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  • in reply to: MAILBAG: Reader Upset With YWN Story About Hillary Clinton Falling #1489283
    Gadolhadorah
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    To “Little I Know”
    Your litany of “crimes” (aka murderer etc.) committed by HRC confirms your name….I’m sure you will find a sympathetic ear on Brietbart or Alex Jones’ website but notwithstanding substantive and passionate policy differences, most readers here generally retain a high level of objectivity.

    in reply to: How does the first date work? #1489262
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    All the sarcasm of the prior postings aside, just be yourself and talk with him about the issues that excite you, about recent places you’ve been to, about a person you’ve recently met who you found especially interesting, about your plans for continuing your education (if that is part of your gameplan). Remember that he is probably as anxious as you are about “discussion topics” so approach it as an equal and forego all the “dos” and “don’ts” you’ve been given by well-meaning friends.

    in reply to: MAILBAG: Reader Upset With YWN Story About Hillary Clinton Falling #1488229
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    Again, this was totally inappropriate unless you are some inexperienced intern in the Trump reelection campaign trying to score points with the Trumkolpfs. Remember when he mocked the handicapped NYTimes reporter.. 99 percent of the time YWN gets it right….this time, not even close.

    in reply to: Have We Made Peseach Too Easy? #1487811
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    To Laskern:
    “I remember to get milk for Pesach, we took a pale to the farmer to milk the cow in front of us…..”
    On you way home wih the “pale” of kosher for pseach cholov yisroel from a heimeshe cow , did you think of asking the farmer whether he had fed chometz to the cow? Many of those who are machmir, would not drink milk from a cow who had been fed chometz for the week leading up to yom tov…..

    in reply to: Putting on Tefilin on Chal Hamoed #1487805
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    To Neville Chamberlin….its not just teffilin on Moed which obviously has wider context but more narrowly the sheer number of special mihgaim which I think there are more related to pesach than succos.
    Or as a last minue purim sugyah, what do the araba minim of succos have in common with the arba koses shel peseach and the arban banim of the hagadah? Winner gets a gift-certificate to the new “all you can eat” non-gebrokts chulent place on 13th Avenue.

    in reply to: When Did People Start Eating Shmura Maztos The Entire Pesach? #1487527
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    Where do chazal bring down that during yetzias mitzrayim and the subsequent time of dor ha’midbar yidden ate only shmurah matzoh?

    in reply to: Have We Made Peseach Too Easy? #1487509
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    “Any Pesach hotel that advertises “All Chabad Chumros” is an oxymoron….”
    Does that mean that the Lubavitch will only patronize Litivish hotels during yom tov since it is important to follow “minhag hamakom?? (i.e. would a hotel that advertised separate dining room with Bet Yosef schechita, no sugar in their special Ungareshe gefilte fish and Gebrokts-free kugel be OK)

    in reply to: Have We Made Peseach Too Easy? #1486964
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    Oh…and I forgot about last year when my daughter went on her iPhone and within 2 hours there was a guy who drove up and did a thorough ” Peseach detailing” of her Odyssey (from a year’s worth of carpooling chomotz detritus). I’m not sure our grandparents had the same options in the Alte Heim to book someone online to come over and clean out the wagon before yom tov since Al Gore hadn’t yet invented the internet. Do some baal haabustas go overboard on koshering stuff that doesn’t need to be koshered? Of course, but if they don’t they’ll suffer from guilt, especially in a few months when they start worrying about the yamim noarim.

    in reply to: When Did People Start Eating Shmura Maztos The Entire Pesach? #1486931
    Gadolhadorah
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    In the late 1990s when the price of shmurah matzoh dropped below $20/lb….

    in reply to: Putting on Tefilin on Chal Hamoed #1486836
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    So the consensus is that one should put on Teffilin during chol hamoed but should only do so when sitting in the area where one normally has built a sukkah and must follow the davening by eating a pas gebrokts. Whats clear is there are more minhagim than there are gadolim and other chashuve rabboniom who can be cited as the source of the minhag. I cannot think of any other yom tov or chag where there seems to be so many variations of what was once a fairly prescribed routine.

    in reply to: Signs Of Arrival Of Moshiach #1485821
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    Sadly, with the sinas chinam exhibited almost daily in comments here by certain posters, hard to imagine we will be reading sightings of moishiach ridiing a white donkey heading down Eastern Parkway, or for that matter, anywhere else. As to who has the “potential” to be moishiach, I’m not sure chazal bring down that the decision is like some voting on American Idol, where yidden get to vote fo their favorite rebbe .

    in reply to: Please list obama’s Accomplishments #1485807
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    We can debate obama policies on lots of issues (where many of us diagree with some of his positions)

    However, simply on a personal level, Obama was a mensch and great husband and father. He and Michele were grat role models as compared to the current immoral and depraved resident of the WH who brags about sexually assaulting women, praises Nazi groups and tyrants around the world, and lies almost non-stop with his own “alternative facts”.
    Do I want to bring back Obama,…NO….Do I wish we had a mensch in the WH…YES

    in reply to: every home must have a fire sprinkler system #1483169
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    Kitov:
    We heard about the defective Federal Pacific panels during the insurance investigation of our fire. In our case, the fire resulting from a defective circuit breaker on the heat pump circuit within a different brand of panel. The smoke alarm went off, the fire department arrived within a few minutes but the house was a total loss (mix of fire and smoke damage). The fire investigator indicated that a sprinkler system might not have put out the fire entirely but would have slowed its progression considerably until the fire department arrived and also would have minimized smoke damage which as many of you know, is generally more destructive than structural damage. Obviously, all those who say that good smoke detectors are better than nothing is true along with other common sense fire safety measures to escape the fire. However, from a property damage perspective, sprinkler systems are great investments (especially where you can also afford to install a backup generator like we did to protect against frozen pipes in the event of a power loss).
    P.S. Servpro handles both smoke damage from a fire and water damage from burst sprinkler system pipes.

    in reply to: every home must have a fire sprinkler system #1481830
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    Umein V’Umein. We lost our home in a fire several years ago to an electric panel fire which the fire departmnt and insurance adjuster said would have been extinguished by a sprinkler system. Fortunately no one was hurt, just lost a lot of stuff. When we rebuilt, we discovered the cost of th sprinkler system was relatively minimal compred to the overall reconstruction cost. That was because we had gutted the house. These costs are much higher for retrofit into existing structures, especially older, multi-family housing. Without government subsidies, I doubt it would be affordable to most owners or renters (who would have to pay the landlord’s costs).

    in reply to: Consulting the Igros #1481016
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    No need to consult the Igros Moshe…just give a call to the Rav’s son-in-law, Rav Tendler, shlita, and you will get the answer you want.

    in reply to: Which Mens Hat brand should I buy? #1480120
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    MAGA baseball hat in red color….good and cheap knockoffs made in china can be found on the internet at much lower price than than the $39 charged on the Trumpkopfl’s website. Very Nitvish look

    in reply to: LEAVE TRUMP! #1480119
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    “It would be wonderful to have Donald Trump as President for life”…

    Sorry typo…Little Joey meant to say that “It would be wonderful to have Donald Trump sentenced for life…” Sadly, probably won’t happen since the dummy would try to pardon himself if indicted and the judge would likely find him unable to assist in his own defense at trial for reasons becoming increasingly obvious. Fortunately, we have the 25th Amendment.

    in reply to: Yiddeshe March Madness… #1480086
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    Joseph asks:
    “..Does the YU Women’s Basketball team dress like frum Yidden or like prutzas?”
    Of course the women of the basketball team dress like frum yidden…their uniforms are dark streimlach, gold colored bekishes with the YU logo in blue trim and long white kneesocks and special edition air jordans with techeles colored laces. Nothing like the women you seem to be most familiar with.

    in reply to: Rav Miller Website Accuses ‘Joseph’ Of Stealing #1479408
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    If the owner of a website has obtained copyright protection for IP, whether you agree or not that such IP content warrants copyright protection, it should be honored until you either gain approval or the protection is withdrawn. Not clear if the owner of the website is claiming copyright protection or simply has invoked some other basis for wanting Joseph to stop stealing their material. Is it A or B?

    in reply to: Rav Miller Website Accuses ‘Joseph’ Of Stealing #1479201
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    Any IP attorney will tell you that compilation, transcription and presentation of the work of a third party in a particular format should not be reprinted without attribution for fair use, and then only in limited format. Joe can squirm around and seek to explain his ganavah of the website’s IP rights but g’navah is g’navah. Simply apologize, request fair use approval going forward from the website and move on if they approve, If not, find another source for quoting Rav Miller to the extent you believe his views are important.

    in reply to: Rav Miller Website Accuses ‘Joseph’ Of Stealing #1479039
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    If the leadership of the website requests you STOP appropriating their materials, than have the derecho eretz to follow their request. If you have recordings or other sources, than use those sources but don’t use their material w/o permission.

    in reply to: Rav Miller Website Accuses ‘Joseph’ Of Stealing #1478157
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    While there is no legal concept such as “copyright” explicitly referenced in tanach there is a considerably more basic concept called “ganavah” which generally is frowned upon…like any other intellectual property, the writings of a talmid chacham on matters of torah are no less worthy of protection than the writings of a scientist or business person on issues of importance to the tzibur. A rav who has expertise in certain matters of halacaha is frequently compensated for sharing his expertise in various forums. You can repeat in your own words what you thought he said but you cannot violate any copyright protections against a recording or printed rendition of his comments, if he claimed such protection.

    in reply to: Rav Miller Website Accuses ‘Joseph’ Of Stealing #1478088
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    Anything that might rid us of a portion of Joe’s tolling of FAKE MUSAR would be in the public interest. This Pinchas Wolhendler complaint is valid since it is burdensome for him to obtain R. Miller’s views on some of the postings made in response to Joe’s “Miller Q&As” since not all yidden have the ability to communicate on a timely basis with chashuve rabbonim resident in olam habah. A copyrighted d’var torah by R. Miller (or from some pintele yid in Minsk for that matter) has the same legally protected status any other copyrighted material.

    in reply to: Rav Miller Website Accuses ‘Joseph’ Of Stealing #1478103
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    “Torah is Hefker…”

    Seems like a somewhat novel legal concept….If I write a sefer, “Gadolhadorah”s Torah Insights” and get it copyrighted, I would very much disagree that my brilliant insights and analysis are “hefker”

    in reply to: Orthodox Jewish (Rock and Roll) Concerts #1477788
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    JJ2020 “copying the goyim is really creative”…

    Actually, it is really the goyim copying the yidden….we are living at a time when the really frum Christians (especially the charedii brand of Evangelicals) seem to find great joy in cloning everything we do….over the weekend, I noticed a sign at a local reform shul advertising a joint Purim carnival with a local church, just like they’ve previously held joint sedorim/last suppers. Even the muslims have gotten in on the act with a proliferation of “challal” fast food joints which are almost indistinguishable from dozens of kosher pizza/felaffel places with the adder of “all you can eat Schrama on Thursday nights (in lieu of chulent). Mi kamocha yisroel

    in reply to: Litvishe chasanim wearing frocks at their chasunas #1477784
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    If this minhag becomes prevalent, how will the guests at the chassanah be able to recognize who is the chassan and who is Lipa Shmeltzer??

    in reply to: Are Chareidi women judges the wave of the future? #1476980
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    No American court would ever grant a request from a frum yid who wanted a “real judge” (aka not a woman) to preside over his trial. Even in EY, you cannot get a change in judge because you don’t like the gender or the lvush of the judge assigned to your case.

    in reply to: Hat Lining #1476985
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    Wear a Trumpkopf “MAGA” baseball hat under your Borsolino or Shtreimlach.. Thus, when you take off your hat, you will have something more substantial to be embarrassed about.

    in reply to: Orthodox Jewish (Rock and Roll) Concerts #1476794
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    There have been advertisements on frum websites for concerts (men only performers) but where they offer mixed gender (aka “family”) seating along with men only/women only seating. None of these sites would knowingly or deliberately post ads for activities that are explicitly “assur” by the majority of frum rabbonim. We have always acknowledged here that one person’s chumrah may be another’s kulah. Obviously, just being here on YWN means that we are violating the directives of many gadolei hador (as manifest in a gazillion asifahs) that the internet and social media are assur m’doraisah. Rav Miller’s position 25 years ago is what it is and some will choose to follow the general inyan that Jews don’t come together just to enjoy music. I suspect many YWN participants don’t hold by Rav Miller but no reason they have to.

    in reply to: What’s a good last minute costume for a woman? #1476699
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    A very feminine (and tziniusdik) Achasverrosh

    in reply to: Litvishe chasanim wearing frocks at their chasunas #1476695
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    What do you mean by a “frock”?? A kitel, a bekeshe ???

    in reply to: Orthodox Jewish (Rock and Roll) Concerts #1475745
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    To JJ2020

    “Things have gotten a lot worse since 1993..”

    Many of us believe the music has gotten a lot better since 1993. As evidence by the many concerts promoted here on YWN, we are fortunate to have a proliferation of great frum artists with incredible musical talent and creativity. Concerts are conducted so that they are either exclusively for men or that separate seating is available for those that wish to be machmir. The quality of the audio, lighting and other production values are substantially better than they were in 1993. Most importantly, there are even concerts by women performers that are exclusively for women. Sorry you have such a negative view of today’s musical scene.

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    “….if we were to truly see …how many Jewish lives are being extinguished thanks to assimilation and intermarriage, we would be even more horrified”

    I would much rather my children go on and live their lives with whatever yiddeeshkeit they might get through attending after school “Hebrew school”, attending jewish-themed youth activities, attending services in a non-orthodox shul, etc. than having their lives literally extinguished with multiple wounds from an AR15 shot at close range. Your use of the term “extinguished” in a spiritual context is a poor choice in the near-term although I understand your intent

    in reply to: Minhag Hamakom #1472409
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    If a frum woman from KJ or NS (where driving by women is generally discouraged) is flying from NY to visit family or friends in Cleveland or LA,, she obviously needs to rent a car and drive herself or take a taxi or Uber from the airport (and risk driving with a man). Either way, minhag hamokem becomes irrelevant when it cannot be observed in practice outside the “makom”.

    in reply to: Trief Recipe #1472398
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    We crossed this bridge generations ago when some creative baal abusta in the alte heim adopted a old ungareshe recipe for boiled sugar with pork and beans and called it Chulent.

    Gadolhadorah
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    As frum yidden, parents and grandparents, we should first be incredibly proud of the many self-identiifed Jewish students and their heroic teacher who was niftar during the attack while saving the lives of many students, jews and goyim. The Jewish students who appeared on TV were articulate, passionate and unafraid to demand changes from our elected leadership. Several have spoken openly of how thier Jewish faith has been integral in getting through the past few days. The Chabad rav who has been counseling the families has been incredible. Would it be better for klal yisroel if more of these beautiful children were studying in yeshivos, of course. But when I compare these kids to some of their brothers in EY who we’ve also read about in the past fewdays behave like animals and attack other jewish women and chayalim (admittedly an unfair comparison), I’d take kids from a public school in Florida anytime.

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    Perhaps just back uff the musar fo a few days while the families bury their children and the survivors deal with their grief and loss of friends. There is a time for everything, but you’d never know it based on some of the postings. who knows if this event might bring one or two families closer to yiddeshkeit. The Chabad Rav in Coral Springs has been on CNN and the other networks several times since the shooting and has done a real kiddush hashem in his demeanor, avoidance of politicization (nothwithstanding several efforts by newscasters to get him to criticize Trump’s position on gun control etc.) This kind of outreach will be more effective at attracting parents to yiddeshkeit and possible enrolling their kids in yeshivos than implicit criticism on a frum website of their decisions not to have done so previously.

    in reply to: Purim Question? #1471900
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    The “drinking” issue has been taken to levels of absurdity and potential criminality when ther are some who are actively promoting the notion of drinking “up to the edge” of intoxication and potential life-threatening behavior. I suspect i will take c’v the death or serious injury of a family member of some adom chashuv before the rabbonim decide enough is enough and simply assur excess drinking on Purim. There is NO rational reason why anyone should ever drink to excess (defined as more than they would ordinarily drink) on Purim any more than any other yom tov. If you disagree, consult a first responder or Zakah rather than any mindless yid promoting ad shelo yadah as a chiuv that translates into intoxication.i

    in reply to: Problem Being Unable to Consume Much Alcohol – And Can't Get Drunk #1471584
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    I recall this posting (and several similiar threads) from several years ago and the inyan of “getting drunK’ as somehow being necessary to be yotzeh the mitzvah is as disgusting now as it was then. People die from vehicular accidents and falls related to intoxication….jiust about all rabbonim who have addressed the issue assur anything more than modests amount of alcohol and those who explicitly “permit” excessive drinking and thereby creating a risk of dealth and serious injury to the entire tzibur are putting their own families in the front of the line for such a tragedy.

    in reply to: Minhag Hamakom #1471416
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    There was a Rav who used to say that the men who always claimed to put women up on a pedestal (to establish their egalitarian credentials) did so only because it made it easier to bash them…sort of like teein up a golfball. While this Rav was not widely known among the frum tzibur (he was a musmach from YU in a MO shul), there is an element of truth to his words. Most of the worst abusers superficially have ehrliche yiddeshe and traditional church affiliations and claim venerate and worship women in their “special role” but the reality are women with black eyes the photo we saw of the ex-wife of Trumps special assistant last week.

    in reply to: Kallah Taking Chosson’s Last Name Upon Marriage- Jewish or Gentile? #1471406
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    To Laskern:

    It prevents adultery because if a woman is known in the community to have the last name of her husband, everyone will know he is married to that woman and no other woman wiill be interested in engaging in any intitmate relationship with him.

    in reply to: Minhag Hamakom #1471259
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    Obviously the learning we bring down from chazal are timeless but hte ability to apply that wisdom to the world we live in is what distinguishes midless trolling from the daas torah we receive from the gadolim and poskin we rely upon in living our daily lives.

    in reply to: Practical building the mikdash (parsha thought) #1471238
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    Lets first create the essential prerequisite of achdus among klal yisroel before we even begin worrying about the “practical” issues in building bayis shlishi. I’m sure moishiach will be bale to resolve the nuts and bolts issues of the construction project.

    in reply to: Why has the YWN gone PC? #1471217
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    There is a difference between “political correctness” and vulgarity. When being PC provides an excuse for failing to deal with serious public policy issues, that is wrong and “plain talk” may be necessary. But as we have sadly learned, “plain talk” can be civil and respectful but objective. Vulgarity and bullying simply provide anoher excuse for different segments of the population to avoid addressing the real issues.

    in reply to: Minhag Hamakom #1471185
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    Phil”

    It takes an adom katan to find some quotation from chazal that arguably had a nuanced meeting over a thousand years ago and attempt to suggest it has literal applicability today. Such trolls obviously have serious issues that they are dealing with via anonymous postings on a discussion site and derive some sick satisfaciton from watching the outrage they can muster. The arsonist who sets a fire and then waits around for the sirens and flashig lights are a poor analogy to trolling sick and hateful comments on womens’ right, ethnic superioriy etc and saying “well thats what chazal say”, . are a form of virtual arson. To wish bad outcomes for such trolls is probably stooping to their level.

    Approved, with the disclaimer that chazal’s quotations do not expire with time. – 29

    in reply to: Reb Moshe on Shabbos Clocks #1471097
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    Its possible that there is no psakfrom gadolei yisroel in the pre war/ post war era dealiing directly with AC systems given that most since very few shtieblach had central air conditioning systems. There were occasional references to fans but those don’t generally deal with whether they would be treated in the same way as lights for purposes of whether it was OK to have the shabbos goy turn them on/off. Likewie, the issue is futher complicated by whether using a programmed thermostat to turn on the AC systems would be a question o maris ayin or zilzul shabbos. Very few batei medrash/shtieblch in the Alte Heim had AC systems with thermostats so it wasn’t an issue

    in reply to: Minhag Hamakom #1470908
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    “…the process of obtaining the [driver’s license] results in compromising her modesty as does actual driving of a vehicle by a woman for this exposes her to sites in the streets and marketplace…”

    Not sure what relevance this may have had at some point decades ago but it is totally irrelevant and nonsensical today. A woman can get a driver’s license at the Motor Vehicles department with no issues of tzinius and in NY, NJ and many other states, can request a woman examiner for the driving test. The second comment makes even less sense. A woman walking on the sidewalk is more likely to encounter and see up close a lot more pritzus than driving in her car along the same street.

    in reply to: Big Brim Vs. Small Brim! #1470677
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    Covering your head while davenin with your tallis is fine as long as that is minhag in that shul or beis medrash. However, to do so in a shul where no one else engages should be done with care so you don’t c’v send the signal that you consider yourself a much more ehrliche yid than others in the tzibur.

    in reply to: I want to eat raw salmon. #1470379
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    What is the possible concern with eating raw salmon versu raw tuna, flounder, snapper or any of over 20 other types of kosher fish which are served at restaurants with Chassideshe hashgacha. With proper preparation and monitoring for possible worm infestation, raw fish is raw fish.

    in reply to: Why has the YWN gone PC? #1470333
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    I am not certain why there even needs to be a debate regarding a simple statement by the editors that echoes a theme shared by virtually all yidden (except for a few trolls who derive some sick satisfaction from enraging others with their rants). All lives matter. Sure, each segment of society may hve a special interest in how a tragedy affects those closest to them (as stated in the YWN editorial note) but its a lot different than saying the lives and well being of Group A are more important than those of Group B. I recall several terrorist episodes where the hostages were separated out by yidden and others and in some cases a few heroic goyim claimed they were yidden or the group overall refused to self-segregate to protect yidden.

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