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You have to be technical with LEDs. Lumens is how much light is emitted, like candlewatts. Then there is color rendition. Some are warmer than others. I find that no two types of LEDS ever give the same types of outputs.
I’ve yet to change any. But this electrical discussion is interesting. I can understand how a surge can killed the electronics, but then, I’d assume that the life of an incandescent is also being shortened. Maybe everything else should be on surge protectors too.

I lived in a place that banned bags. I moved. The immigrants and urban poor didn’t understand reusables. Stores gave them out for free in week one, and everyone threw them out. All I ever saw was people carrying loads of groceries in their hands. That looked stupid. And because of the spike in disease from unwashed bags, they had to build a new medical school.

The malls and stores are great too. I like going to large national department stores and listening to the explanation to people that they don’t give out bags. Given how much retail hated people bringing in bags, I wonder how the shoplifting is going.

Oh, and guess what type of non-chain stores appear to still give out plastic bags anyway, although banned???

Wonder why online is taking over? Here we are.

If you are light skinned you automatically support Trump and must be hated. If African-Americans and Hispanics hate Trump, then they hate themselves and want to be economically disadvantaged.
Doesn’t get any simpler.

I don’t consider myself that educated, and I wonder why that when I look for the subject of who or what is Moshiach, it feels like I get 15 different contradictory answers, so I’m just going to wonder this instead,
the left in American campaigns and the British left are saying and signing openly anti-Semitic letters and things. I see no outrage or apologies or pullbacks there.
And only a very small group seems to be concerned with it.

Git Meshige, although I see no tree next to them, if it weren’t for “some” group lighting a public menorah, I would see NO menorah ever. There are Jews in all 50 states, and they are vanishing because, they see no menorahs or anything Jewish anywhere – not even television – and all they get is xmas memes on facebook and movies. Then they hear “happy holiday” as I get flooded in my email from corporate sales lists on the 24th and 25th. What holiday, what holiday season? Frankly, this is the more offensive as they’re lumping me into a religion I am not a part of. It is not inclusive, it is forceful.

Secondly, as much as I don’t want to participate, the prices for items are only cheap once a year.

Otherwise, ignorance is the enemy nowadays, and while we argue if you should give a gift at the cheapest time of the year is kosher or not, everyone “out of town” as you call it are pretending to be full blown evangelists as that is all they see now.

“1) The Jewish woman is a baalas gaiva for not walking away, she should’ve just apologized and it would be the end.”

No it wouldn’t, your apology is never enough. And this ain’t new by even 3 generations.

Ms. Sarsour says that when she puts on her headwrap in the morning she “becomes a person of color”. I like to change that to “transforms”. Therefore, if you are an orthodox man or woman, it sounds like you fit the definition of person of color.

And I agree with Redleg and got the message between the lines. Yeah, everyones a person of color. As long as your not Republican that is. (Yes, I have heard multiple times that Justice Thomas is not considered one due to his leanings).

I don’t know, I never got to read the books, but Google “jk rowling jewish”. She appears to be strongly and vocally against anti-Semites!

CTRebbe specifically, and probably others too. Let’s use logic and history.
When the Ba’al Shem Tov was around, did he have to send Rabbi’s to India or San Francisco for tourists and businessmen? Were most of the Jews yet scattered, or were they still almost centralized?
I guess the fact that there is no more Pale and that everyone is now scattered all across the globe really answers the entire question. Does it not?
And thinking of this as a grand dispersion, it is rather frightening to think about.

But, at least someone is doing it. What is the alternative? The “mainstream denominations” are more concerned about bringing everyone including non-Jews for dues. Which do you prefer?

I may not be a Chabad Rabbi or anything, but I know enough for some common sense and what I hear.
There are Chabad rabbis in California. Does that make them pro-California? Or are they there for the Jews?
Aside from the stance that essentially can be summed up by saying that the Rebbe acknowledged there are Jews in Israel, and that is his main concern, they also go back to history and the Torah. Jerusalem is the home of the Jewish people. Correct? Judea too, Correct?
Maybe they don’t like the secular government of Israel, but that doesn’t mean they accept the fiction of a Palestine.
I don’t see what any of that has to do with “zionism” or “anti-zionism”. it’s just plain reality, and it cannot be changed. It’s a Jewish land, and it has Jews.

I didn’t hear that Hannity bit, but there is more to it than that. I had a libertarian economist graduate school professor who loved the concept of anything like Uber. That was because it disrupted the government monopoly, and allowed the freedom for people to do as they pleased economically.
However, if Hannity is against Uber, as a fellow city-boy I feel the same way. If I can’t stand the way people are driving and I think they’re a moron, why do I now trust them to drive me around? Personally, I have an affinity for professionals. Truckers, Bus Drivers, etc. And also I’m not into this whole thing of some people having to pay Hack fees, and others doing the same but without doing so. That is a double-standard that I don’t know how they get away with. But, I know some cities wouldn’t let Uber in unless the drivers paid a nonsense fee to the city!

I disagree with the prognosis but not the symptom. I’m not from your neighborhood and have been all over the country and all over the internet. People are pre-disposed to being very anti-Semitic when there are no Jews about, or when they have never even met, seen, or know a Jew. It doesn’t matter if we exist or not, people have varying levels of mental issues.

But as to the substance of the letter. I wholly agree with the problem. Now that I’d like to be more Jewish, the email lists I find, the magazines I see are preposterous. With each one getting worse. I don’t need a Muslim Syrian Haggadah, and other unmentionables. There’s no reason to spend my time reading things I could waste my time with by watching Cable Television. Maybe this is why we’re losing people, because if you’re not a Bernie Sanders type, there is no point in being on any non-religious Jewish list.

Now that we’re almost on page 10 of this non-existent argument, what was the point?

Topic makes a great point.
Lived in a city that banned plastic bags, but only for law abiding citizens of course. It was the most comical and absurd things. Got out of there quick.

The frontier town discussion is an interesting one, since they are all different (Florida was once considered the same as the west). Mississippi is a state that’s preserved their history of the Jews in the state (at least in a book sense). I’ve read many stories of the wealthy businessmen sending their kids on long trips for various balls just so their kids can meet other Jews. Yet on the other hand, you’ll see a lot of counties and towns in the Deep South named after Jews who claimed to have converted.
I guess it depends on the person and city, as I have a hard time imagining the rich Jewish family marrying with the local sharecropper.
But, honestly, I think I’m going too far down the path, because there is a big difference between tracing someone from 1890 Utah and Ohio in 2010. I didn’t really mean to go this far back.

I just wonder why some peoples pedigrees are good enough for even the simplest anti-Semite, but it’s never good enough for this board. Seems sad to be unwanted by everyone for either being Jewish or not pedigreed enough.

Sorry, I thought I had an issue submitting, and I see I made 3 comments that did get posted out of order. The only one I wish went through was the comment of the Conservatives and Reforms probably not sending their kids to this if they weren’t local.

But, I find this discussion bizarre, and offensive. Not so much current kids who claim to be ‘half-jewish’, the people who seem to think we’re all intermarried 10 generations ago. So what you are telling me, is that although all of my American ancestors are clearly Jewish, but because they are not the so-called “ultra-Orthodox” that in 1700 or 1600 I have a non-Jewish mother somewhere in Austria-Hungary or in the Ukraine? Goodness, now I have “Jews” (this thread gives us pause to question!), white nationalists, Arabs, and academics questioning my genealogy now! If only I could get some type of affirmative action out of that!

I have a collection of old books about the history of Jews written by various Academics and Christians, and they all seem to agree with you. To use their language, these books claim that the modern Jews are not related to the original Hebrews at all. Just like this website, they have no proof other than their own snide beliefs. Congratulations.

Maybe we can debate what’s going on with this new thing (to me) of these mixed parental units, but going back to the old country is a bit much. And with historical precedent sadly, which claims that there are no Jews.

“How do the deal with the fact that most non religious Jews in the US are actually non Jews because their mother was a non Jew.”
Yeah, if you’re in certain suburbs of the sunbelt maybe, which is the first time I’ve ever heard of such a thing. But not where I come from.
Of course, due to flight to the suburbs, etc. my experience isn’t even the norm anymore either.

But lets ignore the vague generality for a moment. How many of these teens grew up “Reform” or “Conservative” going to these Chabad events, especially as a teen, versus those who are nothing more than just Jewish? Maybe it varies from city to city, but it seems to me that these two denominations aren’t always the most accepting of Chabad as a whole.
So, given that most of the kids probably don’t pay dues anywhere, and they get the linage grilling just like everyone else, the chances of your fears might actually be far LESS than the original post.
But of course, cities vary, but I really doubt it in this case.

Give a serious reply to this question. I’ve wondered the same thing. Is parts of Florida your only chance to not be the only Jew in town and not live in a nightmare jurisdiction?

People change. I cannot say any better than the people on here already have from the neighborhood. But, I hope they have a long life ahead, and tastes change, and people get more comfortable doing certain things as time goes on. I don’t know the list, but I don’t imagine pants to always be a life-long thing that never gets changed. Even if slowly.

I wonder about those countries that tell us they have high vaccination rates. Aren’t they the ones who have utterly no control over anything, with pipelines getting busted into daily as well? If they’re so healthy, why is everyone always coughing and sneezing in every border supermarket (which now seems to stretch from Texas to Chicago) year around?
I really don’t buy it.

I don’t get it. Some of you state there are no primaries in the USSR because there is only one party. Iraq had elections, Saddam got about 99% or 97% of the vote. Check out some of those districts in California. Pelosi won once with 93%. And then, what’s the deal with cities like New York where you assume there is no challenger in these elections?

Looks like a one party system to me.

They have. They want you to return the “crumbs” back in the form of higher taxes. I also assume that the Democratic position from 2006-2009 still holds. That is higher taxes, nationalizing and seizing 401(k)’s/IRA’s, etc, and forcing layoffs and outsourcing via domestic policies.

That country is an unimaginable cesspool. Democrats want to turn the country into a cesspool. Ergo, Democrats should move.

That’s simpler logic. Want to live somewhere with no rule of law, and 80% of the economy is illegal, not to mention the judicial system, banking system, etc and your minimum wage is nowhere near 15/hour? I have the place for you.

Whats the difference between this, riding in a train, taxi, riding a horse, or even I’ve heard – riding a bike?

akuperma is referring to something much more modern, or much more small town. I come from a big city where my public school classes were almost all Jewish. My teachers were almost all Jewish as well. My parents come from a Jewish neighborhood, and it was more Jewish then. My grandparents even more so, and if you go to my great-grandparents, forget about it. Finding a non-Jew in the neighborhoods of 3 of those generations would’ve had the same odds as winning the lottery. Everyone in my line is Jewish, as well as all of my ancestors neighbors.
Neighborhoods were much more balkanized in ethnicity than they are today.

Conversely, in small southern towns. There was and is some mixing, but it was still not the norm. Southern history shows that Jews would send their kids from all corners of the state to meet each other and get married. It was not an impossible chore as it is today to not mix.

Lastly, I claim akuperma’s post about how all non-orthodox Jews should be considered goys is wrong for one more reason. I never even really heard of this whole intermarriage deal in any really serious manner until I I moved to what’s supposed to be a state with a lot of Jews and I started meeting tons of people who claimed to be “half-Jewish”. I’ve never heard of that one growing up.
There wasn’t much chance of mixing as there is in the last few decades. If all of your neighbors and classmates are Jewish, you’ll probably marry Jewish. If you can’t find any Jews around because everyone scatters, the kids probably won’t marry that way.