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To Chacham: If the Gemarah mentions chess, what is the Hebrew or Aramaic word for “chess” that appears in the text?
Thanksgiving strikes me as a good day for Jews (or anyone else) to give thanks to America for giving us Jews a safe place to live and thrive. No country (other than Israel, which so heavily depends on the US) has been more welcoming and provided more opportunity for Jews. Try to imagine the fate of world Jewry during and after the Holocaust, or the next attempt at a holocaust, without a nation as big and powerful and welcoming as the US. Until Moshiach, I am staying right here.
A lot of the ads are based on other web sites that each of its visits. YWN does not choose all the ads which run.
And, Gadolha, it was Willy Sutton (not Jesse James) who said he robbed banks because that’s where the money is. Sutton does not get enough credit for his profound wisdom. I guess it’s because of those people he killed.
Flatbush Bubby, Dave Hirsh
Does anyone believe ujm is a nuclear physicist?
To anonymouse Jew: I think you mean rewired.
To bored_teen” Ho ho ho.
Only jerks care about celebrities, and since we Jews seem to have some jerks among us, I guess they need a few Jewish celebrities.
I thought an Aramaic grammer was someone who sends a telegram in Aramaic.
Depends on who’s running against him. Against Hitler, I vote for Trump, because he is too incompetent to run a holocaust. Against Elizabeth Warren, no.
I think I remember what I wrote. I turned off my filter because the topic OP asked for was controversy. You have my e-mail address if you want to tell me anything that should not be posted.
To ujm: I ate brisket in Mecca.
To AviraDe: You made a good point about the importance of fulfilling the mitzvah to daven. Maybe I am wrong. But if several nusachs are acceptable, why does anyone have to stick to only one?
Republicans are cool now, Democrats are, like, square? I am changing my party registration ASAP. Nothing is more important than being cool.
Where will Klal Yisrael be in 100 year? G-d knows. All the rest is commentary.
To ujm: If you have 10 men ready to start davening, and two are dark-skinned, and you think they do not count for a minyan because they are Ethiopian, what is the polite way to say to the dark-skinned men that they are not Jewish and therefore do not count for a minyan?
And if the other 8 men, white and known to your satisfaction to be Jewish, want to count the dark-skinned men for the minyan, what do you say to the 8 white Jews?
And will ujm, and everyone else, remember that Hashem knows who is Jewish, and if you miss a day of davening, that alone will not send you to gehinom. But repeatedly insulting or being unkind to anyone will increase your chances of going to gehinom.
I am confident that Hashem is not as pickey as most of the commenters. Hashem knows what is in your heart and mind. Davening is as much for the benefit of the davener and Klal Yisrael as it is for Hashem.
The OP puts too much emphasis on race as evidence that Ethiopian Jews are not Jewish. Race is an unsound genetic construct. If the genetic links among different groups of Jews are as the OP says, then race does nothing to support his/her position. I am not familiar with the genetic links among various groups of Jews
A camera priced under $35 will not be half as good as the mediocre one that usually is part of a cell phone.
To Abba_s: I think I remember that Connecticut incident. It was a chimpanzee, which is way cuter than a gorilla (but not as cute as tiger cubs, which, after a short while, become tigers), so cute does not help. And the face ripped off was a neighbor’s, not the owner’s. Not that these details matter, but some people have trouble grasping the obvious, e.g., wild animals, even cute ones, are … wild.
A major financial supporter of my shul is a woman doctor with a highly profitable practice. Should the shul turn down her contributions and give back the money she has donated over the years? Is she taking money that rightfully be going to a man like ujm?
So, ujm, do you think you can get into – and out of – medical school? If so, I will talk to the woman and ask whether she will turn over her practice to you.
One of the major financial supporters of my shul is a woman doctor. Should we give back the money and ask her to leave the shul?
To ujm: You must be older than I previously thought, as you remember when there were Polish cleaning women.
To Meno: You are free to do your own taxes, but please do not confuse the rest of us.
If the opening poster is not a CPA or tax attorney, she/he is missing credentials.
To ujm: My friend pays lots of taxes in Israel, served in the army, employs lots of people. If she is replaced by a frum Jew, Israel would lose.
To AAQ: So glad you added the Harvard comma.
Years ago I had a friend who lived in Israel until he was in her early teens, moved to the US, got very well-educated, got an engineering PhD, moved back to Israel. She said back then – early 1970’s – that life is hard in Israel, but she wanted to live there. She was secular but she loved Israel and lives there to this day. If you are thinking that life in Israel is one long picnic – or maybe a long Kiddush or tisch – think again and stay in the US. You are not cut out for it.
To ujm: I do not think I am smarter than all other YWN commenters. I do think that substantially all YWN commenters are smarter than you.
I have often wondered what would happen to Israel if the US stopped all financial and military aid. From the responses on this thread, I know I will not find the answer on YWN.
The YWN Coffee Room: 13 years ahead of its time.
Stay away from Ivermectin and bleach. They don’t really work and taste terrible.
To Dash: How can a coffee creamer be politically correct?
To philosop: I am a left-leaning Democrat. Who are you to call me a pervert? And what have I ever advocated that would make me a pervert?
Based upon your post, I would suggest you are supremely rude.
To rabbi j: Do you actually have a daughter? You sound the age of a bochur, not that there’s anything wrong with that.
There is some truth to the headline of this thread. The Democrats keep investigating Trump, and he keeps getting worse.
The best Groner of all time was a member of the Lubavitcher rebbe’s secretariat.
I have heard lots of stories about weaselly workers or supervisors trying to pass dibuk.
To ujm: Powell gave service in return for his appointments by Republicans. The fact of his second and subsequent appointments shows that his service was good.
To ujm, re your comment, posted 10/18, 2:22 pm: Your first paragraph refers to “everything the Republicans did for him [Powell]”. Evidently, you think Powell gave Republicans nothing in return. I think he gave them plenty.
Your second paragraph begins, “Obviously evidence will, by definition, not be left visible ….”
If evidence is not visible, how do we have evidence of anything. And you refer to a “careful analysis,” but you offer only conclusion with no analysis. You don’t name a single “more qualified” person to fill the positions he did. And, whether you know it or not, you state that Republicans appoint unqualified people to important positions. Is that the party you support?To ujm: To answer your question, nothing. So what.
ujm: How do you know that General Powell was (i) ungrateful, or (ii) an “affirmative action based appointee”?
To ShtarkBut: Gordon’s gin is pretty good, but I did not know they had a seminary.
What does this survey report have to do with the obligations to follow Hashem’s commandments?
Maybe a better question than “Please explain Ivermectin” would be “Please explain the difference between anecdotes and scientific studies.” There are many people posting anecdotes as if they are scientific proof that Ivermectin does or does not work against Covid.
1. Just so what we are talking about: there are about 2,800 Jews in China, and the Chinese government recognizes them as a protected nationality.
2. There is rising anti-Semitism rising in Europe, particularly in Hungary and Poland. The opening poster is sorely mistaken if she rules out the possibility of a new holocaust coming from Europe or America.
What is so special about this topic? I thought “no facts” was a requirement for all right-wing posts on YWN.
First of all, I never knew that fate had a mayor. If it does, I would expect Hashem to elect her or him.
As for the New York City mayoral race, like many elections in a two-party democracy, the electoral choice often comes down to the question of who is less stupid. Adams is clearly less stupid.
And I cannot take seriously anyone who would take Sliwa seriously.
To always asks: Your question is meaningless. What would you say to the face of all the killed and maimed Americans, and their families, who fought in Afghanistan? Did you or any of your immediate family serve in Afghanistan? And what is the capital of Nebraska?