Gadolhadorah

If you are currently located OOT, than obviously check with your local rav or friends in the area. If you are currently in NYC or Lakewood areas and for some reason are specifically looking for an OOT girl/boy than the same applies if you have a particular location in mind. If you feel you have exhausted the options locally and looking OOT, perhaps first consider WHY you haven’t found someone locally, given the choices will be incredibly more restricted OOT.

Sammy: Do you really believe that a teenage boy living in an OOT dorm with no parental supervision is immune from “worldly distractions”?? Most bochurim today can run circles around the so called “mashgiach ruchani” or dorm counselors who are supposed to be providing real-time supervision. It really depends on the bochur and how much” independence” they can handle.

If these young women are so insecure that they would be pressured by their families not to engage with accomplished young bnai torah because of their parents’ hashkafah, consider yourselves lucky that you didn’t end up being in a relationship with them. There are plenty of bnos Yisroel who aren’t that shallow and immature and will judge you for whom YOU ARE and not focus on your mother’s hemlines.

Ari: I see you are still mindlessly hakn a tshaynik about your imagined “shidduch crisis” that would be solved if kollel yungerleit would start dating at puberty. Do you run a shaddchanus agency on the sideline or really believe the rabbonim here in the U.S. don’t have the interests of their talimidim in mind?

Just about ANY of the mainstream Dem candidates like Bloomberg, Biden, Kobachar or even Warren would be infinitely better than the vulgar, lying adulterers currently occupying the WH. As to Mayor Pete, the Trumpkopf was asked by Geraldo in his interview this week about voting for a gay or lesbian candidate, Trump responded that he would have “no problem” doing so.

I don’t believe that anyone’s middle name should be invoked as an indicator of that person’s values, whether it be a U.S. President or a CR poster (with the same middle name as a disgraced former U.S. president).

Aside from the absence of any findings by the Treasury IG that Obama had personally directed the IRS to withhold or delay requests for not-for-profit tax status by Tea Party and other Consdervative Groups. A more in-depth investigation by AG Sessions after Trump was elected did conclude that Lois lerner and another IRS official had failed to monitor and discipline employees under their supervision who DID engage in such behavior and agreed to a $3.5 million settlement with the affected groups. Again, the DOJ investigation did not link the White House to the actions by the IRS employees.
If you want to believe that the President can/should intervene with the criminal justice system on behalf of his friends, that’s you option but leave it for the Foxnhunts like Hannity et. al. to use the “Obama did it too” argument.

Its not even clear why we still need to be debating the need for vaccination. One would have assumed that the intelligent posters here on YWN wouldn’t require education on the risks (both to themselves and their families) but as RR and Reb Eliezer note, to vulnerable populations with whom they come into contact.

As noted earlier, Yang had raised some structural issues about the future economy and job market that the other candidates were not addressing. But for his policies on milah, EY, etc. he was an interesting candidate. The Dems should be worried since his Yang Gang followers will not easily be grabbed by other candidates and many will stay home in November. They are not easy converts to Bernie Bros or Mayor Pete’s “cool kids”.

” it’s irrelevant what American [gadolim] hold [regarding the appropriate age for shiduchim.

Hey AR: And for most CR readers, its even more irrelevant what some poster has to say about what rabbonim in EY may think or say about when young men and women here in the states or UK should begin dating and possible marriage. We will make our OWN decisions, in our own time after consulting with our own LRPs and others whose judgement we value.

Coffee Addict
Thanks for the clarification. I forgot there was an election a few years ago….have they completed the recount?

bsharg2… We have debated this issue ad nauseum here in the CR. Obviously, it depends on the individuals. In MOST cases, a young man is more mature and better equipped to take on the responsibilities of marriage and family with a few more years of life experience. Obviously, some are ready at 18-19 and others not until their later 20s. Having a year or two of work experience or grad school also better equips them to support a family (unless they have affluent parents). Finally, maybe its not the parents but the bochurim themselves who may not feel they are ready.

Without debating the merits and accuracy of all these lists of Trump’s “accomplishments”, many of us still have the question as to whether it would have been possible for a President to achieve most/all of this agenda without the vulgarity, bullying. lying etc. The typical answer is “well, is hasn’t been done before so maybe we need to have all this garbage to achieve some positive outcome”.

Funny, I often wonder the same things about some of your posts 😉

CTLawyer: Not just him. As the media reported on Friday, his Mar a Lago club was charging the secret service agents who protect him and his mishpacha the bargain rate of $650/night. And don’t cry “fake news”. The DHS itself (in which SS is housed) released photocopies of the actual receipts in response to a FOIA. request. Trumpkopf Jr. had previously insisted that they were only charging the government “their cost”. Azoy.

Health: Assuming you are still trolling (and not that ignorant of basic virology diagnostics and vaccine development, let me make it simple. This virus is a variant of the long-known cornoa virus. Every new strain requires extensive research to isolate, develop that show some degree of efficacy, test on animals and then humans and finally scale up for commercial production. Normally that process may take several years. (The development of anti virals for HIV/AIDs took nearly a decade and still is not really fully effective (Trump is promising a fully effective drug within several years). Some of the HIV/AIDs anti-viral drugs are actually being used now in experimental treatment for the Corona virus. Drug companies wont’ invest hundreds of millions of dollars researching cures for a viral strain that has not yet evolved to create a market for that drug.

Burnt Steak….not sure I’d be joking about this since you may be chugging down a few kegs soon if this spreads. Right now, there is not anti-viral medication that has been shown to be effective against THIS PARTICULAR CORONA strain. There have been anecdotal reports of cocktails of various anti-viral HIV drugs/Tamiflu etc. showiing some efficacy on individual patients but nothing clinically proven effective.

CA and Resident Mortal: I doubt very much that Romney is headed where the sun doesn’t shine since the Trumpkopf will have made it clear to the authorities down there that he will not share his space with a “never Triumper”. Indeed, those authorities already have an online petition going to deny entry to the Trumpkpf. .

Sometimes, tefillah can be more for the family of a choleh and provides a mechanism of support. It would be cruel to deny tefillah when the family seeks such support from the tzibur.

The Cheerleaders are NOT the problem. Indeed, compared to the halftime show entertainment, one could say they are dressed relatively tzinisudik for a frum sportsfan for whom a “wardrobe malfunction” is losing his kipah in the wind. The superbowl and other megasports events are no longer “family entertainment”. Yes, even for frum sportsfans, the superbowl is treifus unless you program your TV to block the halftime show.

Right is CORRECT (no pun intended) ….to correct my prior posting, cities in 31 states have adopted some form of prohibition on plastic bags, not 31 statewide bans. I cannot post the link but you can google plastic bag ban state by state to get the complete listing. In most states, the bans are enacted at the city/county level not statewide. In response, a number of states have enacted preemption laws prohibiting their localities from adopting such bans. These states include Ohio, Missouri, Idaho, Arizona, Wisconsin, Indiana and Florida .

Right is wrong. Get over it. 31 of the 50 states (plus D.C.) now prohibit plastic bags, including Oregon, Vermont, Maine, Connecticut and Delaware, Maryland, and California. We’ve been using several canvas bags for nearly 10 years years for shopping and just keep them in the trunk of the car. They are much stronger than plastic or paper bags, hold a lot more and easier to carry in the parking lot. If you do any research, you will see that plastic bags are among the most problematic from a landfill and recycling perspective. Its no big deal unless you want to kvetch about it but within the decade, they will be prohibited in the most of the world.

Toast: You could ask the same question for the summer vacation. Yes, it the teachers but ALSO the entire school staff from janitors to cafeteria employees to the endless number of others necessary to provide a safe and healthy school environment. Parents need to plan around these breaks, just as they do for yom tovim.

Huju: The murder rate in Dubai is 0.3 in 2017 for every 100,000 population, while violent and aggressive crime rate is 1.2/100,000 population.
The murder rate in Brooklyn (not specific to Willy) is 12x higher than Dubai
The violent crime rate (however defined) appears to be at least 50x higher (but may not be apples to apples caparison depending on what crimes are included)

While surprisingly tolerant of other religions, in Dubai, a Westerner is putting yourself at risk by engaging in public displays of affection, consuming alcohol in public or wearing truly “untziniusdik” clothing. Wearing yeshivish lvush is NOT going to be a problem

Right Wrong
What you pay for is what you get. When we remodeled our home 5 years ago, we replaced over 100 ceiling recessed lights (both floods and spots) with LED fixtures. Same for about 20 recessed exterior fixtures in the exterior soffets. Aside from the obvious energy savings (we plan on staying for another 10-15 years) , we are getting older and didn’t want to keep getting up on ladders to frequently replace the incandescent fixtures in our high 10-12 foot ceilings. In five years we’ve had to replace only ONE of those fixtures. The net value (energy payback savings and risk avoidance) clearly made sense for us. If you just have a few easily reached table lamps or only plan on staying in your home a few years, probably less important.

Your experience suggests you might have used one of the lower quality LEDs flooding the market (from China perhaps) which have a much higher failure rate than quality bulbs and fixtures from Cree, Phillips, Feit etc. Also, as you note, there is a big problem with using LED bulbs in older fixtures, especially if its on a dimmer circuit. For the past decade and perhaps the next year or two, LEDs are the way to go but CFL certainly appear to have a high likelihood of commercialization.
Anyway, thanks for sharing your experience.