Gadolhadorah

“You can’t be sure he’s the right guy until a court convicts him…”
And even then, you are not “sure” he’s the right guy as evidenced by the growing numbers of convicted felons released from prison each year based on findings that he/she was unlikely to have committed the crime for they were convicted based on new evidence (DNA, confessions by others, etc.)

“One of my kids was asked what his pronoun is, and he replied “I do not have one”

AAQ: It takes a lot of courage, even with the anonymity of social media, to acknowledge that one of your kids is seeking to establish a gender preference and currently doesn’t want to self-identify with any particular pronoun. Alternatively, they might just feel there is no need to state the obvious, notwithstanding pressures to do so.

I think we all forget that we are dealing with politicians who are given a blanket waiver m’diorisah to ignore daas torah when it would conflict with their political objectives and messaging. Certain chareidi political hacks play games to create the optics of their serving as “Deputy Ministers” so they don’t appear to be directly participating in the government of an illicit medinah. Others find excuses to travel on shabbos or eat at locations serving treifus on the theory that their public service obligations and desire not to embarrass their hosts outweigh religious technicalities. Finally, others find the need to enter and participate in events at churches and mosques because of their professional obligations. A politician does what they need to do. In this case it wasn’t really necessary other than to score political points with a segment of his constituency who wanted to “make a point”.

“In today’s professional world, this [indicating your preferred pronoun] is what you HAVE to do…”

In what “professional world” do you operate?? I am not aware of any major law firm, investment or commercial bank, communications firm or indeed any Fortune 500 company that REQUIRES employees to select a preferred pronoun. Some encourage including such preference in their email signature blocks but could you share with us which major employer requires such a designation.

Do you wear special eyeglasses that “photoshop out’ every woman in your field of view as you walk down the street??? Are you one of those erliche yidden who arrives at the airport with a paper bag over his head guided to his flight gate by two gabboim holding his arms? Do you require all your house guests to wear Burkahs? And does you employer refuse to to assign women to any offices adjacent to your cubicle?
Absent affirmative answers to each of the above questions, perhaps contact R’ Yosef for some instruction in how to structure a credible troll or “cancel your subscription” to YWN.

The current federal and state grants for “security” do NOT authorize funding for emergency health care devices or services. Check with your local EMS or Hatzalah since they might be aware of any local programs offering financial assistance. However, the costs of defibrillators have come down substantially and a good quality “new” device can be purchased for only $1500 or $2,000 and a refurbished one for $1,000. This should be within the range of most shuls and shtieblach.

Variations of this question have been debated ad nauseam on multiple prior threads. The consensus among the CR talemedi chachamim is at puberty, unless the parents are domiciled in Kentucky in which case a year or two earlier is OK in accordacne with minhag hamokom.

RebYid: There is nothing depicted in any photo here on YWN that you will not see when you walk out your door, take the train to the office, speak with your secretary or business colleague, stop at the market on the way home etc. Each newspaper, magazine or online social media site can decide for itself whether and how to include photographs of women as part of their news coverage. If something offends you, than don’t log in.

UJM: Actually, was a history major as an undergrad but political pritzus is subjective. This guy didn’t bother with the usual “shading” or “puffery” but simply invents a new persona almost daily. As I’ve posted previously, the real crime here was on the Democratic side for not surfacing these issues before election day, even after a local county newspaper had already flagged many of the lies and contradictions. Political malpractice beyond belief and they deserved to lose

Regular Yid: I think you may be reading some of these posts 180* from their intended meaning. These were individuals who were different and each in his own way had a certain pure joy and manner of expression that was unique to them. Certainly, none of the posts I read above were meant in a negative or derogatory way, or at least thats not how I read them.

“Gadol: Are you sure you didn’t go by the name Sammygol in one of the previous of your nine lives?”…

From Sammygol’s All-Time Best CR Posts (circa June 2008):

He got his nomination,
but how can a great nation,
without contemplation
at this historic station
at war and provocation
take a four year vacation
performing self-ablation?

The borders’ demarcation,
the runaway inflation,
the dollar’s deprecation,
the fiscal constipation,
the failing education,
the lack of expectation,
the overall stagnation,
the general frustration…..

What is the celebration,
why all the exclamation,
the shouts of elation,
without reservation?
Where is the trepidation
and thoughtful reservation?
As if by revelation
the whole population
avoids the obligation.
Deriving inspiration
from lack of information,
as if the obligation
of this new generation
is the lack of moderation.

Beyond imagination,
sans any explanation,
perhaps from desperation
with this administration,
or pure infatuation
with much anticipation
awaiting conflagration?

Where went the condemnation
of his affiliation?
Why give accommodation
to wishers of damnation?
Guilt by association?
Not quite – by emulation!
His wife’s vilification
of country’s obligation,
the lack of reveration
for homeland’s formation,
the bigots’ reveration,
the bland determination
to hold a conversation
with lowest of creation,
the knee-jerk adulation
of every aberration…

Perhaps the accusation
of old days’ segregation,
the feeling of relation
to Southern plantation,
with general sedation
of critical mentation,
lent votes’allocation
to Active Affirmation.
So playing integration
as if a compensation,
awaiting transformation,
swept up by his oration,
the super-delegation
gave us Obamination

It was absolute stupidity and the photos were taken down from the website within hours and never appeared in the print addition the next morning. That doesn’t excuse the episode and WAPOS’s frequent use of stock photos of Jewish scenes with stereotype tropes to illustrate articles having little to do with Jews.

“The whole coffee room needs a major repair! ”

If it ain’t broken, don’t fix it. If the Mods take a day off from post-Chanukah fatigue, that ain’t “broken”.

CS: Good point…I think you meant what “it” is.

Is there any record or documentation that any of our gedolim were chess players?

Lying (aka exaggeration, shading facts, omitting material informaiton etc) to get elected is a time honored tradition for political hacks on BOTH sides of the aisle. Santos seems to be more guilty of stupidity by lying about such easily checked facts. Zimmerman’s campaign was even more inept by NOT fact-checking during the campaign. In any event, he should be seated in Congress and its not even a close call.

However, Santos’ may be at greater risk if it turns out he lied about the sources of funds used for his campaign. It now appears some of those “family business” sources don’t exist. Even worse was lying about his grandparents escaping to Brazil from the Nazis when it appears they were born in Brazil. Now the Jewish Republicans who adopted him are having second thoughts.

Easier to link your laptop or iphone directly to a large LED screen, TV etc unless your planning to “project” old style slides/film on a conventional screen.

So going forward, we shouldn’t expect to see stories in YWN showing photos of some chashuvah Rebbe with his entourage/gaaboim boarding a private jet chartered by his chassidim flying off to some high-end resort in Switzerland, California, Florida etc. to offer chizuk to the locals??

Hopefully, Netanyahu will be smart enough to craft some nominal changes in the status quo with the stated intent of keeping the door open to some limited partition/self government to avoid triggering retaliatory actions in the U.S. Congress and EU. However, as the Palestinians have shown over and over, they will consistently refuse rational offers of some concessions that do not provide the immediate and total “territorial independence” demanded by their most extreme elements and an existential threat to EY.

AVD: Unclear why you are so consistently bitter regarding CR participants who have achieved a level of success and contribute to their communities while still adhering to a frum lifestyle. You are entitled to hold to your beliefs but your musar of others’ is really unwarranted.

“That old canard again?”

Actually, according to the records of the catering firm in Florida (from 2002) it was cornish hen, not duck (a canard is a katshke in Francais’)
On a more serious note, having young men and women meet one another under normal social circumstances (such as at simchas) should be an option for some segments of the community while it certainly will not be an option for others where such interactions are deemed inappropriate. There is no single option that works for ALL.

“Thank you for sharing your boich svara”

Boich Svara: ” Something a yodle comes up with on his own to shlug up accepted psak or teitch. Certain commenters here [in the CR] have a tendency to practice this”.
Source: https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/boich-svaras

Reb Yosef: Correct,with the caveat that even current generations are enriched by the sheer brilliance of these teshuvos.
A gutten shabbos.