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I might be mistaken, but I think Senator Chuck Schumer is a freemason. Does that tell you anything?
An ugly sweater.
To Joseph: Thanks for the advice on redistricting.
To benignuman, and everybody else who thinks Jimmy Carter, as president, was bad for the Jews: In 1978, 39 years ago, President Carter brokered the peace agreement between Egypt and Israel which remains in force to this day. It has been a major source of security for Israel. That is not the act of an enemy of the State of Israel or the Jewish people. Yes, he has said some dubious things more recently, but get over it. As president, he did right by Israel, which continues to protect Israel to this day.
I am a registered Democrat. Here is some of what our parties (state, local, federal) need to do to win more elections:
1. Stop wringing our hands. We won the popular vote for president. We can’t help the odd quirks of the Electoral College.
2. Start preparing for the 2020 census, and get ready to be forceful in the redistricting process that will affect Congress and state legislatures until 2032. The Republicans did an excellent, if undemocratic, job with the 2010 census. We must do the same in 2020.
3. Don’t trust anyone over 50. We need candidates who are ineligible for Medicare and can operate their own cell phones. Bernie, Hillary, Nancy, Harry, Chuck, Andrew are way too old. I would name a young Democrat if I could, but it highlights the problem that I can’t. And please don’t mention Corey Booker until he does something besides win an election.
4. Embrace the core values of the party: protection of the middle class and the economically challenged.
5. Recognize what that Nobel laureate in literature told us 60 years ago. Things have changed, life-long work at the mill is not possible any more, and education is the key to a middle-class life. Professions like medicine, law, accounting and finance should not cost $300,000 just to get to the entry level, but that is what they cost now. If that is not fixed, nothing will be fixed.
The precise answer to your question, “Does anyone know …” is, yes, the entire flight crew knows. Now, relax, and enjoy the rest of your flight.
Choice of colors at hat shops in Lakewood is very limited.
So, Squeak, what do you do for fun?
What is curious about the opening post is that all these questions have existed for hundreds – or perhaps thousands – of years. They all have been answered by many rabbis, and many of the answers are even published in various books. If you seriously want answers to these questions, you should ask your own rav. And if you don’t like his answer, you are, of course, free to find other ravs, until you get one who gives the answers you want.
But we must remember that what we seek in davening is not what the ravs want, but what Hashem wants.
Never eat yogurt in a fish store.
LeBen is the French name for a giant clock in London.
So, Joseph, do you want Trump to round me up? (I’m not an illegal immirgrant, and, as far as I know, my ancestors came here legally.) On what basis should I be rounded up? Jewish? Liberal? Democrat? Pedant? Too grammatically correct? Please explain.
And just for the record, much as I am doubtful about Trump, I don’t think he will put me or other descendants of legal immigrants behind barbed wire. Maybe you are more skeptical of him than I am.
Do you have to wash if you sleep in kollel? On Shabbos during the d’var Torah?
Would someone arrange for a respected rabbi, or a large group of rabbis, to issue a posek that it is assur to hold a smartphone while driving. It will save lives. Then get the goyim to go to work on their priests, ministers, imams and zen masters.
Re CTLawyer’s 8th grade memories: My memory has it as “Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres, quorum unum in colunt Belgae ….” Was your yeshiva Sephardic or Ashkenazic?
Re yehudayona’s comment: I heard Bo Jackson, the Heisman winner, football player and baseball player, more recently than I read Caesar’s Gallic Wars, so chalk up my third-person comments to Bo, who knows.
Re WinnieThePooh’s post beginning “lesschumras, the OP asked for people’s opinions ….” Yes, the opening poster asked for opinions, and you have, perhaps rightly, assumed that he/she wanted uninformed opinion unrelated to actual facts. That may be acceptable at rallies for presidential candidates, but here at YWN, we want sound opinions based on facts tied together by logic and Torah.
Nevertheless, your assumption about the opening poster’s meaning is reasonable in that he/she started his/her post with an unsubstantiated fact, i.e., that the divorce rate in the “jewish” community are so high. I have read in many sources (sorry, I cannot name any) that the divorce rate in the frum community is lower than in the total Jewish community, and lower than the total American population.
I refrained from posting because I had no sources, but when you disparaged the YWN Coffee Roomers (rhymes with rumors) by suggesting that they do not expect facts, well … that’s all I could stands and I can’t stands no more.
Special note re huju’s special note: You got it right the first time. WTP was repeating Joseph’s quote but forgot the quotation marks. Hence, your confusion, not the bumps on the head.
Re yehudona’s post: I don’t get it either. Maybe they think that if they are four feet from the curb, they are not “parked” at a fire hydrant.
Special note to Huju: The poster who thought use of initials was a liberal trick to confer honor was WinnieThePooh, not Joseph. Maybe your head has taken too many knocks, too.
In Texas and NOrth Carolina, they have chili-cooking contests. I suppose that in Borough Park, they could have a chulent meet.
Re tamazaball’s comment: It’s amazing that those wipes don’t rip on
Shabbos. Why do they rip on the other days of the week, and how do the wipes know when it’s Shabbos?
I agree with the moderator’s comment on the opening post.
That said, why not take it to the shop where you bought the hat. You are not the first guy who has wanted his damaged hat fixed.
Best president of my lifetime: Lyndon Johnson, notwithstanding his atrocious blunders in Vietnam. He pushed through the Congress the most important civil rights legislation since the end of the Civil War. I am not sure whether he or his predecessor, Kennedy, was responsible for Medicare and/or Medicaid.
Worst: Easily, Tricky Dick, notwithstanding his opening to China. If any other person had done with China what Tricky Dick did, Tricky Dick would have been his leading critic. But his Watergate crimes wipe out any credit he gets for doing anything right (which was not that much, anyway).
Special note to Joseph: I can’t tell you why anybody else used initials like FDR, HST, DDE, JFK, LBJ, RMN, GRF, GWB, GHWB, RWR or JEC, but with me it would be because I am lazy. Use of initials does not constitute an honor or expression of admiration, whether the writer is liberal, conservative, smart or stupid. And while you are at it, study the difference between initials and acronyms. Here’s some help: When GRF passed out WIN buttons, he was using an acronym for Whip Inflation Now. But the ACA (Affordable Care Act) is just a bunch of initials, not a bunch of initials that make a word that people can use.
Re comment by WinnieThePooh: As a result of the efforts of President Carter, Egypt has been at peace with Israel for over 35 years, many of them tumultuous. 35 years is approximately forever in terms of world peace. So Carter is cleary not the worst president of the last 40/50/60/70 years. Christopher Robin bumped your head a little too much when he dragged you down the stairs.
I’m going to post something here in a year. Everybody please wait for it.
Who wants to chip in with me to get Joseph a cuckoo clock?
To Winnie the Pooh: I know I was kidding. I hope you were, too.
If the road to marriage is paved with good intentions, don’t go down that road.
Leben is the process, effected by yeast, that makes bread rise. During Pesach, we eat only unlebened bread. I don’t know why they use it as the name of a yogurt.
A lot of posters are awfully cranky about other people’s quirks and breaches of etiquette. The mitzvah of chesed should address most of the issues raised.
Talk to the rest o’ yuz, listen to myself (I’m the best).
Wasn’t Scharfman’s a kosher ice cream shop on Queens Boulevard? The chairs and counter stools were average-sized, so I am sure you would fit.
As someone who used “amn’t” in a sentence, you should give some thought to a seminary that will help you with English.
I thought the right to bare arms was a tznius issue.
To CTLAWYER: I read your post, and my interpretation was reasonable. Somewhere in your education, someone should have told to to avoid the passive voice, as it hides the doer of the action. And you could have written, in the active voice, that your grandmother taught (or told) you to find a pretty wife. My grandmother taught me the same thing.
In my experience with lawyers (of which I am one), I find that whenever I hear the passive voice, a lawyer or his/her client is weasling and obfuscating, which is part of us lawyers’ bag of tricks.
So, CTlawyer, you are stating that you were taught that looks matter in a shidduch. I was not taught that, but I practiced it anyway.
I think the fact is that people do not get thinner as they get older. Excess weight creates genuine health issues in addition to cosmetic issues. I believe that overweight and obesity among millennials is substantially higher than it was among baby boomers at the same age.
Let’s not kid ourselves. Weight can become a weighty problem. Face it: the thinner you are when you are 20, the thinner you will be when you are 50.
Re comment by iced: So to be kosher, a turkey must be bargain-priced? LOL. I am sure you are not anti-Semitic, but I am sure your comment is.
I thought this thread would be about one of those meshugenah weddings where 20,000 couples get married at once in one ceremony. One thing I don’t do is bring gifts for all the happy couples. (But if I waited a year, I probably could afford gifts for both the happy couples.)
The Oreo changed its recipe about 30 years ago to eliminate the lard (pig fat, for those never heard the term) from the “creme” filling and made other adjustments in the baking process to render the Oreo kosher. Ask a middle-aged gentile or secular Jew if they noticed a change in taste.
This thread, I predict, will not get too long, as it touches on a subject that many frum people cannot understand or accept, i.e., the changing nature of the eternal truth of the Torah. I suspect that there are Chareidim who read Bamidbar and see black hats on the heads of the Jews under the cloud of Hashem. I suspect that there are middle-aged Chareidim who wonder why the black hats in their wedding albums are so small.
Let me emphasize: The truth of the Torah is eternal, but the wisdom of the some of the Torah’s interpreters is more problematic.
To asdf …., first comment: Joseph thinks his name is on the list. He thinks he is Rav Pam.
Re winnie the pooh’s comment: How do you come up with your numbers? Anybody who knows anything about population knows that if life expectancy is 80, any single age group of 1 year does not constitute 1/80th of the population. And 17-18 year olds, on your incorrect model, would be 1/40th of the population. You are clearly a victim of government schools.
I know little about Congressman Ellison, other than that he is Muslim. But the problem with anti-Semitism is not the identity of the number 1 anti-Semite, it is the number of his/her followers.
And chasing shadows does not help protect us from anti-Semitism.
I agree with the title of this thread. It is indeed overwhelming that so many frum Jews voted for DT.
To answer the opening poster: Because so many girls want to announce that they are going to seminaries and pretend that they want to pick the “right” one.
A yiddish kite, to which the opening poster referred, is a kite braced with two interlocking triangles instead of 2 perpendicular pieces of wood.
Three in the front, three in the back.
With great reluctance, I conclude that this thread is remarkably … well, never mind, I want to be nice, or at least not judgmental and mean. The second and third posts cover the topic completely. Why do so many people have so much to say about a very simple problem?
to dbrim: Your criticism of my name-calling posts is valid. Sometimes I am lazy. Ubiquitin gave some excellent examples of facts that support my conclusory statements about the Donald. Thank you, ubiquitin.
My primary point in my comment was that the Donald has not done or omitted to do anything as president yet, and so we should all calm down and wait to see what he does. He was wise to meet with the current president and was, surprisingly to me, gracious about it. He also said something sensible about Obamacare, i.e., there are parts of it that should not be repealed, like allowing family policies to cover children up to age 26, and not allowing insurance carriers or HMO’s to exclude people because of existing conditions.
I am not optimistic about a Trump presidency, but I will hold my tongue, or pen, or keyboard, until there is something concrete to talk about.
To popa bar abba: I appreciate your clever dismissal of my reference to the mitzvah of healthcare (Mitzvah 614 – clever put-down), but you are … what’s the word I am looking for … wrong.
And Joseph assures us that most abortion opponents would allow an abortion to save the life of the mother. That is precisely contrary to the teaching of the world’s biggest Xian church, and contrary to what many evangelical politicians have said. Halacha requires – not just permits – an abortion to save the life of a mother, and no abortion opponents have talked about an exception for religions – like ours – that sometimes require abortions.