They usually don’t have it in a kosher format. I also saw it advertised locally. It’s a new taste for many, but very expensive. I saw on another Jewish news website that there is a special organic goose that takes like pork. Of course, pork is cheap meat and goose is expensive.

Sam2, you can’t get more definite than Hashem telling you what the halacha is. And yet, lo bashamayim hi. Rambam paskened against Hashem because Hashem TOLD us that we should go like the chachamim, not like Him. So even definitive archaeology wouldn’t overturn anything. Again, this is all off my head, but if someoen has Rabbi Jachter’s book and can quote chapter and verse I would love to hear it.

Oh, don’t worry, we’re all here.

Sam2, Rabbi Chaim Jachter used to have a whole bunch of essays posted on his website which were taken down now that they are in his book “Grey matter”. I believe, iirc, that the answer was that that was a confirmed site, where they were saying “moshe emes vesoraso emes ve’anachnu badaim”. Any other archaelogical proof isn’t guaranteed. Some say they found the alter of Joshua, so you can measure it and determine the ama. But other archaeologists say it was just a tower. They found a piece of cloth which was based on the murex trunculus dye and it was a darker color. So this means the murex was techeiles, and it was darker? They didn’t find tzitzis. Finally, there is a gemara in bava metzia where the beis din shel maala paskened tamei and Hashem paskened tahor. Rambam paskens against Hashem. the meforshim analyze it and say emes is determined by chachamim. I saw it quoted here in the CR years ago, forgot exactly where.

As for oats as mezonos (machlokes rashi and rambam, yehuda felix backs rambam based on his research), my own rav is meikel for a bracha but says you shouldn’t eat oat matzos on pesach unless you have no choice, as we should be chosheish for the rambam. Yehuda Felix does not factor into it. Rav Shachter makes a ha’adama on it.

I am not a mod. Shelo asani mod. It’s hard to hold down a job, family, and a night seder when you also have to moderate someone’s content for free.

Also, the ywn owner has enough verifiable info to put the stalker/harasser away for good on multiple felony counts, leaving everyone else here as trustworthy. Until he does so, I see no reason to waste valuable hours trying to be borer ochel mitoch psoles.

I once asked a poseik about this, as it looks like all seminaries and girls’ schools are coming around to Rav Soloveitchik and against the poskim.

The gemara mentions that a certain amora lived in a house in an area with a common courtyard (similar to a bungalow colony). They put up a gate to keep the shnorrers out, and then this amora stopped meriting eliyahu hanavi.

I am here. I figured coming in yesterday would take away from the welcoming back.

first off, I do apologize for thinking AYC was notorious stalker and harasser Joseph. Much of his/her behavior turned out to be temimus (eliciting information that was helpful to Joseph, supporting/whitewashing stalker/harasser Joseph, telling people not to be careful)

I spent 3 days tossing and turning, wondering how I could have been so wrong about AYC. By the time more facts were in Monday, I slept like a log. A key piece of evidence which wasn’t discussed publicly turned out to be true. The mods were right to investigate, and the mods did have a valid case for doing so publicly. Again, I do apologize for thinking ayc was stalker Joseph. That’s all I will say on this. He/she has suffered enough.

The mods have a list of at least 10 sn’s who were stalked/harassed. Any of the others still here?

Great article about him, and how Rabbi Twerski advised him to start his career :http://www.thejc.com/lifestyle/the-simon-round-interview/31715/interview-philip-rosenthal

Moskidoodle, I proposed verified sn’s but it got shot down. It looks like they are doing that for suspicious accounts, though. Hopefully this should pare down the place a bit.

Hopefully this will have a good resolution. But as a former victim of stalker Joseph, I am happy that the CR is finally cracking down on suspected stalkers. Too many victims have been hurt. I do think that where no email contact is known, it should be done, from now on, privately, and just announced afterward one way or another.The danger of Joseph is VERY real, though. If you don’t like the way the mods are doing their jobs, feel free to vote with your feet and leave. I would rather they err on the side of caution, until the known stalker is put away.

Smartcookie, feel free to mail someone a threatening letter, and then tell the police it was “junk mail”. Let me know what happens.

soliek, countless numbers of people on the CR thought they were doing that, and still managed to get stalked and harassed.

But a +1 in that you are agreeing with me fully . Don’t post anything that might help people identify you. People have no idea how stalkers like Joseph are able to connect the dots from seemingly innocent tidbits.

Squeak, +1.

Stalkers like Joseph thrive when nobody knows what he did. I am working with the mods to end the silence.

I think the “ask your rabbi” part got lost in this post. Great idea, but you need to stress the “ask daas torah” more.

Years ago, in the early days of kashrus in america, a mashgiach in a slaughterhouse put aside an animal for being treif. Then one mashgiach put it back in with the kosher animals, and said “Don’t worry, the balabos told me it was kosher.” Another shochet asked him, “the balabos is an am ha’aretz!” To which the mashgiach responded, “No he’s not. He just showed me kessef mishneh!”

sn’s change all the time. ice cream, moskidoodle, pushtayid, et al are all new. Mods err on the side of content.

I once saw this video of Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro of “torah-true jews” and frumteens.com leading an anti-zionist rally in DC and got nauseated. As the Satmar rebbe ZTL said, when goyim are against zionists they are against Jews. By inciting goyim against israel, they are killing Jews.As someone who is goreim danger for Jews in Israel (even toldos aharon and satmar) by strengthening the hands of the enemies, Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro is now passul, along with his frumteens essays.

Neturei karta hugs rotzchim who want to kill Jews.

Their point is that Rav Shteinman shlita and Rav Eliashiv shlita are Zionists, and that those who threaten to kill Jews are our friends. I guess it’s ok to be a Zionist, if this is what Anti-Zionism is. Not saying you should be a Zionist, but anti-zionism is clearly a passul derech.

I am here. There is nothing wrong with bumping a thread, though I certainly disagree with tarring anyone who agreed with AYC as another stalker sn.

Do you watch the football games against Moderator State?

The simcha will hopefully come back for all of us soon, when the good news from mod42 hits that it was a simple misunderstanding.

When Rav Shach ZT”L published his sefer Achiezer, someone told him the sefer would accompany him to Gan Eden. Rav Shach ZT”L demurred and went to a drawer, where he pulled out a noose someone sent him. His quest for emes made him take unpopular stances, where he was attacked with cries of “Achdus!” “Shalom!” “Baal machlokes!” etc. Someone went so far as to send him a noose as a threat. But he didn’t back down. This is a hero.