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Fraud that’s prohibited as a d’oraita is worse. Drabanan are equally bad. And if its not prohibited at all but fails the “yashrus” test, then fraud is better.
The new zman can’t come soon enough, huh?
The Mishpat Kohen zatza”l ruled that no, they shouldn’t be voting. (I’m not sure if that’s the same as having the right to vote).
The school put out a rebuttal. (I saw it on Kikar). While I thought it was very insensitive, they did make some good points.
Firstly, you’re using the Drashot Hara”n’s interpretation. The Ramban differs.
Also, of course you should have hakaros hatov. He who denies the good of his friend will soon deny the good of G-D (Medrash). The question is should we as a nation be “proud”. I happen to think this was a major kiddush hashem, especially so soon after the massive chillul hashem that took place last simchas torah. So yes, I’m proud of what happened. Is it wrong? Maybe, but I have a soft spot for kiddush hashems.
@hakatan, crawl back into your sewer
The Judeo-German sufffix of -im for Hebrew feminine plural nouns is assumingly a corruption of the German -en
IIRC, during a parade for the yeshiva they waved the Zionists’ flag (with luchos instead of the Magen Dovid).
To me this sounds like a tax-deduction workaround.
I davka thing wearing a silly furry hat is done for religious purposes only (not my religion tho), and can qualify for the sales tax exemption.
@The Frumguy thanks, I was not aware of this!
@ Kuvult this is the internet sir, if you want to be a ganef keep it to yourself, don’t be mechalel shem shamaim brabim
@ not avi: religious clothing is not taxable at all, read the bulletin that OP mentioned. The $110 threshold is only applicable on the state level and in certain counties such as NYC, rockland county still charges 4%+ on clothing under $110.There’s a copy of the article you’re looking for in archive jdn co il / breakingnews / 941269/
The Australian Jewish News, 14 December 1945, has a detailed account about Eisenhower’s tour of Feldafing and his meeting with the Klausenberger Rebbe. You can find it in the Sefriya Leumi’s website. (Of course none of what’s described above actually happen – the Klausenberger Rebbe wasn’t the Rabbi to give a speech, he just presented bread and salt to the general as per the old minhag). Did the quiet battle you describe occur before or after the whole shul broke out in singing Hatikva? lol…
@commonsaychel true, plus landlords – they get the benefit of increasing rents while having everyone else in the community subsidize the increase in school taxes
Today a female soldier was killed while on duty in the North and all the Israeli Haredi newspapers are covering up the fact that she was a soldier. This is so offensive, this person died because she was on duty for her country, how dare you take that away from her??! If you have an issue with female soldiers, you can call her servicewoman or whatever but to write nothing?? I’m blown away
If Rav Schachter speaks, then they would have to give the podium to Rabbis David Wolpe and Ammiel Hirsch as well. Is that really what you want?
Antagonizing all your goyishe neighbors in South Jersey by voting in a Dem askan is “Daas Torah” while going to a peaceful rally is “inciteful”.
/sIf the adult was in middle of fighting with the little kid, and the little kid falls off his bike, your first assumption should be that the adult knocked him down. Once the adult denies, then you shouldn’t make any assumption and instead headline that they are trading accusations. Once the adult provides evidence but that evidence cannot be independently corroborated, that should be the headline. Once the evidence is corroborated, that should be the headline.
And that’s exactly what happened.
my 2 cents: If you realize you can’t afford the big house you bought in the sought after good neighborhood, simply move to a smaller house elsewhere or rent if the payments will be lower. It isn’t embarrassing and nobody cares.
I would also add that the word Jew has a particular offensive history because of the way Hitler and other anti-Semites used the singular word Jew, for example, “the Jew controls the world”
Supposedly certain zip codes have recently had their premiums increased because of the jump in car crashes due to new people moving in…
Congratulations on winning the Hiroo Onoda Award!!
Benjamin of Tudela found barely 10 Jews in Antioch
They’re probably oblivious people who accepted the nudge from LinkedIn to write their pronouns while completely not realizing the cultural significance of their actions.
Maybe if we taught better critical thinking skills this wouldn’t happen…
It can be a number of things:
1. if you recently had your tax return filed, this can be a “plus up payment” of the third stimulus.
2. if you filed your tax return before congress passed arpa which exludes 10,200 of unemployment, then this can be a refund of that.Did you figure out how to compare these 3 programs in the end?
I’m trying to do some research on this, and from the little I know about PCS and COPE, it seems like PCS is better than COPE. But would you, or anyone else reading this post, know how Landers Accelerated Accounting Program compares against PCS? (in regards to education, soft skills, professor competency, job placement, getting into Big 4 etc. — for all other technical details such as cost etc., I can use Google)
The reason why chassidim don’t wear masks is not because of stubbornness; it comes from embarrasment. Everyone is embarrassed of everyone else. People that wear masks in shul are openly mocked by others who would also wear a mask if they weren’t afraid of being mocked themselves. The solution, as always, is to start with yourself. You wear a mask and socially distance everywhere, and when a large enough number of people do so, then everyone will become comfortable with it, and you’ll see the percentage of people wearing masks skyrocket.
A couple of months ago I wrote a letter to a certain magazine asking them to stop putting in pictures of rebbeshe tishen. Instead of printing my letter, they printed another letter warning people that it’s assur to give in tzitzos to a goyishe dry cleaners. I found that very ironic (I would agree that it might be assur to give tzitzos to a goyishe dry cleaners owner that read their magazine)
To answer the question, it depends on what kind of people are currently testing themselves. A New York Post article claims that per capita, white liberal areas in Manhattan test three times as much as white middle class areas in South Brooklyn, and they use anecdotal evidence to show that the Manhattanites are basically being frivolous about their testing while South Brooklynites only test themselves when they’re sick. If this is true about Boro Park and Midwood too, then it would make sense to test more nonsick people in our neighborhoods to reach the same ratio of well people frivolously testing to sick people testing that white liberals have.
If however, there is no deficit of regular well people in our community testing, then encouraging more testing just to artificially lower our rates can potentially be dangerous in many ways. On the other hand, this egregious lockdown on our neighborhoods, which is horrible on every level, makes me want to say that anything should be done to lower our numbers.
There is another concern that people might have, that if we all test, even if the positivity rate goes down, the number of positive people will inevitably go up, and the government/media will decide to drop the current metric and begin using number of positives as a new metric. I personally was nervous about this happening, but I’m beginning to think that De Blasio and Cuomo will have to explain to everyone in two weeks from now how their lockdowns are very successful yada yada yada, and how the positivity rates are down all because of their decisions yada yada yada so they’ll look for any number that’s good news.
Yechi Hamelech, my thoughts exactly!!
What about the anti semite Henry Ford?? Was he ever arrested??? And Keneddy? And Malcolm X????? And Obama?! What about Rosa Parks? What about O’Connor?? What about? What about? What about??
STOP WITH THE WHAT ABOUTS!!!!!
Wouldn’t it be similar to a father who refuses to מל or פודה his son?
Awkward
What’s behind your campaign, jojo? To make someone uncomfortable getting critical care from a hospital? B”h our community is very healthy and 1 of the reasons is because we go to hospitals and doctors when we need to. Unlike other groups. You have a problem with that?
1 so you’re saying that frum people are in kollel making 20k or they’re Execs making 200k. No one in between?
If this will help anybody, I heard there’s a yeshiva open in the Poconos with 200+ ey guys
This question comes up in regards to slavery. We all, no matter how much we would like to think otherwise, consider slavery abhorrent. The Torah does not. These questions began to rise with Moses Mendelssohn and German Jewry, so I think R Hirsch deals with this subject thoroughly.
How did the OP come to the conclusion that Socialism causes people to go otd. One can argue that capitalism made people OTD in the United States.
Why is this even a thread? Our president just changed his hair color from orange to grey and this is what you’re talkong about???!!
Yes!!! We can lower traffic deaths by transitioning to public transportation and/or driverless cars. Let’s start having this important discussion.
Baalteshuva
1.5m ppl died.
Anonynous Jew, you’re referring to the cause of secession. The top 5 reasons for the actual war was lincolns 1. Blood 2. Thirsty 3. War 4. Mongering 5. Decision to resupply fort sumter instead of abandoning it like he promised to the peace loving north.
So I heard they’re transferring her to jail in nyc. Ha ha! They didn’t fool us the first time.
Dmb, no one is ever offended by a statue. They are offended by what the statue represents. The statue on that bridge in Prague (thank you Ubiqituin for reminding me of it) is inherently offensive; besides that, I don’t think there is too much art which I’m offended by besides for some Modern anti moral art. If you choose to be offended by a statue of Robert Lee that’s your prerogative but I don’t think I would. That being said, I think we as a people don’t have such an inferiority complex so we cannot relate.
The following is an excerpt from traveler Salomon de Rothschild’s 1861 letters:
“I’ll come back later to the “slavery” question, which was the first pretext for secession, but which was just a pretext and is now secondary. The true reason which impelled the Southern states to secede is the question of tariffs. The South is simply a producer and consumer; the West and the North, and especially the East, are almost entirely manufacturers, but they need strong protection. The South could supply itself with all necessary items in Europe, at prices from twenty-five to forty percent lower than what they have been paying up to now. It contends that these duties do it no good and that the money goes back into the pockets of the Northern manufacturers. Therefore it wants to escape from this tax. The suppression of, or even a strong reduction in, these duties would completely ruin the eastern states of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, which could not compete with the cheap prices attained by England and even by France. Thousands of men would find themselves unemployed and would therefore threaten the well-being and the very existence not only of their employers, but even of the merchants and the producers in those areas, leading to an imminent danger of social revolution, which the North must avoid at all costs.”
I personally don’t care how much the exexutives earn. I do appreciate tzedakos such as Kupath Ezra in Monsey which just gave out a 4 page mailer full of stats. It makes me more comfortable giving tzedakah to those kind of organizations. What does bother me however is that I perceive a lack of transparency or official system regarding who the recipients are. For example, are the tzedakos that help families of incarcerated individuals helping all people including the ones in jail for blue collar crimes (a specific example that happened comes to mind that cannot be mentioned on this site) or do they just help people that are in jail for defrauding the government or banks. Do chareidi tzedakos help MOs? Stats would be helpful for this.
@biden and @joseph, please don’t insult hardworking people who are careful with their money and who want to maximize the impact of their tzedakah by giving to the right organizations. The sole fact that a certain tzedakah is popular with the tzibbur won’t make me automatically give up any reservations I may have with it, especially when they don’t bother to share basic financial information.