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Here’s a better iq test:
You have a bath full of water, and a teaspoon and a hat. Which do you use to empty out the water from the bath?
Kj chassid- it gives the child the message that it’s ok to simply miss school for something trivial. In England, such an absence would be considered truancy by the local authority.
Is a birthday then also an excuse to take off a day from work? Would you still say to chill out if you were the person’s boss?
Today is the first day of the rest of your life
Tzviki- everyone has an escape mechanism from life when they feel the need to forget about stress or problems. Some people listen to music, some get chizuk from a shiur and some people like to read fiction novels. I enjoy fantasy particularly because it has no bearing on real life.
Hinduism is a pagan religion, therefore avoda zora. If the charity money goes towards their temple then I would have thought it is assur to donate, however I would perhaps send in my own form of condolence.
Work and parenthood bring their own challenges and hardships. I miss my high school days, however much I
disliked homework and school politics.
Sounds like a geordie
Not all of them. ..
Not a general rule, of course and I know many fine people in the business sector. But middos are an important factor no matter where someone works.
Working behind a counter is an honest, hard working job. Someone in business, however, may be less than honest. Not necessarily, but it’s something you need to check out for yourself.
It’s not up to a stranger to tell someone who’s grieving that they were actually adopted. That’s pretty tactless.
Hah! Good old Google gave me the answer
Nope! Will bez”h post on the mazal tov thread when there’s any news
Can you imagine what would happen if a muggle got bitten? Not only did they not believe in the supernatural before, they now transform every month into a monster and have no idea how to control it. It’s in the ministry’s best interests to keep muggle werewolves under control and away from normal muggles.
Now that’s idiotic.
Either there were already too many similar threads or your threads broke the coffee room rules.
Coffee addict- talking about my friends and family! People who see me all the time and can tell. ..
When I’m due any day and people ask me if there’s any news yet. So annoying! If there was news they would have heard already.
Oops… I looked. What do I do now?
There are some office jobs as well. A friend of mine works in a travel agency and someone else I know works for a property company. Both jewish businesses. Or you can work as a cashier in any of the shops.
Shopping, there is something you can do and it doesn’t involve stopping listening to music. Try finding some older jewish music that has taam.
I think that either mishpacha or binah had articles on this topic a few weeks ago
In my opinion the project was about getting people to keep their first halachic shabbos. Seems to me that in the communities across the UK it was very successful.
As an aside, what do people think of friends’spouses calling you by your first name?
I can understand if the age gap is very small. However I think it’s important for younger children to give their adolescent and adult uncles and aunts their proper title. My brother and my husband actually have the same name so I insist on the title.
My three year old calls my little sister ‘aunty’. My sister is 12. And all my nieces and nephews call me aunty as well.
Thank you avram for your validation. I am so tired of people making assumptions about me. I am laying a few things to rest and then leaving this thread.
I do not carry USD on me since I am not American. It seems to me that Americans think their currency is universal. Additionally, we tend not to carry large amounts of English currency when we travel, only the currency of the place we are travelling to.
Secondly, just because I live in Gateshead does not make me a closed-minded chareidi. I grew up more modern than I currently am and do not have any of these chumros that MO seem to disdain. I simply feel uncomfortable sitting in close proximity, in a confined space, next to a male who is not my husband, brother or father since it makes it difficult to avoid nogeia and I am by nature fairly sensitive.
Like I said earlier, who said we had such cash on us? And due to the davkanik nature of some chilonumbers (especially this one) I doubt they would have switched seats for money.
And like I said it was the central area, with four seats- two aisle and two middle. He had nothing to lose either by changing.
We wouldn’t have been switching for nothing. Like I said, he could have had the seat that wasn’t being blocked by the bassinet. And he purposely positioned himself to make me more uncomfortable. You say I can’t have cared that much or I would have done something. I did do something. I remained dignified and mostly put up with it, because that’s my nature. I also used the armrest flap that hides the tray table (since this was the bassinet seat) as a way of making sure his arm stayed in his own seat.
Just to add some food for thought here. I have never had a problem switching seats with a non-jew, only secular Israelis. So let me repeat – who is really causing the fuss?
Primary and high school teachers starting wage is more.
Gavra. You’re assuming that we had that kind of cash to offer someone just to switch seats. Actually, we did not even ask in a way that implied I was uncomfortable with sitting next to him. We were actually travelling with our daughter who was then an infant and had booked the bassinet seat. The bassinet went over the two end seats- mine and the secular guy’s. We offered him to switch with my husband so that my husband and I would have the bassinet in front of us and it wouldn’t block him. Then my husband would take my seat and I would sit in the aisle. He refused because we were obviously chareidi and then spent the whole flight purposely making me uncomfortable.
Would you tell someone you are ‘fine’ sitting with an open bassinet in front of your legs, giving yourself less legroom, just to spite an obviously chareidi couple, when they offered to switch places with you? Who is causing the issue here, I wonder?
I was once on a flight back from Israel. My husband and I were in the middle two seats in the central section with two secular Israeli men in the aisle seats. We asked both if either was willing to switch but they refused. So we sat in our assigned seats. I spent a very uncomfortable flight with the guy sitting next to me purposely taking as much room as possible whilst he dozed, going so far as to position his arm on the armrest between us so his elbow was digging into my arm. The secular world in general seems to have this idea that it’s a meshugaas, however it was extremely awkward to be sitting next to a male in such a confined space. It’s a sensitivity issue, and if those of you who seem to come from the MO camp don’t understand the awkwardness, you have no right to sneer at us. It’s not a religious obligation, it’s tznius.
Welcome to the wage of a kindergarten teacher.
And it’s not that we’re not allowed to have Internet at home, it’s more like if a family needs Internet access from home it has to have a kosher filter.
If a house owned by a non-jew goes on the public market then Jewish families who are interested have to put their name down on the list. It’s supposed to prevent undercutting.
Kids are supposed to listen to their parents. It’s all there in the fifth commandment. However parents need to have seichel and understand what demands/requests they make of their kids, and where to place the boundaries so children understand what is non-negotiable.
Thanks lk!
As far as wages every school is different and every teacher is different depending on experience and qualifications. I don’t know how easy it is to get a job in the high school- I’m in the kindergarten (just went on maternity leave now actually).
There are a few schools in Manchester more tashbar type. For the girls, similar schools seem to be tiferes and bais chinuch or bnos. Don’t really know much about boys primary along those lines apart from my nephew being in tashbar. I actually went to Broughton Jewish but I’m guessing you don’t want that if you’re more the cheder type.
In Gateshead the newer boys primary school is also more cheder style.
The primary school in Manchester that I mentioned is Jewish Day.
In Gateshead it is quite easy to find a job. Where do you want to work? The kindergarten always needs new staff, if that’s your area.
Here to help! Manchester depends on what type of school you would like to send your kids to. There is one which will only accept all the kids from the same family, so if your kids are very different you might find that hard.
Never heard that the Rov’s permission is needed to move to gateshead. As long as the family is frum and conforms to halacha. Judging by the number of families that have moved here recently, I would guess it’s not too difficult to move. Transistion is fairly easy.
Gateshead is a very warm community and most families seem to settle down well here. Manchester is much bigger but still warm, you just need to find the right area and shul to settle down in.
A two-state solution would not solve anything since they are not interested in having one. They just don’t want Israel to exist at all.
I am a kindergarten teacher. At that age, kids need physical affection such as a hug if they fall down or sitting on a te a teacher’s lap. But I personally draw the line at giving them a kiss.
My mother says she can understand that they are just doing a job but when they start lying to her then she’ll run circles round them. My father once had a guy with a strong Indian accent introduce himself as ‘Alan Smith’.
My three year old says some hilarious things. Yesterday I said something about Hashem being in charge of the whole world and He can see everything. She replied “serious? “