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Oh Latvia
Never had them. Sound yummy. Can you roll out the dough and cut them into dreidels?
Not everyone likes flowers in their cookies.
Or chocolate chips.
Sugar cookies are modest. Fun in shape. And stand on the sidelines where sufganiyot and latkes take the field.
What is Litvish? Or Lithuanian Jewry? Or Litvak?
I thought that they were Chareidi Jews that came from Lithuania (dunno if Litvish is from another place or also Lithuania).
Just read something that says that they are different from Chassidic Jews. The opposite approach to Torah (controversial to word as such… how else do I say it?).
So are there Chassidic Sephardim, and Litvish Sepharadim too?
Started 2yo
10 month old thread
Bumping a couple citing Rav Kook. Recently someone told me to look him up.
5 month old thread
Bump
Yea LU. The saying is clearly outdated.
It’s about time someone corrected it
“sefardi who is begging to get into the ashkenazi yeshiva is actually discriminating against the sefardi yeshivos, implying that they are not good enough.” (WTP)
That is a projection.
Maybe the child is fatherless cv”s and his mother is Ashkenazi.
Maybe the Sephardic school is too far and Ashkenazi is better than public school. Home schooling is not an option here.
Even if the Sephardic schools are not up to par, that doesn’t mean that the student who is Sephardic is discriminating against Sephardim by applying to an Ashkenazi school.
Is that not like saying that sending an inner city child who happens to be African American to a suburban school that is predominantly Caucasian is discriminating against African Americans?
How does that even make sense? Perhaps the parents are sending their children to schools based on the reality of what the school offers compared to the other options.
Depending on their options and availability of resources, parents evaluate schools based on numerous criterions.
Factors that affect why someone chooses a particular school for their child:
*Tuition, including costs for additional children after the first tuition
*Distance, location, transportation options.
*Religious values, hashkafah, Zionist stance
*Socioeconomic standing of population and alumni
*Reputation, includes educators and how the school disciplines and responds to complants
*Substance use policies
*Quality of educators, their educational backgrounds, degrees, experience
*Facilities, condition of classrooms, technology
*After school and before school care, options for parents who work longer hours.
*Nurses and medical assistance on staff for acute illnesses, and/or to assist students with chronic health issues
*Proportion of students who go on to complete higher education, university, and/or yeshiva
*Handicap accessibility
*Disability accommodations
*Special needs education services
*ESOL programs
*Inclusion of secular subjects
*Diversity of student body
*Inclusion of parental input and involvement in classroom affairs
*Multimedia technology, including computer permissions and typing homework assignments
*Judgment of parents, protocols, which includes whether or not parents are allowed to have smartphones, Internet access at home, and standards of Yiddishkeit
*Parental biases
*Community biases
*Single sex classrooms vs. Coed
*Emotional feeling when they visit or gut reactions
*Who they want their child to marry and what school will set their child up best based on what they can afford
*Hashem’s Will, and their prayers to be guided accordingly
Who lives in a bubble? Sephardi and Adhkenazi parents still love their children and want to give them the best. Choosing one school over another does not necessarily mean they are rejecting the other. Sometimes one is a better fit for the moment and their needs.
Anyone bake their own donuts?
Two plus two equals meetz agvanyot
Health: Not sure how every 8-10yr has enough life experience and awareness to be solely responsible for gauging whether or not a scene is safe.
Also you’re saying that every child 8+ needs to have a cell phone on hand for emergencies.
What if more divorces = more children from different combo neshamas?
Like this man and woman had children with their unified neshamot.
And now when they remarry they will unite with another person to have children whose souls wouldn’t have been brought down otherwise.
Then again maybe having more divorces equates to less children for each individual overall. And less of a chance to have more children in the next marriage, if that, since the years spent during a divorce and dating again may reduce the frame of fertile years.
All of them 🙂
It’s Shake N Bake, and I helped.
Break me off a piece of that Kit Kat bar.
Easy breezy beautiful Cover Girl.
If you’re good to your car, your car will be good to you, Jiffy Lube.
Trix are for kids.
I feel like chicken tonight.
The best part of waking up, is Folger’s in your cup.
They’re Grrrreat! [Frosted Flakes cereal]
Snap, crackle, and Pop. [Rice Crispies cereal]
Pardon me, would you have any Grey Poupon?
To round up a minyan?
To get a giraffe for dinner?
5yo thread
Encore
Do you have to wait until actual dawn/sunrise to daven shacharis?
golfer +1
The maccabees thing could be a graven image. But it’s not all “goyish.” We are all human and enjoy similar things, like sharing out lights and bringing warmth to the darkest time of the year.
I thought that the rabbonim say to put our Channukiot by our windows.
Is that like being goyish? With Christmas candles and trees by the windows?
I think it’s a testament to how much we can be openly Jewish in the US.
What if instead of outrage we saw it with gratitude that someone Jewish felt safe enough to blast Channukah with such a flashy promotion.
Health has a good point about checking for safety before calling for help right away.
Cv”s there is gang violence at the scene. Someone walking into that scenario best run for cover and maybe leave the area to protect him or herself before calling for help.
WTP: Do all the people answering the phone on emergency calls understand English?
In my Israeli experiences, I panic and call out for help in English. Hebrew takes too long to formulate in distress.
Btw thanks for the visual for an ambulance.
I wonder what happens when people need all three? Who do you call then?
Sending you heart energy.
I’m sorry for your loss takahmamash, which is also a loss for Klal Yisroel and. Your childhood rav sounds like an amazing and great neshamah. May his name be a blessing to us all.
May you find comfort with the mourners of Zion. ?
6yo thread
Bump please
Back in the day, sugar was super expensive. Only nobles could afford it.
That we can afford to bake treats in itself is cause for rolling out holy day cookies.
Shlomiel +1
It sounds like a couple thing where both participate together. I think it’s a great idea and hopefully will be something to implement.
Forecast Barriers to Shalom Bayis classes:
*Cost of attendance
*Timing/Needs to work with both the kallah and chosson’s schedules
*Location
It sounds like it would be very beneficial to do this in preparation for marriage..it could boost communication and teach couples how to best cope with stress and circumstances in theit future.
As if Jews don’t partake in eating treats at Yom Tov parties the rest of the year?
Maybe at least by thinking they can help, they move to action to get this person help.
Could hurt. Could also be better than sitting at the sidelines. They can give vital info for first responders when they arrive. B”H
He thought that maybe because the friend could have hired someone else to do the job, maybe Hashem wanted The Wolf to use his time doing something else.
Someone else could have done the job, paid or unpaid. So was he really doing a mitzvah?
Since he seemed to have doubts whether or not he did a chesed, he wanted to hear from the peanut gallery.
Well excuse me if I am being too presumptious LU, but in the US it appeared to me as though part of your break times were working into the typical sleep time. If so, your breaks would otherwise be spent sleeping, which could balance out with work hours.