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Are you Ashkenazic or Sephardic?
Many gedolim refused permission to photograph them because they hold pictures are a form of idolatry.
Shabbos Shich
Chazal also tell us in the Gemora that Hashem will allow Jews to “be hunted down like animals in the field” if we create a State in EY and violate our oath of “Shelo yaal bachomah”. That happens to be the worst punishment described anywhere in the Torah. Killed and hunted like animals. Those are the words. “ani matir es basarchem ktzvios uk’ailos hasadeh” – “I will permit your flesh [to the goyim] like game in the fields.”
My point about the US crime statistics is that most of the violence constitutes from drug dealers killing each other, domestic violence (by husband, boyfriend) and other similar and other situations that have little effect on Jews and generally occur in neighborhoods away from where we live.
For a better example look at the crime statistics in the police precints in Boro Park, Midwood, Williamsburg, Monsey, Lakewood, Teaneck, Toronto, Melbourne, etc., and what you’ll find is that they are from the safest areas in town with a very very low level of violence.
You’re also ignoring the number of deaths and injuries Israelis suffer every time a new war with other countries or Hamas, Hizballah, etc. or intifada breaks out and the number of military deaths and injuries, in addition to any civilian deaths and injuries.
Natfush: In Golus Jews are safe nowhere. Not in Israel and not in the diaspora. But bderech hateva today, Jews in major Jewish communities around the world have a better safety record from war and violence than the Jews in Israel.
The primary reason this is being pointed out is to counter the false Zionist narrative that their State is a security safetynet for Jews around the world. The reality is that claim is false.
1. Yerushalayim and its frum neighborhoods is not in the West Bank. And the violence has repeatedly reared is head there.
2. Your US stats mostly constituted black-on-black crime, primarily from drugs and certainly stats that are of little effect on Jews. Your Israeli stats, otoh, was mostly compromised of Jews.
Clinton isn’t a decent person either.
Charlie, if Israel elects a bigot or theocrat as prime minister, will you advocate the Jews leaving the country?
They are being killed in the streets of the State of Israel, correct. It most certainly makes a deep impression on me.
I said Jews, not minority-on-minority inner-city drug gang killings far from Jewish neighborhoods. Jews in Israel are more likely to be the victim of a violent crime and targeted for violence because they are Jews, than Jews living in any major Jewish community outside of Israel.
And Jews in Israel are far more likely to be killed or maimed in war or war related casualties than Jews anywhere else in the world.
SDD: The days a male is not permitted to look in a mirror are these days. At least if one considers S”A to be current and is one’s guide.
My edicts are issued by my will alone.
You may not.
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The OP presented a version of so-called facts that pretended that Israel is physically safer for Jewish living than the diaspora. He, or rather the lady he quoted, is factually incorrect.
Jews are murdered and are maimed proportionally less in the diaspora than they are in the State.
There’s no less a mitzvah to live in New York than to live in France.
More Jews are murdered in the State of Israel, including proportional to their population, than Jews murdered in New York or even France. Proportionally or hard numbers. Same point applies to more Jews being assaulted in the State of Israel than Jews being assaulted elsewhere.
this is precisely what is already happening in France and New York.
She’s mixing up New York with Tel Aviv. Killing Jews in the street is mostly happening in the State of Israel. Even France doesn’t have it as bad as the Israelis.
New York should become the safe-haven for French Jewry.
Whats the moral of this question?
Stand up for your religious principles and rights.
If you don’t pronounce it correctly then you’re gonna burn in hell for 11 months.
(That should give Wolf a CR closing statement for the next three years.)
It is more cost effective for the board to have separate buses for separate schools. And since boys and girls go to separate schools, it’s cheaper to bus them separately. Especially considering they have different hours. So it will cost the district more to combine the schools especially after the boys schools make sure their hours don’t align with the girls schools.
Some communities are a bit more acceptable of what isn’t so acceptable in halacha.
The state could (I don’t know what they will do) then place those children (who want public school) in outside districts and pay those districts directly, subtracting that amount from any funds the state normally pays to the district itself. Certainly reasonable if the number of public school children within the district drops (which has to be expected).
I don’t know if you’re correct that they could do that, but assuming they can and did, are you suggesting they will place the entire public student body of Lakewood (or East Ramapo) in outside school districts, thus leaving the town with no more public school? I don’t know that would even be logistically practical to do, but even if it were – and were done – at that point the town no longer has any public schools so they can lower taxes to cover only special ed and busing and everyone lives happily ever after. 🙂
OTOH, what you suggest will cost the State far more since the State will have to pay the full cost of placing the students in out-of-district schools while the State currently does not pay the full cost to cover the public school students in school. (Local taxes cover most.)
1) R – Cruz, D – None
2) R – impossible to predict, D – Clinton (shoe-in)
3) Rubio
4) No indictment. If Bloomberg gets in (which is very unlikely), he’ll hurt the Democrats.
Why wouldn’t it need one?
The realtor or landlord can’t do anything if your door is locked and they can’t get in. And they’re not going to file an expensive court case because they had to come back Sunday or Monday instead of Saturday.
You have the right to privacy. You could have been having private issues at a particular time and needed to reschedule a visit for another time. The landlord doesn’t have the right to come anytime he wishes. He needs to coordinate with you and obtain consent for the time.
ZD: What you suggest is narishkeit and impractical. It would cost the Board of Ed much more to have the same bus route drop off children at multiple different schools. Furthermore, the boys and girls schools have different hours. The boys come earlier for shachris and leave later. And if there are some boys and girls schools that have the same hours, if the Board tried mixing the boys and girls schools will change their hours to make it impossible to mix the students.
gavra: If the district runs out of money, and the State offers none, it will be the black and hispanic public school parents running to the State begging for money to restore all the gutted non-mandatory classes, leaving the public schools with a skeleton curriculum of mandatory-only courses and hours.
LC: The tax shortfall to cover the school budget is much much greater than the cost of courtesy busing for private school students. Most of any tax increase will cover public schooling, not courtesy busing.
It would, from an economic standpoint of the private school voter base, be more cost effective for the voters to vote down all future school tax increases, even if that means forfeiting courtesy busing, and simply have the parents privately pay for the busing of the students too close to school to qualify for mandatory busing. This will cost them less than the needed tax increase to cover the annual school budget shortfalls. Of course exercising this option will mean the public schools will fail since they will not have enough funding to cover their school budget, unless the State fixes the formula to provide State school funding.
ZD: Busing for private schools is not a courtesy; it is mandatory by law.
And courtesy busing is provided equally to both public and private schools. And public school students use courtesy busing at a much higher percentage than private school students. (In Lakewood almost half the public school kids use courtesy busing, while less than a quarter of yeshiva kids use courtesy busing.) Cutting courtesy busing will proportionally hurt public school students much more than the loss will hurt private school students. Especially in towns where it is dangerous for little school children to walk to school, due to the heavy local traffic, even if it is “only” a 2 mile walk.
And the typical public school student doesn’t have an available parent to take him to school, and pick him up, every day. The yeshiva students are much more likely to have that.
LC: And if the local electorate, in our democracy, vote no to taxes, then the law is quite clear that local taxes don’t get raised.
BTW, no one is forcing Atlantic City to raise local taxes.
Lakewood is in New Jersey.
When the public schools lose art, gym, culture and other non-mandatory courses, and are left with a bare-bones curriculum, the State might elect to provide additional funding.
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On a related note, Eilat is in chutz la’aretz.
Sam: Olei Bavel weren’t Machzik the equivalent boundaries of the current State of Israel.
LC: You missed my point (I think). The public school children will be losing a lot more services than the private school children will be losing due to the inevitable austerity budget.
Do you want the chasidishe pronunciation or the litvishe pronunciation?
Let a bunch of pigeons loose and watch the bird show. It is so original that I doubt anyone did it before at a simcha.
It isn’t a competitive site.
gavra: If the State doesn’t give the town additional education funds, it will inevitably force further cuts in non-mandatory public school programs and courses. Even if you cut all non-mandatory courtesy busing, there is still a major ongoing annual deficit in the school budget. And legally taxes cannot be raised without local voter consent, which as you see isn’t happening. So the only possibility left is to cut all non-mandatory services, most of which (by far) comes from public school children.
chaplainzvi and gefen got married via the CR.
That was a remarriage/confirmation ceremony.
But what about yummycupcake?
Quacky: They’re wrinkle-free.
George, from Walmart.
My clothing is boring and one dimensional. Why is that a problem? Am I supposed to have people raving and talking about what I wear?
Avi, Jews who aren’t Israeli can enter Lebanon.
Abba_S: Keep us posted on today’s referendum results.