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LU, it just occurred to me that walking in street is no longer a problem. Everyone walks around now with their face buried in a smartphone , not looking where they are going
I was wondering about this too. Joseph, how do you walk down the street? Do you ask all women to step aside so as not to walk behind them? How do you board a plane, insist that you board before all women?
You’re right, it should have been chumra king.
Little, who appointed you king? If you don’t like it, don’t participate.
I’ve seen two situations where, in a state like NY, that doesn’t recognize common law , someone woukd not get married civilly.
The most common reason is that the woman would lose her social security benefits upon remarriage ( if the benefits derived from prior husband )
The other scenario involves custody/financial issues in the civil divorce. The husband gives the get so he gat remarried halachacly before the civil divorce is final
Joseph, source?
Where did the 30000 number come from? source?
Menschornot,thamks for the correction. The correction. The news report said three lanes and I assumed 3 each way.
Abba, you in fact blamed everything ( lights, speed , driver) but excused the girls. It was indeed a tragedy but they do share some responsibility
They chose not to walk to the crosswalk and it was dark. The driver stayed at the scene.
It was not an issue of sidewalks. Unfortunately, according to early reports they attempted to cross six lanes of traffic in the dark in an area without a crosswalk. There were crosswalks 1/3 of a mile in either direction. One sister made it safely but the other was hit just steps from safety. Sidewalks wouldn’t have helped
Joseph, this survey is self selecting, and, not valid
It’s sad how misinformed we can be . Transjordan didn’t exist until 1921. It was a consolation prize by the British when the Hashemites lozt to the Saudis for control of the Arabian peninsula. It didn’t become Jordan until 1949 when it took control of the west bank.
We use non Jewish last names, why not first names? It’s not a new practice. It goes back over 2000 years when Jews named sons Alexander in honor of Alexander the great. The Gemorah is full of chachomim with Amramaic names. Writing Germanic ( Yiddish ) or Aramaic names using Hebrew letters doesn’t make them any more Jewish than writing Robert in Hebrew.
Syog, the sad truth is that my friend’s wife wanted to be a stay at home mother and raise her kids. Her husband was a civil servant so they asked for tuition assistance and were denied. The yeshivas policy was no assistance unless both parents worked
Wolfish, I too went to Ohel Moshe, but a lot earlier,when Rabbi Leon Machlis was still alive ( in the 1950’s ) and the yeshiva had nearly 500 students
You can go to Las Vegas for a nice vacation without gambling. There are shuls, restaurants and sightseeing ( Hoover Dam, Red Rock Canyon and others ). The hotels themselves are something to see. Each has a theme and is built accordingly. For example, the towers of New York New York are built as NY skyscrapers ( I.e. Chrysler Building ) and out front there is NY harbor with a 1/3 scale statue of liberty and the Brooklyn bridge. And it has s Coney Island roller coaster
Shopping, so you’re mature enough at 17 to marry but not to drive?
I get the feeling that the majority of people posting here have never been to Las Vegas and.have no clue. What exactly do you think goes on there that can’t be done in NY or LA?
He writes a weekly column for the Five Towns Jewish Times and I believe that’s where he lives
Joseph, as usual, you were making things up , have no answer and respond with a crude nazi reference.
Neut, you’ve overlooked a more important reason why the white shirt/ black pants is a relative recent adoption.
Prewar Europe had no social net and one had to work to eat. Shtetl Jews were peddlers, bakers, tradesmen and manual laborers. White shirts and black dress slacks were not appropriate. However, now that non professional labor has so fallen out of favor, the mode of dress has shifted.
Joseph, in what specific way did weekday work clothes of the average Polish or Russian Jew differ from their gentile neighbors?
Lilmod, where did you get the idea that until recently OTD, only happened to some extent. During those times when the larger society imposed fewer religious restrictions, timbers was a greater tendency for Jews to go OTD. During the second Beis Hamikdosh, many Jews became Hellenists. In the early 1800’s the granting by Napoleon of citizenship to Jews was followed by the news leaving the yeshivas. Eastern European jews stayed on the derech because the Hapsburgs and the Romanovs gave them no choice. However, with he unrest in the late 1800s more and more young Jews went OTD and it accelerated after WW1. And I’m not even talking about the tens of thousands of immigration the US who went OTD ( Joseph, how many of them came back? )
Joseph, what study did you use to prove that most OTD come back? Did you verify that the respondents weren’t self selected? How could you tell that the answers weren’t self-seeking?
Neville, when did this become a MO issue? Please let go of the paranoia. MO smoke and no hurs use smartphones.
By the way, there was a news article that increased charaidi use of social media has led to 4000 revocations of draft exemptions. Postings on facebook showed they weren’t in yeshiva
Joseph, why someone like yourself have anything meaningful to offer in response as would you are not OTD? Just labeling their answers as self serving is an indicator your bias because the responses don’t meet with your preconceived notions
I’ve often wondered where do they get the money ? Cigarettes are expensive. A girl who marries a smoker is also going to be bringing the stench and filth into her house as well as the second hand smoke that will endanger the health of her children as well as her own.
If the dairy is careful and doesn’t use milk from sick cows, then pasteurization would not be needed.
Joseph, what do you think happened? If the milk was bad, people got sick.
Joseph, the letters we use today are Babylonian. No one knows why thtswitch was made from the ancient alphabet.
Joseph, what are your sources, or are you making things up as you go along ( as usual ). How do you know that the studies aren’t comparing based on similar experience in the field, and not see?
Shopping girl, in Israel , at 18 you’re either in the army or in yeshiva. In the US, most jobs an 18 year old can get are minimum wage with no benefits.
Shipping girl, maturity aside, can the average 17 year old boy or girl support themselves? If not , and most cases not, that’s why they shouldn’t be getting married
Today’s 18 year olds are too coddled. Many girls are brainwashed into glorifying a life of poverty when they have no clue what that entails. The nineteenth century 18 year old shtetl girls LIVED a life of grinding poverty and saw nothing glorious about it. They married young because it meant one less mouth to feed. Today’s coddled 18 year olds, boys and girls, MO, yeshivish, chassidish, have no clue. Nathan Handwerker, founder of Nathan’s in Coney Island, was born Galicia into an Orthodox family and could not remember a time he was not hungry.
Joseph, I’m curious as to where you got your information as to what our blog ancestors did or didn’t do.
Abba, the studies don’t say to never sit. They recommend getting up every hour or so and not sit for hours on end
There are two problems in buying from someone frum. The first is Lashon Harah. Similar to shidduchim, people are extremely relunctant to say anything bad about frum stores and businessmen. As a result how do you really know how trustworthy and reliable the dealer really is? I found this out the hard way. I bought replacement windowa from a frum guy. It took him months to do the job and he had my deposit. It turned out he was underfinanced and couldn’t get a line of credit. He was using new customer deposits to buy windows for previous customers.
The second problem refers to the first: bais din versus civil court
Mammele, it’s not an implication. If I can buy produce and groceries at Stop n Shop at considerably better prices and service, that’s where I’m going. If I can get better prices with comparable or better service from a non frum/jewish uuto dealer that is where I’m going.
Did I miss something? When did the OU and the Agudah merge?
My comment wasn’t meant to be acerbic, just humorous. Please don’t be so sensitive.
Why does the car have to be frum?
KJ, if he Satmars are so concerned about safety, why are they putting their childrens lives at risk by moving into some of the most dangerous inner city New Jersey neigborhoods simply because the locations make the large houses inexpensive?
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I’ve saidrhuspoint in other threads. Perhaps third of my yeshiva high school class from fifty years ago went OTD because the rebbe’s screamed at us if we asked questions. By the time we had a Rebbe in our senior year shows willing and ready to answer, many of the boys were no longer interested in asking.
Charlie
She has enabled her husband to have numerous affairs
She lied repeatedly about the emails
She refuses to release the transcripts of her Goldman Sachs thanks
She cares more about the teachers union than the children
The Clinton foundation solicited significant donations from from foreign governments while she was Sec of state
She Lied when she claimed to have exited a helicopter under fire
Etcetera
Ask your rabbi. Why do people ask anonymous bloggers for a peak?
Actually, Joseph, it’s your opinion that should be ignored. On what basis do you insult a Rav and call his sefer dubious?
He will if yiddeleh owns a penthouse apt on Central Park West
I recently attended a pidyon habein. A majority of the guests did not speak Yiddish yet a Satmar relative, who spoke English, chose to speak in Yiddish. People were respectful for ten minutes but as he went on for too long people started talking amongst themselves and he got angry
The Begin Museum
Joseph, you can make yhe same point about people who wear a black Bordallino. When I grew up, men wote snap brim hats of all different shades. Why the switcheroo to black Borsallinos?
CTrebbe, your suggestion would when every yeshiva’s finances and books were subject to independent audits.
Can you listen to a Naugahyde song ?