Forum Replies Created
-
Posts
-
1: Are you suggesting that UJM is in the “closet” and reveal his true identity or even thinking of coming out?? I find that highly unlikely. g
2cents…..There were highly classified docs removed from Mar a Lago. Trump may claim he retroactively “declassified” everything he stole from the WH. Yes, he could have declassified those docs when he was in the WH and followed a simple procedure to do so. There is no evidence he did.
“If there are no jews in your area, then why not fly to catch a minyan?”
Because some of us don’t have chassidim offering to charter private jets to fly us somewhere to daven b’tzibur while on vacation
vSo now there is a story running in WaPo
that the classified documents’ Trump took from the White House were top-secret “nuclear-related” memos etc. (aka pros and cons of dropping a nuclear bomb in the Gulf-of Mexico to assure that Hurricane Dorian extended its path beyond the Weather Bureau’s official forecast and hit Alabama as per his Sharpie-drawn falsified map in 2019)AAQ: And just when I thought you were becoming a bit more woke…
AAQ: This they/them preferred pronoun meshugaas really became a big minhag in the past 2-3 years, just in time for Covid, work-from-home and non-stop conference and Zoom calls. Try being a participant on a business conference call with several law firms, their clients, bankers etc. where one of the participants has signaled they want to be referenced as “they/them” and you can go totally looney tunes trying to figure out whose on first. You want to be respectful of people’s choices but its truly mind-numbing.
In the time it takes him to draft one of his “tweetlach” on his new Emes social media site, Trump could clear up all this stuff by releasing a copy of the search warrant and explain why he has refused to return the relevant documents after months of denial that he still held any classified materials. If the DOJ was wrong and there were no classified docs, than the Republicans are entirely within their political rights to yell gevalt.
“this thread starting to sound like the yentas in imamother who will argue about anything”
Just to be certain c’v that you weren’t being sexist, a “yenta” is a gender neutral term and should be referenced in they/them binary pronouns.CS is correct, on pop-ups. We have seen notes tacked on to the bulletin boards outside of some Ranger Stations and Visitors Centers at national parks advertising pop-up minyanim. There is frum life outside of the NYS Thruway rest area in Sloatsburg
“yup all of the above make me and anyone else with a brain feel great when we pay our grocery bill that doubled since Brandon took over…”
Clearly, you don’t fall within the peer group referenced in your post since anyone with a brain can easily access the Department of Agriculture and Bureau of Labor Statistics websites and confirm that food prices have NOT increased by 100 percent since January 2021. The actual increase as of June 2022 varies between 14% and 17% depending on which metric you use to measure typical
“basket” of groceries for family of 4.There were jars of kimchee from the “Beloved Leader”(aka Kim Jong-un) apparently hidden along with the boxes of classified documents to deter the search dogs used by the FBI agents. Outrageous tactic and also cruelty to animals.
Assuming there is some “there” there, than the last phrase of the underlying statute has some relevance.
“Whoever, having the custody of any such record, proceeding, map, book, document, paper, or other thing [subject to the Presidential Records Act], that willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same, shall be fined” $2,000, up to three years in prison or “shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States.”
“A possible argument against would be that Hashem sends you a mitzvah and you should do that rather than looking for a better one…”
Sadly, you have no assurance that some guy who shows up at your door or at the beis medrash dressed in fakempt yeshivish lvush carrying a frayed letter laminated in plastic signed by some rebbelah you may never have heard of is the personification of a mitzvah sent your way by the Ebeshter. Always do your diligence and only offer funds if you have confirmed the legitimacy of the recipient (unless you simply offer a dollar bill and send him on his way) .
It depends on the road you are taking…..
Godaven….Com is usually the best place to start your search. I find it the most reliable and frequently updated although calling ahead is a good idea if there is a phone contact listed. There are still some Covid era changes in effectTrump is using this search to renew his “victimhood” status and raise funds for his PACs. I agree entirely with the speculation above that the DOJ would not have approved the warrant if it was focused on a pro forma violation of the Presidential Records Act or some arcane dispute between lawyers at the National Archives and Trump as to which tchachkas he received from foreign leaders must be turned over to the government. There has to be some large issues here. If not, this would be a massive blunder for DOJ and the FBI.
We don’t have any “facts” because the Trumpkopfs have still failed to provide a detailed inventory of what documents they removed from the WH and the legal basis for withholding them under the Presidential Records and Archives regs. Conversely, 45 has repeatedly claimed he is not subject to most laws governing prior occupants of the Oval office, can pardon HIMSELF (along with all his clowns) and could “shoot somone on Fifth Avenue” w/o consequences.
BTW: He is sitting for deposition today in the NYS investigation of the potential fraud in his tax filings and property valuation. Perhaps he will be asked about the “love letters” from the Dear Leader and what they might bring at auction or what other documents got the big “flush” in the West Wing and Mar a Lago (although those matters may be somewhat off-topic for the NY AG).I’m fairly certain Garland, with extensive trial court experience drilled down fairly deeply on the scienter arguments of whether DOJ could demonstrate that Trump had both knowledge of the nature of removing the relevant documents and the intent to maintain possession in violation of the Presidential records act. Each incoming President is personally briefed on those rules literally from the moment they walk into the oval office. (You generally cannot establish lack of scienter in a federal criminal proceeding by arguing there were ways you might have arguably achieved the same outcome legally albeit in practice you pursued another strategy).
I have to believe, however, that in this case, there was MORE than some minor violation of the rules requiring Presidents to turn over the chotchkas they receive from foreign government valued over $50 along with any communications from foreign leaders (which seems to be what the Trump lawyers claim are the contents of the withheld boxes). Just a hunch that they wouldn’t jeopardize the January 6/election overturn investigation with some nickle and dime Records Act violation and the predictable firestorm it elicited.
A core value in charitable giving is to provide what you can to a truly needy individual subject to two basic limitations.
1. Give within your own means w/o increasing risk to your family or denying them basic needs.
2. Determine within the constraints of time, situational context and privacy, whether the person(s) to whom you are giving have done what they can to improve their own status before turning to others for support. h
This is common sense and doesn’t require consultation with others. Where you cannot take the time to make such inquiries, give a pro forma dollar bill and move on.AAQ: There is an explicit process for “declassification” which must be followed, even by POTUS. Dershowitz can make talmudic arguments, but they will fall on deaf ears absent supporting contemporaneous documentation. An ex-President cannot retroactively “declassify” documents he took from the WH that hadn’t been declassified as of noon on 1/20/21.
Just to be clear, Trump had been forced to return 14 boxes classified materials several months ago after the National Archives learned in February that he had illegally taken these materials from the White House when he left back on January 20th. However, he had failed to return at least 12 other boxes of documents which were equally classified which were seized yesterday pursuant to the warrant signed by a federal magistrate. His lawyers have yet to explain WHY he withheld these documents in the first place and why they lied about the existence of the additional materials he failed to return. Trump himself is in the best position to answer all the questions being raised by the usual Republican shills .
Syag: Hope does spring eternal….at this point, neither imaginary or naive or wishful. Until someone explains how/why 14 boxes containing classified information were removed from the WH rather than transferred to the Archives pursuant to law, a lawful warrant was issued and served by federal law enforcement.
As I’ve said, watch natural gas prices, not gasoline. The latter will keep trending down while the former are still hovering around $8/MMBTU. If we or Europe have an unusually cold winter, prices could easily spike north of $10/MMBTU as space heating and electric generation demand soar.
I found some of these speakers, who you sarcastically reference as “baalebatim” to be considerably more articulate and provided more engaging messages than some of the others whose videos were linked side-by-side on the YWN news pages. You don’t need semicha to be able to communicate daas torah that resonates on a day such as Tisha Ba’av.
“Also, waze was developed in Israel. I don’t know whether team is still there…”
Noam Bardin, who was the CEO of Waze from about 2009 through the Google acquisition, just left the company in mid-2021. He split his time between the NYC metro area and Israel and kept much of the original tech team intact after the Google acquisition. Recently, however, much of the Israeli team has dissolved.
Memo to file:
Drinking hot tea will provide some short-term warming affect to the body but generally not result in maintaining a warm body temperature over a sustained period of exposure to freezing temperatures. Adding some sugar to the water might extend the warming benefits. Adding alcohol may actually be counter-productive even though it may induce short-term feeling of “warmth”.Rumpus: Get a life!! If you don’t want to listen to these motivational/inspirational programs, don’t tune in.
“There’s a button to press that takes a split second… [and] it lets Waze know that there’s a cop on the side of the road”
Perhaps the OP, in his usual creative mode, is thinking about how this really great app can also address another one of his priorities which is how to alert yiddeshe neshamas about a potential exposure to pritzus. Specifically, why couldn’t the software engineers add a new “Tzinus Alert” button along with those for radar traps and speed cameras that would warn you that there is an inappropriately dressed woman about 4 or 5 blocks ahead so the driver knows to shut his eyes while driving along that stretch of the road.
P.S. And the driver behind him can use the Waze “accident alert” button to notify other drivers that the ehrliche yid in front of his car had just crashed into a double parked delivery truck while driving with his eyes closed.I’ll continue to hold by my apikorsus that it is irresponsible for parents to have children they know they cannot afford to feed, house and care for.
Naming buildings after individual donors carries some risks. We all know of several recent cases where years AFTER the donation, there are negative developments with regard to that individual or new information becomes available that requires distancing. Do we really want to have a Madoff’s or Epstein’s name on the facilities used by yiddeshe mosdos??
Avram: Your reading of my post was that the Tana in the Mishna “made up” the 18 yo age for kiddushin w/o any basis. Not what I said. There had to be some rationale for 18yo (versus 17 yo or 19 yo)……it is an age level where he believed that a young man was READY to assume the responsibilities for marriage and presumably, his conclusion was informed by his own experience, based on what he knew at the time. If the age was simply a function of the earliest age when a young man could produce children, the mishna would have said 14 yo.
As to your belief that one should marry w/o regard to their ability to support themselves, some of us disagree. If they have parents who can readily support them, fine. If not, they have some responsibility to accrue the resources w/o forcing their parents to beg for money. Its within their ability to work and obtain those funds on their own. If they choose not to, thats their decision. My reference to W-2s did not establish a wealth test for marriage. If you intention is to have children asap, then its also your responsibility to be able to provide for their medical care, food, housing etc. (or should the parents go out and beg for that money too after they’ve finished paying off the caterer).
Lets be clear. No one here has been arguing in support of women dressing “provocatively” (or at least I’m not). My concern is that there is a spectrum of tzinius concerns (aka “not all ervah is the same”) and there seems to be a tendency to push the limits where musavr over an inch or so around the elbow or knee has become a more frequent rant
Reb Yosef: Can the beis din “force” the parents to pay for the chassanah and a dirah in in one of the nicer neighborhoods?
On a serious note, are you aware of any contemporary beis din that has attempted to enforce the admonition of the mishna in Pirkei Avos? A bit unclear how such a psak would be enforced against an unwilling bochur. Would the beis din retain a shadchan (in the manner that a secular court may sometimes retain its own counsel and expert advisors) and then haul in a reluctant bochur and his “un-beschert” with the av beis din being mesader kiddushin)?The mishna in Pirkei Avos sets forth the principle of Shemoneh Esrei L’Chuppah which is generally understood to mean that one should begin searching for their kallah as soon as he is physically, mentally, emotionally, and financially able to do so. At the time of the mishna, its quite possible that those criteria were frequently met by many bochurim around the age of 18 (or presumably, that was the Tana’s recollection of when HE felt prepared for marriage. Nowhere does the mishna make shidduchim contingent upon a W-2 showing sufficient earning to support his wife and family because in those days, the majority of bochurim reaching the age of 18 did work and earned a parnassah. As society evolved, the age at which most young men were emotionally and financially prepared to support a family has also risen to their early 20s so application of the principle can be understood to have evolved as well. However, nowhere does the Mishnah mandate that the parents of the prospective choson impoverish themselves in the process, whatever his age.
Are you contemplating a new tour of kivrei tzadikim for those who had to cancel their plans to visit Uman next month??
“Dont things always end with the Jews?..
Sadly, it does, both with the hard-core anti-semites as well as with the messianic views of our “friends” in the Christian Evangelical tzibur
“if calling out sins and not embracing sinners as our brothers is “subjugation” then so be it…”
It seems that thou worries a lot more about “embracing sinners as your brothers” but less so about condemning your sisters for matters that are really your brothers’ concern. And I respectfully disagree that the tone of a material percentage of the tzinius threads is balanced versus implicitly misogynistic. Women should work to understand what you reference as the “nisyonos” of some men in the tzibur but I don’t sense a reciprocal concern with how some of the demands for greater adherence to tzinius guidelines can both degrade and subordinate women.
Those of us who believe that a modicum of financial independence is a condition precedent to kiddushin are clearly in a minority. However, as others have noted, forcing the parents to wander around the beis medrash or going door-to-door begging strangers for funds to purchase housing for their kids or pay the caterer would appear to be a self-inflicted form of humiliation for parents who should “just say no”. Definitely assist within your means but don’t jeopardize your own economic well being.
Takamamash: Kol hakovod having two kids who were responsible individuals who recognized that marriage means taking responsibility for their own expenses and are working and studying to earn a good parnassah so that they are not dependent on others. Its great when parents have the resources to assist in the chassanah and even help out a bit for the first few years of married life as we did with our kids. However, the notion that parents should purchase apartments, pay rent and subsidize living expenses in perpetuity is bizarre and even worse is the sense of entitlement of many kids who expect such parental support. I’ve read more recent studies that many parents who feel obligated to provide such support to their childeren are often ill-prepared to finance their own retirements and the problems is only growing worse as fewer employers offer traditional pensions.
“What does that have to do with the soul-destroying power of pritzus in the eyes of a jewish man….”?
When obviously misogynistic trolls are cloaked in an obsessive concern for tzinius and triggers broad hyperbolic generalizations, its a big concern. “Pritzus”, as broadly defined by the
“tzinius police” encompasses both real socially destructive forms of addictive behavior and borderline criminal activities that are incredibly harmful from both a physical and spiritual perspective. However, when otherwise “normal” activities such as hearing a woman’s recorded voice or seeing a short clip of women dancing at a simcha are equated to porn addictions etc., it often becomes an effort to rationalize subordination of women in the name of protecting the neshama of some guys who need to work on their own issues.What about women who are grossed out by the way so many frum men act and present themselves? Tzinius, after all, is a concept that is NOT restricted to women. Aside from providing a frequent and increasingly childish topic for bored CR trolls, perhaps its time to open your eyes and discuss the REAL tzinius crisis
Wait until the winter heating season. Natural gas prices will be 50 percent higher than last winter so home heating (via gas furnace or electric heating served by utilities generating power with natural gas) will be substantially higher.
Really stupid question: If you cannot afford a wedding, scale back the plans to what you CAN afford. Invite fewer people, limit the costs of food/drink served, don’t rent a big simcha hall, etc. etc. Most importantly, if you cannot afford to even purchase a bed, some dishes and pay the rent, perhaps you should think about deferring kiddushin until one or both of you have some income and resources so that you are not literally begging money from strangers.
The core issue is that our mosdos are chronically underfunded so that we are not in a position to analyze whether a potential donor is seeking recognition for his/her donation beyond the basic diligence to assure the source of the funds is legit and the donation doesn’t violate any applicable laws. Of course, there are obvious red flags where using the name of a certain donor may not be entirely compatible with the mission of a particular organization (e.g. a bit of cognitive dissonance to reading about the great work being undertaken by the “UJM Institute for the Promotion of Professional Opportunities for Bnos Yisroel” or a Brass Plaque acknowledging the Generosity of R’ Yosef for funding the new Varbeshe Kiddush Club that will be meeting in the small closet in the basement previously used by the shamas for cleaning supplies).
‘Are we to expect a frum man to be so fickle as to have no control of where his eyes roam?! Maybe learn self control to a degree…”
The author of the OP here (and literally dozens of others on the same theme) is apparently a poster-child for the lack of self control among a segment of the male frum tzibur who has projected his weakness and lack of self-discipline on everyone else. You don’t originate 183 threads on variations of your tzinius adiction without some really perverted agenda.
Unless we know that the funds were obtained through illict means, we should give kovod to anyone who is a big ball tzadakah whether they seek it or not.
Reb Yosef must be having a bad night with the Mrs who apparently has him sleeping in the basement with their two cats. ….trying to resuscitate a 2013 vintage thread that had morphed into his favorite misogynistic themes cloaked in a familiar obsession with lack of adherence to his “tzinius guidlines”.
Huju: There is no shidduch crisis in the business sector…companies merge w/o regard to hashkafah, gender or yichus. Its only about $$$ and earnings outlook. The only shadchanus is DOJ/FTC clearence under HSR.
“I respect your right to believe in what you feel is right..”
I disagree. What if you are wrong? jAAQ: All your points are correct BUT I’d respectfully submit current economic metrics are NOT fully supportive of the definitions you invoke. That point has been made this week and last by most of the major banks reporting Q2 results (aka we MAY have a mild recession in late 2022/early 2023 but we are NOT there yet and there is a likelihood we may not get there even though there will definitely be a slowing from the post-Covid surge in growth in late 2021. And I clearly noted that NBER is useless for forward planning given it is looking backwards. (I actually worked briefly with NBER in my grad school days).
You are not dealing with Ritz Carlton or Four Seasons $800-$1200/night in the Catskills…..there are several old-line, full-service heimeshe hotels like the Raleigh which offer basic, family size rooms for as little as $250-$300/night, INCLUDING meals (with glatt hashgacha). These are in the older sections of the hotel. If you want to splurge a bit more, you can get more modern rooms in the newer sections and cottages. I think the Raleigh still has a shul on the premises. Other hotels are within walking distance of shabbos minyanim