jackk

Dr Pepper,

This is why we can’t have a discussion and I am not going to continue. It is painful to me to have to discuss issues where we disagree on the basic facts.
Just 2 examples.

“Furthermore- the bulk of medical claims costs could be avoided if people ate healthier, exercised responsibly, drove carefully, didn’t take stupid risks, avoided illegal drugs, stayed away from violence…”.

I would like to introduce you to a few diseases that have absolutely zero to do with a person lifestyle. This is just a short list.
Cancer – in all its forms over the body
MS
Parkinson’s
Crohn’s
Alzhiemer’s
Ashma
Some forms of Diabetes
etc…etc…etc…

I would also like to introduce you to the millions of people who are the victims of auto, fire, and flood accidents.

Insurance plans and Higher Deductibles were already going up for decades before the ACA. I also pay for my family’s insurance and know that this is true. There was no guarantee from any insurance companies that the trend wasn’t going to continue. In fact , it was obvious that it was going to continue until someone reigned them in. If you want to blame the ACA , the Insurance companies love you. Similar to Oil companies making record profits this year and everyone blames Biden.

2) I need to explain why people who have SSA are not responsible for their being SSA and can never be “cured” by going for psychological help?

In the real world, there are people with SSA and no amount of psychological treatment will make them non-SSA.

The Republican states are the biggest beneficiaries of the Federal Government money put in by Blue States.

Find out how much money Ron Desantis took from the Federal Government this year due to hurricanes in Florida.
Find out how much money Mitch McConnel and Kentucky gets from the federal government compared to how much it pays in.
You will realize that the slogan that Republicans “just want people to take responsibility for their behavior” is simply a wicked slogan to allow themselves to not help other people.

Lakewhut,

It reminds me of the story (maybe I am not repeating it correctly but you will get the gist) of the Klausenberger Rebbe zatsal when he lived in Eretz Yisrael. A Yid came to him and was complaining about the geferleche chilul shabbos that occurs at the beach in Tel Aviv.
The Rebbe stares at him and says “A Pele. I have lived in Eretz Yisrael for many years and never realized that there was Chilul Shabbos at the beach in Tel Aviv.”

We don’t have to search out for news about these people.

1,

I did not defend anybody. I just said that YWN does not need to report about a ganav who is LGBT and part of the Biden administration just to stick in how repulsed we all are by him.
It is poshut to every Yid. It is poshut that the guy is going to gehenom unless he does teshiva. I did not know about him before yesterday and we are all worse off now learning about him.

The right wing media amplifies all these stories for their shock value. It is just like everything else they amplify – immigration, the border, inflation, BLM, Communism, etc …Everything is a major crisis. They are playing to their audience. And they do not have any solutions.

Senate passes same-sex marriage bill with bipartisan support.

You have Trump, McConnell and Clarence Thomas to thank for that.
McConnell and Trump stole 2 Justice seats and appointed justices who have politicized the court. After lying in their Senate hearings about whether Roe V Wade was settled law, and whether they would adhere to Stare Decisis, they immediately overturned the ruling which was ruled a constitutional right for 50 years.

Thomas then decided to say that that we should revisit the SC ruling that allowed these types of secular marriages and other constitutional rights that are taken for granted.

Congress, therefore, decided that they had to act and pass a law to legalize marriage between 2 people of the same gender in America.

Regarding Brinton, stealing is stealing. What does non-binary have to do with it? It is only news in the right wing media where there main purpose is to get people upset and angry about things which are ridiculous. They have no other purpose than that.

In the matter of the Chumash “Pshuto Shekl Mikra”

We have come to reveal our opinion about the “Perush – Pshuto Shel Mikra” – “The Simple Interpretation of the Mikra”, which is an obstacle for the public, as it ignores the words of the Sages, and is a serious change in the form of studying the Mikra handed down to us by our Sages. And their intention is clear with the aim of replacing Rashi’s interpretation – which has always been the foundation of education and Judaism , and especially for the young people of the flock, and that all the foundations of faith and study of Torah Shebiksav and Torah Shebaal Peh are built on it – in this interpretation, R”L.
The aforementioned book also has strange and fake interpretations in the name of the Meforshim, and there is a spirit of Haskala in it. And it is not correctable at all.
And the great Torah scholars in the Land of Israel have already published their opposition in writing and by letter.
Therefore, it is simple and clear that this book must not be “Bo B’Kahal” and must be removed from homes and Shul’s and Beis Medrash’s and it is forbidden to trade in it.

Signed by
Rabbi Aryeh Malkiel Kotler
Rabbi Dovid Schustal
Rabbi Yitzchok Sorotzkin
Rabbi Yaakov Forchheimer
Rabbi Osher Lieberman
Rabbi Elya Ber Wachtfogel
Rabbi Yisroel Neuman
Rabbi Aharon Zuckerman
Rabbi Aharon Feldman
Rabbi Herschel Zolty
Rabbi Osher Eliyahu Kalmanowitz
Rabbi Shlomo Feivel Schustal
Rabbi Yerucham Olshin

CS,

I will quote the end of the article for you.

“Being unvaccinated is still a major risk factor for dying from covid-19. But efficacy wanes over time, and an analysis out last week from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention highlights the need to get regular booster shots to keep one’s risk of death from the coronavirus low, especially for the elderly.

Anthony Fauci, the nation’s preeminent infectious-disease expert, used his last White House briefing yesterday ahead of his December retirement to urge Americans to get the recently authorized omicron-specific boosters.

“The final message I give you from this podium is that please, for your own safety, for that of your family, get your updated covid-19 shot as soon as you’re eligible,” he said.

Common Saychel,

I am sorry that this a bit lengthy.

First of all , everyone in the CR was alive during covid and we all have first hand experiences of family and friends that suffered terribly from covid. Some of us suffered ourselves from covid and thought we were ready to go to the next world.

Some of us still have family and friends that have not yet fully recovered from the ravages that covid did to their bodies.

Second, I would not trade the zechusim that Klal Yisrael gained during Covid through trusting in Hashem, listening to their Rabbanim and Medical professionals, and being moser nefesh for normal daily Jewish activities. All the talmidim and talmidos that were moser nefesh to continue learning over the phone is a tremendous zechus.

Third, as we all experienced , everything was different during covid than during normal times. The hospitals and medical community were overloaded by the amount of people that needed urgent medical care. There were medical professionals (Nurses, Doctors, Hospital WORKERS ) who DIED due to covid exposure. There were nursing home WORKERS who DIED due to covid exposure.

Before there were vaccines, the medical community was still trying to figure out how to treat it.

Everyone was deathly afraid of the virus.
One of the miracles that I heard of is that even though Hatzalah transported thousands of covid patients, none of the Hatzalah members got sick due to their exposure.

I agree that there should be a auditing of what went on during covid. But because we know more about covid now, it is too easy to look back and second guess people for their errors and inactions done while the pandemic was raging.

Rabbi Reisman shlita told of 2 amazing stories that occurred due to the camp that he made in New Hampshire during covid. One was a baby born after many years and a second was a marriage after many years.
He said that he sent a few people to check out the camp before the summer and they all said it was not possible to open. It needed a lot of work and was too far away from Jewish areas.
Only one person answered him that it might be possible. He told that one person. “OK, me and you are going to open a camp.”
Due to the camp, hundreds of bochurim were able to learn with menuchas hanefesh.

DP,

We have the exact same opinions and views.

It just so happens that my opinions are about Republicans and yours are about Democrats.

Could be all Democrats are brainwashed.
Could be all Republicans are brainwashed.

The truth is Hashem runs the world. That we agree upon.

philospher,

This is an astonishing post.

Anti-semites do not need or care about high profile Jews.
They blame Jews for all the evils in this world because they are anti-semites.

Anti-semites can read The Protocols of the Meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion, which is a fabricated antisemitic text purporting to describe a Jewish plan for global domination. It was first published in Russia in 1903.

Or they can blame all jews for the actions of The state of Israel.
Or for killing Yoshka 2 thousand tears ago.
Or for blood libels.
Or for being genetically inferior and causing all diseases. (Nazi Theory)
Or for trampling on the Har Habayis.
or for infinite number of lies.

Jews should do what is right because we represent Hashem in this world.

But none of us Yidden are the CAUSE of anti-semitism.

Stacy Abrams is not BLM . Nor a communist.
Not every african american democrat is a BLM communist.
She does not need the benefit of the doubt because she was 100% correct in 2018.
It is Kemp that needs the benefit of the doubt against her charges.

Comparing her refusal to concede in 2018 with what Trump and his party did in 2020 is comparing apples to bananas.

Abrams was running against Secretary of State Kemp who in his position of SOS had power over his own election.
That is a 100% conflict of interest and he should have recused himself from every election related issue. He didn’t.

Abrams acknowledged her loss to Kemp days after the 2018 election. But she attributed that defeat — by less than 1.4 percentage points — to efforts by Kemp, to suppress voter turnout. Kemp denied the allegations.

“The issues that I raised in 2018 were not grounded in making me the governor,” Abrams told The 19th’s Editor-at-Large Errin Haines at a Monday event. “Not a single lawsuit filed would have reversed or changed the outcome of the election. My point was that the access to the election was flawed, and I refuse to concede a system that permits citizens to be denied access. That is very different than someone claiming fraudulent outcome.”

I gave this mashal before on YWN . If the Jews in Lakewood would have enough people to elect a Republican Governor, Murphy could simply assign one polling station for all of Lakewood, Toms River, Manchester and Jackson.
Or he could purge 100,000 jews from the voter rolls and when they show up to vote , the polling station says ” Sorry, go home and bring proof that you still live here and we will let you vote.”

Or he could put their registration on hold due to the “exact match” law, which puts someone’s voting status on hold if the information they put on their registration form doesn’t exactly match their driver’s license or social security records.

That is exactly what Kemp did in 2018.

Did he legally win ? Yes. Did he prevent people from voting ? Yes.
Was it illegitimate ? yes.

Even I am suspicious of foul play now

This is what happened to the people who claimed that the 2020 elections were rigged :
Some have been sued and are currently in very expensive legal battles to defend themselves from defamation.
Some are under criminal investigations.
Some have been forced to testify in criminal trials of others.
Some have lost their ability to practice law.
Some have had their businesses lose major amounts of revenue.
Some have been ridiculed publicly because of their fantasies and the ease that they believed lies.

All of the claims have been investigated and proven to be false.
The Arizona investigation wasted tremendous amounts of money.

And some people opened up funds to collect hundreds of millions of dollars from innocent gullible republicans to “prove” that the elections were rigged and then never used the money and are laughing to the bank.

Dr Pepper,

Having my own political views based on my understanding of what Hashem wants for Jews in Golus living in a democratic country, and respecting Rabbanim and Rosh Yeshivos, and their political views, are all part of Torah.

Halevai, those that believe that their political views allow them to disrespect Rebbe’s and thousands of frum jews should do a 180.

ujm,

Jack K would never ever consider interacting, even privately, with Morenu V’Rabbenu HaRav Reisman Shlit’a , or any other Rav, in such a fashion of giving them tochacha.

I assume that they consider the issue of the NYS DOE interfering in NY Yeshiva education – which Zeldin has promised to impede and prevent – to be an issue which trumps all the other issues this year.

If he is elected, he better deliver on this promise.

Philosopher,

What do you mean by “the collapse of society” ?
Where do you see this “collapse of society”?

Why is this dor more a dor of reshaim than for example the crusades? Avraham’s Avinu’s dor?

Who are you to decide the status of our dor?
It’s all al pi Hashems cheshbon.

Our dor has TORAH, TORAH and MORE TORAH. KEIN YIRBU.
This country has over a million Frum Yidden Avdey Hashem.

Abuse of children? I am unclear on what you are hinting to.
FYI – my post was a complete copy and past of Sam Klein’s post in another thread.

Avirah,
Nice summary.

It is not a normal response, based on past precedent, for a Governor to fire a DA when they are not complying with their wishes. It has never happened in recent history in NY.

A similar case occurred in 1996 when Pataki was upset that Bronx District Attorney, Robert T. Johnson would not seek the death penalty in a case of a murdered Police Officer. It was attempted to be handled privately and Pataki attempted to work with Johnson to have him remove himself from the case.
In the end, Johnson refused, and Pataki removed him FROM THE CASE.
The removal went to court and in the end a state judge upheld Gov. George E. Pataki’s removal of the Bronx District Attorney from prosecuting the case – a rare step that the Governor took because he believed the District Attorney would not seek the death penalty.

If Zeldin was acting in a normal fashion, he would work with Braggs to demand cash bail on these cases or remove him from those cases.
But as I said before , in 2020 he tried to undermine the will of the voters of the US by not certifying the presidential elections and he still won his parties nomination for governor.

Lakewhut,
Cashless bail is a law. He can’t just declare it null and void.
His trick was to create a 30 day emergency on crime and suspend cashless bail FOR 30 DAYS.

That is not a plan to stop crime.
It is a sick joke.

He has no plan.

Police can do their jobs right now. Nobody is stopping them.

Smerel,
The lieutenant governor of NYS is not an independently elected position. It has it’s own primary, but in the general election , it is jointly elected with governor.

What are you going to do when
1) gas prices stay low and go lower
2) zeldin loses as expected
3) trump loses again