Gadolhadorah

“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”.

Some keep repeating the mantra that “the IDF does not need more personnel”. Well, that is contrary to what the IDF itself has said repeatedly with respect long-term staffing needs. The need for increased numbers in border security alone in both Gaza and the North will increase exponentially, even after whatever “cease-fire” is negotiated and the burden on reservists and their has increased to a breaking point in many cases.
Individual IDF leaders have stated that it would be difficult to make the significant cultural and operational changes needed to accommodate Charedi recruits during the war but all the senior IDF leadership and former leaders have consistently said it is essential to immediately begin the process of integrating the fastest growing segment of the population into the national security program in some capacity.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if you heard the Troller Rav’s opinion you would vote the opposite …”

Given that the Troller Rav was a talmid muvhak of the Farblungeter Rebbe, shlita, than it would be total apikorsus to not adopt a contrarian position on any matter of substance he had offered a psak. Chazal bring down that when presented with such explicit guidance from daas torah, one should follow the view of Harav HaGoan Yussi Berra, shlita who shared that brilliant pearl of wisdom that when a yid comes to a fork in the road, he should take it.

Akuperma: Nos, 1-3 may have some potential….No. 4 is a bit extreme

Its important to carefully consider the views of rabbonim and askanim, but also understand WHY they are supporting particular candidates. Ultimately, you have to decide what are the issues most important to you and your family and whether those candidates are aligned with your priorities.

Jackk……both share a great fondness for conspiracy theories, including a pattern of using anti-Semitic tropes and memes.

It is perhaps the longest and most sustainable work in progress towards some notion of a democratic system that is both morally just and functional. Some might argue that the UK and other European models have features that are preferable but I doubt one could argue they are “functional” in terms of frequency of governmental changes in a parliamentary system and comparison with U.S. economic growth and prosperity over any long-term time period. The real quandary is why in a country with 330 million souls, we seem to have such dreadful choices again for our leadership in 2024.

“The Lubavitcher rebbe was wrong to encourage every single illiterate jew who is married to a shiksa to learn tanya – plain and simple….

So for the many “illiterate Jews” who are poishete yidden, not married to a shiksa and don’t spend their Sunday afternoons running up and down Eastern Parkway with yellow flags, is it fair to assume that Daf Yomi is likely the only torah they will be learning absent their participation in the daily daf?

So 12 years later, has the collective opinion of the “daf yomi industry” really changed?? I don’t recognize many of the vintage 2012 CR participants who seemed to strongly disagree with the OP regarding the merits of daf yomi. Today there are probably a dozen or so alternatives, with Rav Eli a rock star with thousands of daily viewers and sold-out siyumim at MetLife center.

Katan……You can rant all you want about the evil “Zionist State” but doubt Hamas really distinguishes Zionists from Satmar, NK, and various other Chareidi groups…..they would just as readily slit your throat without regard to your beliefs regarding the legitimacy of the medinah.

Who needs Hamas and Hezbolah as adversaries when we have more than enough adversaries in the CR. Perhaps Bibi needs to add the CR and other “frum” social sites publishing anti-tzionist hyperbole to the multiple border “fronts” where EY is defending its survival.

“Yiddishkeit was never about singing kumbaya around the campfire”

Nor was it ever about using every opportunity to slam yidden whose hashkafah doesn’t meet your criteria of frumkeit or maintaining a level of sinas chinam that assures moishiach will not arrive within 12 months..

“Joseph is expecting a call from Eliyahu telling him to reveal himself as mashiach…

One of the lamud vov tzadikim maybe…..Moishiach, highly unlikely….

Given the world as it is, I don’t think too many yidden, regardless of their hashkafah, would really be upset if these slimeballs were somehow “neutralized” (in politically correct wokespeak).

Why is [DJT] difficult to short?

Few shares available to “borrow”/relatively low float.

What is truly hysterical are the posts on Truth Social blaming the 60% drop in DJT price since the merger on manipulation or shorting by Trump hating Wall Street investors and hedge funds. They seem to ignore the absurdity and irrationality of a multi-billion dollar market cap for a company that lost $53 million last year on $4 million in revenues, that is paying out millions in bonuses to executives and today announced a massive new stock issuance further diluting the MAGA meshugaim who are the retail investors who bought in at $68/share several weeks ago watching the price drop today to $26/share. There is a term for people who somehow feel joy in getting screwed over that would be inappropriate for a frum website.

Its possible that some of the pirate stations have morphed into online podcasts available on apps that you can download; the stations I noted above are very low power FM broadcasts that are only accessible in relatively close proximity to the transmitter.