Gadolhadorah

A large percentage of the money spent by both affluent and not-so-affluent yidden on cruises goes to pay the salaries of lower income waiters, kitchen help, housekeepers. cleaning staff etc. These are hard-working people, many from developing countries who are away from their families for months at a time. How would those funds somehow end up in the pockets of those yidden struggling to pay their rent if the “cruising jews” stayed home for yom tov?

I’m not sure ANY of the CR gadolim really have a clue as to what and when will bring z’man moishiach any more than those guys with yellow flags running up and down Eastern Parkway, and in some respects, they may provide a higher liklihood predictor. However, in the larger scheme of things, I doubt whether the Ebeshter’s Moishiach Task Force has created a special task force of maalachim to address the disruptions to online social media that might be triggered by a legit moishiach sighting.

I’m not sure what is the purpose of these posts. EVERY airline has its cancellation policies for every class of service and ticket offered on its tariff sheets posted on its website or available at any ticket counter. That is required by law. Any temporary CHANGE to those terms must also be visibly posted on the website. Most, but not all, airlines will ask you to click on an “I Acknowledge” link referring to your having read and understood any refund, change or cancellation charge on the screen before you finalize a ticket purchase. The latter format is not required by law and is sometimes quickly passed over by ticket purchasers.

“Assuming the proportion of male to female births is close to 50% among all Jews, why do you think the numbers differ between chassidim and misnagdin?”

Silly question. As Reb Yosef has previously noted, he is open to relaxing cherem R’ Gershon such that an ehrliche yid could have 2 or 3 wives. Clearly without even addressing the Litvish vs. Chassidish complications the current pool of eligible bnos yisroel is inadequate to support the polygamous lifestyle to which he aspires (absent a substantial number of bochurim changing their preferred pronouns).

What is your data source for the “inverted” gender disparities in the Chassidish velt and is this disparity prevalent among all chassidus or concentrated among specific chassidus for explainable reasons.

One of the more egregious examples were the ways in which some shuls allocated kovods based on the $$ after the s’henadar in the m’sheberach. A poishete yid with a yahrtzeit might be fortunate to even get an alyiah, and might have to “settle” for hagbah/gallilah while a more affluent (but in many cases not an especially ehrliche) yid was assured of achron, achron chaviv.

CA: In case you are having trouble with reading comprehension my comments addresed BOTH the handling of documents and also the subsequent transparency issue. Specifically, I noted that Dems routinely worsen whatever “XXX-Gate” they’ve found themselves in by “dribbling out” information and letting a 72 hours news cycle story remain in the spotlight for weeks or longer (e.g. the Clinton email issues which are still dredged up in a “she did it too”) I think the most recent Biden stuff is a really stupid unforced error compounded by his even more stupid “how could he” comments about Trump, followed by daily disclosures of 3 more pages, 5 more pages, etc.

Jackk’s basic point is correct. Both parties have added trillions of dollars to the debt based on their own priorities. Billionaires can legally “avoid” paying any taxes because our tax code is so screwed up and their Republican friends keeping adding new avoidance schemes and the Dems just can’t wait to hand out more “free stuff” to their friends. And BOTH parties haven’t found a weapons program to which they could say “no’ given the money spent in their districts.

Jackk: No one disagrees that Dental insurance SHOULD be included but it is a perennial casualty of constantly changing and politically driven priorities for the Administration and congress. There are numerous studies showing that from a cost-benefit perspective, providing free or low cost access to prophylactic dental care from a young age would save 3x to 5x as much in long-term costs for both restorative dental work and multiple medical issues derived from dental problems. Sadly, logic seldom prevails in our increasingly toxic political process.

Jackk: In fairness, Bernie Sanders made a big push to have dental and vision costs for seniors included in both the budget reconciliation bill and the final iteration of the the poorly named “Inflation Reduction Act” but to stay within the cost limits the Administration had to agree to obtain the needed votes, they were excluded. The costs for adding dental coverage to Medicaid would run into the tens of billions of dollars in a CBO “cost” estimate. They did add dental coverage for certain children under Medicare and did add the insulin price cap for seniors in Part D but not much else.

CT Lawyer: Thanks for the denial and clarification. I too share a genetic predisposition against anything really sweet which perhaps and been a contributing factor to avoidance of serious dental issues until several years ago when we helped assist our dental surgeon put his two yinglach through college.
While its history, the really stupid decision decades ago to exclude virtually all dental expenses from Medicare coverage as been a public health disaster. Same form most employer-provided health insurance plans. There are horrendous stories of seniors suffering greatly from dental-induced health issues. It also has significant mental health issues in terms of social interaction for those that cannot afford out-of-pocket payments which run into the tens of thousand of dollars for what are called “full mouth” replacements. The dental care provide in Medicare supplement plans is really not much more generous than the stand-alone plans most of us purchase through employer or separately for the self-employed.

This is the first time in 35+ years that there was any issue with this very complex (but borderline obsolete) software and data base system. After fixing a bug last night it failed to properly reboot this AM and was taken offline. Yes, there were interruptions and people were inconvenienced but better to be safe.
The real long-term solution may be to do what most European countries and Canada have done and outsource management of air traffic control to the private sector which could update the software and would be much better equipped to finance and install new infrastructure and networks.
Even something as perfect as the CR software platform does occasionally have a glitch but I don’t see anyone demanding that the Mods be fired.

“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”.