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  • in reply to: Israel's HaKaras HaTov for America #1112266
    Joseph
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    Avi: Israel is a charity recipient of the United States. And I’m talking money that America gave Israel and/or lent Israel and then forgave the debt. Not to mention the arms America sent Israel during its wartimes and between its endless wars and money America gave (and forgave any debt) to the Israeli army. And not to mention the U.S.’ defense of Israel in the UNSC for many decades by vetoing anti-Israel resolutions countless times.

    in reply to: Hobbies for men #1147176
    Joseph
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    Stamp or coin collecting.

    in reply to: Is the shechinah shoreh in the coffee room? #1113740
    Joseph
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    How about learning Torah via postal mail or email.

    in reply to: Is it mutar to listen to a shiur from your Rabbi on shabbos? #1113214
    Joseph
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    How about watching a video of your rebbi? Or of 613 Torah Avenue.

    in reply to: Differences between oberlandish and yekkish minhogim #1113158
    Joseph
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    Father/Father, Mother/Mother means the two Oberlander fathers walk the Choson to the chupa and the two mothers walk the Kallah to the chupa.

    Just like by the Chasidim.

    in reply to: Moetzes Denounces Open Orthodoxy #1116664
    Joseph
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    Rav Aharon Feldman spoke to Cross Currents and the interview is on their site today. Rav Aharon said the RCA’s statement “is totally missing the point. The problem of Open Orthodoxy does not come down to whether women should or should not be Rabbanim; it is the fact that they deny the most basic fundamentals of belief in Torah.” And that the RCA should make stronger statements than they have until now.

    in reply to: Flatbush traffic problem #1113716
    Joseph
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    CTLAWYER: Ain’t you remember the good ‘ole days of when horse and buggies used to ride down Ocean Parkway – and that magical day when Henry Ford introduced his Model T? 🙂

    takahmamash: Take the subway for 10 blocks? Besides, the guy is trying to go East whereas the subway there goes North/South. (CTLawyer can probably tell you about when they were planning to build the subway why they chose that direction.)

    in reply to: Israel's HaKaras HaTov for America #1112256
    Joseph
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    Barry: B’derech hateva America doesn’t need Israel for its survival. OTOH if America had opposed Israel from inception through today, voted against Israel in the UNSC over the decades, refused to give Israel a dollar and didn’t supply it militarily with armor and money during its wartimes and between its endless wars, b’derech hateva the State would likely not have survived. So you say it would survive on miracles? Perhaps, but that doesn’t exempt it from hakaras hatov to its great benefactor or give it right to stab it behind its back because “everybody spies on everybody”.

    in reply to: Israel's HaKaras HaTov for America #1112247
    Joseph
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    Not to mention the fact that all the “aid” is actually loan guarantees that lower interest rates (although Israel has never defaulted).

    Between 1974 and 1989, $16.4 billion in U.S. military loans were converted to grants (and this was the understanding from the beginning.) Indeed, all past U.S. loans to Israel have eventually been forgiven by Congress, which has undoubtedly helped Israel’s often-touted claim that they have never defaulted on a U.S. government loan. U.S. policy since 1984 has been that economic assistance to Israel must equal or exceed Israel’s annual debt repayment to the United States. Unlike other countries, which receive aid in quarterly installments, aid to Israel since 1982 has been given in a lump sum at the beginning of the fiscal year. Israel even lends some of this money back through U.S. treasury bills and collects the additional interest. In addition, there is the more than $1.5 billion in private U.S. funds that go to Israel annually in the form of $1 billion in private tax-deductible donations and $500 million in Israeli bonds. The ability of Americans to make what amounts to tax-deductible contributions to a foreign government, made possible through a number of Jewish charities, does not exist with any other country. Total U.S. aid to Israel is approximately one-third of the American foreign-aid budget, even though Israel comprises just .001 percent of the world’s population. Between 1949 and 2014 the U.S. has given Israel over $120 billion in aid, about 2/3 being military aid and the rest being economic aid.

    As for Kissinger, he delayed the aid deliberately in order to extract concessions.

    When you accept charity, you don’t get to set the terms.

    Israel saves the U.S. far more in research and development than it was given.

    No. The amount given, as noted above, is far in excess of any return.

    Then there is all the scientific and other inventions and so many more benefits, too numerous to mention in a forum like this.

    Of course Israel benefits from far more U.S. scientific and other inventions, such as you the internet, the telephone, medical and technological, that most of what it invents is on top of US invented intellect.

    Copying and pasting without giving credit is plagiarism. Even the Islamic website that used it cited a source

    in reply to: Israel's HaKaras HaTov for America #1112240
    Joseph
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    zsdad, would you like to put up a national referendum whether Americans want to send US tax money to Israel?

    in reply to: Israel's HaKaras HaTov for America #1112238
    Joseph
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    Is using American citizens employed in American national security to spy against America on American soil or the Israeli prime minister coming to America to speak against the president a form of hakaras hatov?

    in reply to: Is it a mitzvah to get married? #1112671
    Joseph
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    Cause they’re nuts.

    in reply to: Is it a mitzvah to get married? #1112669
    Joseph
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    So why did Hashem offer that option?

    in reply to: Israel's HaKaras HaTov for America #1112233
    Joseph
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    How?

    in reply to: Differences between oberlandish and yekkish minhogim #1113150
    Joseph
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    just a post to avoid explaining your previous post.

    Sorry, I didn’t see your question. (It may have been approved after subsequent posts.)

    Is Vein and Vienna not the same place? Which part of Brooklyn are you referring to?

    The Vienner (?????) Kehilla, Kehal Adas Yereim Vien (??? ??? ????? ?????) originated in Vienna, Austria. Hence their name “Vien”. They are now headquartered in Boro Park, Brooklyn.

    Where is Chasan Sofer/Mattersdorf? Country? city?

    Yeshiva Ch’san Sofer, led by the Rosh Yeshiva the Mattersdorfer Rov, Rav Simcha Bunim Ehrenfeld shlita, who is on the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah of the Agudas Yisroel of America, is also in Boro Park, Brooklyn. His father, Rav Shmuel Ehrenfeld zt’l, the previous Mattersdorfer Rov and Rosh Yeshiva, founded Kiryas Mattersdorf in Yerushalayim.

    in reply to: Differences between oberlandish and yekkish minhogim #1113148
    Joseph
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    Based on what is your info?

    Based on being around the block.

    in reply to: Sweeping the floor in the Beis Hamikdash #1113051
    Joseph
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    My bracha for Torah613 is that she be given the honor of being the cleaning lady in the Ezras Noshim of the Beis HaMikdash.

    in reply to: Flatbush traffic problem #1113712
    Joseph
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    Then drive down Avenue I.

    in reply to: Is it a mitzvah to get married? #1112660
    Joseph
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    Pru U’rvu.

    in reply to: Differences between oberlandish and yekkish minhogim #1113146
    Joseph
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    I think it could fairly be said that most Yekkes merged into the Litvish world and minhagim and most Oberlanders merged into the Chasidic world and minhagim.

    in reply to: Sweeping the floor in the Beis Hamikdash #1113042
    Joseph
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    Who said the floors were ever dirty or needed to be swept?

    in reply to: Differences between oberlandish and yekkish minhogim #1113138
    Joseph
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    Vien is from Vienna, Austria now located in Brooklyn, New York.

    Chasan Sofer/Mattersdorf are einekelech of the Chasam and Chasan Sofer.

    All are true blue Oberlanders.

    in reply to: Differences between oberlandish and yekkish minhogim #1113134
    Joseph
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    Vien and Chasan Sofer (Mattersdorf).

    in reply to: Differences between oberlandish and yekkish minhogim #1113126
    Joseph
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    The better question is why don’t Oberlander women themselves shave, per the Oberlander halachic ruling of the Chasam Sofer.

    Or do they?

    in reply to: Tremendous Bostoner tisch #1111932
    Joseph
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    Aside from several of his children becoming Rebbe, weren’t several of his brothers also Rebbe during the last Rebbes lifetime, and now his nephews are Rebbes too?

    in reply to: Meron and Upsherins #1111947
    Joseph
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    Uber, nisht aval. 🙂

    in reply to: Meron and Upsherins #1111945
    Joseph
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    Tze shteit in der seforim hakedoshim azoi. 🙂

    in reply to: Differences between oberlandish and yekkish minhogim #1113121
    Joseph
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    Perhaps the OP added that to Wikipedia. Or got this idea about Yekkes and Oberlanders from reading Wikipedia. Or from the same source as that website got it. But I’ve never heard that. And it is common knowledge that not only are the Oberlanders currently very closely aligned with Chasidim (as can easily be eyewitnessed by walking through almost any Oberlander neighborhood) on the religious spectrum, but that for centuries many customs of Chasidim and Oberlanders have had great similarities.

    The Rema was accepted by far more than just the Yekkes right from the get-go. And not all of frum German Jewry were Yekkes. There were other hashkafos and customs among non-Yekke German Jewry.

    (Shoutout to squeak.)

    in reply to: Differences between oberlandish and yekkish minhogim #1113116
    Joseph
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    Nachumberg, which kehila are you affiliated with? In Vien I heard some of the shuls changed from Nusach Ashkenaz to Nusach Sefard. Which minhagim are you referring to?

    in reply to: Flatbush traffic problem #1113708
    Joseph
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    Go down Ave. I.

    in reply to: Differences between oberlandish and yekkish minhogim #1113112
    Joseph
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    I didn’t mention anything about Ehrlau. I mentioned Mattersdorf. Define what is “Minhag Oberland” and who follows this “Minhag Oberland” that you refer to. Because most actual Oberlander Yidden today don’t.

    And the Oberlander havara is very close to the Chasidishe havara. Certainly much closer to the Chasidishe havara than to the Litvishe or the Yekkishe havara.

    What gave you this idea that Minhag Oberland is similar to Minhag Yekke? There is a reason that the Oberlanders became very close to the Chasidim and adopted very many of their minhagim.

    in reply to: Differences between oberlandish and yekkish minhogim #1113110
    Joseph
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    Your knowledge is mistaken. By way of some examples, the Chasidim are big followers of the Chasam Sofer, who is Oberlander. Today many Oberlanders wear Shtriemals. Also take a look at Vien, which is one of the largest Oberlander Kehilos. Or Mattersdorf. And the havara of Oberlanders is the same as that of most Chasidim.

    in reply to: Differences between oberlandish and yekkish minhogim #1113108
    Joseph
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    Oberlandrers minhagim are closer to Chasidim than to Yekkes.

    in reply to: DO WE REALLY HAVE A GOOD EXCUSE TO LIVE IN CHUTZ LA'ARETZ? #1112931
    Joseph
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    DY, the American government is run by mostly all Ovdei Avoda Zora practitioners of Trinity worship, and many European countries are officially and formally Christian. So why wouldn’t all your same questions to HaKatan about utilizing Israeli government services and participating in their system apply to Jews doing the same in Christian countries?

    in reply to: DO WE REALLY HAVE A GOOD EXCUSE TO LIVE IN CHUTZ LA'ARETZ? #1112911
    Joseph
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    yytz, your stats are including the inner city minority violence and drug death rate that has little effect on white America let alone Jewish America. A Jew has a greater chance of being a murder victim in Israel than he has virtually anywhere else in the world significant number of Jews reside.

    in reply to: Flatbush traffic problem #1113703
    Joseph
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    I’m telling you the metzius, not the ideal.

    in reply to: DO WE REALLY HAVE A GOOD EXCUSE TO LIVE IN CHUTZ LA'ARETZ? #1112899
    Joseph
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    The Brisker and Satmat shitta isn’t extreme. In fact, the Brisker and Satmar shitta only differ from the Agudah Rabbonim’s shitta on a very small number of issues regarding Zionism. Namely whether to vote and accept government funding. All of the aforementioned shittas, including Agudah, are opposed to Zionism even if they participate in the government.

    in reply to: Flatbush traffic problem #1113699
    Joseph
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    then he was pulled over for going 35

    Was the ticket written out for 35 in a 25 zone?

    in reply to: Flatbush traffic problem #1113696
    Joseph
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    sdd, but if virtually everyone is driving above 25, it becomes untenable to be the only one at 25.

    in reply to: Flatbush traffic problem #1113693
    Joseph
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    I almost never see anyone driving 25 MPH or below on OP, any time of the day (unless there is heavy traffic preventing it from moving faster.)

    in reply to: Lying for the sake of Shalom #1111964
    Joseph
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    Is trespassing halachicly categorized as gezel?

    in reply to: jets thursday night game #1111631
    Joseph
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    What is the halachic difference between geneivas akum and geneiva?

    in reply to: DO WE REALLY HAVE A GOOD EXCUSE TO LIVE IN CHUTZ LA'ARETZ? #1112881
    Joseph
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    Would those demanding all Jews move to Israel have made the same demand during the times the Christian Crusaders controlled it?

    in reply to: jets thursday night game #1111609
    Joseph
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    The Mincha announcement might work once or twice, but after a time or two security will be suspicious about this boy Mincha getting lost every week or so with a different parent always looking for him.

    in reply to: Wedding Singer/Band/DJ recommendations needed asap! Thanks! #1111921
    Joseph
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    It might help people help you to say how yeshivish you are or aren’t.

    Yeshivish folks don’t hire a DJ for a chasuna.

    in reply to: jets thursday night game #1111600
    Joseph
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    we’ve got an awful lot of ????? running around!

    Gehenom is big enough for them all!

    [Attn ZD: I know you took that seriously. Thus note I was joking.]

    in reply to: DO WE REALLY HAVE A GOOD EXCUSE TO LIVE IN CHUTZ LA'ARETZ? #1112871
    Joseph
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    The Russian gentiles who moved to Israel, many of whom have a fake State conversion and many who don’t, frequently intermarry R”L with Israeli Jews.

    There are plenty of people who go off the OTD, rachmana litzan, even with good Jewish educations, and I’ve never heard any evidence that they’re less likely to marry non-Jews than other secular Jews.

    OTDs are far less likely to marry a gentile than secular or Reform/Conservative Jew. The ones intermarrying are far more likely to have left Torah Judaism multiple generations before the person with whom intermarriage r’l occurs.

    in reply to: Lying for the sake of Shalom #1111959
    Joseph
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    There’s a halachic difference between parking in someone’s driveway (which is his property) and parking in front of [blocking] his driveway (that is public property that he has some rights of way to.)

    in reply to: Sefardim and Hats – Right or wrong? #1112113
    Joseph
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    By the way, Sephardim didn’t traditionally wear a yarmulka. Should they get rid of that too?

    in reply to: Sefardim and Hats – Right or wrong? #1112112
    Joseph
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    Jews always have worn a head covering (more than a yarmulka only.)

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