Yashrus20 – don’t feel so bad, I didn’t get a proper welcome either. So anyway, I ‘ll welcome you to the CR. WELCOME, WELCOME, BARUCH HA-BAH YASHRUS20!! Maybe Curious can write a big welcome banner to all newcomers.

HaHa -Jinglebelz= good one asdf.. sephardi – Just heard one rabbi in a frum sephardic school give his berecha for protection for girls who do not have/use cell phones. Oh yes, I am sephardi, too. thank you very much!!

SJSinNYC, what do you mean brooklyn has no nature?? We have raccoons, oppossums, squrriels, tons of feral cats, pigeons, blue jays, cardinals, woodpeckers,starlings, seagulls,crows. While living in my apartment on Ocean Parkway, I have seen not once, but Twice!! from my 3rd floor window, a sparrow hawk eating an actual sparrow!! The Second time, My husband and close friend were there to witness it. If they can make it here, they can make it anywhere!! LOL. Okay so we don’t have lions, and tigers and bears, oh my!!

Well, with the abundance of Torah CD’s out there, you could listen while, you’re in the coffee room. While doing dishes or laundry as well, while driving in the car. Opportunites abound. All that is considered learning Torah as well.

Yes, I certainly feel it in the air and in depts of my soul. There is a major change going on. The Whole world is turning against Am Yisrael. There are many Genocidal chants at Demonstrations going on world wide!!!. In Ft. Lauderdale,Florida, at one of the Pro-Hamas rallies, a woman was chanting ” ” Jews go back to the ovens” Yes, in America. In Holland, Dutch Socialist Party MP Harry Von Bommel is seen chanting among others ” Hamas, Hamas,Jews to the Gas” “Jihad, JIhad” Also, in Melbourne, Austraila, Algeria, Montreal,Canada, New York. With coming in Office, Since we really don’t know what he will be like. He says he is Pro-Israel. Most of the Country expects him to bring “change to the world. Especially, regarding Mid-East Policy.

I don’t mean to scare anybody, but I don’t think things will get better till Moshaich comes. I think Hashem is trying to get us to return to Israel,ASAP. May He come soon. Like Now!!

This book is highly inspiring. Many people, frum and non-frum. even non-jews have read this book and were inspired. It is well written and written from the heart. Oomis, try to get your hands on this book. Her father, came to America, as a child, his family sent him from the old country by himself to stay with realitives. When demanded he pay rent, he resolved to be on his own. This was at the time where you either had to work or shabbos or find a new job every week. He had complete faith in Hashem. He was the father-in-law of one of our current gedolei Hador, Rav Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg, Shil’ta, may he be well.

I have a problem with the phone calls. A few weeks ago, I had some organization that called 2-3 times a day. (I don’t pickup the phone all the time) When I did finally pickup and realized they were collecting, I asked them not to call me again. When I called back the number that showed on the call id, it said that the number was diconnected and no information was available. Since them I do not give any phone solicitations. If it was legitimate then, I feel I should be able to reach this organization. I wanted to let them know that calling 3 times a day was very excessive.

well what about the stories of arabs who knew about 9/11. The cab driver mistook this woman for a good moslem. You know in this type of world that we live in, nothing like this should suprise us and Rosh Yeshiva, do you really think we are so safe in America?? Anything can happen.

Today at 4:00pm tehillim and selihot at Bnei Shaare Zion @ 2030 Ocean Parkway(Brooklyn) followed by Minchah at 4:25 pm. Come and support our troops.

Ah, you’re no fun!!

You missed Brooklyn!! Are you from Brooklyn??

aye, aye captain, take it away. But I will thank you all for your lovely pics before we close. Never knew you could “draw” using symbols on the keyboard.

Chanukah’s over :?(, This thread is still going on?? Will it ever end??

Hello, what about the Chevron massacre in 1929, before Israel was a state??

I think i started a few weeks as well. The wig topic got me hooked.

what happened to “HaHa”

I only buy and use regular canola oil and Olive oil in all my cooking. I don’t use vegetable and corn oils. Most of the oil I do use in cooking goes into my Challahs. One cup for a 5 lb flour bag.

Didn’t see that you could use subsitutions for the Whole wheat flour and artificial sweetner. The way I see it,is if your going to fry them anyway, they aren’t healthy. May as well enjoy them the original way!!

A perfect topic. My mother just asked me last night If I could find her a receipe. My Hungarian grandma use to make us doughnuts on Chanukah, when I was little. She never wrote down her receipe. My Mother regrets that she never wrote the receipe from her. If anyone has a receipe for parve doughnuts NOT using parve creamer or soymilk. My grandma made it with just water, yeast, flour, sugar etc…

Sorry, I read a few posts. They were in their car at the time and they were quite obviously dark skinned. They got out of their car to check if we damaged the car. We had only tapped it. Why would anybody be hanging out in a mall parking lot anyway was beyond us, except to make trouble. You usually park and go shopping. Sorry if my story was not to clear.

It was too icy out there. But I thanked Hashem it snowed right before Shabbos and everyone was home and no one had to be driving out there. The streets were cleared so it was easier to avoid walking on the sidewalks. If you live in Brooklyn, you’ll know what I mean.

We accidently tapped some shvartze car while parking out the mall a few years ago. They were in the car and came out to check for any damage. There wasn’t any. We thought everything was okay. We came back to a broken window. They apparently broken in. Thank goodness we had a old car and the trunk could only be opened with a key. (the button in the glove compartment that would have opened the trunk thankfully didn’t work.) The only way to keep that trunk open was to use a pole to keep it from slamming shut. I also think I should warn you, not to park blocking a pedastrian ramp either. I just saw last week on East 8th street and Quentin Rd, a woman get a ticket even though she was parked after the white lines, she got $165.00 ticket for blocking the ramp even though she was past the white lines . I assumed she was parked okay and wondered why she even got a ticket from the Officer in the first place. My curiousity was answered when I just happend to see the owner get to her car and asked her what was the ticket for and then We both noticed the ramp was after the white lines and her car was blocking it. That corner is very deceptive.

penalize yourself everytime you get angry. Set aside a certain amount of money that you will give to tzedakah (not a measly amount, you want something tangible) and if you lose your temper, you have to give it to tzedakah. I think I read of this somewhere, on how to control your temper, but I forgot the source.

was wondering the same thing myself – DHI. Sent a pretty long post and a few short ones and the short ones posted first, still waiting for the long one to come through I hope. I guess we are keeping you pretty busy tonight.

My, you must have alot of time on your hands. LOL