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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.SquareRoots: Does it really make a difference how the OP self-identifies. Assuming he is a non-binary Ungarishe Republican anarchist who says Hallel on Trotsky’s yahrtzeit, does that rally matter to the substance of this thread which is the absence of any enforceable ethics rules to SCOTUS?
“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.
Milhouse does an elegant job of defending the indefensible. At some point, accepting gifts of RVs, real estate purchases, vacations etc. crosses a line just as much as Judge Merchan’s 10$ donation to the Biden campaign. Harlan Crow is a passionate advocate for many of the policy issues coming before the court even if his name is not in the caption of a cert petition or Amicus.
Akuperma: Nos, 1-3 may have some potential….No. 4 is a bit extreme
This guy has accepted MILLIONS of dollars of gifts and consistently “forgets” to report them or claims he was “advised” they were not subject to reporting. We are not talking about tickets to a rock-concert or even a Texas fishing trip. At some point, even the Republicans will have to puke and acknowledge the stench is overpowering. Personally, I wish the Justices were prohibited from accepting ANY gifts above some nominal value
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.
“No topics are started about Trump’s wife ….”
OK but do we really need a new thread about Melania’s latest newsworthy event…..filing an emergency petition with the New York Supreme Court demanding an injunction that would prohibit Judge Merchan from sentencing Trump to home confinement.
Jackk……both share a great fondness for conspiracy theories, including a pattern of using anti-Semitic tropes and memes.
Geez….I guess its all perception since it seems like every other thread is another iteration of bashing Sleepy Joe and the 10 most likely reasons why all Dems are destined for gehenom. I’m glad CA thinks it ain’t so.
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.
Are there criteria governing which yeshivos in Baltimore are eligible for the student “vouchers”? The OP says it includes “all of our community schools” but does that include an MO/Day School school such as Beth Tefiliah?
“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?
“I wonder if a shtreimel or a shaitel qualifies as religious clothing. Savings could be significant!!
Anyone claiming a tax deduction for streimlach or shaitels costing thousands of dollars should be prepared for “significant” attention from federal/state tax enforcement auditorsSo 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.
Lakewhut: Why don’t you tell us what you really think about yidden who vote for Dems….you seem to start a new thread every week or so with the same mindless rants about how Dems are responsible for all the evils befalling EY, voting for Dems guarantees you will lose your chelek of olam haboh and that only the Orange XXXX can save us from annihilation.
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.
Horrible dressing (which frequently characterizes sartorial selections within our own tzibur) and marginal pritzusdike images and manequins don’t come close in the current political environment to the dangers and risks imposed by NK’s anti-Israel demonstrations.
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.
For misnagdim, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland Clinic and the Cleveland Shomrim (d/b/a Guardians and previously known as “Indigenous Americans” or l’havdl “Indians”)
“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..
“how does this forum allow your spewing total drivel, day after day after day?…ever find a single fault with a repubican?”
Well, I wouldn’t expect the usual suspects to “find fault” with their orange moishiach even after hearing two days of testimony in a New York courtroom about how makpid he was regarding tzinius, ervah, etc.
“Joseph is expecting a call from Eliyahu telling him to reveal himself as mashiach…
One of the lamud vov tzadikim maybe…..Moishiach, highly unlikely….
Whether a single monolithic group or 16 splinter groups, the world would be a better place if all of those who lend support Hamas would immediately move on to their well-deserved place in gehenom where a “warm” welcome awaits them.
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).
At $46/lb, consider getting together with your extended family and chevrah and baking your own next year (unless moishiach comes in the interim)
Why is [DJT] difficult to short?
Few shares available to “borrow”/relatively low float.
AAQ: Unfortunately, it is very difficult to short DJT so its been a missed opportunity. A
As you may be aware, it went down another 15% today so its now down from $68/share to $22/share but of course, the MAGA meshugaim posting on Truth Social and Reddit are calling it the “buying opportunity of a lifetime” while their hero sits in court in lower Manhattan making faces at prospective jurors. They are convinced the declining prices are all part of Trump’s plan and somehow they will wake up in the AM and it will explode to $100/share.I’m putting all my 401K in l’havedel, pork bellies.
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.
When I grew up in Pelham Parkway area of the Bronx, there were always large numbers of frum families walking around both the Bronx Zoo and nearby Botanical Gardens on chol hamoed. The Bronx River overpass near the Bronx zoo was the preferred choice for Tashlich. One of the best “family kosher” and educational TV series is the ‘Secrets of the Zoo: which provides an “insider view” of the Bronx Zoo
P.S. Back then it was always “free” admissionIts 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.
AAQ’s suggestion of the bochurim performing some form of public service during the break has great merit and might be seen as a small but significant effort to mitigate the extreme polarization on the draft issue.
“Will there be any meaningful differences between “frum” and “Conservative”?
Seems like the “frum” are already bending themselves into pretzels in relying on “technology” to enjoy all the benefits of a “conservative” lifestyle while claiming they are still living strictly in accordance with halacha.
The real insanity is how the Feds have slow-walked the really substantive charges against Trump related to January 6 and the post-election day efforts to block the results of the election. The NY “hush-money” case and the Georgia indictments are amateur hour and have undermined public perceptions of equal justice. Garland seems to be over his head in attempting to demonstrate “independence” and in the process conveying incompetence.
“How does chometz “revitalize” itself?”
It is said that every year in the weeks before Pesach, Satan and all the Yetzer Horahs come together to conduct an Asifah for Chometz of all types from around the world to provide chizuk and explore new ways to mislead yidden into violating hilchos Pesach. They hold panel discussions on “New Places to Hide”, “When Gebrokts is Nisht Gebrokts” and similar topics that will guide and revitalize the assembled chometz attendees over the coming yom tov.
KCH is no longer listed among the unlicensed, low-power “Pirate Radio Stations” operating in Brooklyn. The only current listings focused on the frum velt in NYC are the following:
91.9 – Mystery Orthodox Jewish Station
95.1 – Jroot Radio
105.7 – Radio MoschiachThanks for the explanation.
On a related topic, are the prices for hand-shmurah coming down this year. Last year I recall $30-$40 was not unusual.
“According to the Rambam we should only have cholov yisroel on pesach…”
Why be machmir on cholov yisroel on Pesach vs, year-round?? I assume this was not said with reference to somehow baking matzoh with cholov yisroel which makes no sense.
““The four years that he [Trump] worked tirelessly for every single citizen to make the world a better place…..”
Absolutely tirelessly. When he wasn’t golfing in Florida or Bedminster, he was golfing at his club across the Potomac River in Virginia. He was up at 6 AM tweeting his heart out and then spent mornings in the residence watching Fox News and calling into Fox and Friends. שווערע ארבעטער
Would you be kind enough to translate your post about “supper” singing “lishna habu”
“Several times people have thanked me for helping them change their perspective of the issue being discussed”
Myself included. I’m referring to when your trolls go off the rails.
UJM: “I’ve changed people’s mind”
Perhaps, but more about you than the subject matter of the thread. You’ve clearly demonstrated a unique ability to be the “smartest guy in the room” with the least sechel.
“GH arguing with a Gemara…..I’m not surprised”
Neither am I when there is no context for a proclamation that a solar eclipse, which is a known geophysical phenomena, somehow portends bad outcomes for some demographic. Is there the same bleak outlook for a lunar eclipse, a meteor shower etc? It was sometime in the 1540s that Nicolaus Copernicus first explained what was happening in a solar eclipese as part of a radical theory of the Universe, in which the Earth, along with the other planets, rotated around the Sun. His theory took more than another century to become widely accepted. My recollection is the the gemorah you cited was written just a bit earlier,
‘…. start actively working on ALTERNATIVES that could at least partially compensate. Organize fully chareidi units; help with training; work in cyber security; take jobs from people who are deployed (major limitation of Israeli army is that most large operations have to be quick to return people to work, can’t afford a standing army…..”
AAQ makes the basic point that there will have to be some requirement for Charedi service. Its a mathematical reality that the fastest growing demographic in EY will have to participate in national defense beyond sitting in a beis medrash while others are required to incur the physical and economic burdens of service. If they fear military service than there are literally dozens of public service roles they can assume for a year or two to support those in military service. The “status quo” from 1948 is no longer viable.
Apologies to those who know “sitting in a bais medrash” is a disparaging term for learning.
A solar eclipse is a predictable event (like a new moon, etc.) with known timing so it cannot be a “bad omen” that comes at regular intervals.
“Democrats are now the party of the super-rich (e.g. Wall Street, major corporations, Hollywood and media industries, Silicon Valley and Big Tech,,..
Akuperma clearly holds by the Gornishte Z’L whose chassidim begin immersing themselves in ad’sheloyadah efforts on eruv shabbos when purim begins motzi shabbos so c’v they might not be completely inebriated by havdalah. g
The President’s FY 2025 budget released earlier this week proposes multiple new taxes for the super-rich which if enacted would result in them paying over 2.3trillion dollars in additional revenue to the IRS over the next 10 years. The Republicans (the party of the working class) promptly labled the budget DOA and insisted that they actually look forward to additional tax cuts for the super wealthy. The Republican mantra is still “leave no billionaire behind”.
Chag sameach to all the MAGA-menchen in the CR (and have a drink on the TDS chavrusah).
One of the objectives of the 2020 legislation was to try and level the playing field as between families whose kids’ ages were clustered together (and likely to have several kids in college simultaneously) and those whose kids’ ages were spread out. The details of this change and all the other were left to the bureaucrats at DoEd who have totally screwed up the new simplified electronic application which is months late and creating a nightmare for high school seniors who have no idea whether they will get financial aid and how much.
“I never heard of antisemitism or plagiarism at Chelm [University].
Antisemitism no but the current vacancy is the result of the prior University President claiming he authored several original seforim of responsa that in reality, were verbatim compilations of the all-time greatest CR posts from R’ Yosef.
Nisht: I actually turned down the Harvard gig….I’m rumored to be on the short list of candidates for the President of the University of Chelm.
Overall, the new FAFSA application will provide more funds to more lower-income students but there will be some who may see a reduced funding eligibility. As of October 2022, what used to be called the”Expected Family Contribution, or EFC, calculation and is now the Student Aid Index or SAI , no longer includes a sibling discount, which took into account how many children from the same family were attending college at the same time. The new formula is applied uniformly across all racial, ethnic and religious groups and geographic regions in accordance with the law.
Sadly, the actual online FAFSA application form which was supposed to be ready for users back in mid-2023 is running late and was just delayed again by HHS due to software and funding issues.