Trump was just telling Iran that he wants to negotiate a new treaty with them if he is re-elected.

Peelable fruits are easiest (i.e. oranges, bananas).
Candy, chips, etc. with a hechsher are easy.
Most canned tuna fish has a hechsher and mayo with a hechsher is easy to find. Tuna salad can easily be made with only disposable utensils.
If you are looking at bagels and cream cheese you may want to get lox which is readily available with a hechsher in many non-Kosher supermarkets.
Hummus (such as Sabra brand), guacamole, peanut butter and jelly are also widely available with a hechsher.

Many bottled drinks have a hechsher: water, orange juice, apple juice, soda, etc.

If you can get (and toivel) a new electric pot that can boil water, then foods like hard boiled eggs, egg salad or macaroni and cheese become possible.

You mean?
בַּיָּמִ֣ים הָהֵ֔ם אֵ֥ין מֶ֖לֶךְ בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל אִ֛ישׁ הַיָּשָׁ֥ר בְּעֵינָ֖יו יַעֲשֶֹֽה

I’ve davened in the Chabad Shul in Lakewood while driving through. Nice people.

I say orthoprax, because many of these people will openly act as if they are practicing while at home or in their community but will go off to do other stuff when alone. So strictly speaking you can take issue with the term orthoprax if you want. Would you prefer the term ‘sometimes pretends to be frum, but willingly violates kashrus and other mitzvos when unobserved?’

I can think of one particular man I knew who was a member of a Chassishe family and stayed a respected person in his community, but would sneak off to very non-kosher strip clubs from time to time.

I agree that some people will leave orthodoxy and don’t go anywhere else, but those I’ve heard of probably wouldn’t identify as orthodox anymore. More likely as unaffiliated/none.

I wanted to filter our home wifi. I’ve tried OpenDNS with limited success. I ended up replacing our router with a Gryphon AX router from Gryphon Connect. This of course does nothing to filter internet from other sources such as cellular internet or wifi at other locations.

traffic ticket, no
but parking tickets multiple times
I once got a ticket for parking on the sidewalk when I was parked normally on the street, not even a little on the sidewalk. I appealed that but the judge said ‘well the policeman says you were’ and I got the fine plus court costs. I never bothered appealing after that.

The story of Rabbi Akiva’s marriage in the Gemara is a lesson that parents need not be involved in shidduchim and should certainly not use the threat of withholding monetary support to try and control who their children marry.

I’ll stick with Shulchan Aruch and the Shulchan Aruch HaRav, that you shouldn’t drink so much wine that you, Chas V’Shalom, might do an aveira, including forgetting to bentch or say Maariv. And that someone who might have trouble with drinking doesn’t have to drink at all.

I’ve told my teenage sons that they are free to drink wine at home on Purim, where I can keep an eye on them, but not to have any alcohol away from home.

Personally, I usually have a bottle or two of wine and then take a nap. B”H I’ve never been drunk enough to have a hangover or to forget bentching.

Asking non-Jewish authorities to intervene in a dispute between Jews is always a bad idea.

Since we know that Noach invented the plow and Tuval Kayin was the first to work with metals, it seems unlikely they had futuristic technology before the flood.

The Child Tax Credit is a huge help to the Jewish Community. A monthly payment of $250-$300 dollars per child will help the frum community much more than almost any other American group. If askanim were trying to invent a way for the government to disproportionately funnel money to the frum community without getting involved in our schools it would be hard to top the Child Tax Credit.

A look at census statistics shows that most American households have no kids at all. Those that do have kids almost all have only one or two. Families with 4 or more kids are rare. In the frum community however, we live in the land of the double stroller.

While this money directly helps parents, indirectly it will be a big help to schools (by helping parents to pay tuition) and to other frum businesses. It will also indirectly help all those employed by schools. How many times have I heard about teachers being paid late or even not getting their full pay at all because mosdos are financially distressed. If schools are collecting more tuition, then teachers will also benefit. Also if schools are in better financial state then there will be more money for other tzedakahs since there will be less pressure on donors in the community to support the schools.

I hope that this policy is extended. Please contact your Senators and Congressmen to encourage them to extend the Child Tax Credit.

For a family with 6 children, with a father working as a rebbe in school, and a stay at home mother, this bill is worth around $20,000. With the $1400/person stimulus payment, the expanded child tax credit and expanded EIC payments. Not to mention making ACA health insurance cheaper.

Circumstances vary, but this will be a huge infusion of cash into many heimish communities, especially given how it is particularly beneficial for large families.

The majority leader, in consultation with the minority leader (which means as much as he wants it to), controls which votes will be taken and when in the Senate. So if he doesn’t want a bill brought up for a vote it can never pass.
The Senate has already met but when the majority in the Senate changes, the majority leader changes. Once the Democrats take over, Charles Schumer (a Jewish senator from NY) will become majority leader.

My understanding is that if someone is named after 2 people and using a nickname or shortened name causes one of those names not to be used and therefore one of those people named after to be forgotten, then it is not a good thing. Otherwise it is fine. Personally I generally call all of my children by their full names.

It is possible to survive on a food-stamp size budget and keep Kosher. I know because there have been times in the past I have had no choice but to do so. It’s not a lot of fun and it’s not the healthiest, but you can survive and avoid starvation. You go heavy on eggs and tuna, bread, rice, potatoes, pasta, beans and cheap canned vegetables. Use very tiny amounts of chicken and ground meat (like a quarter pound of ground meat to feed 8 people) to flavor the carbs. There have been plenty of Shabbosim when I used less than $5 worth of meat in a cholent that was mostly potatoes. It’s not what you want to do, but some Yidden don’t really have any other choice.

Today, B”H my grocery budget is higher.

Not every member of the Sanhedrin was qualified to rule on calendar issues. Only those with specialized knowledge.