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What about Red and Tan, Short Line, NJ Transit?
As opposed to being Kosher in the box?
Joseph, your one witness example is bogus. That witness cant just say shgloime had more income. . He has to have documentation to prove shloime has more income. In addition, you apparently had no problem believing all of the Ivana allegations
Joseph, it’s not a problem in NY. Yshivad already get away with not teaching significant parts of the secular curriculum
Ubiq, it is absolute. In the restaurant, you are not consuming food without the owner’s knowledge. By placing an order, you are entering into a verbal contract with the owner to provide you with food in return for payment on completion of the meal. The issue is not eating before paying
It’s eating without prior to paying and without the owner’s knowledgeUbiquitin, the restaurant is not the same as the owner is serving the food, . A better analogy would be a cafeteria
Until you’ve paid, the food is not yours. What gives anyone the right to consume someone else’s property’? What if you forget to pay? I’ve seen open boxes of food left on shelves that we’re snacked from and obviously not paid for
Catholic schools on average pay their teachers better, on time and offer benefits.
Talented rebbeim should be paid a living wage. Where will the money come from?
Health, did you eat too many peanuts?
Ironically, recent research indicates that it is very removal of peanuts from children’s diets is what is causing the later sensitivity. Growing up, everyone ate peanuts in all forms and no one had allergies. Israelis eat peanuts virtually from birth and have virtually no incidents of peanut allergies
I understand,but why stop at peanuts. Nothing allowed that has gluten ( bread,cakes etc ) because a child might be severely allergic. No more dairy either. l
The budget passed. I looked at the non-public portions of the budget and was curious about two items. State funds were allocated for computer hardware ($160,000) library books ( _$145,000) . Don’t most yeshivas reject use of computers and English library books by their students? Amy chance that that this money will actually be used for computers and books?
Joseph, YU takes public funding so the University,( not REITS) is subject to anti discrimination laws. Take government money and you might have to hire a gay teacher for secular subjects
DY, I meant public funding of private schools
CT so, how do the frum kids go to shul,family, friends or local park on Shabbos and Yom tov?
Joseph, State money is for the state curriculum, which I believe is mandated for all schools in NY. Even if you’re right, then don’t take the money. It’s not a free lunch. If the state we’re to grant your wish and put yeshivas on an equal footing with public schools, then the yeshivas would be subject to same requirements. Their budgets would have to be made public and be subject to voter approval. Gentiles and secular Jews would be allowed to be elected to yeshiva boards etcJoseph, how come you and other private funding advocates are not makpid on all the other mandates. You’re quick to point to busing but ignore the mandated secular subjects that a good many yeshivas ignore as well. I would agree to private funding of any yeshiva that proved and documented that they taught the secular curriculum. If they don’t, why should taxpayers pay for them? Besides, you’d also then have to pay for Muslim midrassas also
Nothing to do with Ivanka,but a true convert Sion story. Many years ago the brother of an old friend of my wife married a Japanese woman and his mother was upset. The women underwent a real conversion with an Orthodox Rav and took her studies seriously but his mother was still upset. Why? Because her Japanese daughter in law continued to grow and eventually didn’t trust her mother in law’s kashrus
Joseph, in my town schools were built to minimize the distance any child would br from the closest school. Despite your unproven claims, I find it hard to believe that most public school children don’t live within easy walking distance , under a mile. If you disagree, please cite your source, not just made up numbers.
Joseph, I get it, you disagree with Rav Goren. But it’s also disrespectful to repeatedly omit his title. I disagree with most if not all Satmar positions but that doesn’t entitle me to call either brother mister.
Joseph the millions of Jews who emigrated Eastern Europe were for the most part frum. After the assassination of Czar Alexander, the pogroms became so horrific that Jews could no longer bear it. Defying the Gedolim, they began to flee in increasing numbers. The error the Gedolim made was in believing that Eastern Europe would remain a haven for frum Jews.
Nisht, the law says transportation over two miles. A board cannot pass laws to mandate transportation under two miles,. The law simply allows them to offer transportation under two miles
Joseph, the law says over two miles is mandatory,not unferNisht, it is not the law, it is s non mandated courtesy that will disappear under austerity.
Joseph, please stop making up numbers. If yeshiva kids are so close to their schools, why do they need busing? Don’t they walk to shul, family and friends on Shabbos? How big is East Ramapo that, as you claim, most kids don’t live near a school?
Nisht, it is available but not mandated unless you live more than two miles away. This primarily affects private schools as parents don’t necessarily select schools based upon proximity
But you also said all busing was mandated while gym,art and music we’re. It. Busing under two miles is not mandatory and, as you say, will be cut. I hope the parents thank you for it
Joseph, you were wrong on your other facts, why should anybody believe anything you say
Joseph, please get your facts straight. Transportation OVER TWO MILES is mandated. Under two miles is not. Art and music are also mandated. CT is right. The gym, art and music mandates apply to yeshivas too. Hi
.Joseph, why,are they over funding public school kids?
Reminds me of a true story. My sister in law’s MIL cooked eggs in the shell in her chulent. One day she asked her MIL how she got the shells to come out brown. She answered that she bought brown eggs
Joseph, once again your reality is the Twilight Zone. What is your source for your claim of “many cases “
Heavily tinted auto glass is illegal in New York as it prevents cops from being able to see inside when a car is pulled over.
Depends also on the age. Under 20, definitely input. Over 25 and they still need mommy and dad’s ok and they’ve given th a veto, the prospective spouse isn’t mature eniugh to marry
Ii left out a key word
I meant to say within a block of every frum familyI keep reading that Hatzolah responds within minutes. Joseph says there is a Hatzolah member living within every frum family in Boro Park. If one knows Boro Park, you would know that these claims are exaggerated
A, One member per block claim
Boro Park’s boundaries unofficially runs from 39th Street to 60th and from 9th Ave to 18th ( or 19th ). How doe Joseph know that each of these blocks has a Hatzolah member residing there? Does he have their addresses? Even if he is correct, you would need at least 3 members per block since members I presume leave the block to shul, to learn, to work, to doctor etc.B. Arrive within minutes claim
Boro Park is one of the most traffic congested areas in NYC, with far more cars than parking spots. The avenues, particularly 13th from 40th to 60th and the related side streets branching off, are congested all day with double parked cars, delivery trucks and busses. The numerous school buses block side streets in the morning and evening. If you have the misfortune ( as I have ) of turning onto a Boro Park side street only to find a Sanitation truck picking up garbage, it can take five minutes to get past it. Yes, the bus and truck should move out of the way, but the streets often don’t hove spaces big enough to allow them to pull over. I find it hard to believe the Hatzolah ambulances ( and the cars of Hatzolah volunteers ) don’t encounter these issues on a routine basis.LB, with all due respect, enough already. I understand that you were mekarev by Chabad, that you are enamored by Chabad but it’s not for everybody. By claiming not to understand why others don’t see things as clearly as you do and why they don’t become chabad you are in effect dismissing their hashkafas
In my out of NYC town, 911 calls are handled either by the volunteer fire department or the county police. Their response time is under 5 minutes.
Joseph, Wikipedia puts the Satmar population as of 2015 as being between 50,000 and 120,000. What are your sources.?
Thanks to automatic word checking, gadol and gadol hador became Gail and gasoline. Sorry about that
First, to Joseph. The terms Gail and Gasoline handprint, as you use them are meaningless. There was a time when calling someone with the honorific ” Hagoan” meant something because it was reserved for truly chashuvah Rabbis and Rosh yeshivas. However, as time went by, the term became commonplace and thus meaningless. That is what is happening with Gadol Hador. Everyone cannot be a Gadol or the term will become meaningless.
With regard to the Asifa, what purpose is being served? Will the draft law be changed? No. Will bochrum who continue to register and follow the rules continue to get deferments? Yes. Will a considerable amount of money be spent on the Asifa that could have been put to better use supporting the impoverished families of bochrim learning in Israeli yeshivas? Yes
You say you want to live in winter. Did you mean I’m a particular place or just to live anywhere in winter
Were words omitted from the OP?
I read the FJJ article. For the most part he paints a scary picture but doesn’t provide any hard fats. He states “lots of ‘ and” many “, bochur I’m are in prison or in hiding but does not give hard numbers. He says some individuals were arrested because they broke the rules. You can’t work while learning, the yeshiva has to have at least 25 students and the yeshivas has to be registered ( there is a one year backlog on registering new yeshivas),. He did agree that if you registered and followed the rules, no bochur is denied the deferment.
Heather, Joseph, Catholics and Jews are against abortions but for different reasons that lead to different positions. Catholic believe the fetus gets a soul at conception but cannot go to heaven if not baptized.. If I’m not mistaken, however, a Jewish baby has to live 30 dates to be considered an “official” baby. So, take the case where a woman is having a difficult pregnancy. According to every medical opinion, either the mother or the fetus can survive, but not both. The Catholics would choose the fetus over the mother in all cases as the mother was already baptized, while the fetus had not been. For Jews, however, poseks have ruled that because the fetus is not official, it can be aborted to save the mother’s life
With a Jewish child you have possible issues of momzairus. In the U.S the Jewish birth parents halachic rights are unenforceable and would be an argument against adoption if they were
Stop doing what is causing the pain
I’m not an abortion advocate but please don’t equate a fetus with a person. I may be wrong but doesn’t halacha treat the fetus differently in that if it dies less than 30 days after birth, there is no Shiva?
Joseph, I know quite a few frum Pauls. Get over it
CT, my Aunt Mary was born in Brooklyn in the 1920’s.
It was not uncommon for Hungarian Jews to name daughters Catherine after one of the Hapsburg empresses. A member of my shul is named Catherine for that reason
It would be no less Jewish than Yenta, Etka ,Shprintza , Aristoblus or any of the Aramaic names in the Gemorah.
At one point in time, they were all non-Jewish the first times they were given to a baby.