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If I’m not mistaken, sforim and the Gemorah are written in Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic, not Yiddish. So, why teach Yiddish and not the other two?

LU, and how did the Torah authorities handle child molestation? Everythimg said here ( i.e. go to the Rav, don’t call the cops ) was said about dealing with molesters. Didn’t go so well, did it

Those idyllic times never existed. The community school I attended in the 1950s accepted your word that you couldn’t pay tuition, and rebeiim would go months without a paycheck. One classmate dressed in shmattes to avoid paying. His parents tried the same thing in high school. He came to class on first day in real nice clothes, explaining that the high school had a committee and wanted to see tax returns before granting a scholarship. His father was earning 100k in 1964.
My fil served on a scholarship committee in 1965. He lived in an apartment yet paid full tuition while people who owned homes and new cars were requesting and getting tuition reductions.
What I’m saying is that if you want to pay renned a living wage and pay it on time you must run a yeshiva as a business. If you give scholarships on the honor system, people will take advantage

Shiva normally starts after burial. A wrinkle comes in when the body is sent to Israel. My friend could not accompany his brother to Israel as the plane left on Sunday and his passport was in the bank vault. His rav told him to begin sitting Shiva on Sunday after the body went on the plane

Joseph, then why do you care?

Joseph, don’t be a noodnik creating problemswhere none rxist. The topic is mens beaches, not womens

Joseph, if that were the only issue, it could be defended. But they refuse to teach virtually all secular subjects, including English language, which is not defendable

Joseph, I know nothing of Footsteps. However, since you seem to be the expert, I have some questions.
A. How did you determine that they were ineffective
B. When you attended their events, how did you
figure out who the “never frum” were?
C. Regardless of the funding source, you never
answered the staffing issue

Lakewood NY is near Jamestown and doesn’t have a Jewish community

I’m curious as to what the kollel did to help with the transition.

Joseph, a lower middle class family with three or more tuitions to pay has comfort security and pleasure?

Joseph, non frum Jews didn’t adopt Yiddish. They continued to speak it after becoming non frum.

I know of a sefer that talks about a Jewish army before Moshiach, it’s called the Torah and Nach. To fight Amalek, Moshe didn’t ask everyone to sit and learn. Preparing to conquer Canaan, yehoshua didn’t order Art Scrolls, he formed an army. Whenever Bnei Yisroel was being oppressed, Devorah didn’t fight back by having everyone sit and learn. King David had armies etc

The first minyan in my shul is tied to the train schedule, the second minyan is slower. What justifiably irks people is when retirees who could go to the second minyan come to the first and complain it’s too fast and try to slow it down

This is not new. The rebbeim in my yeshiva high school ( mid 1960’s ) were products of Lithuanian yeshivas of the 1930’s who came to the US after the war. They had pulpits that didn’t pay much and taught Gemorah to supplement their income.
They were were talmidei chachomim but were poor teachers and communicators. What they were good at was alienating most of the boys from learning and being frum. By the time we became seniors and had an effective rebbe it was too late. Two years after I graduated, that “senior” Rebbe was reassigned to the freshman to get them off on a positive footing.
Note: I stayed frum ( barely ) but acquired an aversion to learning that took years to overcome . It also left me with at times a somewhat cynical point of view ( as you may have noticed)

According to the court documents , the mother violated the fathers visitation rights. In addition to ruling got the father, the judge ordered her to reimburse him for the legal costs of restoring visitation, and it was $2400, not $10000

Joseph, so with your vast experience your are confident that you can contradict the therapist

Meno, as it is everywhere, lrarners in kollel fall along the classic statistical bell curve. A students on the right, F students on the left and the B,C,D students in the middle. As long as kollels allow the C,D and F students to stay, the kollels have no call on our charity dollar.

Joseph, meanwhile please disclose which schools you obtained your facts from before you demand that info from others

CT, please stop being such a smug know it all. The kids who were protesting and the ones who were shot were lucky enough to have parents wealthy enough to pay their college tuition and thus be deferred. I was 20 and I heard how these students would taunt National Guardsmen who were often the same age but from poorer families. You only spoke to protesters ( who of course were completely unbiased ) and none of the “slaughterers”. The Guardsmen were kids with six months basic training, none of it in riot control. Given the prior days events who knows what they were expecting nor what caused the first shot. The loss of your relative is warping your judgement

akuperma, no divorce was a Catholic position, not a Protestant one and the US was predominantly Protestant, not Catholic

Joseph, many yeshivas in Brooklyn and in Ramapo don’t teach most secular subjects. Many yeshivas, including MO, don’t teach Hebrew language,certainly not conversational.
There are no trilingual, some barely bilingual. They learn Gemorah all day, if that’s what you call Aramaic instruction.

Public school kids on Long island do very well academically

Joseph, you’re not that naive. Without a marriage license, the husband’s income is excluded from the eligibility calculation. For frum yidden, it ethically wrong, if not illegal , to game the system to collect benefits they would otherwise not be entitled to.
Joseph, you asked how would a health professional know? In filling out the demographics, the mother wouldn’t have sane last name as children or the father.

Joseph, keep your comments in mind when you go back to commenting on the Kushners.

Joseph, it will never happen. Conservative justices will vote to allow a baker to exercise his right to freedom of religion and not bake a cake for a gay couple. They will NOT vote to impose the baker’s ( nor your ) views on to the gay couple. That would be just as bad as when the Catholic Church used the New York Legislature to restrict divorce based upon Catholic dogma. What if the Court ruled based on Shariah law? Outlawed shechita?
The Court/government should allow freedom of religion as well as freedom from religion