, e.g. black.
Kav ha-Yashar (lit. The Just Measure) authored by Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Kaidanover, is one of the most popular works of musar literature of the last three hundred years. First published in 1705, it has appeared in over 80 editions, in nearly every country around the world. The work was famous for uplifting the spirits of Jewish communities in Europe after the Chmelnitzki Massacres of 1648-1649.
There is an English translation published by Metsudah.
I am using the Andis T-Liner trimmer, and it’s very popular in the yeshivish circles.
When Eliezer went to find a shidduch for Yitzchak, I am sure he
didn’t even have a drawing/picture of him. One of the rosh yeshivas
in yerushalayim gave a parsha shiur on this. (As this is the longest parsha in the torah and what we can learn out from it).
AP (Associated Press) just published an article the other day, “Berlin Offers Kosher Lifestyle For Jews”.
Also get a manual transmission car, especially if you do lots of
city driving, and then you will significantly save on gas.
1. It’s more economical to use air conditioning at highway speeds (above 50 mph/80kmh) than to have the windows opened.
2. Driving faster then 60 mph starts to decrease fuel economy. (significantly).
3. It makes no sense to accelerate when you have a red light in front of you. I do not understand why people have to race to the red light, and then hit the brakes.
Nope, that was El Al security in Europe. In Europe at the boarding
gate, they check and briefly interview every passenger, but me dressed
in a black suit and borsalino hat, they took me down stairs, where there was a room with all the suitcases destined to go on the plane. I saw a group of Israeli workers opening up every suitcase. I was taken to a room, and was screamed at repeatedly “What do you have to hide?”. They went through my suitcase, and carry-on, and had to strip to my underwear, and they took all my clothing, including my kapel, and woolen talis koton to scan under their machines.
Not to mention El Al’s respect for religious Jews.
I flew El Al from Europe to Tel Aviv last ta’anis esther, at boarding, the security took me to a room downstairs, (where I saw
all the suitcases being opened and checked). I was searched for over an hour, as well as my luggage, etc. At the end, they double- wrapped my ipod, phone, and laptop, and placed it back in my suitcase, and said I can board, but without any carry-on. I asked them to at least be allowed to take my tefillin, but that was also denied.
So, I would say El Al gives me the creeps, and I would rather fly through Germany with Lufthansa every time.
It is said from the Vilna Gaon, that after the Ger Tzedek, Avraham ben Avraham zt”l was martyred in Vilna in 1749, that the spiritual constitution of the world has become altered in such a way that a Jew was no longer bound to wash his hands in te morning within 4 amos of his bed. Rather, the entire house would be considered as 4 amos for this regard. This is why most non-chasidic ashkenazi Jews follow this custom now.