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They purposely over-predicted it. The politicians are afraid they’ll be accused of under-expecting it, like some others were several years ago, so they decided to falsely over-predict so they can’t go wrong. (Whose going to care if they wasted money unnecessarily over-preparing, closed transportation unnecessarily and closed the schools if they got everyone convinced it was really expected to be humongous?)
JosephParticipantcharliehall: Israel most certainly does disenfranchise voters of minority parties by repeatedly raising the threshold that parties (including minority voters and arab parties) require to enter the kenesset, thus putting to waste votes for parties that missed the threshold.
January 26, 2015 1:04 pm at 1:04 pm in reply to: Why is everybody anti anti-vaccine theories, a dissertation #1100473JosephParticipantSam: Some people can know beforehand that they are more likely to benefit from not taking a certain vaccine (and thus avoid whatever side-affects/risks) based on their medical status, family history and/or demographics. Or a test, as you suggested.
JosephParticipantsidi: During the summer some people are uncomfortable wearing more than a t-shirt, shorts and sandals. And when needing to catch mincha won’t run home to change. That’s them. Are they yeshivish?
January 26, 2015 5:37 am at 5:37 am in reply to: Why is everybody anti anti-vaccine theories, a dissertation #1100469JosephParticipant2scents: That is not necessarily true. There can be circumstances where doing something is good for society but bad for the individual.
JosephParticipantMy plumber is a beis yaakov girl.
January 26, 2015 3:12 am at 3:12 am in reply to: Why is everybody anti anti-vaccine theories, a dissertation #1100465JosephParticipant“And that selfishness is what will kill people.”
charliehall: So you agree that there are circumstances where though society would benefit from universal vaccination, it may be various individuals are better off doing without the vaccination (and whatever risks/side-affects it poses)?
JosephParticipantWhat’s an “open house”?
JosephParticipantNo real yeshiva guys are embarrassed to dress like yeshiva guys. The only ones embarrassed are the fakers; like those who go to places with immodesty.
JosephParticipantGive her a Paula Young catalog.
January 25, 2015 11:47 pm at 11:47 pm in reply to: Why is everybody anti anti-vaccine theories, a dissertation #1100462JosephParticipantprofound: You entirely failed to grasp Veltz’s underlying point. Namely that it is conceivable that vaccines ARE very beneficial to society. But that individuals may, in some circumstances, be better off with not vaccinating with various immunizations despite the fact that everyone can agree society at large IS better off.
JosephParticipantI don’t think there’s any usual. Sometimes he goes to her town and sometimes she to his. There’s no rule on this.
JosephParticipantWhy are you going, and even worse – taking your innocent children! – somewhere they have what you call prutzos dancing at?
JosephParticipantWhy should it be reversed?
January 25, 2015 9:29 pm at 9:29 pm in reply to: Why is everybody anti anti-vaccine theories, a dissertation #1100458JosephParticipantVeltz: Why would you think that your pediatrician might not have your child’s best interests as his priority (and what is his ulterior motive)?
JosephParticipantThe OU is national and nothing specific to the East Coast. While the cRc is regional, they are not universally accepted even in their own region.
JosephParticipantBarry: Telex machines are still in service.
January 25, 2015 4:27 am at 4:27 am in reply to: what are the job options for a bais yaakov type girl? #1055356JosephParticipantYD: Did you ever use a plumber who was a Bais Yaakov grad?
JosephParticipantTorah Times.
JosephParticipantLechem mishna.
JosephParticipantDY: As a parent you wouldn’t advise your adult son if he ate food that didn’t have a proper hechsher? Is kibud av any less?
January 25, 2015 3:52 am at 3:52 am in reply to: what are the job options for a bais yaakov type girl? #1055355JosephParticipantSheitel machers can easily get paid $40 and more.
JosephParticipantIf the insurance company finds out they can not pay a claim, which can be a major issue if it is a major claim, especially one that you were at fault at and your insurance company doesn’t pay the other party tens of thousands of dollars or more.
(That being said, on behalf of frumnotyeshivish I hereby inform you that it is not always assur and many people do it and take the risk.)
JosephParticipantTelegrams are more nostalgic.
JosephParticipantCheeseburgers, also, aren’t always assur. Your argument means we should stop saying it is assur.
JosephParticipantCom: What will be odd?
January 21, 2015 2:21 am at 2:21 am in reply to: Gafne: There is No Such Thing as a 'Working Chareidi' #1053032JosephParticipantIt’s clear that there was a miscommunication or bad translation from the original Ivrit. He is actually saying there’s no sub-category called “working chareidim”. Anyone who listens to the gedolim is who he represents. And that those in yeshiva are on a higher level than those working.
JosephParticipantubiq: There are many readers who do not want to see any photos of women. And that is for shmiras einayim purposes. You may think it is overboard but they earnestly hold that it is the most proper form of having shmiras einayim.
JosephParticipantSam: I agree with DaasYochid’s comment to flatbusher when DY told him “You are not trying to understand Chazal, there’s nothing particularly difficult about it. You are arguing with them.”
JosephParticipantHey, listen, if you say “there’s a great chance it isn’t categorically assur” then bon voyage. Enjoy your mixed gym attendance. After all, why give up a “great chance” to do something that “isn’t categorically assur”?
And enjoy the cheeseburger in the mixed gym cafeteria.
JosephParticipantI bet she would be opposed to it. But in my opinion that is certainly far less severe than splattering her photo over millions of newspaper front pages. 1, the book is less prominent, 2, it has a much more useful tachlis than a newspaper, 3, its read by a higher Torah-level audience. But this is just my opinion.
JosephParticipantYou shouldn’t tell people it’s assur to eat a McDonald’s cheeseburger since someone might have gotten a heter to do so (for example if he was stuck somewhere without kosher food and would starve otherwise.) If someone posts a question here asking if it’s okay to eat in McDonald’s, the response should be to ask a Rov.
JosephParticipantThere are excellent reasons not to publish photos of any women, as I previously explained. Additionally, tznuah women such as Rebt. Kanievsky would certainly not WANT their photos splattered over millions of newsprints out of their own deep sense of modesty.
And as DY pointed out, it is disrespectful to be intolerant of those who out of modesty or deep religious observance choose not to print or view photos of women. Who are you to demand they go against their principles and print or view such?
JosephParticipantpotpie: And if you knew someone who got a heter to go mixed swimming (only place available for exercise and swimming lessons lol) or mixed dancing, would you then say, hey, it isn’t really such a clear issur – after all the aseres hadibros doesn’t say “Do not go mixed swimming”?! Everyone should ask their Rov about mixed swimming and dancing, no?
January 19, 2015 4:06 am at 4:06 am in reply to: Firestorm After �Der Zeitung� Deletes Hillary Clinton from Iconic Photo #1052863JosephParticipantoomis: The Gemora in Sanhedrin says if Jews have a “minor practice” (i.e. a chumra) of wearing a shoelace a certain way (for modesty reasons, says Rashi, so it fits into this discussion quite neatly) and they tell us “hey, that’s too Jewish, you better wear your shoelaces differently or we’re gonna kill ya”, you gotta be ready to give up your life rather than change the shoelace chumra.
January 19, 2015 12:39 am at 12:39 am in reply to: Firestorm After �Der Zeitung� Deletes Hillary Clinton from Iconic Photo #1052858JosephParticipantHaLeiVi: ???? ???? isn’t applicable on the image of a deceased woman, under the circumstances (???????) where ???? ???? would have been forbidden had it been a living person?
oomis: Changing shoelace colors, under the conditions I mentioned, is something we’re required to refuse to do even if our lives are at stake.
JosephParticipantIn the morning it wasn’t very visible and I don’t think most people realized how slippery the conditions were.
JosephParticipantThere’s nothing controversial about the answer to this question. It’s straightforward. Hence the comparison to questioning stealing.
JosephParticipantflatbusher: Should we ask our rav if we can steal or can we rely on posters that say it’s assur?
JosephParticipantHow do you avoid the bishul akum issue on food prepared in the shop on Shabbos?
January 18, 2015 4:43 pm at 4:43 pm in reply to: Firestorm After �Der Zeitung� Deletes Hillary Clinton from Iconic Photo #1052851JosephParticipantIf they make fun of our chumras then we certainly must keep our chumras up. I remember it saying somewhere that if we have a chumra of wearing a certain color shoelace we should give up our life rather than drop the chumra if they try to make us give it up.
JosephParticipantEverything strictly goes through the shadchan for the first five or so dates.
January 18, 2015 2:38 pm at 2:38 pm in reply to: Firestorm After �Der Zeitung� Deletes Hillary Clinton from Iconic Photo #1052834JosephParticipantzd, your consistent logical obtuseness is astounding.
JosephParticipantAbsolutely assur for both men and women. Men because of the pritzus they’ll see and women because of their state of undress in front of men.
January 18, 2015 3:16 am at 3:16 am in reply to: Men.. How Do Make Your Entrance Into Shabbos? #1055009JosephParticipantEnough time to go to the mikva and say Shir HaShirum before Mincha.
January 18, 2015 3:14 am at 3:14 am in reply to: Firestorm After �Der Zeitung� Deletes Hillary Clinton from Iconic Photo #1052824JosephParticipantJust as this website uses AP and other newswire stories and photos under license, by paying an annual or whatever, Hamodia, Yated, HaMevaser and whoever else also officially use newswire stories and photos under license with the newswires. Unless you have proof HaMevaser is bootlegging the photos, which you don’t since they aren’t, let it rest.
January 16, 2015 9:19 pm at 9:19 pm in reply to: Firestorm After �Der Zeitung� Deletes Hillary Clinton from Iconic Photo #1052821JosephParticipantWolf: HaMevaser does NOT hold itself to be journalism. They simply strive to print the news on paper and distribute that paper to the heimish community to make them aware of relevant and interesting news. If you want to call them journalism and journalists, that’s your prerogative. That isn’t something they seek or see themselves as. Call them whatever you want. Maybe non-journalism. They don’t seek nor care to meet journalistic standards or be “journalists”. And that is their right.
JosephParticipantNo pictures is a good geder (at minimum.) Once you have a no picture rule it is almost impossible to have someone start judging she’s tznius, she’s not, etc. There are too many gray areas. And it is subjective sometimes. Furthermore, and perhaps more importantly, it is best to not look at any women altogether if it can be avoided and isn’t essential. So to follow this path of the righteous the best policy is to avoid it altogether, especially since it certainly isn’t vital to see the pictures and it can be avoided.
JosephParticipantcherrybim: +1 on both comments.
RebYidd: Shouldn’t your screen name be RebJew or RebYehudi?
mdg: Strawmen questions. (As an aside, the answer to your 3 rhetorical questions above are not all no, in any event.)
In addition to Yiddish, Ladino also has a certain sanctity to it.
January 15, 2015 6:14 am at 6:14 am in reply to: Question of the century: how do ppl graduate college?? #1051919JosephParticipantQuestion of the century: how do ppl graduate college??
Many ways to do so:
1. Cheat your way through. Get the answer keys. Peek over at your neighbors exam. Bribe the professors.
2. Hack into the university computer and upgrade yourself to A’s.
3. Make a fake resume listing Harvard as your alma mater and having graduated summa cum laude.
4. Have an IQ of 160 and just know everything.
5. Study hard, sweat out overnight cramming and prepare for exams.
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