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Are the one’s bottle in Mexico labeled with a hechsher? Otherwise how are they identified differently from the American bottled kaluahs. And where are the Mexican bottled product available for purchase? (I hadn’t noticed them for years in heimishe alcohol stores, but then again I don’t frequent those places.)
Isn’t kaluah no longer kosher?
Depending how far you want to avoid German products, here is some starting points:
Made in Germany: Most pencils (i.e. what you use in school)
Invented in Germany: Aspirin (as zd mentioned), frankfurters (hot dog), MP3, the pregnancy test, standard sizes for envelops, office paper, printers, notebooks, ring binder, filling cabinets
German brands: Hugo Boss, Escada, Siemens, Fanta soda (before Coke bought it – fantastisch, i.e. fantastic), Nivea, Agfa, Adidas, Puma
Put a lot of crazy glue on the teacher’s chair.
German products are known for being high quality.
FFBBT613: A Kollel life is by far the best decision a new couple can choose. Giving up materialism for ruchniyus is almost a no-brainer. What you gain far exceeds what you lose. While it isn’t always possible for everyone to achieve this lofty goal, anyone who can would be foolish throwing this once in a lifetime opportunity away. To get places in life we all need to make some sacrifices. But at the end of the day you will be happy you did.
Hertz is and always was American.
zd: Aspirin is manufactured by many companies, not just Bayer. Besides that aspirin’s patent expired long ago, Bayer lost all its American trademarks and patents at the onset of WWI.
Those two schools that accepted your daughter are great schools.
There are two separate but true points: 1) We are better than others in that our prevalence rate, while it exists, is notably better than the non-Jewish world and 2) There are multiple cases of false accusations of abuse being alleged against innocent teachers and others.
The problem with the restart fix is that it does nothing to prevent the issue from reoccurring.
YW29: K9 provides telephone support for free users of their program?
Sounds like you could benefit with a shiddich of a gentleman with a similar background, something along the lines of being BT with a very Chareidi outlook with a couple of asterisks to that qualfication like yourself. (Of course the details can vary.)
So you’re suggesting that the Roshei Yeshivos of Lakewood share a large part of the blame for fewer Jewish girls being able to get married as a result of the age gap?
How does it allegedly “prevent shidduchim”?
For how long after shkiah can mincha still be davened?
Can people generally eyeball the hats on people’s heads and point out which are and which aren’t Borsalinos, even when both are the same style?
Otherwise, is the “peer pressure” spoken of referring to what yenem’s sees on the yeshiva hat rack when spying yenem’s label?
People illogically pay more for a brand name of the same quality as a non-brand name all the time. That they willingly pay more doesn’t tell you that it isn’t the same. Indeed, sometimes a factory sells the same product to different companies that each white label it and sell it at greatly different prices. Even some automobiles from different manufacturers, priced differently, are actually made by one of them and sold by the other under its own brand and pricing. Many of the Kirkland Signature (to take a prominent but far from only example) you buy in Costco are in fact national brands that Costco white labeled and sells for considerably less (with the agreement they won’t reveal which actual brand name manufacturer produced it.)
What is your source that for the purposes of Ona’a a different brand name is sufficient to be considered a different product from a comparable competitive product?
For the purposes of Ona’a, what makes you certain that a Borsalino is considered as not being the same product as a competitive brand of comparable quality?
So it is your contention that if Borsalino (assuming it is under the jurisdiction of halacha) were to tomorrow raise prices from today’s $275 a hat to $575 for it’s lowest-cost hat, there are no Ona’a issues with such a price raise?
Beeper?
apy: So if one doesn’t say it everyday, in your venerable opinion it makes no difference if the one day it is said is today versus on August 27th?
The idea that a product is being overcharged for is an entirely legitimate complaint that enforceable halacha recognizes under Ona’a.
Sure. His name is Bill de Blasio and his number is 311. If it can help him drum up votes or otherwise if he can shut down the city to avoid the slight chance of a real storm where he’ll be accused of not doing enough, he’d be happy to do so.
SiDi: What percent of your contacts are on Whatsapp? And the ones on telegram, are they also on whatsapp?
How and in what way is your broadminded mindset and stylishness noticed by others? (Obviously they must be if you attribute your lack of dates to those factors.)
flatbusher: They are on a higher madreiga. But most are not high enough that they care about no gashmius.
Parliament should be abolished and a monarchy established with a ben Dovid as melech, as the Torah provides.
What’s the point of using this telegrap app if the vast majority of your contacts don’t use it but rather use whatsapp instead?
apy: Today is no more or less than any other day, per your contention?
How did a small number of tzadikim daven Shachris long after the normative zman? (i.e. even after chatzos. Even forming a minyan, in some instances. And mincha/maariv were davened at irregular times by some of these tzadikim as well.)
Source?
Lenny’s pickles are only second best.
Is it muttar to be the tenth man for a minyan before mincha gedola for those who hold an earlier zman than you? If so, from when?
Can you walk into a shul and point out anyone who is wearing a non-Borsalino black fedora shaped and colored as any Borsalino?
Many of the jobs mentioned here are entirely unsuitable for girls from beis yaakov families, as they put the women in compromising positions that if not entirely a halachic violation put great stumbling blocks in front of the girls working in those environments every day.
Only slight exaggeration, but the point remains. Their are many non-Borsalino fedora’s that are virtually indistinguishable to the eye from an actual Borsalino and yet cost a fraction of the price. Even given a lower quality and higher replacement time-frame, the cost savings are significant.
With the Mayor predicting a mere few hours ago the worst blizzard in the history of New York, bringing 40 inches or the like, and in reality getting 6 inches… yeah, “not an exact science”.
Buy a Chinese knockoff and brand it Borsalino. No one will know the difference of what you’re wearing after having paid $25 for the hat. And if it only last four months, $75 per year (i.e. replacing it three times a year) for what looks like a Borsalini is still considerably cheaper than a real McCoy.