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You will be amazed how many sandwiches are sold erev pesach morning at our local bakery. No one wants chometz at home, so it’s perfect to go buy a sandwich, roll or pastry to eat.
Also, those kashrus authorities who allow it, they prepare dough for rolls and bread to be frozen and sold to the non-Jew, then defrosted on motzei yom tov.
This Brit wants to know something.
Is it true to say that Ted Cruz appears to be the most ‘Israel friendly’ of all the Republican and Democrat frontrunners?
My parents and grandparents were always particular that there is only ‘Gut Shabbos’ on Shabbos (and woe betide you if you didn’t say Good Shabbos to them.). No good morning, goodbye, good night or anything else. I never realised there was any other way until I met my wife’s family.
We also don’t have the minhag not to say Good Shabbos after mincha. But apparently it’s got to do with Dovid HaMelech being niftar then.
A Yekkishe family I know, whose children don’t wear a tallis before their barmitzvas. Apparently some areas of Germany didn’t have the minhag.
DY,
I think every Chinese kosher restaurant’s name is a play on words between a Hebrew word and a Chinese word.
So many ‘O’s…
Thank you CTL for being so considerate. Hope you’re bringing your laptop to sheva brochos so you can keep up to date.
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Tokyo, Japan
The Capital of and largest city in Japan. Tokyo means Eastern capital.
Gut voch could be construed as being mavdil bein kodesh lchol. So, for that reason you should say Gut Shabbos.
Mazel Tov from your British cousins across the pond in ‘old’ England, CTL. May you have lots and lots of nachas from your whole family.
Momma must be in charge if Poppa has time to post on the CR during a chasuna.
East Timor
Became the first new sovereign state of the 21st century on 20 May 2002
Ahmedabad, India
Largest city and former capital of Gujarat
Thank you CTL, I knew there was another.
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Objection to Samarkand. How does that follow on from New Delhi?
CTL brought it back nicely though.
Icheon, South Korea
Home to Hynix, the world’s second largest memory chip maker
Mazel Tov CTL. It’s the wrong thread, but we’re all friends here anyway. No one else reads the geography stuff. (We were always told that americans don’t do geography). Do your kids read this stuff?
Refuah shleima to Mrs CTL, and Mazel tov to the whole family. May you all celebrate the simcha in gezunt.
I need to see how flights from Manchester to CT work. It’s all in England anyway isn’t it?
Oman,
The only place I could think of in Asia that starts with an O.
(and just to ‘bavorn’ the inevitable comments…) Oh man! Is that all you could come up with 🙂
Aceh, Indonesia
Where the spread of Islam in Indonesia began, and a key factor of the spread of Islam in Southeast Asia.
Thank you, your majesty
Ayagoz District, Kazakhstan.
The district is served by Turkestan-Siberia Railway. Aktogay station, located within the district, is an important junction.
The Queen, The Edenburg you mentioned is a sheep and cattle ranching town. This is in the Free state on the N1 which is the road to Cape Town from Johannesburg.
A quick look on Wikipedia shows that Edenburg in Gauteng, is actually a suburb of Joburg known as Rivonia.
So you’re right, but actually wrong.
I look forward to our trip to Asia…
Rondebosch, Western Cape, South Africa
One of the oldest residential areas in South Africa, dating back to the Dutch settlers in the 1600s.
btw, The Queen, Edenburg isn’t in Gauteng, it’s in the Free State, south of Bloemfontein, along the N1.
No reasons were given either.
Rosh Pinah, Namibia
A mining town located in southern Namibia, close to the border with South Africa. It is governed by the mine operators RoshSkor because it does not fall under any regional government authority.
In Belz the minhag is to have a bit of Matzah everyday after Pesach until Shavuos.
(Following on from Ebola River…)
Rustenburg, South Africa
Capital of the Royal Bafokeng Nation
aquestioningjew,
I would be very happy to put my full name and address on here. I’ve given enough hints over the years. Any one who knows me would already have identified me.
Firstly, let me welcome all members and lurkers to my home continent of Africa. Enjoy your stay! Please keep your belongings near you at all times, and don’t travel around on your own.
uMthatha, South Africa
Formerly known as Umtata, was the capital of the now defunct homeland of Transkei.
Software development
York, England
Site of a pogrom in 1190. A cherem exists there to this day.
My family’s minhag (Yekkish – Hamburg) is not to eat matza from after Purim. I have never seen a mekor for this. Does anyone know where it comes from? But it’s only proper matza. Matza crackers and matza meal is fine up to and including erev pesach.
I have been known to eat shalosh seudos with matza until erev pesach. -pleeease don’t tell my father.
A little opinion from across the pond.
Aren’t you Americans happy that there is a politician (yeah, I know he isn’t, but you know what I mean) who actually speaks his mind, and says what he is thinking, instead of the usual media savvy, planned and choreographed sound bites?
Personally, given the chance, I could vote for him.
The World’s northernmost capital of a sovereign state
Okiale, I should have mentioned he probably speaks English, as he used to live in Gateshead.
Yes, it is.
Ypres, Belgium.
Centre of intense and sustained battles between German and Allied forces in WW1. British soldiers famously struggled with the French pronunciation (sounds like ‘Eeps’) and called it ‘Wipers’!
Gateshead, England
The Oxford or Cambridge of the Yeshiva world.
It does have a very nice shul with a sefer torah mehudar. I’ve been to packed minyanim there.
Aberdeen, Scotland
The Silver City with the Golden Sands
Have you got a European passport? You could get selected to stand in the UK council elections in May.
I know, not exciting. But that’s the way you have to start here.
Is he in Eretz Yisroel or in Lugano?
Sunderland, NE England
Culturally, arch rivals of neighbours Newcastle
Former home of Sunderland Yeshiva and Sunderland Kollel
(btw, Crazy Brit, I’m totally with you, that Manchester is more narrow minded than Gateshead.)
Manchester, England
Where I am now, home of the Holy Manchester Rosh Yeshiva, HaRav Yehuda Zeev Segal ???????”?
Durham, England
Land of the Prince Bishops
Thank you your Majesty for that clarification.
btw, when you say Mazel tov Bubby, are you perchance referring to the late dear old Queen Mary?
CTL,
According to my calculations, this wedding is soon. When exactly?
In case I am overruled, and in the interests of simplicity…
Gibraltar
British Overseas Territory geographically connected to Spain. They say Gibraltarians are more British than the British.
Objection!! Something wrong here.No one responded to Yonkers NY. Do you Americans know something I don’t? Is it not a place?
May I suggest a clarification. Many of the places posted here are not cities. The place does not have to be a city, but it HAS to be a recognised placename. E.g. ‘The north of Texas’ is not a place, it’s a geographical reference to an area. But North Dakota is a place.
CopyMachine, LOL is not a place.
Yonkers, NY
The City of Gracious Living, fourth most populous city in the state of New York
Shehakol is said on potatoes if they are raw. They couldn’t properly be called chips.
“…”
Zahavasdad, We could go on and on and on… on this subject. By the way, it’s a serviette.
B1g B0y, Yeyasher kochacho. There’s a canny lad!
Just on the original topic, I propose that the YWNCR should put up a third party candidate, to challenge Donald and Hillary. Any takers? We could raise funds over purim.