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Stop posting pictures of women, quoting women, referring to women and actually acknowledging that they exist! Youre being machshil the rabim!
U’mein. Even female pronouns in news stories (“she”, “her” etc.) should be changed to “they”.
“I do think there has unfortunately been a recent lack of oversight here”
Perhaps you need to drill down a bit and understand the combination of real-world resource constraints and editorial discretion that are operative in ANY niche social media site such as YWN. Generally speaking, the Mods generally provide considerable leeway in what is allowed to go through subject to the stated CR guidelines. I’m sure there are some that would prefer that all photos of women be photo-shopped out of news stories and that any expression of disagreement with a chashuve rav (even with the caveat of “with all due respect…”) result in immediate banishment from the CR. And indeed, there ares several frum websites that adhere to that type of editorial protocol if that is your preference. The growth and commercial success of YWN would suggest that there is a substantial market for the level of “oversight” provide here.
Reb yosef is correct. A top notch CPA with his/her own practice can charge several hundred dollars/ hour for his/her own time plus profits earned from any Staff accountants in the firm but that is not the “norm” for most CPAs who work in accounting firms or as an inhouse accountant for a small-mid size business. Many CPAs move on to take positions in corporate finance departments and can earn even more. Again, that is still the exception, not the norm. Nonetheless, if you want your own business where you have control over your hours, its a great profession.
“If posts aren’t being censored, why does it take so long for posts to go up?”
I guess it takes a while to censor your posts complaining about being censored?
“:What can you suggest to YWN as an area to improve in it’s reporting in this coming year?”
Keep doing the great job in has done in 5784 and not worry too much about the musar it routinely gets from dissatisfied readership. There are complex balancing decisions the editorial staff and Mods have to make on a daily basis in screening news stories and CR posts and I sense the majority of its readers are very satisfied. Sure, there are frequent kvetches about the wording of a headline or selection of file photos to go along with an article but those are relatively minor annoyances compared with a one-sided online echo chamber that fails to reflect the diverse views of its readership. The orthodox community is not monolithic as evidenced by the exchanges here in the CR.
While recognizing yad hashem behind everything that happens, it would be good to also acknowledge the incredible skill and mesiras nefesh of the Mosad intelligence operatives and IAF pilots who daily risk their lives to carry out these missions. Much of this get lost in the daily bashing of Biden, Bibi, the shmad IDF and Zionist State.
“Capitulation” is a fancy, lawyer-like, word that means “surrender”
A good lawyer doesn’t use “lawyer-like” words in a pleading. If you mean surrender, say surrender, or even better, “give up”. Our law schools are churning out too many “lawyer-like” litigators for whom English appears to be a second language.
“Whatever Trump will do he won’t talking about and certainly not actually refusing to SELL arms to Israel….”
And you know that because?? In the past 24 hours he has said that “the war” in the middle east has to “stop NOW”. How does he “stop the war now” when Bibi just said at the UN that EY will keep on fighting until the ultimate defeat of Hamas and Hezbolah. Stopping offensive weapon sales is the only way the U.S. has to coerce a quick end to the war if that is what the new president intends on doing.
“We have gedolim who have been clears as day that it is better to leave eretz yisroel than join the kofrim in their sins:
Simple and clear as day message to those who refuse to serve and their “gedolim”: עזוב בשלום ואל תחזור
The Chareidim for years have failed to offer any alternatives through which they would establish and control the terms under which their bochurim would participate in defense and national security efforts in any form (other than behind a shtender). It is simply not possible for the fastest growing segment of the population forego participation in the defense of the country.
Trump just said in his Trump Tower news conference that Israeli operations against Hamas and Hezbolah have to end “NOW” and that just like Ukraine, he has a secret plan that will stop all the fighting within hours of taking office. Aside from repeating his claim that October 7th would never have happened he says nothing about assuring that Hezbolah will be unable to continue its daily attacks on the North. Reporters tried several times to get any details about his peace plans but he simply repeated his usual sound bites.
Forgetting momentarily about Chabad media, not a good week for traditional “Jewish Media”.
First, there were news reports today that the Jewish Chronicle in the UK (founded back in 1848) had fired one of its most high-profile contributors/writers for fabricating his resume (including educational honors, personal involvement with the Entebe raid, relationships with Netanyahu, etc.) and faking news stories. Earlier this week, another story runs about the former editor of the Jewish Press, Eliot Resnick, who was sentenced to Federal Prison after pleading guilty to several felony counts related to the January 6th riots at the Capital. Perhaps even worse, he was thrown off two Jewish dating sites (including “Saw you at Sinai” )so he will have to work with a shadchan remotely while spending quality time at Otisville. (The Judge showed a bit of menchlechkite, deferring his date for reporting to prison until after Rosh Hashanah.
Notwithstanding occasional disagreements on the wording of headlines or selection of stock photos, I’ll settle for the lack of drama here at YWN.Vus is de chiddush??
Trump has ALWAYS been transactional and never principled. He has never claimed otherwise.
Does anyone remember how he violently turned 180* on Bibi right after lost the election and used obscenities in castigating him as “disloyal” for calling Biden to offer congratulations. Trump will support those who feed his insatiable ego and serve his interests but will throw them under the bus (and back it up a few times) the minute he feels a threat or lack of sufficient adulation.
Now he is already setting American Jews up for blame if he loses (along with his endless unsubstantiated claims of a “rigged” election”)
But of course, he has Jewish children and grandchildren so they will control his worst instincts. Of course…..Unless you plan to climb the ladder to become the CFO or Director of Audit at a major company, or as another poster noted, build your own accounting firm, you are unlikely to make much more than $100k working as a staff accountant. While thats a good parnassah by national standards, it doesn’t go that far if you live in NYC or one of the other major metro areas and/or have a large family with several kids going to yeshiva or facing $50k/yr college tuition.
“What does that have to do with honoring one’s parents?”
Nothing. Which I suspect is the point of this and other recent incoherent posts and topics.
There is a growing recognition of both the long-term financial and health/emotional issues associated with this whole class of GLP-1 analogs. An immediate problem is simply availability and many patients prescribed these drugs cannot get their RXs filled because of supply shortages. The drug companies and distributors are rationing distribution to existing patients. Also, the government has realized that more widespread use could literally bankrupt medicare/medicaid at current price levels.
Some patients are going off their meds when they reach desired weight levels only to put the weight back on creating a familiar cycle of loss/gain (wash/rinse/repeat).
The genie is out of the bottle and there is no way prescriptions can be narrowed to the truly obese or diabetics etc. Better guidance from doctors would help but there will always be a few on the margin who like other “miracle drugs” will be glad to provide an Rx without really determining the patient’s medical need.Are you saying that there is a Rebbe somewhere who is pushing GLP-1 analogs for obese yidden who can’t say no to another slice of kugel?? I’ve seen a lot of commercials for Ozempic, Jardiance etc. where they always seem to be dancing but none appear to be dressed in yeshivishe lvush.
“Has everyone forgotten the Braekel chicken issue?”
Who can forget those pashkevilim insisting that all contemporary chickens are treifus, invoking a number of chashuvah rabbonim including R’ Wosner’s Beis Din etc. Some were machmir to the point of not only foregoing chickens or eggs but also anything made with egg derivatives (such as mayonnaise). In reality, I suspect that all commercially available chickens on the market today have been hybridized with unknown types.. Fortunately, virtually all hashgachos relied upon today, including the gold-standard chassideshe hashgachos, have no kashrus concerns with chickens on the market.
I guess it was too much to ask for a 10 day moratorium on bashing other yidden for their beliefs and hashkafah.
Philosopher: Perhaps we can have a moratorium for the rest of chodesh Elul on what some might consider as Chabad-bashing, even those “questions” you believe are intellectually sound.
Given what we’ve seen this week regarding what can be hidden in a pager, who knows what might have been put inside an egg. You need to find a good chassideshe hashgacha with the requisite expertise in hun hoyzen and avionics.
It was an incredible operation combining technological and intelligence skills but wouldn’t it have been even more effective if it was followed immediately by a major ground operation pushing Hezbolah back from the border and creating a buffer zone in the North so that over 100,000 Israelis can return home? Its hard to understand the timing here but perhaps we will know more in the coming days.
If Joe Biden offered a package deal pardoning both Trump and Hunter, I think he would gladly step back into well-deserved ob
If Joe Biden offered a package deal pardoning both Trump and Hunter, I think he would gladly step back into well-deserved oblivion.
Seems like some are preoccupied with rationalizing hatred and speaking lashon harah with respect to those they regard as “reshaim and kofrim” than building achdus within klal yisroel. I guess its important to have an enemies list so you know whom not to treat with respect.
Is Ukraine asking non-Jews not to come to Ukraine, too? Or only Jews?
For at least the past 15 months, when the Russian missile and drone attacks have proliferated and fatalities increased, Ukraine has discouraged ALL travel into the country. However, as others have noted, the Breslov seem to ignore these travel guidelines, both from the U.S. and Ukraine.
“Should we laud and applaud potential achdus between the Orthodox and Conservatives (and/or Reforms), too?”
Yes, when it comes to existential matters and physical security of yidden in EY and throughout the world. There are times where speaking with a single voice is crucial. That doesn’t negate the reality of real and substantive disagreements on matters of hashkafah.
It is sad that such a wonderful show of respect and admiration for the niftar by a rav with an entirely different hashkafah is itself newsworthy but in a time when we desperately need achdus within klal yisroel it certainly warrants recognition.
This “letter” makes no sense and is borderline incoherent. Any Bais Yaakov school has the right to set its own rules and admission criteria, presumably with guidance from the local daas torah supervising its operations. If the school rejects several of your kids, its presumably for reasons that relate to the hashkafah of the parents and the home. If they don’t want your kids, for whatever reasons, take you business elsewhere.
AAQ: BY’H, there will be more of these hostage rescues based on on-the-ground intelligence gathering. However, its unclear whether there will be sufficient time to rescue all the 100+ remaining alive if they are being held in different locations absent some negotiated exchange.
All politicians wield some degree of “power” in terms of influencing public opinion, and consequentially, the decisions of elected officials.
Right now, the Dems are actually aligned with a large segment of the Israeli electorate that believes Netanyahu is slow-walking the negotiations to bring the remaining hostages home and agree to some cease fire to do so. I am doubtful any cease fire will be lasting, but its the only way to bring home at least a few of the living hostages. Between now and November, there will be almost unanimous agreement among the Dems to both express support for Israel to defend itself while increasingly expressing support for a cease fire.
AAQ: As a privately-owned business with fiduciary obligations to some of the minority investors, El Al does a reasonably good job of accommodating the needs of torah-observant passengers without disrupting/offending the travel experience of the very large number of non-observant yidden and goyim who provide the largest percentage of their revenues. After decades of state-ownership and mismanagement under prior investors, the airline is now earning a profit (low by standards of other airlines) and is building up a cash reserve to finance a massive investment program to replace its entire fleet of Boeing aircraft. Having said that, there still must be some balancing of needs for reasonably priced travel options when as now, they are operating as a monopoly service provider on most routes.
One can be critical of the dire circumstances that too many Americans find themselves in today, especially the income disparities and lack of access to basic human needs such as housing and medical care, without hating America. Some have adopted the rhetoric and hyperbole of “they hate America’ for everyone who disagrees with their policies but as they may discover in America, that game has gotten really old, really fast.
It will be an interesting 2 months until November.“Who is the current posek in Israel who gets shailohs about how one can price a service when competition is weak and demand is high?”
R’ Yael Schanin, shlita, Chief Counsel and Head of Enforcement at the Israel Competition Authority.
“You don’t need a posek involved. Simply train AI using his teshuvos and test on other ones so you know the quality…”
So in less than a decade, the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah will consist of a dozen advanced chatbots looped in series so that each teshuvah and psak works off those of the others and incorporates the consensus views of “real” gadolim over hundreds of years.
On a serious note, is there some inyan of bal tashchit if it is NOT a fruit tree and the purpose of trimming or removing the tree is to provide for safe observance of a mitzvah?
The details of U.S. Arms shipments to EY are readily available on the DOD website as well as in the routine notices of shipments to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees. The “number” of shipments is a totally mindless and irrelevant metric since their value and contents is what counts. A single delivery of an F-18 is valued considerably more than a dozen shipments of artillery shells.
As of June 30th, there were only 3 shipments being withheld or delayed. Two were because of supply chain/logistic issues issues and the other being the frequently cited shipment of 2,000 lb bombs. The value of arms shipped since October 7th is over $7 billion.1. “Young adults should be ready for marriage at 18”
Biologically, they are “ready” at 13-14 YO. Emotionally, they may not be ready until 10 years later.2. “Husbands should work, wives should stay at home”.
Unless, as is frequently the case, the wife is smarter than the husband and can earn 2x or 3x as much so he can stay home, take care of the kids and learn.3. Young ladies who go to seminary after high school should do so close to home
It depends where “home” is.4. Don’t dump Zaidy or Bubby into a nursing home.
Agreed. Drop them off with love and dignity and call them once a week.Go to Home Depot, buy a chainsaw and use the $1,000 you save to buy a Calabrian esrog. bbbb
“all democrats are in Chicago this week, I heard, so can I enjoy the rest of the USA….”
AAQ: Not really. There are only about 33,000 Dems attending the DNC convention in Chicago this week plus the approximately 4.5 million Illinois residents registered as Democrats. That means there are still over 77 million Democrats in the other 49 states to make your life miserable this week. Sorry to rain on your parade.
Square Root: What about a button to object to anonymous and chronic button pushing by other CR posters along with a button to seek appellate review of the Mods decision to edit or delete a post (sort of like the NFL rules which allow a team to object to a call by an official on the field).
AAQ. Thanks for sharing. Wonderful story.
“I was reading about elections in Latvia in 1920s-30s, and there were trains of Jewish voters from several parties going from one district to another to maximize their chances against each other. I am not sure that was legal though…”
AAQ: Move to Chicago where the city’s motto is “Vote Early, Vote Often” and you don’t have to be Litvish to register you cat to vote.
A gutten shabbos
Obviously, a “true” statement can also be lashoh harah but there are also exceptions where factual statements are permitted. The Mods seem to be able to make those distinctions w/o adding a link on each posting so that all the armchair CR poskim can demand the removal of another posting that offends them.
“If doctors say smoking is detrimental to your health we cannot forbid smoking lehalacha because the proof of the danger of smoking cannot finally be decided….. I saw Tzadikim who were smoking and maybe this is an explanation for their doing so”””
Unless you are engaged in really bad trolling, your comments about the “dangers of smoking cannot be decided” are bizarre. Any surgeon who does lung surgery would be more than happy to show you the tissue of a niftar where the residue of years of cigarette smoking are not subject to question. While there are certain areas of mortality/morbidity where causality is arguably still an open issue, smoking is NOT one of them and there is absolute certainty about its dangers. I can only assume that the so-called “tzadikim you saw smoking were sadly addicted and unable to control themselves OR have not seen a doctor in several decades and don’t read any newspaper or expose themselves to any media and are oblivious to the fact they are slowly killing themselves (and potentially those around them if they smoke at home).
Most poskim hold that suicide is assur year-round, including on a taanis….perhaps R’ Belsky was unaware of the health risks.
One person’s truth is another person’s lashon harah. The editors would need to a whole bunch of full time “mashgichim” to assist the Mods in evaluating what qualifies as lashon harah versus plain old hate speech (e.g. “all yiden who either vote for Dems or believe the Rebbe is Mashiach are mamash menuvalim, apikorsim, etc.”, )
Its whatever has kept Moishiach from coming and delayed the z’man of the geulah. The various definitions, inyanim, darashos etc. and the multiple meanings that can be brought down from Chazal help inform but do not provide a definitive solution that will find acceptance among all segments of the tzibur.
“How does that make Donald Trump any different than the average American?”
The last time I checked, neither Schumer, Pelosi, Harris etc, nor the “average American” doesn’t have anywhere the degree of narcissism as Trump which makes EVERYTHING about him. If he is not the biggest, the greatest, etc. he goes into a frantic counter-attack mode that even Republicans acknowledge is scary at times.. Most important to the original question (aka “how is he different”) the answer is that he has the nuclear codes and as we have seen repeatedly, is prone to act impulsively. In his last term, there were adults in the room to buffer his crazy impulses. The next time around, there may not be any adults in the situation room and he will be surrounded by Steven Bannons, Peter Navarros, etc.
The degree of nitpicking here is awesome. People have their own way of feeling and expressing the pain, sorrow and sense of availus associated with Tish B’av and the overall sense of despair given the trauma confronting yidden in EY and the world in general. Giving musar over the seating options chosen by some while they listen to eicha is pathetic and says a lot about the “baal musar”. .