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My comment was meant to show the irony of someone – including me – who did not learn the word “shachris” until middle age and worries too much about the details. There are simple answers to these questions, and you can ask any rabbi for guidance. Some siddurs even provide a guide in the introductory texts, or print the most important portions in larger fonts.
Re health comment to flatbusher: The “dictator” we have now has deported more illegal immigrants than any prior president. Why are you so disconnected from the facts? Do you think that facts have a liberal bias?
To the opening poster: You skipped all of Shachris for years. Don’t worry about skipping the “right” or “skipable” parts now.
To the Moderators: Please take down the post by “charliehall”. It seems to be based on actual, accurate information rather than silly jokes or unsubstantiated paranoia about anti-Semitism. Clearly, it is out of step with the YWN commenters.
re miamilawyer’s comment about Cruz expediency: I think Cruz was trying to distinguish himself from the Republican herd of presidential candidates that may emerge in 2019, whether or not such distinction is expedient.
But something puzzles me about your comment: your suggestion that Cruz’s witholding of his endorsement would generate “sympathy” for Trump.
Trump has his own air force, supposedly has $10 billion (I don’t believe it, but that is irrelevant to the sympathy question), gets a new wife as soon as the old one turns 50, and inherited control of a $40 million business while in his 20’s. No one has “sympathy” for Trump. Envy, maybe, respect if you believe he has accomplished anything in life or think he makes sense (I don’t), but sympathy? He don’t need no stinkin’ sympathy.
“Good” cigars are like “good” whiskey – taste terrible, harsh on the tongue, but a somewhat socially acceptable to pretend you have more money than others. Wasting money on cigars and whiskey is much cheaper than wasting it on pricey cars or airplanes. And it occurs to me that the Donald does not smoke or drink, which shows you that his way of pretending to have lots of money is really inefficient. Not a good quality in a public official.
What Cruz was thinking:
1. I want to run for president in 2020, against the re-election of 73-year old Hillary.
2. Voters have very short memories.
3. Those few voters who do remember are going to think I look presciently smart after down-ticket Republicans go down in flames in 2016.
Is Cruz right about item 3? Time will tell.
Re zahavadad’s comment on the learner/earner balance: What portion of the Jewish people would Hashem like to see as learners? 5%? 50%? He fed us with manna for 40 years in Bamidbar, and so, if He wanted 100% of us to be learners, we would see more manna falling from the sky. Anybody seen any? Not me either.
And how do we know who should be the learners and who should be the earners? If we can’t keep our white shirts tucked into our pants, or can’t keep our ties pulled up for a full 8 hours of work, does that me we should be learners?
Soooo …, 48 hours after … still no informed discussion. Does that tell us something about Coffee-Room posters? Starting with me?
You’ll be fine if you stay out of South Boston.
Soooo …, 14 hours after Avi K. gives us an opportunity for an informed discussion, we all lose interest.
If you feel social pressure to like vanilla ice cream, how do you manage to stay Jewish in December?
To Avi K: If your numbers are correct, thank you. Now there can be an informed discussion.
If you count that thing on Donald Trump’s head as a “someone,” then there is indisputably someone worse than Hillary. Which is why I have to vote for her.
By the way, Trump’s first choice for running mate was the thing on his head.
As Rabbi Freudenfeld said, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, but that does not mean you should smoke them.
The album by Noah and the Noahides, Tehillim and other Praises, is a classic and still enjoyed to this day, but the tragic death of one of the lutists when he crashed his camel brought an end to the group.
To the opening poster: Are you an actuary? I ask because all you have done is predict the size of population 10 years from now.
Trump is obviously an idiot. With Pence, you have to dig a little deeper (as the opening poster did) to see that he is fact-challenged. But Pence’s hair is better and more honest. So it’s a close call.
Very cute, OP. But Christians living with Jews = No Problem? Are you sure about that one, because if you are sure about that one, I am not sure about all the others.
Re zahavasdad’s comment about Spanish, French and Latin: Latin as taught in public schools is nothing like Spanish or French. Latin is not taught as a spoken language, only as a language to be read. Grammar, usage, declension, conjugation, tense, and mood are taught rigorously and in depth. It helped me enormously with English, not because the two languages are similar, but because the teaching of Latin takes an analytical approach to the language.
The financial and US constitutional issue is similar to the issue in the Ramapo and Lakewood school districts. Public funds are expended in ways that frum Jews cannot utilize – frum Jews cannot send their children to public school for a variety of reasons, and frum Jews cannot swim in public pools where immodest attire is permitted. Public funds can pay for buses to yeshiva, but not for teachers in the yeshivas. There is no easy way out, but on the swimming pool issue, public authorities seem to have made an appropriate and legal accomodation.
Re musictomyears’ comment: How did you learn that dog meat is chewy? And is dog meat the meat from a dog, or the dog food that comes in a can?
The biggest threat to frum Jewry in the US is yeshiva tuition and the failure of many (but not all) yeshivas to provide the kind of education that enables its graduates to earn the livings they need to afford … yeshiva tuition for the next generation. This is a slow-moving disaster, but it is moving relentlessly, and 20 years from now, it will drive a huge portion of frum Jewry into secular schools and secular life.
Iraq Kandahar d’place.
There is one type of “Jewish music” that is neither “Jewish” nor “music”: that junk that assaults one’s ears in New York-area supermarkets. The “music” (as distinguished from the lyrics) is Israeli pop music which sounds like generic pop music of the US and Western Europe and is awful and has nothing Jewish about it. The lyrics – I only know the English lyrics – are too simple-minded to be Jewish, and the singers have absolutely no training other than listening to other singers of the same junk.
A lot of jazz and other music is themed around romance that is not connected with marriage, and I do not see how it can be considered acceptable listening for frum Jews.
Lubavitchers put on Rashi tefillin at the beginning of davening. At the end of davening, they put on Rabbeinu Tam tefillin and say Shema. I believe it was the 6th or 7th Rebbe who adopted this practice. See the Lubavitch siddur for confirmation.
I think governments in the area where I live – the vicinity of New York City – do a lousy job of penalizing drivers, i.e., not enough bad drivers who are breaking traffic rules are getting fined or jailed.
I think drunk drivers should face a mandatory jail sentence at least as strong as people illegally possessing guns. I think texters while driving should be penalized like drunk drivers. And speeders going more than 10 mph over the limit should be fined enough so that the fine hurts – $500 for a first offense, $1000 for a second. And if they were speeding in expensive, overpowered cars, the fines should be tripled.
To coffee addict: I don’t vote for anyone because of his/her religion. There are plenty of goyische candidates whose views are consistent with Torah, and plenty of Jews – including frum Jews – whose views are not consistent with Torah. But just to give you a tangible example, I considered President Obama’s views more Torahic than Mitt Romney’s.
To coffee addict: If a RINO wins the Republican nomination for president, he’s a R, no matter what anybody says. The question for the R’s is, what are you going to do about it.
If food is art, my schvigger is a great cook, but …. Does that answer the question?
re zahavasdad’s comment about statewide funding: you make an excellent point – If there is state funding but local control, that would result in the squandering of “free money” by some irresponsible school boards. But there is already heavy state control over curriculum and other education policy, so the reduction in local control would not be that significant. And if state control results in better school policies, that may be good for everyone.
The title of this thread is a little confusing. I consider Trump a Republican plant, i.e., he is a Republican, with the intelligence of a plant.
Re comment by charliehall: Support for Brexit came from older voters. In 5 years, many Brexit supporters will be dead, and younger voters will see the effects of Brexit and turn out in greater numbers. I suspect that this mistake can be corrected, though it will be painful for many Englishmen/women until the mistake is reversed.
And there are some genuine problems with the EU. Brexit may focus the remaining EU members on fixing the genuine problems.
But, more to the fundamental focus of the opening post: As long as local schools are substantially funded by local taxes, rich districts are going to be well funded, poor districts are going to be poorly funded. And districts where majorities – or even substantial minorities – of voters are committed to private schools, of which frum Jews are but one example, majorities will vote their personal interests, which is the point of voting in the first place. This will result in low funding for the public schools, to the detriment of children (and their parents) who rely on public schools.
I see the only solution to this conundrum as state-wide funding for local schools. Transition to such a system would be politically difficult, if not impossible.
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So, Lovelyme, are you really Donald Trump? And how did you find this web site?
Since you asked: I like sardines.