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But of course some of regulars will paskin that its “OK” if the relevant products are made/sold by goyim and the readership of the review will be primarily “eno yehudi”.
A lie is a lie and deception is deception.

RE. Thanks. Will review the article.
Apparently, the KofK announced yesterday that, “the product has had a change in its kashrus standard” and that effective October 26, 2021 “Due to various considerations, Terra Chips is no longer certified Bishul Yisroel”.
Is this going to become a trend? I read recently (I think on YWN) that several Rabbonim had also raised questions regarding the “bishul yehudi’ workarounds used in most kosher restaurants.

Syag: We know there are a few misguided and borderline misogynistic trolls who somehow get their thrills by finding some “new” outrage regarding women’s dress, women learning XYZ, women’s role in the home, pseudo-feminism reflected in hashkafah etc. etc. Some even find humor in jokes about “beating” their wives, etc. Sadly, that mindset is too pervasive in society as a whole, and not specific to our communities.The Mods do a reasonably good job of filtering that garbage and cannot really require posters to act like “adults” allowing for the fact that recently many are not. There is a reasonably wide range of hashkafah reflected here in the CR, notwithstanding the efforts of self-styled tzinius police to throttle anything that conflict with their “tzinius outrage of the week” narrative.

Great news. We should all stay well and hopefully be rid of this magefah sooner rather than later.

AAQ: Well said. All other factors equal, which is rarely the case, we obviously would go with the Jewish physician. In today’s world, we unfortunately have to arbitrage between a physician’s expertise and whether he/she accepts your insurance and real world stuff like that.

What’s the commercial custom for a computer technician or for a plumber

Minhag hamokom as well as the size of the business. You can probably “negotiate” with a solo practitioner to assist in setting up your home wifi network or replacing screen on your iphone (perhaps by bundling several other repairs) but if you call the Geek Squad from Best Buy, there is a fixed price and no negotiating.

“Klal Yisroel doesn’t follow feminist trends”

UJM: Come on, at least show some originality in your trolls……..if my daughter was marrying into your family, I’d probably just refer to you as P.O. Box -1. Your continuing effort to affirm your creds as the CR’s resident misogynist require occasional flashes of creative content.

Yaakov Doe: So its assur to insult a goyeshe doctor by asking him to cut the price on your colonoscopy or asking a goyeshe plumber to discount the replacement of your hot water heater but somehow OK to do so when the service provider is a Yid? Where do chazal bring down the inyan of insulting yidden but not goyim?

Use another term but “reading the room” means situational awareness. Both halacha and common sense dictate listening to what the aveilim and others already engaged in conversation are saying before you speak. In some cases there may not be much being said and to break the silence you have to offer your words of nechama with great care and sensitivity to how those words are received.

Without regards to the names of any particular CR posters, in any of these circumstances, once you arrive “read the room”, get a feel for the mood, the people there at that time, the substance and tone of the ongoing conversation and use COMMON SENSE. Spend a few minutes listening to the conversation before ASKING QUESTIONS or trying to direct the conversation in another direction. As one poster above noted, most important, lead with positive memories of the niftar, and if possible, recall some special anecdote about your personal interaction with him/her that will provide nechama to the aveilim.

Ninty percent of the time, you will know when its ok and when not. Generally, such haggling is ok when you are dealing with the sale of high margin goods/services where the seller has sufficiient headroom to offer a discount and still make a profit. In some venues, bargaining is expected and the initial price quoted is deliberately excessive with the intent of eliciting a counteroffer. At the other extreme are low margin products in local food markets where the margins are extremely low (a few percent in grocery markets) so there really is no room to haggle except in special situations (defects, overly-ripe, near the pull date etc). where its perfectly ok to ask if the merchant will take a lower price. Likewise, as someone noted, its unfair to ask an employee of a service provider who comes out to fix your freezer or HVAC for a discount from the price you were quoted since most of the time they have fixed prices per job established by their company. Its ok to ask if they offer discounts for seniors, military veterans or some other affinity group but otherwise, we don’t bargain over the price to fix the A/C on a 100 degree day. Do your price shopping on line or when you call potential service providers, not after they arrive.

I don’t think listening to modernishe Jewish singers is a major contributing factor in the causation of defection from Torah….

Quite to the contrary. So called “moderinishe” jewish music probably has kept some frum kids from going OTD. In my generation, Carlebach’s concerts were considered borderline apikorsus. There is a spectrum of what might today be considered “modernishe” music from the MBDs Avram Frieds , Shumulel Lemmersetc, towards the Lipa Shmeltzers and Matisyahus to some rappers whose stuff is really hard to take for more than a few minutes. However, forcing today’s kids to listen or classical chazzanus might be considered the equivalent of forcing goiyeshe teens to listen to Barry Manilow and Frank Sinatra. (Some may even recall when the Baltimore police installed speakers at locations known for drug-dealing and played 24×7 Manilow and Wayne Newton to discourage dealers from congregating)

Baltimore mayven is correct regarding Maryland statute. For an individual who is 15 YO, marriage IS permitted but only with parental consent AND a physician’s certification regarding pregnancy.

Its not “censorship”….its correctly referred to as “asymetric moderation”. Be careful of AsyMOD299, i hear he’s ruthless.

Syag: Whose being “funny”…..that was a really serious comment. The YWN coffee room is actually one of the best political websites around where there are really smart people (yourself included on most occasions) with whom one can engage in civil debate. You too often see non-existant ghosts and impute motivation that isn’t there. I don’t think anyone in the CR “immerses themselves” in the garbage on other sites and thats one of the reasons we are here. Nor is anyone trashing your “prudishness”.

We definitely need another social media site with no moderation. Trump’s former chief spokesperson, Jason Miller, started such a site called “Gettr” several months ago but had a falling out with the Trumpkopf who wanted nearly total $$ control for lending his name. Gettr has become a total cesspool for porno and racist and anti-semitic commentary given its no moderation policies.
If you were smart, you would have bought stock in the new publicly traded venture when the market opened this morning after shachris. You would have increased your investment by 350% by mincha and another 50 percent by maariv (in after-hours trading) as of 7:15 PM

Why would it work for the beavers but not for the Litvish? Borselino by Attica (model no. 238) is a 100 percent beaver felt hat which should keep its shape even in the rain.

There is an emerging consensus that some of these anti-viral drugs should be administered on a prophylactic basis to a small subset of the immune compromised (aka those on chemo etc.) since they either are not able to be vaccinated OR any vaccination is unlikely to yield sufficient antibody response to provide meaningful protection against covid. Will probably have to be limited to the most immune compromised since hospitals are still ill-equipped to handle widespread infusions of APPROVED drugs like Regeneron etc.

Actually, it was WW II, where in 1940 and early 1941, Italian planes bombed British forces primarily in Haifa but also in Tel Aviv and and several strikes in Jaffa. There were also a few bombings by German forces in that time frame but at a much smaller scale.

Save the Halloween stuff for Purim…..

Nisht: I promise not to refer to you as a “chashuvah poster”.
And yes, I’ve unfortunately experienced exactly what I described. And no, its no disrespect to the vast majority of rabbonin and askanim who conduct themselves with the utmost sensitivity to the occasion to observe that unfortuantely, as the OP noted, there are as surprising number who don’t. A ben torah (chashuvah or not) can sometimes act like a jerk just as a poishete yid can act with great sensitivity, charm and respect. Hopefully, you will only know from simchas so you will never have to deal with shivahs and aveilim.

So, someone just realized that even the most “chashuvah” rabbonim and askanim can sometimes act like jerks? It happens all the time and makes you wonder why they are referenced as “chashuvah” or have other various honorifics imputed to them. I have been to levayahs where the hesped is more about the person giving the hesped than the niftar, shidduchin where the mesader kidushin stumbles over the brachos because he was “mesamach” choson v’kallah before the festivities officially began. That’s life. It happens all to frequently. Not much you can do other than find ways to quietly intervene and lessen the impact of such boorish behavior on the the aveilim, baalei Simcha etc.

“we are not to waste our money or forego opportunities that are allowed according to halacha, especially if in doing so no chilul hashem would arise”

No clear what you are saying. Do you think its ok to “steal’ IP from a goy or defraud the government if those actions are not per se recognized as “ganavah” under halacha and there is no liklihood of being caught so therefore “no chilul hashem”. Or are you saying exactly the opposite which I think is what you meant (i.e. ganevah is ganevah).

Reb E: I would trade “style” for 1/10 of your substance. You consistently amaze with the scope and depth of your torah knowledge

Reb E: Thank you for the honor but in the immortal words of R’ (General) William Tecumseh Sherman when he was being considered as a possible Republican candidate for president in 1884, he declined, saying, “I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if selected.”