Gadolhadorah

When you combine a 24 hour news cycle and the dissemination ease and anonymity of social media commentaryb , the rule is generally “post first and find the facts later”

Wondering555: I’d agree with Qwerty…..Probably better to move on. However, if you really want to appeal the expulsion with the Rosh Yeshiva, than write from your heart and convey your feelings. An appeal from a “professional writer” is likely to come across as phony and not especially helpful. If the school administration felt the circumstances warranted expulsion rather than suspension or some lesser penalty, its unlikely they will reverse themselves because you are feeling emotionally distraught.

Achdus in support of evil achieves nothing. In EY, there was achdus for the first month or two after the simchas torah massacre but both sides quickly retreated to their corners and began talking past one another and the political leadership sadly seems to thrive on this polarization.

BM; Just to be clear, this is an Indian airline which is offering a comparable option long-available on Indian rail lines. If you’ve ever been to India, you know that most of the intercity rail lines have women only cars to literally protect women from the pervasive physical assaults and unwanted touching from men that is sadly embedded in Indian culture. It is not done for religious accommodation nor are women required to use gender-segregated rail cars. Some rail lines in Japan offer the same option and airlines are following suit. The same arrangements would likely be illegal in the U.S. and most of Europe.

“Those that are compulsively obsessed with anti Chabad style talk, usually in my experience, pretty happy to use Chabad”

PureYid: As someone who has indulged Chabad hospitality for several decades at dozens of locations throughtout the world, I can confirm you sage assessment. I suspect that from a numerical perspective, there may have been more misnagdim dining at Chabad house dinners in remote corners of the globe than Chassidim. Nor have I ever seen someone ejected from a Chabad minyan for adding “vayatzmach purkanei…” in kaddish or too loudly intoning an “Uuuumein”:

I think it would be easier to predict when Moishiach will arrive than the outcome of the November election. The events of the past several weeks were beyond the imagination of even the most wild-eyed script writers of West Wing and Veep and it will likely get even crazier in the next several months.
The polls still clearly favor Trump but having a new Democratic ticket with Harris and her VP choice at least make the race more competitive.

Ex-CTlawyer; If you are planning to attend the convention and a virtual roll-call hasn’t already locked-in the nominees, I’ll send you a campaign button
“Beshear is באַשערט

While Harris will likely retain the support of the traditional Democratic constituencies, Beshear is the strongest of the Democratic VP options to attract the independent voters turned off by the far-right MAGA turn of the Republican party.
Winning in Kentucky is hard enough for a Democrat but he has done so TWICE and successfully worked across the aisle with a Republican legislature. Perhaps most importantly for many here in the CR, he has been a consistent supporter of EY, speaking out strongly after October 7th. More than just flying state flags at half mast, his administraiton has aggressively gone after those accused of anti-semitic attacks and established a state Task Force on fight antisemitism. I also like Roy Cooper of NC but believe Beshear will provide a stronger boost to the Democratic ticket in November

“What about dedications for commodes?”

Well, I guess you have to draw a line somewhere. Its doubtful anyone wants to spend several hundred dollars for a small brass plaque in the back of a stall door for someone to read about his tatah, a’h, while sitting on the throne.

‘Peyos is no different than any other style”

Huhh??? There are some that naively believe that having pyeos is m’doraisah (V’yikra 19.27).

Shtreimlach and Huizen Zaaken are hashkafah-based style statements from the Alte Heim. Peyos are not,

“The Chabad-Lubavitch propaganda apparatus is sizable and busy, and has been so for quite a while….”

With all due respect, the media efforts coming out of 770 are generally focused on the work of chabad shalichim around the world and are not a bunch of guys in black hats running up and down Eastern Parkway waving yellow flags or live-streaming 24×7 coverage from the Ohel. Likewise, the Agudah, Lakewood/BMG or KJ Satmar media efforts are all reasonably effective at sharing their “propaganda” at both a local and national level.

With respect to the OP, reporting this AM is that local police deployed at the building used by the sniper were stationed INSIDE the building “because the sloped roof was dangerous” but it gets even better. One of the local snipers SAW the shooter with his weapon dressed in tactical gear on at least two occasions BEFORE the shooting, in one instance with the shooter looking at the stage through a rangerfinder but did NOTHING other than try to take a picture on his iPhone and then had trouble downloading it in an attempt to email it to the command post.
I can understand why he might have been hesitant to take him down but WHY not at least detain him rather than allow him to wander off and several minutes later take the shot. Also, it would have taken $50 worth of plywood and 2x4s from the local Home Depot to fabricate a flat platform on the roof rather than having the snipers watching the crowd from ground level inside the building.

Yechiell: Don’t expect a rational discussion here about Biden’s creds regarding support for EY.
Biden, along with at least half of the population of EY is clearly fed up with Bibi’s self-centered approach to the Gaza campaign focused on keeping himself in power and out of jail.

The whole level of discourse has declined since the time of Reagan and even Clinton. Policy disputes were substantive and even personal digs were somehow framed in non-pejorative terms and with Reagan, a great sense of humor and light sarcasm. I don’t think today’s politicians even realize how destructive their rhetoric has become. We can debate which side is worse but thats irrelevant to some degree.

While Trump posted several times yesterday that he was going to try and focus on a unifying message, I’m not sure all the speakers got the memo. Likewise, Biden can’t seem to let go of some of his standard jabs at Trump which he acknowledged in the interview with NBC last night.

Sadly, I don’t see anything on the horizon that will change anything, even with Saturday night’s attack still fresh in our minds.

A lot of Jews feel totally frustrated with the abysmal choices they will have in November. A country of 380 million people could do better than presenting us with two polarizing individuals that turn off such a large percentage of the electorate.

Read the story on the YWN news page tonight about a horrific situation where hundreds of girls who were supposed to attend Camp Malka were first transported to the camp which didn’t have an occupancy permit so were then shipped off to a local hotel with inadequate or no accommodations for these kids until the police ordered them to be sent home. Now, they will have no summer program, the parents hope their non-refundable payments will be refunded and someone will just shrug and say “sorry we let you down”.

Those who wish for Biden to step aside seem to believe it would be relatively easy for the convention to nominate Harris or another candidate that would appear on the ballot in all 50 states as the Democratic candidate. While I truly wish Biden would somehow disappear from public life, the actual mechanics of having pledged Biden delegates vote for a new candidate and have that name appear on the November ballot as the Democratic party candidate is considerably more complicated and will be litigated in a number of states where election laws are relatively arcane and Republicans are certain to contest any changes. Also, there is a federal law requiring states to mail out absentee ballots several weeks after the Democratic convention in August so there will be little time to litigate and resolve any challenges before ballots are printed.

“Yarchei Kallah is NOT the Lakewood oilam. BMG’S involvement is negligible”

Huhh?? BMG sponsors an annual Yarchi Kallah for all the ehrliche Litvish farmworkers in south Jersey….I can’t post the link but it says in part::

“….Beth Medrash Govoha is proud to host its Annual Yarchei Kallah – providing the perfect setting to totally engage oneself in Torah study, and ultimately to come away with practical applications of Halachic issues that arise in contemporary times, while basking in the light of today’s Reishei Kallah…..

So if the incumbent President takes action to :neutralize ” his opponent who he deems to be an existential threat to American democracy, there are six Justices on the Supreme Court who are just fine with such an “official act”. Given the degree of angst so many Republicans have about the incumbent’s judgement and mental acuity , I’m certain they are telling their guy to “be careful what you wish for’:.

Square Root: What is so unusual for a bottle of vintage wine or artisanal whiskey, liquor etc. to sell for $500+?? Several kosher restaurants in both NYC and Tel Aviv have rare wines listed in the hundreds of dollars on the wine lists.

Also, some Chareidim are very well off and can easily afford a$500 bottle for a special occasion and don’t need musar from social media about whether they should be wasting their money on gashmius rather than giving more tzadakah.

It was journalistic malpractice to publish News Site stories about some absract horrific even in Lakewood referenced only as “the tragedy” and leave readers from outside the community speculating what might have happened and to whom. I’m assuming local media and gossip spread their understanding of the events but those of us outside of NJ had no clue with one speculating that the “tragedy” may have been linked to the last minute event scheduled in the heat on Sunday afternoon to honor the five elderly rabbonim from EY who flew over to raise money for yeshivos in EY who are losing government stipends for bochurim who don enlist, some of whom fraudulently claim they are learning to get the money. When we finally learned of the tragedy of a mother murdering her two young children it became clear that YWN simply felt that it would be somehow helpful to the tzibur to hide the facts of what had happened and address the issue from 50,000 ft. when any context.nbn

You can find many of the early vintage EG Productions/Yeshiva Boy Choir albums at the Mostly Music record shop on 13th Avenue in BP. If you don’t live in the NY metro area try googling “mostlymusic.com” for their online sales. If you haven’t been there before and enjoy some of the great early albums of Jewish music, its worth a visit down nostalgia lane.

jdf007: Perhaps the most uninformed and dangerous post I’ve read here in a while. Sorry you may have personally had a really painful experience but the vast percentage of hospice care locations provide an incredibly important and vital service to the community and patients and their families in end-stage illness.

The idea that Chareidim are willing to go, en masse, to prison rather than the IDF isn’t just an empty threat; it is the reality.

So round them up and stuff them into prisons in the Negev, feed them slop (with good hashgacha, of course) and put them to work in prison jobs manufacturing license plates or whatever the IDF needs. That is their choice and they understand that for those who engage in civil disobedience, there are likely to be consequences.

The systems cannot survive where the fastest growing segment of the population decides to send everyone else to risk their lives to defend the country while they are paid stipends to stay at home and hide under their shtenders when the air raid sirens go off.

“this was a meaningless dog and pony show for BMG…”

It was obviously very meaningful, exciting and rewarding for the 25,000 who attended.

Perhaps go to the circus if you want to see a real dog and pony show.

So bottom line is that if you are a Supreme Court Justice and fly Christian Nationalist flags that have become a symbol of support for the January 6th rioters at BOTH your homes (and blame it on your wife who “loves flags”) OR accept over $5 million dollars in gifts from conservative donors (and then fail to disclose, or disclose late or claim you got “bad legal advice on disclosure”) there should be no concern about appearance of conflicts much less substantive conflict.
And any yid who raises such concerns is a kapo, self-hating jew, anti-semite or at best, a “shameless nudnik”.