Gadolhadorah

“Minutes in to 2024 and we already have the troll post of the year! Bravo!..
Hard to say if Reb yosef actually meant to pose a serious question, which this is. The Israeli and American governments both have decades of experience in managing the politics of their public statements for local consumption. Netanyahu has to appease lunatics on hisright and Biden has his “progressive” wing. Both seem to be able to manage their messaging quite well w/o undermining their actual non-public coordination efforts.

You can find the one about the Ketzos on a Vimeo link if you search for videos of his songs. I can’t post the link but it comes up after a link to one of his English divrei torah entitled (appropriately) “If you could implant a cellphone in your brain” and before one of his songs entitled “Emuhnah”

Jackson was criticized multiple times in the 70s and 80s for using Jewish stereotypes and memes. At the same time, in 1978 he also accused Billy Martin, Yankee manager, of making anti-Semitic jokes about Yankees pitcher Ken Holtzman, who was Jewish. Jackson himself grew up with many Jewish friends who repeatedly came to his defense as being grossly politically incorrect in his jokes about other Blacks, Hispanics and Jews but not really someone who was antisemitic.

We sometimes hear (sadly jokingly) that various frauds perpetrated by Yiddishe scam artists are a “shanda fur die goyim” as if that is the primary concern and that its somehow “ok” if no Jews are hurt. Whether we are addressing the seemingly endless nursing home scandals of a decade ago, massive financial frauds of a Bernie Madoff or the garden variety frauds such as those described here by the OP, there is some combination of laziness, greed, inexplicable stupidity and financial desperation that feeds these scams. What would seem to be obvious to any poishete yid somehow fails to register as obvious fraud and yidden don’t really seem to care whether they are fleecing other Jews or limiting their theft to “the goyim” since the dollars are fungible. While the civil courts don’t really care, hopefully beis din shel maalah has reserved a special section in gehenom for those yidden who prey on their brethren.

ANYONE can get a collateralize “credit card” with varying credit limit ratios without needing some scam artist without needing “special connections”. New business startups can access several SBA and other government subsidized business loan programs depending on your prior experience, other assets and status under programmatic criteria for location etc.

Even gullible yidden cannot be THAT stupid to pay $6K to some some scam artist with the promise of future funding without any validation or diligence?? You can put payos and streimlach on a pig but that doesn’t convert a chazir to some ehrliche askan

Given that virtually the entire Western world outside EY has adopted X’mas day as either a religious or secular holiday and a day off from work, it is newly found time for limud torah (versus playing chess or video games). Many MO shuls are offering special learning programs for those otherwise who don’t do DY or other structured daily learning

Buy a shtreimal and make the local chapter of PETA happy

“One now needs a good education in Shakespeare to know what to do in these fancy restaurants”
The same thing you would do in the lav in a non-fancy restaurant. If still in doubt, use the gender neutral facilities many restaurants have now adopted

Adding that small sprig of parsley to a mediocre burger raises it to lofty gourmet levels that an unadorned burger could never aspire to….like everything else in life, its form over substance….b’tavon!!

In the alte heim, the truly affluent yidden may have had a metal storage chest style of “refrigerator” with a block of ice added every other day or two. Presumably, there was an analagous debate about whether it was ok to open the ice chest on shabbos since it arguably would accelerate the melting of the ice block. While it is generally agreed that if one allows the ice to melt into liquid on its own there is no concern, whereas there is presumably greater concern that by introducing warm air into the chest by opening the door one would directly be causing the ice block to melt faster.

“to the original poster: are you joking?”
Why would the OP “joke’ about such a heilege question which CLEARLY falls within the category of יהרג ואל יעבור

“Shabbos Issues?”

Make sure your selection include a shabbos mode that allows you to open and close the refrigerator or freezer doors without activating interior lights, sounds, the compressor fan or other controls. While your fridge is in shabbos mode, water filter and icemaker status lights are disabled and temperatures cannot be adjusted.
Most important, don’t purchase on Shabbos

As strange as it may seem, this thread may not be the best place to reconnect with whatever stream of traditional Yiddeshkeit that resonates with your beliefs and emotions. For many, the best path has been to find a local Rav or mentor that reflects the hashkafah you are seeking and allow them to introduce you to their community. There are a gazillion threads here in the virtual world of the CR debating the positives and negatives of Lubavitch that will only increase your confusion and not really provide the direction you are seeking in the real world for connection to people and places where you will find a welcoming spiritual home. If practical, it may be as simple as attending the davening or at a local sephardic shul or one of their classes during the week (if driving is an issue)

“[markets selling] the most over-the-top donuts, meat boards and fish boards for $300….. Is this what chanukah is meant to be?

Obviously not when a much healthier veggie platter and parve dip would mamash be considerably cheaper

So Elon Musk agrees that we brought anti-semitism on ourselves…..DeSantis was given several chances today on CNN to condemn Musk’s posts but instead adopted the Trump strategy of claiming he “didn’t know” what Musk had said and hadn’t heard about it.

As noted repeatedly, this was an entirely POLITICAL event designed to show solidarity within the American Jewish community and maintain the widespread support for the IDF’s war on Hamas in the face of growing calls for a cease-fire. These events, by definition, have a certain “inclusive” nature including politicians from both parties, “inter-faith” reps, celebrities, etc. It served its purpose with a huge turnout. Hopefully, the politicians will get their message and stop squabbling over “how to pay for” the Israeli military aid package as proposed by the new House Speaker.

“nobody kicked out Beruriah from a class…”
True, but she didn’t have to deal with some of the resident CR mycologists

Sarah S: Perhaps we should boycott posters who feel it necessary to demonstrate their ignorance of reality. The current Democratic administration has been incredibly supportive of EY and has consistently blown off the small number of progressives on the left calling for a cease fire. I’m more concerned about the right wing MAGA crazies who have adopted the rhetoric of Christian nationalism and white-supremacist racists whose clear anti-Semitic tropes are no longer hidden. If you have any doubts, spend a few minutes on Gab or any of a half dozen other right wing social media sites or even the vile antisemitism now allowed on X in the name of “free-speech”. The same anti-Israel garbage (using code works for anti-antisemitism) garbage from the left is equally despicable but no longer taken down.

DalMoshe: Ignore uncle Joe…..he gets off on angry responses to his trolls. In this case, especially, his normally intelligent observatons, albeit on the fringe, are grounded in some degree of reality. Here, its just stupidity for the sake of stupidity. While some may question the efficacy of any type of demonstration, the purpose here is narrowly drawn to make clear that there is solidarity within all segments of the tzibur (except for NK and some some rabbonim askanim edited

“Its a waste of time”
R’ Yosef: If even a few of our brothers and sisters in EY gain a moment of chizuk and comfort by seeing tens of thousands of Americans on the mall showing their support, its not a waste of time. Your comment, however, is but that is true to form.

The same Alan Dershowitz who has reinvented himself as Trump’s favorite Jewish lawyer and who has made a small fortune selling books and appearing on OAN and NewsMax claiming poor Donald is being persecuted???

Schnall ran as Dem for ONE reason only….$$$$.
The heads of the various mosdos in Lakewood finally realized that the Republicans in Trenton had very limited leverage in budgetary decisions. Tuition vouchers are clearly not popular with the Dems but Schnall is likely to have more success pushing for some form of limited financial assistance as a member of the majority party than as a Republican.

The rabid antisemitism today is the outcome of normalizing hate speech across the spectrum, from BLM to the Proud Boys, from Talib to Kanye West etc., from woke University presidents who are willing to tolerate hate speech in the name of academic freedom, to right-wing social media sites that have become a cesspool of white-power and Christian nationalism and the worse kinds of anti-semitic vile.

“Does Hashem approve of voting for a democrat”
Certainly, 10X more so than voting for a lying, racist, repeat-adulterer who energizes anti-semitism.