Gadolhadorah

Gmail (and other messaging platforms) have a “learning” capability that identify your frequently used words or terms that are not in their dictionary and will “autocomplete” in certain circumstances and correct misspellings to conform with your preferred usage. Generally, though, you need to “opt-in” and turn on these features but perhaps you have done so or your other preferences roll in those features.

“Obama didn’t get Rubashkin out of jail; Trump did…”

He also moved the nameplate on a building from Tel Aviv to Yerushalayim but what does that have to do with his deliberate efforts to legitimize anti-semitism by providing a platform for some of the worst Jew-haters in our country and promoting racist and anti-semitic tropes.

“Where does it say you can’t go “Kulah shopping” ??

Maseches Shoteh (123:2)

“>>>causing us more harm than good by being ultra sensitive to every fool who says or does something even remotely anti Jewish”

When these “fools” have a megaphone amplified by 32 million social media followers and are explicitly giving kovod to the murderer of 6 million yiddeshe neshomos, perhaps those who speak out are not being “ultra sensitive”.

HaLevi: Its happening, whether you consider it “silly” or not. The political and religious culture wars have intensified efforts to ban or marginalize published materials that might not have been controversial several years ago but now are deemed offensive or even dangerous. I would agree that the media have been overly sensitive to the snowflakes whose “sensibilities” are offended by “trigger words” but censorship at both ends of the political and religious spectrum is clearly on the rise.

We live in a time when it has become the norm to “ban” writings containing offensive ideas, disruptive methods of learning and analysis and cultural taboos, whether they be secular, religious or combinations of both. The notion is that exposure to this offensive material will cause irrevocable harm to the reader w/o any offsetting benefits. Often, the same materials have been reviewed and endorsed by other so called elites coming from a different world view. Seems that we have less and less confidence in the ability of individuals to make critical distinctions and form their own opinions and instead must rely upon some elite group of critics to filter what they are allowed to read and absorb.

Assuming the OP is accurately reporting anecdotal headlines unrelated to Trump (which I would dispute but willing to stipulate) the real issue here is that the recent events with Trump and Kanye West/Fuentes represent an unprecedented effort by a former President seeking to regain office to legitimize /provide a platform to blatant anti-Semites for his own personal aggrandizement and solidify support from the far right-wing of his base. Dems have their own anti-Semites on the far left but nothing at this level with a Presidential contender. YWN is correct to highlight this existential threat at the level it has.

“we as Heimishe Yidden should take the initiative to stop wearing the shoes known as ‘Yeezys’,

Absolutely correct. Chazal bring down that an ehreliche yid should only wear certain models of Air Jordans, and even then, only on Yom Kippur and only after confirming they did not contain any leather or wood soles.

These are real bochurim who need some “safe” downtime from their shteiging. They are not robots. Giving them the opportunity to unwind in a structured and supervised environment with a mashgiach ruchani and rabbonim nearby is a net positive.

Also, is the relatively minor “speed” differential really a material factor for most “kosher” usage of a phone (unless you are live streaming a daf yomi class or face-timing with your yinglach on a business trip.

On a list of the 10 most dysfunctional websites I frequently encounter, the CR is probably one of the least annoying. Indeed, some of its quirks are a bit endearing in a world where we worry about c’v the role of social media postings to trigger hate crimes and violence. Little things like a search functionality for archived threads and posts might be helpful in the next upgrade but overall, it seems to work well for what it is designed to do.

The “speed” of signal transmission across 4G and 5G networks and repeater stations at cell towers is identical for network owners and those wholesalers who lease capacity and resell under own brands. However, there are likely small but measurable speed differentials attributable to the server interfaces used to ID and validate those resale customers and record their information for billing purposes.

Very easy solution. Don’t violate the rules unless you are prepared to pay. While I’m sure some of the citations are for marginal violations, most are legit and they have photo or radar evidence to affirm.
“Don’t do the crime, don’t pay a dime”

I recall several times over the years where there were those who questioned whether an elderly rav might not have fullyunderstood the questions and factual predicates surrounding an issue before a psak or kol koreh was issued in his name. There were insinuations of dementia or manipulation by his gaboim. Yet, we do NOT have age limits or mandatory retirement rules for our gadolim or roshei yeshivos. I would submit that their responsibilities to the tzibur are no less significant than our those of our elected offiicals.

OP: Just out of curiosity, if you are willing to share, what leads you to want to focus exclusively on rashi to the exclusion of other meforshim?

AVD: Umein.

Vote early, vote often (even if your not from Chicago).

UJM/Syag: With respect, I would 110% support intervention with the parents or others in a life/death matter. We obviously have very different views of the threat (physical or spiritual) posed by a bochur who decides to have a smartphone but I certainly don’t conflate it with a drug dependency.

“Yasher Koach for sharing this beautiful thought from the Rebbe..

For the first and perhaps last time in a long time, 110% agreement with R’ Yosef. I suspect there are even some closet misnagdim lurking in the CR who could care less as to the provenance of this vert. Yasher koach and gutten moed to the OP (and UJM).

The PRC has been “monitoring” overseas nationals and expats for decades. The more recent focus is on grad students at top American universities and nationals employed in leading high-tech companies and in some of the U.S. national labs. The U.S. is sufficiently concerned about “leakage” of high-tech secrets to China that they pressured the Israeli delegation attending the White House negotiations last week on expanding U.S.-Israel technology collaboration to cancel Israel’s recent agreement to share some of its high-tech programs with China.

If this is what now passes for humor or satire, it going to be a long 5782….

“I think we should have a massive bonfire and everyone should sing kumbaya followed by deep breathing”

CS: Funny, that the new shaliah tzibur in our shul sang “sim shalom” in chazaras hashatz during shachris on the second day of yom tov to the melody of “Kumbaya”. No massive bonfire but a lot of deep conversation in the background.

A condition precedent and requisite basis for the OP is the capacity to engage in rational thought.

I stopped keeping pens in my shirt pocket after having ink stains on just about all of them when I forgot to cap retract the point.

Charles Tyrwhitt would be a good way to go if they had front pockets for pens and CC cards like most other white shirts do.

I can’t recall the last time I needed a “pen” and why would you keep credit cards in your shirt pocket rather than in a wallet in your back or side pants pocket??