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Bottom line is that kitniyos is not Chametz. If someone wants to equate joy of Pesach with how much new kitniyos they can deny themselves, be my guest. I don’t understand it.
So, what your saying is children don’t go to shul, relatives or friends on Shabbos or Yom Tov because, gasp,they’d have to actually walk. Queen, it’s easy to spend someone else’s miney
Who is paying for the door to door service? A couple of years ago I saw a school bus on 14_Ave in BP stop his his bus on a diagonal, blocking traffic both way. I was told it was done because drivers ignored the bus’s flashing lights and stop signs and around the buses. Thus we the only way to prevent it
AY, why wouldyou expect a. Haraidi to accept the peak of an RZ Rabbi? Similarly, you act surprised that a non charaidi Jew doesn’t accept charaidi Daas Torah.
As an aside, Rav Wasserman’s grandchildren , including the boy named for him, attended Zionist yeshivas in Brooklyn.
Fiddle, a. They have to make a living. B. Their customers include non frum Jews and goyim. C. Our local bakery donates leftovers to the local Volunteer fire dept all year, not just Erev Pesach.
When it comes to Medicaid, Section 8 benefits, school and, school bussing etc, we’re there wildly pointing to ourselves screaming ” I’m an American’ “. However, when it comes to a purely American, secular holiday like Thanksgiving, we go through contortion z to prove it’s a religious holiday.
The Pilgrim story is a myth. The first official Thanksgiving celebrated by the United States under the Constitution, was declared by the first Congress,meeting in lower Manhattan. Roger Sherman of Connecticut wanted to declare a national day of Thanksgiving to thank G-d for providing a new government under the Constitution Southern Congressman objected, as they felt this was an act of Kings and they had just thrown off the rule of a king. Sherman responded that he wasn’t emulating European royalty but instead, King Solomon. Just as Solomon thanked G-d at the dedication of the Temple in Jerusalem, they should thank G-d for the Constitution. The Southerners replied that they could emulate Solomon and voted for the resolution.
So, not only did Judaism play a deciding role, the Rabbi of the Spanish and Portuguese synagogue was an invited speaker. To commemorate this, since the 1780’s the shul has said special tfillos every Thanksgiving since.
DY, the major issue that 5 Town’s ran into was they quickly lost the non-kosher customers. Also because of higher costs related to kashrus and losing one days business, they didn’t honor coupons or promotions advertised in print or on TV.
The novelty wore off
DY, it’s a cynical Kal v’chomer. If it’s not Assur for them to go to civil court ……..
Akuperma, then why are the Satmar brothers in Civil court?
Nechumah, “most” people make things like potato starch by hand? Maybe in your circle of friends but I know of nobody who does. Who has the time?
By the way, can everyone in the CR dispense with the anti-hotel rants? Hotels are not for everybody, both from an hashkafic and cost perspective, and that’s fine. Just please don’t rain on someone else’s simcha because it’s not your way.
Somewhere along the line people confused spring clearing with Pesach . And, as with all things, chumrah come into play.
Mk5,I’ve heard elsewhere the reason you gave for extending Shabbos. It sound great until you give it some thought. Does it extend, as DY asked, from the first minute anywhere in the world to the last? Or does it apply just to those souls in your time zone?
You’re the one who brought it up. If it’s the first scenario, your extension of Shabbos only helps if you live in the last time zone that experiences Shabbos.
mik5, unless there are time zones in Purgatory, it doesn’t make a difference how much I stretch out Shabbos for on the US eastern seaboard, it will still be Shabbos somewhere in the world for at least another 10 hours
DY, what you apparently missed was that Rubashkin fabricated invoices to fool the bank into thinking his company did enough business could support the loan. That is not a technicality. Without that it would have simply been a bad business loan by the bank.
A somewhat similar case happened almost 30 years ago. A computer leasing company used fabricated lease agreements to convince banks to lend them millions. The principals served extensive time in Federal white collar prisons.
Someone in my town was sentenced last year to twenty years in Federal prison for his part in the theft of millions of dollars from New York City ( his share was $3 million ; a relative of his got a reduced sentence for providing documentation of the fraud and testifying against the others). He asked the judge to be assigned to Fort Dix Federal camp since it has enough frum prisonmers that there are shiurim, daf yomi and both Sfard and Askenazi minyanim. He’s MO. Not every frum convict is a victim of anti-semitism It’s a sad commentary.
Nisht, Rubashkin WAS convicted for defrauding the bank, so I don’t understand your question as to why the bank didn’t press charges.there was no question that his company hired illegal immigrants , some of whom were underage. However to get a conviction, the government had to prove that Rubashkin knew it and so the charge was dismissed since they had the bank fraud conviction.
DY, defrauding a bank is not accepted practice as far as I know. He ovestated the company’s value in order to qualify for a revolving line of credit.
Nisht, wasn’t Rubashkin convicted of defrauding a bank out of $34 million, partly by using phony invoices?
CT, I clearly stated I was quoting the law in New York. I never said it was Federal.
Cokeboycott, do you live in Cedarhhrdt?
Joseph, Rav Miller, as quoted by you, is an extremist who can’t be considered normative. You have him saying that just saying the word ” get ” is apikorsus. And, where did he get the 99% number that you attribute to him?
GAW, only the school board is, and here we are talking about the incorporated Village of Cedarhurst
If you overstay your time at a meter and get a ticket, why is that oppressive?
Abba S, are you for real? Advocating staying in an abusive marriage to protect your olam habah?
Joseph, what you meant to say was that the studies you selectively chose prove your case. Undoubtedly, were I inclined, I could probably find anequal number of studies showing the opposite.
Bad marraiges are bad marraiges, both espouses and cgildren
Joseph, anecdotes are meaningless and prove nothing. Two close friends of my wife divorced controlling, verbally abusive husbands and remarried with happy outcomes. My anecdotes don’t prove anything either
Bruriah in New Jersey has criteria for students to win scholarships ( I.e. essays on assigned subjects )
How can a chumrah become halacha? By definition, a chumrah is a stringency added on to a halacha
Just remember, we lost Gan Eden because of s chumra. Hashem told Adom fon’t eat from the tree, but Adom told Chava don’t touch the tree and don’t eat. When the snake pushed her into the tree and nothing happened, she thought he was making up not eating from it
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Our shul has a server that can’t be more than two feet tall. The father of one our members was a Rabbi and a US Army chaplain in the South Pacific during WW 2. Unlike in Europe, where a sefer could be transported in a Jeep, he had to be able to carry a sefer himself from island to island. So, the Army arranged for a Sofer to write a server to his specifications.
I know, but did Joseph look them up bef OK re stating they had low overhead?
Joseph, how do you know about their overhead ? What is the average per centage that goes to overhead?
If it was such a good product, why are they out of business?
Here we go again
Is there any point of another rehashing and bashing by both sides?
The owner’s who were frum and shomer Shabbos that i knew told me that it was an unnecessary and unpleasant intrusion into their lives by a kashrus service.
When the combinedbVaad came into being, the Far Rockaway side tried to use the Vaad as a religious tool by disqualifying stores whose owners personal ,at home, tznius and/or hashkofos did not meet their standards. There was a significant backlash to this overreach. The attempt was retracted and not repeated.
ZD, the Vaad is a kashrus service, nothing else. Where do you live? Where do you get your information from?
GAW, I agree neither Bayswater or Far Rockaway are in the five Towns school district, or in Nassau, which is why I didn’t understand why AD and Abba brought them up.
People in other areas do try to infer connection to five Towns, but they have to abut the five Towns. 25 years ago when Far Rockaway was just starting to come back from the abyss, real estate agents marketed the part of Far Rockaway next to Lawrence as ” West Lawrence ” to avoid any association with Far Rockaway. Today, young couples moving into the section of Valley Stream next to Woodmere “North Woodmere”
Abba, please document your demographic claims as you continue to show no understanding of the area,( Bayswater )
zdhavasdad, I would make the same suggestion to you that I made to Abba. You made sweeping comments re five Towns without a clear understanding of the area.
Zdhavasdad, the five Towns ( Lawrence, Cedarhhrdt,Woodmere, Hewlett and Inwood ARE a place. Cedarhurst has the primary business district with most of the kosher restaurants and older, smaller housing, Woodmere ,Hewlett and Lawrence are residential and expensive ( Back Lawrence and Woodsburgh very expensive ) and have high % of frum Jewish population. Inwood traditionally had little Jews Jewish population but in recent years couples seeking affordable prices have been buying in Inwood.
Far Rockaway is in Queens County and is much more yeshivish . the five Towns ( Nassau County ) has a growing and significant yeshivish population but also has a large MO population. The YI of Woodmere has over 1200 families