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DY has it right.
If the funds were set up to benefit such as small group such that effectively it could only benefit one individual, that too, would be non deductible.
For instance, there was a blogger who said he was charitable because he collected contributions, which he said were deductible, because they were earmarked for Jewish Immigrants form Ethiopia to the US who need a liver transplant. That clearly could only benefit one individual and that blogger violated the law by issuing receipts saying the contribution was deductible. (thankfully that blogger no longer blogs, he was a blight on humanity)
ZD,
So you define abuse as making a child do anything that the child does not want to.
A parent insisting that a child eat a certain food is hardly abuse. (I am not saying that there cannot be abuse, depending on how a parent does it, ,but just making a child eat something is not abuse, even if ZD does not like cholent.
A belief that “making a child do anything that they do not want to do is abuse” is in and of itself a serious form of abuse and abandonment.
“As a long time parent of YDT, as well as a grandparent,”
I don’t know otherwise, but you do seem to be their accountants or auditors.
I assume they have auditors because they have IDA bonds.
“In other subjects if you dont like them you can take something else”
That’s not true. There are many classes that are not electives and there are many schools that do not offer electives.
And your supposition would not apply to girls, and I don’t see that there is an appreciable difference between the number of boys going OTD vs Girls. Perhaps it is in the MO schools which make the girls learn gemorra?
“Rabbi Bender is once again forging a new path. He is trying to create a fund to help Rabbeim pay for their smachot.”
A commendable goal, but I know that there are Yeshivos that have already had such a program functioning for a while.
I know a Yeshiva that also has a program for the Morot as well.
I wonder if they have a seperate fund land accounts for this.
Or will it be combined with the Yeshivas regular accounts.
“Someone being forced to learn Gemorah against their will? Meaning that they dislike learning and are forced to learn anyway”
What about someone who does not like math, or social studies, or school in general. Is sending them to school considered abuse?
A significant number also suffer from mental illness.
“Bugs don’t blend?”
Sounds like a Blendtek commercial/video.
“There is a shortage of $60 million and the state wont pay for it “
A large part relates to necessary Plant repair and upgrades.
The school board tried to get approval to issue a bond to fund this, yet the so called school activists got it voted down because they wanted to harm the School Board.
Another alternative is what just was done for Yonkers, which was just awarded $2 Billion in aid from the state. And that school district was in worse shape in every way, fiscally, scholastically and programmatically.
1) I don’t think you could easily carve up Spring Vally, where a very large portion of the Public School children live.
2) I don’t think it is smart to start districting that way, just think how else such districting might be used.
3) The second half of my comment was letting you know where the physical schools are located, not where the students live. i would guess that the overwhelming majority of students in most of those schools are bused some distance.
4) I was correcting the information that ZD provided.
ZD,
Clarkstown is a separate School District. You’ve excluded Spring Valley, which is mixed, Hillcrest, Chestnut Ridge, Pomona and some others as well.
A number of the actual Public Schools are right in the middle of mostly Frum areas, such as Lime Kiln School, Ramapo High, Kakiat, Grandview, Early Childhood Center, Hempstead Elementary.
Elmwood is right around Frum areas, but very much a mixed crowd living in the area, it is more in a commercial area, between neighborhoods.
“that being said, I dont think busing is the issue, its special services that is causing the huge deficit in East Ramapo”
Wrong.
It is the funding formula that is the problem, it does not cover mandated services.
Charlie,
You would not be considered any different in Lakewood than in any other frum community.
ZD,
You keep harping with your silly straw man argument.
No one is asking R Chaim which model car to get. Not are they asking a thing similar. Unless it is a family member.
It is more than a little bit arrogant of you to determine what is a a “silly” question and to assume that you know what or what is not a legitimate question.
But aside from that, R Chaim obviously feels that it is ok for people to ask shailos, part of his schedule is answering letters that come to him. And that is beside Kabbolas Kahal.
I suspect the real reason why people make snarky remarks about Daas Torah is because they believe that they know at least as much as “some old out of touch guy sitting his little room”. (???).
Such a sentiment has been expressed in these very forums more than once by the commenters who always belittle the concept of asking Rabbonim eitzos.
Mod 29,
ZD was expressing his incredulity that someone should ask a Rav about a car, regardless if it is constantly seed Daas Torah.
And you see that other commenters agreed that it is a real shaila, at a minimum.
So there was nothing specious about my comment.
I asked about your editing, not your comment.
“I can’t comment on cars, but if we need to go further, I don’t think anyone asks their Rov if they should have Chex or Cheerios for breakfast.”
1) Who says people do so assuming that th y are asking this of Daas Torah?
2) Would you use a mocking tone if a person asked this of a therapist?
3) Chex or Cheerios or what else. Like is it kosher?
Or should I eat those even though they are not pas Yisroel?
“That is a Tznius and Tzedaka question, and appropriate even without the concept of Da’as Torah”
So you too are saying that ZDs claim is specious.
ZD,
“Daas Torah if someone asks if they should buy a Honda, Toyota or a Chevy (People do ask such things incredibly) and you get an answer”
Like I’ve mentioned earlier, you’ve got to stop making these things up.
However if a person asks if he should get a Chevy, Toyota or Honda as opposed to an Infiniti or Mercedes, that may very well fall under what is appropriate to ask of a Rov.
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Saying half a story is the same as lying Mr. ZD
ZD,
You’ve got to stop making up stories and assume they relate to ??? ????. Your assumptions are clearly not ??? ????.
Charlie,
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One of the most humorous aspects of the Open Orthodoxy wars is the heresy hunters citing HaGaon Shaul Lieberman in opposition to Rabbi Avi Weiss on semicha for women when they would never cite Rabbi Lieberman on anything else, ever.”
Those who’ve learned a bit know what a ?? ????? is.
It was a patently false meant to be inflammatory.
Sam,
No I didn’t.
Anti Zionists? A few chassidim protesting? Big deal.
The Liberals have be much worse and damaging to Israel. Think of Charlie’s rebbe, George Soros and all the anti Israel activity and media he fungus.
Apparently, according to Charlie, only chareidim need seperate swimming.
This explains why most people consider the OO movement less than Orthodox.
ZD,
What other side? The Arabs? The Vietnamese?
“In Israel, I’ve rarely had a woman extend her hand to me in a business situation”
I am curious, in Israel do the men extend a hand in business situations?
“DY: I’ve heard some suggest that it is better for non-religious couples to not have a valid kiddushin”
I think it was already clarified that is what they do by OO weddings
ZD,
“Just because there is an intermarriage doesnt mean the children arent Halachically jewish. If we assume that both men and woman equally intermarry, then the children where the woman is jewish are jewish even though its an intermarriage”
1) Therefore the question “what percentage”. He did not say absolutely none are Jewish.
2) The ratio would decline year after year. Even if the first generation of intermarried a were 50% Jewish because of matrilineal descent, not all her children who intermarry will be females. And it is a gemwtric regression.
All of us her are aware that if the mother is a Jew, then the child is a Jew. But you seem to miss that it has to be continuous
“Many people who are extremely cruel to animals are many times also cruel to their fellow human beings as well”
Many times those who profess to be overly concerned about the welfare of animals are incredibly cruel to other human beings.
Look at the violent protesters at the Bernie Sanders rallies.
Or look at the Nazis who were so “imbued” with concern for animals.
“Harambe died to save a child’s life.”
That is an inane comment. The Gorilla was killed because it was a threat to the child’s life.
ZD,
Only IOS APPS are on the Apple App store. Android software is not. Google Play does not monitor the Apps on its site.
OP never said it was an IPhone.
And Google is helpful, even if it is not your Friend and , it took no time to find several filters (BTW, recommended by non-Jewish organizations) that have monthly fees that eventually add to at least $60 over the year.
“OO might identify with MO, but MO doesnt identify with OO”
That is not true on the most part.
Regardless, of the OO, Charlie Hall wanted to insist that R Gordimer is not Modern Orthodox because he does not agree with many of Charlie’s definitions of MO (OO), and therefore it is inappropriate for R Gordimer to have written the article.
Which is just an inane proposition. R Gordimer is clearly identified as a MO rRabbi. He has smicha from what is the premier, if not only, MO Organization that issues smicha in the US. He is an executive member of the largest MO rabbinical board.
I guess the comments were too pointed for some and they therefore wanted to come up with some reason to ignore his message.
“I dont know any filter that costs $60,”
Which is proof of exactly what? I am quite sure there are a lot of other things you do not know. That is not proof of anything.
ZD,
If they had to shoot the gorilla because it was a danger to the child, then obviously it was something immediate. Therefore an immediate solution was required. A tranquilizer dart does not have immediate effect, contrary to what you may think.
The police explained this.
The gedolim have better things to do than answer shailos?
A nudnik would ask steam to verify. However if it is something that applies to you it is completely appropriate to ask.
Sam,
That is not what Avi K. said.
He said the Gedolim are being controlled.
If you question the source, then it is up to you to verify. I’ve done that. With R Chaim Kanievsky. I asked him directly.
Sam,
You were there in the sixth grade?
Giving different psakim to different people does not in anyway mean that the gedolim are being controlled by the askanim. (Your words). In fact, it would indicate quite the opposite.
I rest my case.
I love how the person mentions that there was teshuva from R Moshe a boy Carlebach’s music. And from there one should infer that there was something wrong with it.
All you see from there is that some nudnik asked the question. R Moshe said there’s nothing wrongly with singing his music.
One has to wonder why the commenter did not say what R Moshe said, only what the question was.
Avi K
What about Tikun Olam?
That usually goes hand in hand with the crowd that insists the Gedolim are controlled by the askanim and are incapable of independent understanding and decision making.
Invariably those who make those claims are those who are big fans of ???? ?? ???? ?????? ?????.
MW,
He was not opposed to certain bochurim who were really not being successful to the extent that they were at risk joining Nachal Chareidi, as it was the understood to be set up.
His shitta was different in that he agreed that there were LIMITED situations where one can join the IDF.
However he never suggested that that All Chareidim should be responsible for some service (meaning army or ????? ?????) which is what ZD suggested.
Nor did he ever say that ??? ???? was a ??????? for anyone.
Which is completely different than what ZD attitudes to R AL Shteinman.
The issue was not the spelling.
“Who would happen first
The chreadim refusing to share their learning until every learns”
The Chrain would first stain the gefilte fish unless first mixed with mayonnaise.
“Rav Shteinman was at some point in favor of some service for Charedim.”
That uis a gross misstatement.
You have to get your “facts” somewhere else other than nonsense posted on silly blogs.
I am not a Rov.
I do have the Peanut trimmer. It uses a scissor action to cut and the blades are not close to the face. It also does not cut nearly as close as a shaver. If you have a thick or heavy beard you will definitely look like you have a day’s growth after using the trimmer.
I also have heard from a Rov that his boys use this because they don’t want to use a shaver for halachic reasons.
Go speak to a Rov.
Are you doing asking about the Peanut trimmer? Which is a hair cutting machine. Or is this something else?