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  • in reply to: School Board Monitors in Lakewood & East Ramapo #1157065
    Joseph
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    NYC has different laws than the rest of NYS regarding property/school taxation. Very different. My comment pertained to NYS law outside NYC, and it is correctly stated.

    in reply to: Should More Mamzerim Be Created? #1118012
    Joseph
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    It’s clear from Chazal that the existence of mamzerim is itself harmful to klal yisroel. There are even dei’os that you do not say the mi sheberach at the bris of a mamzer “likayem es hayeled hazeh” since we don’t want him to survive, we don’t want the perpetuation of mamzerus amongst klal yisroel. The Gemara in Yevamos even says that Hashem will see to it that unknown mamzerim die out so they will not propegate mamzerus amongst us unknowingly.

    in reply to: Should More Mamzerim Be Created? #1118011
    Joseph
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    yytz: Shulchan Aruch YD 265:4 – “We publicize at the time of the Bris Milah that the baby is a mamzer.” The Shach there says that mamzerim are not given a Bris Mila inside the shul like kosher children are, but outside the shul. The Gra quotes the source for publicizing that the baby is a mamzer by the Bris is a Gemora in Yevomes 78b. The Gemorah there says that a Rov publicized the fact that a somebody was a mamzer. The person came to the Rov to complain and the Rov said that if I had not publicized this, you would have died.

    Rema YD 265:4 – “???????? ???? ????? ???? ????”

    in reply to: Mothering Adult Children #1118210
    Joseph
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    What if the 25 year old wants Tatti to vet all shiddduch candidates.

    in reply to: Should More Mamzerim Be Created? #1118009
    Joseph
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    yytz: The citation you made does not state or imply what you attribute to it.

    in reply to: School Board Monitors in Lakewood & East Ramapo #1157061
    Joseph
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    The NYS legislature almost passed special legislation last year granting millions of dollars to the East Ramapo School District. It was torpedoed by public school advocates who said better no money if there is no monitor with veto power.

    in reply to: Are the girls causing their own shidduch crisis?? #1120588
    Joseph
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    If girls would get married very shortly after completing 12th grade in beis yaakov, most of the shiddduch crisis would be resolved.

    in reply to: School Board Monitors in Lakewood & East Ramapo #1157054
    Joseph
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    In both NY & NJ no one can impose a local property/school tax increase without the voters approving it in a referendum. That’s the law in both States.

    in reply to: School Board Monitors in Lakewood & East Ramapo #1157051
    Joseph
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    what happens when there aren’t enough funds for all mandated services?

    The district needs to borrow or otherwise procure funds from the State or elsewhere (they can only raise taxes after a successful referendum), because by law they cannot neglect legally mandated services.

    In any event, by law they would have to cut out non-mandated services such as art, gym, culture, Pre-K, etc. before they run out of money for mandated services (such as busing). As of yet, there is still millions of dollars a year being spent on non-mandated services, such as the aforementioned examples.

    in reply to: Taking a walk with Zuberman #1117951
    Joseph
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    You delete your old emails?

    in reply to: Suggestions to Improve YWN #1225522
    Joseph
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    Any more suggestions?

    in reply to: Screen Names #1176201
    Joseph
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    We have some newbies and others who may care to share their choice of screen name and how it came about.

    in reply to: Mazel Tov! #1224402
    Joseph
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    Mazal Tov to Yossi Z’s younger sister, and the entire Z mishpacha, upon her becoming a kallah!

    in reply to: Moving Jewish Music #1118275
    Joseph
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    Mudzitz music.

    in reply to: The news everyone has been waiting for! Zuberman!'s return #1118252
    Joseph
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    Your welcome, Yossi. Were you outed as a member of the Coffee Room underground, resulting in this heartbreak? 😉 Hatzlacha on finding your true bashert! Are you back into the thick of things?

    in reply to: Should More Mamzerim Be Created? #1118000
    Joseph
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    CA: He can buy a shifcha and they can have children without him freeing her from being a shifcha. The children, who will not be mamzeirim, can be freed by their father and become geirim.

    Check the S”A Avi cited.

    in reply to: Are the girls causing their own shidduch crisis?? #1120575
    Joseph
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    technical20: What is not great about advising girls not to date longer than necessary?

    in reply to: Should More Mamzerim Be Created? #1117999
    Joseph
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    GM: Suppose the husband was away for a year.

    in reply to: Should More Mamzerim Be Created? #1117993
    Joseph
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    yytz: The halacha is that at a mamzer’s bris it is publicly announced that the child is a mamzer.

    ca: Can you repeat that in English?

    in reply to: Should More Mamzerim Be Created? #1117986
    Joseph
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    CA, I believe Avi’s idea is ruled halacha l’maaisa by the S”A as correct, regarding a mamzer having non-mamzer children with a shifcha.

    in reply to: Are the girls causing their own shidduch crisis?? #1120566
    Joseph
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    Are they that fragile?

    in reply to: Are the girls causing their own shidduch crisis?? #1120563
    Joseph
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    Had it really now become normative or common for shadchanim to charge girls before they make a shidduch?

    in reply to: Cell phone information #1118022
    Joseph
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    Treif l’chol hadeios!

    in reply to: Yeshiva Tuitions #1118740
    Joseph
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    Do you insist the school operate at a non profit or do you believe they are entitled to operate at a profit?

    in reply to: The news everyone has been waiting for! Zuberman!'s return #1118249
    Joseph
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    Welcome Back Yossi!! Everyone please help roll out the red carpet.

    Okay, the balloons are up, the fireworks is crackling and the lights are shining for the grand entrance and Beruchim Haboim.

    in reply to: Yeshiva Tuitions #1118738
    Joseph
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    I’m going to categorically refuse to pay more than the school’s annual budget divided by the number of kids.

    See DY above: “Also, having spoken to several administrators, I believe that it really does cost the tuition fee to educate your child, and the parents who can’t afford full or close to full tuition are being subsidized by the donations given to the yeshivos.”

    It really costs full list price to educate your children. The poor children’s subsidy is coming from donors not other parents.

    in reply to: School Board Monitors in Lakewood & East Ramapo #1157044
    Joseph
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    Abba, the bus companies and drivers would have been notified in advance that effective Jan. 30 the yeshiva will be opening later and no school officials or adults will be there earlier. Therefore the bus companies and drivers will know long in advance that they cannot drop them off there until the new later time. And they won’t because it is a crime of child endangerment for the driver to leave them unattended, let alone the financial liability for the company.

    LC, if the bus isn’t getting the children from the route for the second yeshiva until an hour after school starts then the district is failing to fulfill its mandate under the law to get the children to school on time. If so, the district will have to reimburse all the second route children to obtain alternate method of transportation, since they by law are mandated to get them to school on time. And the reimbursement will cost them far more than what a contracted bus route costs them. (And the can’t blame the parents or children from the second school for the fact that the first route from another school is opening later. In fact the can’t punish the parents/children from the first route either since the district’s busing mandate is to the parents/children rather than to the school.)

    in reply to: School Board Monitors in Lakewood & East Ramapo #1157042
    Joseph
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    No, when a tax increase is rejected by the voters it cannot occur anyways unless a revote is held and it is approved the second time by the voters. If it is rejected the second time, then the school budget, by law, must be reduced (from the non-mandated portions like art, pre-k, etc.)

    in reply to: Getting out of tickets using PBA cards #1117920
    Joseph
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    Someone wearing a rowdy t-shirt or hanging a picture on their window might also not have intended for people to stop and stare at it but better be able to accept when people do stop and look at it. If someone expects or hopes anyone will look at something he’s publicly displaying, such as paraphernalia on his dashboard, he should be prepared if everyone takes a look.

    in reply to: School Board Monitors in Lakewood & East Ramapo #1157038
    Joseph
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    The State cannot impose a local tax increase without the voter’s approval. Didn’t happen in Roosevelt and can’t happen in E. Ramapo or Lakewood.

    in reply to: Are the girls causing their own shidduch crisis?? #1120550
    Joseph
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    One can ruin things with bechirah.

    Can one’s bechira only ruin it for themselves or can one ruin someone else’s bashert?

    in reply to: School Board Monitors in Lakewood & East Ramapo #1157031
    Joseph
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    And if the voters vote down any tax increase at the ballot box what will happen? Mandated services including busing of private school children cannot be cut. If Yiddish can be cut out of special ed so can Spanish be cancelled out of special ed.

    in reply to: School Board Monitors in Lakewood & East Ramapo #1157027
    Joseph
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    ZD: The ER monitor has no mandate under the law. The board is free to legally ignore him and disinvite him from any participation. Their cooperation is completely voluntarily.

    in reply to: The differences between Yeshivish and Chasidish marriages #1118188
    Joseph
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    I’ve seen multiple times non-chasidish girls marry chasidish boys, but these girls went through the standard beis yaakov system.

    in reply to: Are the girls causing their own shidduch crisis?? #1120544
    Joseph
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    I read in some seforim hakedoshim some pretty harsh words against shadchanim.

    in reply to: Tortured shtachim boys #1126114
    Joseph
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    Are you talking about the case where an Arab couple and their child was murdered?

    in reply to: School Board Monitors in Lakewood & East Ramapo #1157022
    Joseph
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    Abba, that is an interesting suggestion you made about parents changing their non-mandated bussing children to a further away Yeshiva, this making him a mandated bussing student (and eliminating the savings for the board.) It is well worth considering.

    Regarding my earlier suggestion that the yeshivas modify the times, the bus drivers cannot legally dump minor children on the street in front of a closed, unsupervised, school. So the driver will be forced to wait till the Yeshiva opens up. Meanwhile the next shift of students from the other schools will need to be picked up while the first bus is waiting.

    in reply to: School Board Monitors in Lakewood & East Ramapo #1157018
    Joseph
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    There is not legal requirement to teach Special Ed students in any language besides english and no requirement to adhere to cutural requirements , you might think there is, but there isnt

    Really? Wow. Then the E. Ramapo Board of Ed can cancel all Spanish language and cultural services and save millions of dollars.

    in reply to: Yeshiva Tuitions #1118718
    Joseph
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    Does the 100K figure include your wife’s income or just yours?

    in reply to: School Board Monitors in Lakewood & East Ramapo #1157013
    Joseph
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    Abba, please address my last comment above addressed to you.

    in reply to: The differences between Yeshivish and Chasidish marriages #1118183
    Joseph
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    Do we disregard the Gemora on things that have changed?

    in reply to: Getting out of tickets using PBA cards #1117917
    Joseph
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    Placing something on your dashboard, especially with the intention for it to be seen when parking in public, is hardly a private thing.

    in reply to: Hillary is such a jerk! #1118491
    Joseph
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    It’s a package deal. With her you get the Bill.

    in reply to: Donald Trump is a jerk. #1137586
    Joseph
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    Hillary is a bigger jerk. For all his many faults, and he has many, I’d take Trump over Clinton, who has immeasurably more and bigger faults than Trump, any day of the week.

    in reply to: The differences between Yeshivish and Chasidish marriages #1118179
    Joseph
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    mdd, the Gemora says, and Shulchan Aruch paskens halacha l’maaisa, that a father can marry off (not just engage) his minor daughter.

    MDG, your didn’t answer my question where the Gemora makes the chiluk you cited in its name.

    in reply to: The differences between Yeshivish and Chasidish marriages #1118176
    Joseph
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    MDG, where in the Gemora do you read that chiluk you made?

    in reply to: Taking a walk with Zuberman #1117944
    Joseph
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    You missed syag by about half a week since she quit the CR.

    in reply to: The differences between Yeshivish and Chasidish marriages #1118174
    Joseph
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    Some abuse victims are also content to stay where they are.

    mdd, doesn’t the Gemora say that a woman would rather be married to a bad husband than to not be married?

    in reply to: The differences between Yeshivish and Chasidish marriages #1118169
    Joseph
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    I haven’t heard of that. By the chasidim the chasuna is usually a year or so after the beshow. Maybe the Litvish did it differently in pre-WWI Europe and had a quickie wedding.

    in reply to: The differences between Yeshivish and Chasidish marriages #1118167
    Joseph
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    mdd, the boy and girl always both have a right to veto the match.

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