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Joseph: Kushner is identified very publicly by his observant Jewishness, because Ivanka converted due to him (or more precisely, his mother). Which means he’ll be under a very strong microscope.

And “mit mishpacha esst men kugel” is not a Yiddish slogan for naught. Especially because of her conversion, things that can go wrong between Mr. Trump and Jared can have a snowballing effect on his family and their observance.

DY: healthcare is different in many ways. Among them that most of us already have our own doctors we prefer. Change is not good for the patient medically or psychologically. I can buy a light bulb from Washington state on Amazon (although they’re also becoming more locally based) or from my corner grocer with little impact on my day-to-day life.

If a new network wants to come to town they need to be huge for my doctor to want to join/accept it — meaning many of his potential patients will be using it. Health insurance networks negotiate favorable rates from providers by offering patients in “bulk”. So an out-of-state based network either won’t have my doctor and hospital on it (especially in the early stages when they need to get familiar with the territory and build alliances) or if they do manage to, since they’re not big locally, the bargained rates won’t be such a great bargain and nobody will gain.

And from where do you take your information from that Employer Plans are subsidizing ObamaCare? I haven’t seen that anywhere. According to a Fortune article I just read, specialty drugs are one of the top drivers of Employer premium increases — and so the reasons are many — but insurance companies seem to keep each plan separate, and dump those that aren’t profitable.

As we’ve seen from Obamacare where many insurance companies are opting out, many companies are in it for the quick buck, so when things don’t pan out as planned and profits tank, they simply make a u-turn…

Ubiq: You’re welcome…

However, benignuman seems to disagree with you about employees costs not going up under Obamacare. Perhaps not premiums in his case, but he cites a few examples of types of out-of-pocket costs that have gone up every year since Obamacare began. Every employer seeks to pay less, not more, so to fight rising premiums they’ll choose the plan that’s least costly for them, and likely costlier for the employee.

I need to mention again that health care costs have been steadily going up before Obamacare as well. What’s driving the increases nowadays (which I wasn’t aware of earlier so I didn’t mention it) are the cost of mental health, and simply more people consuming more medical care.

Wolf: correct, but now we need to replace one justice. And he or she will most likely be a conservative, given the Republican control. We don’t know what the situation will be in four years.

There’s a Remez in this thread to a shidduch idea between two posters here, but I have no clue if the ages match. Anybody can complete the puzzle for me?

Thanks for the info. Joseph.

The country already fell after the primaries. There was no way out of this…

But Wikileaks gets a lot of the credit for making the corruption visible to all the naive folks out there. Unfortunately some of the things they post are irrelevant and private nonsense.

And that doesn’t make Donald Trump a tzaddik, it just makes him lucky. If Putin or Russia had any hand in all of the leaks we are in even worse shape though.

Perhaps try shrink wrap bags and mount with double stick strips? (I never tried it, hence the question mark. Jewish party goods stores carry them for mishloach manos.)

Or if you are ready to spend try finding a water proof shadow/display box. Or perhaps you can caulk and seal the gaps of a regular wall-mountable display box. Make sure the depth is enough for your stars. If you use a “shlock” you might not even need to seal it, but of course that’s your call.

There is a virus circulating in Brooklyn now which is similar to the flu. Runny nose, fever, sore throat are the typical symptom. It takes about a week to run its course.

If you think you may be infected STAY HOME!

By sickening others they too will have a hard time catching up on school work etc. And so the cycle continues. You don’t want it on your conscience. It may seem unfair but that’s life.

Health: bringing up Helbrans here is quite underhanded. I didn’t watch the long video recently which I think you’re referring to, but no sane parent is okay with their child marrying a cult member. And usually, the child is a member first, and then marries according to their leader’s wishes, regardless of age.

In fact, I heard of a family that actually escaped a few years ago, mainly because their very young daughter was engaged to be married there. (I don’t know the ages of the Chosonim – she was actually engaged a few times; they were made to drop the shidduch and on to the next one. Really sick.) This family lives in your town now, so you can probably find out more if you try.

Thanks Ubiq for your detailed reply.

Health: curving country roads actually make drivers slow down. At least when I’m a back seat driver…

It’s the wide highway type roads that are the usual speeding magnets. However, reckless drivers drive recklessly everywhere, so maybe we can never cross the street with walkways and traffic signals in the city either.

And in the city busy streets near schools (public and private) may be without traffic signals, and if nobody writes a letter to the DOT requesting a traffic signal it stays that way. Even with a letter it’s pending approval after a drawn out review. Zoning doesn’t effect squat.

There may be roads unsafe for walking, so we need to work on making them safer via sidewalks etc. but this was NOT the case here. Bringing in extraneous information, some of it erroneous, detracts from the fact that the driver was careless here and simply fosters hate.

I’d compare it to saying someone got hit on her way to Shul Shabbos so she’s partly to blame for her own death because women are not required to daven with a minyan and guarding one’s nefesh is more important. Do we expect us all to become hermits because leaving the house may be dangerous?

I wouldn’t bet on it being a perfect solution. A reduction of the yellow fever mosquito population has been shown to increase the Asian tiger mosquito population — also a vector of Zika, dengue fever and the yellow fever virus among others — which can survive cold winters and are found right here in NY.

This from ecdc europa:

Aedes aegypti, unlike Ae. albopictus is not able to undergo winter diapause as eggs, and this therefore limits their ability (to some extent) to exploit more northerly temperate regions (although some survival is possible during the summer following an importation). However it may establish in regions of Europe showing a humid subtropical climate (parts of Mediterranean and Black Sea countries) such as the Sochi region where it has become established again since 2001 (Black Seas coast).

Species competition has also been shown to affect distribution and abundance. A decrease in the distribution of Ae. aegypti has been associated with the invasion of Ae. albopictus, especially in south-eastern USA [5].

End quote.

We need major Nissim here to overcome these diseases, regardless of the specific mosquito.

DY: from the article I read it seemed like it was intentional. She had another two kids with her and did some shopping. When she got back to her car she immediately asked where her baby was. She was likely stressed out and the baby was sleeping at the time so she did something extremely stupid and dangerous.

Cases of Forgotten Baby Syndrome usually involve changes in routine which on the surface this doesn’t appear to be the case here, but I truly hope I’m wrong.

In fairness to Sparkly, she only asked about “having” long hair, not about whether it’s okay to wear it loose. Although she seems to be insinuating that, especially in her seeming quest for a heter. In any case, her MO Rabbi probably allows it and she’s just trolling…

Or struggling perhaps, but the winner is unfortunately predetermined.