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Abba, why would you expect there to be news coverage of a school district vote? Outside of Lakewood noonr cares. Despite your obsession, courtesy bussing is simply not a major issue. In addition, how is courtesy bussing in East Ramapo a pressing, burning Jewish issue?
Sophisticated? The trend in yeshivish is to eliminate as much knowledge of the outside ( including England sh, math and science ) world as possible.
You don’t have to be a resident of NYC,to be hired by Goldman Sachs
A man sees on online ad that says ” send me $50 and I’ll tell you my secret for earning money on the internet “
The man sends the $50 and soon cones the response ” now you know”
Old joke
Pure Joseph! You pick on the obvious demographic error and ignore everything else.
Joseph, calling someone a hillbilly is like calling a Jew a “_____”. It’s not a term of endearment.
And it’s still snowing and the wind is howling
If she didn’t have a reaction, she’s more than likely not allergic
The walking was so treacherous that our shul had a shiur after davening followed by an early mincha so people wouldn’t have to walk back later and then walk home in the dark at 6 pm in blizzard conditions when there would be 18 inches of snow on ground
Mammele, forecasting is as much an art as a science. In the NYC area, the track a storm takes deferment new where a storm hits and tracks can shift at last minute. When the track takes a storm thru the northwest suburbs ( NJ, Rockland County ) we in Long Island will get very little. However in a storm that tracks east, like that winter storm you referred to, residents of Suffolk County on LI got clobbered. Several years ago commuters were stranded on cold and dark trains for hours. It takes time to move trains to railyards and you can’t wait until the last minute to see if the storm track changed. They’d rather on the side of passenger safety and I agree
Has anyone actually read Thomas Paine’s Common Sense? It was a huge selling paphlet published in the 1770’s and was instrumental in the the American’s decision to reject King George and rebel.
Paine based his argument on Shmuel Hanavi’s arguments against Bnei Yisroel’s request for a king. Paine himself was an atheist but his target audience, the American public, was deeply religious and well acquainted with Tanach, and using Tanach was the best way to reach them
I’ve read that in pre-war Europe, chassidish justified beating husbands with the following rational: the person’s natural instinct is to give a get, but it’s his yetzer harah that was stopping him. So, they were simply beating out his yetzer harah so that he could, uncoerced, grant the get
Yeshiva of Flatbush is a coed high school. If you’re equating it with YU, it’s a problem you have to deal with, no one else
Joseph, and you definitively know this, how?
Mammele, a reliable source on the French Jews? How exactly are they forcing them to be irreligious?
Joseph, if a man-child of 25 needs mommy to tell him what woman he should marry, I feel sorry for his wife. She’ll always be second to mommy
DY, I don’t disagree with your point, but I think you missed mine. Modern kids pretty much always had access prior to the Internet through libraries, college etc. Then Internet simply made it easier. In the other communities, the Internet gave their kids access to ideas and subjects that they had been shielded from in the past
In some respects, the Internet has had more of an impact on yeshivish, chareidi and chassidish kids. Prior to the Internet, and with no TV in the house, it was much easier to limit access to materials deemed inappropriate. Even with filters, they now have access to those materials ( modern kids already had access books etc )
Until the 1800’s virtually all Jews were frum. By the end of the 1800’s most of Western European Jews and a large and growing number of Eastern European Jews were OTD. If I’m not mistaken, there was no Internet then
Joseph, by attacking me and not providing your sources, you’ve proved my point.
Joseph, what is the source for your opinions? How many people did you surveyed?
As usual, you make unproven , blanket assertions, then require naysayers to provide evidence.
My wife has never seen a father at a shidduch meeting, nor has s by e ever been contacted by a father
It’s legal in NY. The FDA is not the final authority. In any case, if it helps unfortunate cancer patients cope with chemotherapy ( and , PBA, there appears to be ample evidence that it does ) why deprive them of it? In NY, it can only be sold as vapor, not as cigarette, and requires a prescription. PBA, even if it’s only a placebo effect, if it works, what is the harm?
Here is another one. Artscroll was criticised for publishing the Gemora in English, the everyday language in the US. Yet the Gemorah itself was written in Aramaic, which was the everyday language of the people in Bavel
PBA, the OU is not breaking the law. Marijuana eases the side effects of chemotherapy.
Scared, your source please
CT lawyer: it’s Beth David cemetery.
Mashiach Agent: please don’t assume your minhag is halachs.
Excellence, do you buy kosher food in a market that sells treif?
Why can’t a Judaica store carry items for non-orthodox Jews? A Jewish store owner can sell food without hashgachas or with supervision below your standards
Actually,I believe the reason we object to current songs and not old ones is because we don’t/didn’t know the source of the old ones. In 50 years, the objections to current songs will disappear as well.
This topic also highlights that most people have no clue as to when portions of our “thousands years old” mesora was actually created ( of by whom )
What is the minimum distance for mandatory bussing in ER?
Mommy deciding who her 25 year old son dates. Inappropriate
In the yeshivas with tuitions over 20k, the rebbaim tend to be paid more, paid on time and have benefits like health insurance.
I can’t imagine what rebbe’s get paid when tution is under 10k
Abba,Joseph, please listen to what you’re proposing, all for the sake of courtesy bussing?
A. I presume that the parents chose the current yeshiva taking into consideration the school’s hashkofos and excellence. Should parents accept second or third best just for courtesy bussing?
B. Do you want to subject kids to longer bus rides?
C. You hope that the drivers will be delayed waiting for a school to open. The company is not buying new busses. What will happen is that children on the drivers next route will be forced to stand at their bus stop in cold and or rainy weather for extended periods of time. Is that want you want?
DY, the 140k is gross income. Once you deduct taxes, FICA, rent, shul dues, tzedaka, medical bills, utilities summer camps, food, there isn’t much left over
What are they accused of?
DY, yep, it was autocorrection.I have to remember to proofread. A good friend of mine had a legal secretary who would manually “autocorrect” his legal terminology. She didn’t last long
Why isn’t anyone concerned with maraas ayin? When a forum person comes to a Medicaid clinic dressed inn fancy clothes and jewelry, it raises eyebrows with the other patients. The clothes and jewelry most likely were purchased in better times, but shouldn’t be worn to a clinic.
DY, being better than “them” is not necessarily racism. You described “we” in a positive light while not denigrating”them”. To me, racism denigrates entire groups of people by ascribing to them unfounded or exaggerated negative traits i.e. Jews are cheap and cheat, Irish are drunks, blacks are lazy and Italians are criminals. It’s also calling yhem with insulting names ; K word ( jews ) N word and S yiddish word ( blacks ) W word ( Italians ) and M word (Irish )
We is anyone who thinks like Joseph. It does not include me.
Joseph, so in your view, anti semitism is kosher sbce we can be racists
Hakatan,
I will not comment on Zionism, except for your comment ascribing the horors of the Holocaust as a punsihment to those who followed zionism/
As others have written, the Gedolim strongly forbade leaving Europe for either the US or Palestine. Despite this, millions of Jews disregarded the psak and emigrated to the US, and a far smaller number emigrated to Palestine.
Ironically, it was the frum, chassidish , non-zionist Jews who did not leave and followed the psak who perished in the Holocaust
Kfb, there is no such thing as a free lunch. A number of years ago, when frum residents were elected to a majority of the Five Towns school district board, people such as yourself began advocating the district to pick up the customer of secular education,.
It was pointed out that once tax dollars were being spent for actual education , not just books and bussing, the same taxpayers who vote on public school budgets, would have the right to vote on yeshiva budgets. More importantly, taxpayers would have the right to sit on yeshiva boards.
Needless to say, the requests disappeared
For the same reason we do. For stews
Mashiv haruach is for Eretz Yisroel, tain tal umattar is for your locality. If an American visits Israel prior to December, wouldn’t he have to have in mind that he is saying tal umattar for Israel, not the US? And, if he returned to US prior to December 4, why would he have to continue saying it since he doesn’t want rain yet in US?
This doesn’t mqke sense. Why should taxpayers agree to pay for private school education? After all, it wouldn’t be just yeshivas. Also, what vouchers are you talking about?
There is a famous story in a book written about Jewish gangsters who grew up in religious homes. A Jewish mobster explained to a Mafiosi that he couldn’t attend a Mafia funeral because he was a Cohen. Another Jewish hit nan wouldn’t kill on Shabbos
Bumpers are there as protection for the main body of the car. If damaged, you are responsible
Xmas day has had a curious history in the US that mos people are not aware of.
In 16th century England it was celebrated with drunken revelries and other “activities”. When the Puritans came to America its celebration was banned and it would not be observed for over 200 years.
What changed? Three things. 1.large scale Irish Catholic immigration ( they celebrated the holiday,) 2. The famous poem that created the Santa Claus myth ) and most importantly_3. BUSINESS. there had been an economic downturn in the 1880’s and companies saw the newly reestablished holiday as a way to jumpstart sales
CTLawyer,
The NY State legislature is corrupt. In addition to Silver, his State Senate counterpart is currently on trial for influence peddling and trading favors in order to get his son a job. The deputy majority leader has been convicted and resigned. Two other legislators have also been convicted ( only Silver is Jewish so they’re not picking on Jews).
A lawyer in my shul was disbarred for using escrow funds; the frum attorney representing my aunt’s ex husband pulled every unethical trick in the book. Those are just two examples
The same can be said for frum ;awyers.
Newbee, the traditional way of life for native Americans the total opposite of reservation life. The western Plains Indians were hunters and followed the buffalo herds. The reservations they were forced to go live on were generally on poor land that settlers did not want and they destroyed their culture and way of life