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shuli, “god,” “dios,” “dieu” and whatever else you can say in a language other than Hebrew are not the names of the Almighty any more than “hashem” is.

Why do you think “hashem” is used? Precisely to avoid the sin of blasphemy.

There are different issurim here as I see it. One is taking the name of the Lord in vain such as by saying the name I will write here instead as “adoshem.” Another is by actually pronouncing the sounds of the name spelled with the letter “yud” twice. Finally, would be uttering the “shem ha’meforesh.” OMG is not even close to any of these.

In God We Trust

If you think that’s assur, give me all pieces of green paper in your wallet on which this phrase is written and I assure you I will take care of them properly.

Inasmuch as it is now February, do you have actual plans to move or is this just a hypothetical question?

Cee Lo.

WiFi is a way to access the internet using a WLAN.

Shticky Guy, what a great story! Let’s go back to treating everything with “toiten bankes.”

By the way, where is this “Eretz Yisrael” you speak of? Since you are transliterating Hebrew with Roman letters, I presume you meant to write “Medinat Yisrael.”

How about drinking wine during the week?

Yesterday I was sitting in a Starbucks when a chasidic couple came in and ordered plain brewed coffee in paper cups. They sat down at the table next to me and my friend. Then, the wife took out a bottle of Chalav Yisrael milk which they used for their coffee. (This is a common occurence at the SBUX Park Slope, but we were not in Park Slope.)

To top things off, she had an individual-serving of chocolate cheese cake which they shared with a spoon from home!

I was just wondering why one of the individually wrapped, plastic utensils that SBUX has for free wouldn not have worked for them.

“Casquette” is the French word for “cap.”

“Kappe” is the German word for “cap.”

PBA, which SBUX were you in, the Bensonhurst minyan? 🙂

It looks like the CRC webpage previously referenced is not available. If it goes back up, I will read it and then discuss it with the head of the CRC so I can be sure what they hold.

eclipse, Men do not want a large trophy.

yitayningwut, getting the opportunity to work a 35 hour week for a company or organization that is open many hours more than that is hardly “petty.”

I took care of both my parents A”H so my experiences are based on their numerous hospitalizations as well as my own brief (thank G-d) emergencies.

I agree with all the positive things said about Columbia and Cornell. If necessary, I will add my own.

That said, I would not send a dog to Maimonides. That would be cruelty to animals.

The Goq, a few questions, please.

1. In which city and state are the premises located?

2. Is this an apartment in a multiple dwelling (i.e. a building with four or more apartments)?

3. Are you the tenant? If not, what is your status?

4. Do you have a thermometer? Can you tell us what the temperature is during the day as well as at night?

5. If, by chance, you are in New York City, did you make a complaint to 311? If outside NYC, did you complain to the local government?

6. Have you told your landlord your apartment is cold?

7. Before this incident, what was the usual temperature in the apartment during the day? At night?

dvorak, I am a lawyer and I suggest you sit this one out.

Of course, lawyers are expensive, and it may just be worth it to let this slide.

Actually, legal advice is a bargain compared to the consequences of not getting legal advice. Better yet, if OP is in New York City, there is lots of free legal advice available for tenants in Housing Court.

real-brisker, thank you for your support of the frum community.

akuperma wrote:

You can also file a notarized marriage contract, but no one ever does so.

Probably because you cannot simply file a notarized marriage contract.

4. A written contract of marriage signed by both parties and at least two witnesses, all of whom shall subscribe the same within this state, stating the place of residence of each of the parties and witnesses and the date and place of marriage, and acknowledged before a judge of a court of record of this state by the parties and witnesses in the manner required for the acknowledgment of a conveyance of real estate to entitle the same to be recorded.

Therefore, to get married solely with a contract, you need:

1. A written marriage contract;

2. Two witnesses;

3. Execution of the document and the witness statements in the same manner as you would do a deed; and

4. In front of a judge.

Most people think it is easier to just have the judge perform a wedding ceremony.

ItcheSrulik, to be precise, the method I heard that is supposedly used by certain government agencies involves heating the platters until they liquify. If you can imagine what is required to do that to stainless steel (melting temperature of 2,750 degrees), you can understand how it is not so simple that everyone can do it.

With a welding torch, however, you can either bend the platters into non-circular shapes, or cut them into small pieces. Both will make it very difficult to ever recover data.

ItcheSrulik, I took a set of platters to a welding shop. After less than a minute, I was confident no one would retrieve any data from what was left.

ItcheSrulik, I didn’t know that laser scanners have magnets, but who cares? The problem with using a magnet is that you never know whether or not you have been successful.

watermelon, when we say “destroy” a drive, we mean exactly that. Discarding a drive in the trash changes nothing.

Inside a hard drive are one or more disks called “platters.” It is these items to which the data is written. Some people have them cut up or have holes drilled into them. The method I once heard about that most impressed me involved melting them down.

If you should wipe a drive with DBAN, you can always keep it until you find someone who can destroy it. It’s not like it takes up a lot of space.

alwayswondering, Law school is a graduate program and in most cases those entering it already have an undergraduate degree. (The exceptions I was thinking of were when a university has a joint BA-JD program although I don’t know if there are any of those left.)

it is extremely dangerous and has killed many people. one word can ruin ur life forever. do u text whikle driving or let ur children??

This message itself looks like a text.

Interesting that the subject of this thread is speech therapy. The first two messages I read require some spelling and grammar therapy.

Every lease for residential premises in the state of New York carries with it an implied warranty that the space is fit for human habitation. That said, there is quite likely no court that will hold that a landlord cannot first try standard remedies such as those already recommended in this thread before calling an exterminator.

If you saw a few roaches and stop paying rent, you will quite likely find yourself the defendant in an eviction proceeding in which case you will need an attorney (not me).

I would recommend to first give the landlord a chance to cure the problem. You cannot get rid of roaches in one day.

Note well: an exterminator may possibly determine that the source of the roaches was your apartment. Then what?

iyhbyu, Look son, we have this thing called an alumni association where graduates gather and wisdom and experience is passed down. Some of the people I mentor are even current students. None, I am pleased to say, is as chutzpahdik as you.

Obviously I know that most exams are done on laptops these days. That’s why I said “blue book” (or the electronic equivalent).” I am well aware that many of you “millenials” have lost the ability to use pen and paper which is why some of us were howling with laughter a couple of years ago when the Board of Law Examiners lost the electronic answers to the essay portion of the bar exam. Indeed some answers have never been found. Tell me, what do you do when a judge asks you to draft an order on a lined form and hand it up? Oh, wait, you’ve never represented anyone. Yet you’re so wise.

The reason Prof. Dershowitz’s opinion is valid is because he is a) a professor at Harvard Law School; b) from a frum background (BTA, Young Israel of Borough Park); and c)went to college. Those are the same reasons I cited Mukasey (Ramaz, Kehilath Jeshurin).

I repeat that your statements:

I would first of all like to say that if anything you have a slight advantage because of your analysis skills (and this was told to me by a frum professor), and you should not worry about any lack of writing skills because the style of writing that is taught in undergrad is much, much different from what is required in a legal setting.

are utter and complete nonsense. I say this from the background of being a practicing attorney.

I am very happy you did well your first term. You have five more left. Don’t take anything for granted.

Health, An LLM is very helpful in the practice of tax law but in other fields is generally is not necessary for anyone other than law professors and is even optional for them. Contrary to some of the tipshus posted here, an LLM does not rehabilitate a JD from a low-ranked law school. You can find numerous columns stating this by Ann Israel who writes the job hunting advice column in the New York Law Journal.

Popa, so far the best thing you have said here is “I don’t know what lawyers do.” On that, you are absolutely correct. And that’s the only thing.

RSRH, Actually, we already have “Shailos U’teshuvos;” they’re called Restatements. 😉

Your point about Arbah Avos Nezikin reminds me when an instructor at my school actually checked that out from the main university library and I overheard her saying in the law library that this was the “Jewish law of four kinds of things that cause damages.” I explained that they were four of multiple kinds of things that cause damages.

Nevertheless, how would one divine damages for e.g., copyright infringement from the Gemara?

I believe I better understand your goal. When I took Torts, some of my Christian classmates were impressed to hear from me that the words in the Chumash “Ayin tachat ayin, shayn tachat shayn” were actually more like headnotes for the discussion in the Torah Sheh B’al Peh about determining monetary damages for bodily injury, the actual system we use today. They were even more interested to learn that historically, payment of money was the judgment by bes din for BI and not an equivalent loss of limb.

Of course, none of this is bar exam material.

You might be interested in the CLEs occasionally presented by Chabad in Manhattan on the connections between Halacha and American law. I attended one a a few years ago where Nathan Lewin spoke.

Again, very best wishes for success in your article and in the profession.

There is a lovely Chabad House in Scottsdale, Arizona. The real estate market there is one of the most depressed in the country, so if you can get a job, you will live well for much less.

Good luck in your search!