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White House webpage: “Linda Douglass of the White House Office of Health Reform debunks the myth that reform will force you out of your current insurance plan or force you to change doctors.”
White House webpage: “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.”
The Yevonim.
I don’t know about everywhere, though I do know it didn’t work out too well when the National Socialist Party took over in one particular country.
CTLAWYER, as I told you a million times, everyone I’ve met from Connecticut is such a literalist.
This one, from “yakrock”, deserves to be preserved here for perpetuity:
true story…..i have a friend learning in bmg he is 23 and went out with a girl 9 times. after the ninth date he texted his mother that the date went well but he still cant get used to her looks..about 2 minutes later he got a reply from the girl,”well thats hurtful and you dont have to marry me” he realized his huge botch that he sent it to the wrong person!!!!!!!yikes…does anyone have stories about themselves like this that would like to share
Comes to show ‘ya that the old adage that it is wrong for boys and girls to be calling/texting each other is true. Even with the best of boys.
Re Obamacare, Obama swore on his mother’s life that no one would have to give up their existing insurance. A mighty lie that turned out to be.
Matan, nfgo: You’d rather have Saddam around so here could murder more Jews with his scuds? You make mighty fine Arabists!
I know someone whose hair was white at his bar mitzvah.
DY: That would be insecure for the safety of the luggage.
Yes.
Abba, where does Rav Moshe prohibit deodorant?
Abba_S: The problem with the approach you describe is that
1) once they start dating they may become infatuated or fall for each other – and then it may turn out upon further research that the match is inappropriate, and
2) if the girl says yes and then finds out within a few days, prior to the first date, that it is inappropriate, can she then change the yes to a no? Going out because she already said yes, when they know it is going to be a no thereafter, is even worse. It is a) wronging the boy and b) you might encounter my Point 1 where they both want to continue and it will be difficult to break it off, even though it is an inappropriate match.
How can the girl’s parents do all the research on the boy within 24 hours?
Unless they start their research before the boy says yes.
If she’s old enough and competent to drive a multi-ton moving vehicle capable of great harm and damage, she should certainly be ready for marriage. Back in the good ‘ole days, and not all too long ago at that, we used to get married not long after bar/bas mitzvah. One should surely not wait long after high school graduation to move on to the next phase in life.
In any event, the girl referred to in the OP is at least 23 by now and hopefully has received several mazal tovs already.
Technical meant purchasing one-time use passes instead of an annual pass.
Nu, so let’s have machlokes l’sheim shamayim. 🙂
Try: communications at agudathisrael dot org.
It’s the malach pushing him towards the fire.
If a boy is ready to get married but delays it, he can do a great deal of harm.
Don’t we have many machlokes’ in the Gemora?
having a Y chromosome is usually sufficient to get married.
Y is of a higher value than X. 🙂
“I have serious problems with Hillary Clinton, but she will probably implement policies closer to my concerns than any of the 17 current Republican candidates.”
nfgo3: What, specifically, will Madam Clinton implement that is closer to your concerns than any of the 17 Republicans?
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory rewriting history once again!
Not the Universal Life Church.
But given the value placed on it for girls but not for boys, this argument is comparable to asking whether those girls
who want to marry good learners are lamdonim and masmidim.
Bad comparison. Guys objectively should be lamdonim to the best of their ability. Girls, objectively, need not be thin. Indeed it is vanity the type of demands often place upon them.
So they claim. What determines whether a purported religion is real or not?
The Universal Life Church.
They had very much in common.
Tall girls also have it hard in shidduchim.
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/the-tall-girl-shidduch-crisis
After demolishment, don’t forget to dig up the deeply buried tzeilem and unearth it.
It seems to me that a girl being overweight these days is as big a hindrance to her finding a shidduch as lack of money was several years ago.
The problem with poor girls getting a shidduch has been fixed??
When did this issue improve?
From today’s Times regarding a different Supreme Court case decided a few months ago:
[Floyd] Abrams [the prominent constitutional lawyer]
Laws based on the content of speech, the Supreme Court has long held, must face such scrutiny.
Justice Thomas took a different approach. Any law that singles out a topic for regulation, he said, discriminates based on content and is therefore presumptively unconstitutional.
Securities regulation is a topic. Drug labeling is a topic. Consumer protection is a topic.
A recent case illustrates the distinction between the old understanding of content neutrality and the new one.
This month, after the Reed decision, the appeals court reversed course and struck down the ordinance.
Last week, a federal judge in New Hampshire relied on Reed to strike down a law that made it illegal to take a picture of a completed election ballot and show it to others, including on social media. The law was meant to combat vote buying and coercion, which were common before the adoption of the secret ballot.
Dina d’malchusa is inapplicable to choshen mishpat issues. We follow Shulchan Aruch for choshen mishpat, especially (but not only) when halacha and dina d’malchusa conflict. Generally the only possible exception to that is regarding a business transaction where we follow normative business practice, even if different than strict halacha, if the two parties operate where given normal business practices or understanding apply. But in a non-business situation, such as the OP, between two people, we follow straight halacha. Otherwise you might as well as throw out Choshen Mishpat from the S”A and just buy your State’s law books.
mazaltov: What was the story with your neighbor?
Unrelated to the OP, are divorced women expected to return their engagement or wedding ring?
What is unusual is that there seems to have been quite some quantity of jewelry gifted to her even though they were never engaged. Usually jewelry is only given after engagement, and even then prior to the wedding it typically is mostly an engagement ring and a bracelet.
Being that this was gifted prior to engagement, it might indicate it was not contingent upon getting engaged. More likely it was him hoping it would encourage her (but not obligate her) to agree to engagement.
How do you conduct shidduchim? Do you have long term “dating”, meet on your own, etc., or do you have third-party redt shidduchim that have relatively quick dating timelines? How long were you dating prior to engagement and how long were you engaged?
Also, why did you return to her some (and only some) of the jewelry she returned to you?
Were the jewelry only given to her because you were engaged for marriage?
How many of these questions are relevant and how many are just your curiosity?
CTLAWYER
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Abba_S
NO she could not have sued and won. Did you miss the year, 1964. Sexual Discrimination in hiring was NOT illegal back then.
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Ahh, the good ‘ole days!
Which Jews shall fail to merit? Shall any gentiles return?
The solution is to only hire men for the little yingerlach.
If there is an austerity budget, Likely the Buses would be the first to go.
The buses can’t go, since they’re mandated by State law.
no one can complain when busing is taken away if the increase is not passed.
Per New York State law, it is the Board of Ed that gets to choose what non-mandated services must go, not anyone else. So they might cut art or yoga before anything else.
Like Lakewood, if the options are stark, at least no one can complain when busing is taken away
In Lakewood it is the public school parents that will be in for the biggest shock come September. The elimination of non-mandatory busing for those within 2 miles of the school has effectively eliminated busing for 55% of public school students while only eliminating busing for 20% of yeshiva students (since yeshiva students are far more likely to live further away from their school, thus entitled to mandatory busing per State law.)
P.S. I read yesterday that over 8% of all Lakewood NJ properties are exempt from property tax, as compared to 1.5% in neighboring Toms River. Perhaps that is something that can be cracked down on in East Ramapo as well to raise revenue.
There isn’t anything to “crack down” on. Those are simple and legal tax exemptions for non-profits such as religious institutions. If the law is changed, it would affect non-profits statewide.
I’d prefer an overcast day on the days that I go shooting.
Please don’t shoot any innocent lions.
State law doesn’t permit a tax increase without a voter referendum approving it.
Anyone see chaplaintzvi?
Okay, you’re back to your old card tricks of repeating points that were answered. You do this with everyone.
A ban on abortion will have exceptions. The vast majority of pro-lifers support exceptions. It is pointless addressing scenarios of a never-happening proposal of outlawing abortion when, for example, the mother’s life is at risk. Despite Walker. Even if Walker is President.
Yes, people have been starving and have had to steal food to survive. Whether in remote areas or non-remote areas. And that was just an example. I could offer any of another two dozen examples.
Your comments are nonsensical. I’m not going to sit here and rebut every time you repeat the same nonsense and non sequitur over and over by shifting a few words.
What “revenge”? There is no revenge. If there’s no money there’s no choice but to cut out what the law does not mandate. Like art. I said *if* the State does not provide the appropriate funding counting all children in the district.
I’m looking at a number of pictures of Rav Gifter and Rav Hutner and neither have anything close to being mistaken for a chup even though neither suffered hair loss.
Actually you are correct. We DO want to control men and women in preventing them from doing inappropriate things. Like theft, killing, abortion and destroying property.
Yes, we know sometimes those things are permitted in exceptional cases. You should be advocating that theft be legalized; after all maybe someone will be starving in remote Alaska and find an empty hut with food and be forced to steal the food just to live, before he can pay it back. Just taking your logic to its logical extreme.
You are permitting starving Jews to die by not advocating the legalization of theft!
The fact is that your motives are not what you are representing them to be.
I addressed the issue with Walker. Read above. And your proposition of either all or none is preposterous and unrealistic. I can ask you a million what ifs. What if you were forced to let die either your boss or your neighbor, who would you let die?