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  • in reply to: Minister Gallant Assures U.S. No Jews Will return To Gaza After #2257664
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    @ujm

    When will you grow up?

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    By voting out Netanyahu who has not got along well with American presidents recently.

    in reply to: Chanukah: A Reminder of the Dystopia that Exists in the Frum Community #2244642
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    I hope that the Jewish community stays safe this Chanukah. I feel like a lot of the publicly displayed Jewish symbols (ie. menorahs) will potentially get vandalized this year due to the matzav.

    in reply to: NYPL Eliminates Sunday Hours #2241707
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    Who said that illegal immigrants are more accepting of socialist policies? A lot of them come from countries that were essentially destroyed by socialist policies and are looking for refuge here.

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    I mean the number came from the organizer, Jewish Federations of North America who helped coordinate transportation for many of the participants. They also payed for metro cards for rally goers so they probably had a good estimate of the number of people that showed up.

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    @ujm

    You are correct. So for the rally to be a success their presence was not needed. Indeed, they had 290,000 people there without the Chareidi oilam, much larger than the siyum hashas.

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    *didn’t

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    I don’t understand why people care so much that the Yeshivish/Chareidi oilam isn’t participating. It’s not like that they are a large percentage of American Jewry today.

    in reply to: Obama: Sonei Yisroel Par Excellence #2238499
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    Say what you want about Obama, but an anti-Semite he is not.

    in reply to: Does Hashem approve of voting for a democrat #2238468
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    @AvirahdeArah

    I have heard from chashuve people that Trump’s middos raos have a bad effect on society and they didn’t just blow it off like you do. Your hashkafas are off.

    in reply to: Does Hashem approve of voting for a democrat #2238066
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    @ujm

    So maybe you can explain why the Lakewood Roshei Yeshiva said to vote for him?

    in reply to: Egyptian leader Abdel Fattah El-Sisi is Jewish #2236983
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    @Uncle Ben

    I never heard that claimed about Erdogan. I think that some Islamists claim that about Ataturk.

    With regard to claim of the IRGC commander about the Saudis, I see that the Jerusalem Post had an article about it. He seemed to be trying to connect the Saudis to the Jews who fought the early Muslims in Arabia.

    in reply to: Egyptian leader Abdel Fattah El-Sisi is Jewish #2236393
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    Being Jewish is an insult in many Muslim societies so people accuse it about people they don’t like. I remember when the commander of the IRGC navy said that the Saudi royal family are descendants of Jews. I have heard that some Islamists have claimed that Ataturk was Jewish.

    in reply to: Gog U’Magog #2235824
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    Lebanon has no interest in joining this war. It’s Hezbollah. Syria has always been aligned with the Iranian regime. As much as Turkey has been praising Hamas, it was reported that Turkey asked Iran not to escalate the conflict. Russia is way too focused on its war in Ukraine to get involved. Really no leader in the Middle East wants this to escalate besides Iran.

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    What does voting Democrat have to do with the protests?

    in reply to: The Israel Pogram of 2023 Jewish Massacre #2234708
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    “thanks for extend quotes from the book as well as your commentary.”

    You should be thanking the Frumteens moderator.

    in reply to: The Israel Pogram of 2023 Jewish Massacre #2234451
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    @ujm

    Each situation warrants its own judgement. I think most frum Jews understand that regardless of how they feel about the Medinah in general this is not the time to be engaged in blaming people and bashing the Zionists. Maybe get off the internet and talk with other frum Jews in real life and you’ll get a better picture of how people are reacting to what happened in Eretz Yisrael.

    in reply to: The Israel Pogram of 2023 Jewish Massacre #2233923
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    I think the point is that we are still less than a month away from the worst pogrom since the Holocaust. There’s a time and place for frum criticism of the State but basic human empathy warrants that we keep these ideas to ourselves for at least some time.

    Hear, hear!

    in reply to: Which is worse: Married life or divorced life? #2227235
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    It’s said that half of all marriages in US end up in divorce. People get divorced way too quickly at times without putting in the commitment to stay married and work through issues.

    in reply to: Dear Future Mothers In Law #2226813
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    I love how AviradeArah has such a need to give his two cents that he wants to start a whole new thread on divorce. If you don’t want to offend children of divorced parents then don’t post anything at all. Most of us are not desperate to hear what you have to say.

    in reply to: Frum daytraders #2225618
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    Actually, come to think of it I know two frum quants, one who is working and one who retired from it.

    in reply to: Frum daytraders #2225490
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    I know a frum quant.

    in reply to: kolel for everyone #2225037
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    “For many, there is very little difference between earning 100k and 250k,”

    That is the most absurd thing I have seen you post.

    in reply to: Is there a Drug Problem in the “Frum World”? #2224748
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    Modern Orthodox have more a drug problem than the Yeshivishe velt.

    in reply to: kolel for everyone #2224273
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    @FollowMesorah
    “(at least between the husband and wife to crack that minimum 100k)”

    For a frum couple, the minimum is more like 150K or even more depending on the number of kids they have and in which community they live but 100K is not going to cut it.

    in reply to: kolel for everyone #2223926
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    One of the issues with kollelim that I have seen is that eventually guys in kollel want to move on and become a Rebbe, shol umashiv etc due to parnassah but also due to the fact that at a certain age people begin to get more of a sipuk teaching and giving over Torah than just learning all day.

    The problem then is that the Rebbe job market is ridiculously flooded and yungleit often have trouble finding a job in chinuch. They now have been out of high school for say 10+ years and have no skillset to get high paying secular jobs. For them to start college at that age is hard especially with kids. The transition out of kollel is rough.

    in reply to: ENGLISH SHOULD BE OPTIONARY #2223233
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    “There is an option of health sciences rather than full blown med school – nursing/PT/OT/speech – especially for girls. Also, computer science/software/data analysis do not require law/med school dedication/expenses”

    For the pre-health jobs, PT/OT/speech don’t make the 200K like doctors, dentists etc.

    For computer science jobs, it depends but having a masters or Phd will make you so much more competitive in that field. Same thing with data analytics. I think that especially for frum people who generally have their parents helping them out the first few years of marriage a masters at a good university would be a good investment.

    in reply to: ENGLISH SHOULD BE OPTIONARY #2223125
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    Nowadays, to get a really higher paying professional job it is not enough to have only gone to undergraduate school. Generally speaking, you need medical school, an MBA, law school or whatever to really get those higher paying 200K+ salary jobs.

    in reply to: Girls only kosher hangout #2198926
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    @ujm

    Wow, you’re out of touch with what’s going on in the frum community today.

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    When I saw “Affairs” I thought you meant adultery for a second.

    in reply to: The official ASK Chat GPT ANYTHING thread!!! #2193282
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    That wasn’t a great answer.

    A) Beginning studies in Israel right after high school won’t necessarily reduce the age gap. Just look at TOMO and Toras Chaim, for example, guys spend three years there and then go to the Mir. So the amount of time between high school and the beginning of shidduchim doesn’t change.

    B) The frum community, in general, have a bit of a Luddite take on technology-slow to adjust to it and usually try to avoid it if possible. So the idea of using databases and online dating platforms is quite far fetched.

    C)Financial support is not the reason for the age gap. The average yeshiva bachur getting married at 23 has no more skills and training or financial security than a bachur at 20. They are not delaying marriage because of financial issues.

    Chat-GPT is out of touch with the frum community.

    in reply to: The official ASK Chat GPT ANYTHING thread!!! #2191938
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    Does P equal NP? Please provide a rigorous proof for your answer.

    in reply to: What Happened To the Forum I Loved so Well? #2189959
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    “And don’t say the land wasn’t conquered. Denying the Israeli War for Independence is crazier than denying the moon landing.”

    The 1948 war was primarily a defensive war for the Israelis.

    in reply to: What Happened To the Forum I Loved so Well? #2188398
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    Neville- You are forgetting Patur Aval Assur. That guy was an unbelievable baki. It’s a shame that in a lot of old threads the hebrew letters have turned into question marks because he had a tremendous amount of rare and great sources to back up his points. Now to see it you need the wayback machine.

    in reply to: What Happened To the Forum I Loved so Well? #2188019
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    What the Original Poster is describing is I think common to many internet forums. There is an early stage where the number of users is small so the place feels more heimish and geshmak. Over time, it either dies out or grows to such a large userbase so that the connections between members just aren’t the same. I think the internet itself just isn’t the same as it was a decade ago.

    in reply to: Time to demolish orthopraxy #2186488
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    “especially those exposed to television shows where the characters call their parents by their first names.”

    I don’t think that that is actually a common thing at all. Name one tv show where that happens.

    in reply to: The official ASK Chat GPT ANYTHING thread!!! #2186097
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    Is Chat GPT overhyped?

    in reply to: Lo sichanem #2184433
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    The reasons given here for anti-Semitism and the Holocaust are usually the non-falsifiable claims that if Jews became more secular and involved in the outside world then it leads to more anti-Semitism and persecution. Of course, this claim is never rigorously tested or subject to any critical scrutiny. What about Sefardim who were becoming more secular due to the Alliance but were not subject to the Holocaust? Were Jews becoming more secular during Tach vTat? What about the vast majority of American Jewry who was pretty secular since they came over from Europe yet lived and continue to live in relative peace?

    The whole claim is just cherry-picking examples that work well with the preconceived notion that punishment follows more secularism. It’s not a strong rigorous claim.

    in reply to: The official ASK Chat GPT ANYTHING thread!!! #2182319
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    *Would

    in reply to: The official ASK Chat GPT ANYTHING thread!!! #2182318
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    What Karl Marx have approved of the Soviet Union?

    in reply to: Help! #2177571
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    Help!, I need somebody, Help!, not just anybody

    in reply to: Professional education #2176716
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    Someone once told me that computer science PhD students can potentially command salaries of 3 quarters of a million.

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    Is it better for a husband to work and his wife to be home with the kids or for the wife to work and the husband learn in kollel? (Kids go to a playgroup or they hire a babysitter)

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    “Growing up MO and becoming a flip-out obviously gave you zero insight into the charedi world”

    This is unfortunately true for a lot of flip-outs in my experience.

    in reply to: Anti-Semitism refuted by Non-Jewish Philosopher #2174307
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    “my claim stems from the fact that his later criticism of capitalism is a carbon copy of his criticism of Jewish business influence on the world. ”

    It actually isn’t. Maybe take a look at Capital I.

    I am no fan of Lenin but that quote does a good job at summarizing the main influences on Marx.

    in reply to: Anti-Semitism refuted by Non-Jewish Philosopher #2174040
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    I’m a bit confused as to what you are getting at. The article “On the Jewish Question” is not some obscure work of Marx. It’s the starting point for anybody wanting to better understand Marx’s relationship with Judaism. It’s also not the earliest writing of Marx either. You make it sound like this is the starting point for all of Marx’s later thought which it isn’t. There are earlier works of Marx. Why not start with “Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right” or the “Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts”?

    You make a claim that Marx’s “hatred” of businessmen stemmed from his hatred of Judaism. Can you provide evidence for that claim? I don’t see it in “On the Jewish Question”. It’s interesting that you basically want to sum up Marx’s philosophy by just petty hatred of business people and not actually get into the weeds of the influences on Marx. There were primarily three, as Lenin said:

    “Marx was the genius who continued and consummated the three main ideological currents of the 19th century, as represented by the three most advanced countries of mankind: classical German philosophy, classical English political economy, and French socialism combined with French revolutionary doctrines in general.”

    Reading one work of Marx and then deciding that this is how he developed his ideas is silly. Maybe pull out a decent biography of Marx and get a better understanding of his life, influences and ideas.

    in reply to: Anti-Semitism refuted by Non-Jewish Philosopher #2173845
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    @Always_Ask_Questions

    You make huge claims and yet provide no evidence or textual support. You admit not having read Marxist literature in “some decades” yet you provide new historical interpretations that I’m not aware any serious scholar of Marx puts forward.

    It’s true that emancipation typically led to assimilation. That does not make emancipation an anti-Semitic idea. It’s like saying that fighting against discrimination of Jews in the workforce is anti-Semitic because it may lead to some Jews joining jobs that will cause them to assimilate.

    in reply to: Anti-Semitism refuted by Non-Jewish Philosopher #2173653
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    @TheFakeMaven

    Emancipation of Jews is rooted in Enlightenment thought. This does not mean that it is anti-Semitic in nature. It is the argument for equal political rights for Jews and and the removal of restrictions from them. Some did justify the need for emancipation because Jews were backward and they needed to be brought into civil society to progress. However, the actual concept is not anti-Semitic.

    It would be like if today there were government restrictions on what occupations Jews could enter. People fighting to remove them would not be considered anti-Semitic. So too, fighting restrictions on Jews during the 18th and 19th century is not anti-Semitic.

    in reply to: Anti-Semitism refuted by Non-Jewish Philosopher #2173401
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    I don’t deny the anti-Semitic aspect to some of Marx’s thought. However, he does actually believe that Jews should be emancipated despite the fact he has some unsavory things to say about Judaism. His writings on the topic are a bit complicated.

    I recommend the following academic article:
    Avineri, Shlomo. “Marx and Jewish Emancipation.” Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. 25, no. 3, 1964, pp. 445–50. Available on JSTOR

    in reply to: Arkansas Gov. Sanders signs law loosening child labor protections #2173235
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    “For example, could anything be worse than having children work in sweatshops? Alas, yes. In 1993, child workers in Bangladesh were found to be producing clothing for Wal-Mart, and Senator Tom Harkin proposed legislation banning imports from countries employing underage workers. The direct result was that Bangladeshi textile factories stopped employing children. But did the children go back to school? Did they return to happy homes? Not according to Oxfam, which found that the displaced child workers ended up in even worse jobs, or on the streets — and that a significant number were forced into prostitution.”
    -Paul Krugman, New York Times April 22, 2001

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