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The secret to good cholent: if you can’t make good cholent, have Shabbos at the home of someone who makes good cholent.
Just what we need: a Holocaust denier that calls himself a rabbi.
You picked the right screen name. Of course it is stealing. If you can’t see it, you have wasted every minute of time you spent learning Torah.
Re comment by Health: Actually, the liberals (of which I am one) did fool the American people in the last election – their candidate (crooked Hillary) got a majority of the people’s votes.
To LU and lightbrite: If (i) you don’t know about impressment, (ii) you live in America, and (iii) you are over the age of 14, then there is something missing from your education. The War of 1812 was fought in part over the impressment of US citizens by the British Navy.
Anybody who believes he/she is right about everything he/she believes is an idiot. See, e.g., Donald Trump.
To LU: Please explain what you mean by “impressed.” Have you been involuntarily and physically forced to serve in Her Majesty’s Navy?
To RebYidd23: I was not biting – I was barking, but you make a good point.
Life, and Torah, are hard enough without complicating it with stupid questions. How could something that does not materially alter a person’s appearance alter his/her observance of/compliance with the mitzvah of tznius.
The opening post is loaded with falsehoods. I am, frankly, surprised that YWN allowed this to be posted.
The election results are in: Macron, a centrist, and LePen, a right-wing nationalist and the daughter of a Holocaust denier and raging anti-Semite, finished with 24% and 21% of the vote, respectively. They will face each other in 2 weeks in a decisive runoff election. Now who do you like? (And just to be clear, I am not French, but I love their toast, vanilla ice cream and fries.)
Yiddish is moly, not holy. Same for Aramaic. Hebrew is holy because Hashem spoke it to create the world. He never spoke Yiddish or Aramaic or used either language.
reply to mw13: I don’t know much about Yair Lapid, but I know this: it is easy to dismiss all politicians as liars, and many of them are indeed liars. But citizens of a democracy must work hard to figure out which politicians are worthy of their vote. It is hard, it is frustrating, but it is essential. And it is too easy to dismiss them all and not participate as voters.
Years ago, there was a Rabbi Zeffren who was a player-coach with the Detroit Legs basketball team. He started the practice of a pre-game prayer that gentile pro athletes have adopted since the time he was with the Legs.
I have never tasted a Pesach cake that was any good. 8 days without cake would do a lot of us a lot of good. And no cake leaves more room for those sugar-drenched jelly candies … mmmmmm.
Back in the early 1940’s, there was a pro basketball team in Detroit called the Detroit Legs. They were barnstormers, not in any league, who would go to a town and play the local high school or college team. When the NBA was organized in the late ’40’s, an unrelated team called the Pistons joined the league. Many people still think the Legs became the Pistons (two players from the Legs were starters with the Pistons), but there really is no connection between the two teams.
Italy – Venice – Ghetto (the original)
Sales of Scotch tape to England would be reduced, but the increase in sales to the EU would more than make up for it.
You should find a frum engineer and ask him/her for advice, starting with schooling and then job markets. Almost none of the yentas on this site – starting with me – sounds like an engineer. There was a time when Jewish (frum or otherwise) engineers got the door slammed in their face. That has changed. As for the suggestion of “akuperma” that you market yourself as a “diversity” candidate, that might be one of the most foolish things I have ever read anywhere. Your yarmulke will raise the issue, if it is an issue, and talking about how you will help a prospective employer with “diversity” will get you a lot of unseen eye-rolls, and your resume will go into the round file (which I suppose, these days, is a file with a picture of a trash can, not an actual trash can).
Depends on how much money the guy has. The more, the older.
Breakfast faux pas? bacon.
Joseph: This is a sports thread. There is a frum major leaguer, but I forget his name. He just became a free agent and has offers from the Marlins and Braves.
Jared Kushner?
I have davened in a Chabad house at various airports. There were people wearing Ashkenaz, Sephard, and Chabad tefillin. The Chabad house had a supply of tefillin for first-timers that included Ashkenaz, Sephardic and Chabad. The rabbi would tell someone laying tefillin for the first time to follow the minhag of his father, and if the first-timer did not know, the rabbi would ask what region his non-American ancestors came from, and follow the prevailing custom of that region.
The Kosher Products Safety Commission once recalled closed hamantaschen because they exploded when they were bitten.
I suspect the opening poster set this up as a test which, so far, no one has passed.
Like all Jewish days, Purim begins and ends based on the sun. The sun is unaffected by human measurements of time. No time was gained or lost on Purim.
I heard that before he left office, Barack Obama bugged Trump Tower. How do I find out if this is true?
Physical attack? Jew Jitsu.
Re comment by 147: Pick a language, or pick an alphabet, and stick to it.
And if you want to pick a song, I suggest Cole Porter’s “Begin the Beguine.”
Joseph and LU give the same answer, yet Joseph is right and LU is wrong. Discuss.
Hokey smoke, Bullvinkleoyehvich. I just realized that chocolate matzah is not really matzah, and I’ve been doing seders wrong for 50 years.
The Coffee Room and other frum publications have reported many times that there is a shidduch crisis that is destroying the hopes of marrying-age frum women. The opening poster’s problem finding a shidduch suggests that there may be no such crisis for women.
I always tip for sore feet. The waiters deserve it, even if they don’t complain that their feet are sore.
I thought all shadchans had only boys described by the opening poster.
Most 7-11’s sell ice, but you have to bring your own towel to dry it.
I am very disappointed. I thought the title of this thread had a typo and the discussion was about pickles.
Open hamantaschen. Closed coffin.
You seem to be underrating the Israeli postal service. I am sure either address would work, especially if they use a zip-code-like system, which they do.
But please help me: Kew Gardens or Cue Gardens. Or Q Gardens. Far Rockaway or Farak Away.
I’m sure that there are Jews on every planet that has life as we know it.
Why did Hashem omit these planets from Bareshis?
Re the opening post: here’s why I like my Keurig:
1. K-cup coffee at Costco is about $0.75 each, about half the cost of coffee at a bagel shop or other carry-out.
2. Coffee taste is a matter of personal … taste. I have found a number of varieties that are excellent. I don’t know about the garden hose brewing, but what matters is what’s in the coffee cup and whether or not it is to your liking.
3. Keurig is convenient. Much easier than brewing a whole pot.
So, opening poster, what makes me a sucker?
A gentile once told me I was Jewey. I am pretty sure it was not a compliment, nor was it intended to inform me of my religion.
My children, when they were very young. It went well.
Re YW Moderator 29: I thank you for coming to my defense, even if you deleted part of my comment.
I do not exactly recall the deleted portion of my comment, but I think someone speculated that Trump was doing Hashem’s will, which I consider a preposterous interpretation of Trump’s most obnoxious behavior. I find Trump extremely vulgar, and I am mystified by his popularity among the frum.
Trump is an idiot. All the rest is commentary.
lightbrite: Do you know the difference between a doctor and a collection of uncredentialled yentas on the internet?
A doctor can probably help your leg get better. The yentas can probably help you go crazy.
And just to be clear, I am not a doctor, so I must be apart of a collection of yentas. But like stopped clocks, yentas are sometimes right, you just never know when.
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To yungermans: I agree with you that we should wait awhile until Trump and his administration (or any new administration) settle in and get organized. But Trump has already declared that his administration is running like a fine-tuned machine, and so we should hold him to that standard.
Does “bubble gum” refer to (i) the food-like, overly sweet ball of wax and near-edible substances that is swallowed by children under 3, or (ii) a hideous form of music from the late 1960’s? The music is definitely not tznius, the other stuff – I don’t know.
General Shmooze was Trump’s second choice for National Security Adviser. He was ultimately rejected because he talks to the media too much.
To catch yourself: I hear sarcasm in your praise of my musical sophistication. I am not musically sophisticated, but so-called Jewish music always rubs me the wrong way. I have no idea why the moderators edited my first comment. Maybe YWN gets ad revenue from Jewish music producers – I can understand that.
But I really would like an answer to my question about classical music.
Swollen toe – see a shrink.
As for why G-d created podiatrists: Podiatry school teaches the same basic medicine as medical and dental schools, in the first 2 years. They then focus on clinical treatment of feet, whereas medical school in the last 2 years focuses on clinical treatment of everything above the feet, and dental school in the last 2 years focus on teeth, gums and the bones they are anchored in.
Orthopedists treat bones and muscles, but podiatrists treat foot ailments that include infections, skin diseases, neurological problems and other stuff I know nothing about.