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Ask Machon Raaya for a scholarship/ work study.
we Baruch Hashem, had other sources of income during that time period.
I love hersheys… I can’t imagine not having it when I get back to the states… I also love ben and jerry’s vanilla cheesecake, ohhhhhh… my yetzer hora returns.
Most seminaries have classes from 8:30- 10 pmish, obviously there are breaks for lunch and dinner…
take them to places where you can take recycled coke cans. My family (of three) spent five years saving coke cans, and we got $17.00 for them.
I eat Hersheys in the states, but I literally threw out five hershey bars when I got off the plane this year in E”Y.
Timberland makes darker shades of boots than their usual.
I used the term on motzei shabbos when I was talking to my best friend about the environment I live in now/ will live in next year. “I don’t anticipate living in a heimishe environment next year because the rare bais yaakov girl who does what I plan on doing typically lives at home while doing it. Also my seminary isn’t so heimishe either, I have to go out every motzei shabbos in order to get pizza with the right hechsher.”
Are those the coffee machines you see in therapy clinics in the states/ jcc?
If moving is an option, public schools in the northern suburbs of chicago pay very well, and you could just commute from WRP, most of the public schools in the north shore have hebrew language classes, some taught by frum teachers/ otherwise Israelis, so being a religious Jew is more easily understood (plus many baalei teshuva start keeping shabbos when they are in a public high school… so they have seen girls in skirts before. Plus there are many different schools in chicago to choose from.
On one hand, going to a school where you do not know anyone can be good, on the other hand, it makes it harder to make friends. I personally think that when deciding which school to go to, you need to consider the hashkafa, and MAYBE the hashkafos of the girls at your school who are going, but you don’t really need to think about anyone from any other school. I have met a bunch of girls from Keser Chaya this year, there are 34 girls this year, they love it, they are solid, frum, bais yaakov girls, I spoke to the menaheles because I wanted to switch there (I checked into 15 schools across the spectrum before finding the one I am currently at…) and she said that the school is very academic. She used to be the principal of Lahav, so maybe ask some Lahav girls from 2 years ago about what the hashkafos of the school was like at the time.
Lashon Hora leads us all to a deadly destination.
I have no idea. Maybe they are updating it?
I feel like we need to have more dates these days because things are a lot more complicated when it comes to shidduch dating, especially with things like the economic crisis, more genetic diseases (or at least, there is better testing), there are more seminaries these days than before, so there are enough seminaries to match a girl’s specific hashkafa (most of the time…) and stuff like that. Plus the non-Jewish media and society can have quite a bit of influence over us as well.
Yay! Now Jews can work at the post office!
Mods, I believe that there are several threads about darchei binah. I think that this discussion should continue here http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/darchei-binah-5#post-429774
Ateres has stricter rules, like not being allowed in the Tachana Hamerkazit (central bus station), Malcha Mall, Ben Yehuda, and some other places after dark, so girls who go to Ateres, will frequently be found hanging out in Geula. Girls who go to Ateres are allowed to go to Ben Yehuda during the day, but I highly doubt that happens very often because they have classes. They have a very strict policy regarding attendance, where you can only miss up to one week of any class, and if you miss on friday, it counts as a double absence.
I know seminar girls are not allowed on Ben Yehuda at all, but they are allowed in other places after dark. I do not know their attendance policy.
By the way, If anyone actually went to these seminaries, feel free to correct me if I am wrong. I feel like most schools (and this was for sure my experience with the first seminary I was at), do not necessarily tell you all the rules until you get there.
This is pretty intense.
I know a lot of girl in Seminar who live in New York, but they are not jappy at all. They are volunteers for Oorah and do kiruv. My friends who go there always have a ton of homework, but its not so much that they do not have time to hang out, we just hang out more often in their dorm than in other places. They are not allowed to go to Ben Yehuda at all, and have a 10:15 curfew on week nights and 10:30 on motzei shabbos, but they are very chill about giving extended curfew. They are all very nice, solid by girls.
First, try taking a few deep breaths. If you know anyone who is an occupational therapist, they probably learned a specific technique for deep breathing when they were in school. Try talking to them.
Its great that you plan on seeing a social worker. Try asking them about some relaxation techniques, you may even need relaxation therapy as well.
I hope that helps!
I have heard that the classes at Ateres are tracked. The highest level is expected to prepare meforshim independently (I know because I had an interview with Rabbi Belsky a few months ago when I was looking into schools to switch to). When I was there, a lot of girls came up to me to get to know me. I was rejected because of my background, but I do have to admit that it is an amazing school – just not for me.
My best friend goes to seminar, and she loves it! I have spent quite a bit of time this year hanging out in their dorms with her and I have met tons of other seminar girls as well, they are all very nice girls with great middos.
I have been doing some research on salary for sherut leumi for the past few days, and a typical assignment for a bat sherut pays 800-900 his a month, with that money, she is responsible for providing herself with; 3 meals a day, and all necessities, buses are free. Other than the free buses, that is very close to the same amount. I think it is about the same amount of money as soldiers in the idf get paid as well. So… I guess that the Israeli government does indeed consider learning in Kollel to be a form of National service!
There are so many things you can do! I like doing chessed in nursing homes in the states, I am planning on doing sherut leumi next year so that I can spend a year focusing on doing chessed. I am hoping to be able to apply to a chareidi special ed gan, the only potential problem is that I am not fluent in Hebrew yet.
You can also; sort out clothes in a gemach, go grocery shopping for someone who is homebound ( I am not saying pay for the groceries, but just don’t charge that person for delivery), bikkur cholim, medical clowning, chessed babysitting, offer to babysit children whose parents cannot afford to pay for a babysitter for one hour a week so that the parents can get some respite (even if to go grocery shopping/ to parent teacher conferences), again, helping out in a nursing home, friendship circle, drive people to places they are doing chessed at, stock a food pantry, tutor a child in a subject you are good at whose parents cannot afford tutoring… I hope these ideas help.
do chessed!
I have a very close connection to a woman who runs a snood store in her house, so I got to pick out a snood from the sale rack for free.
I am a bit chareidi, and I am planning on doing national service next year. I actually requested to work in a chareidi environment, so hopefully, I will have an interview at a Chareidi Gan for girls with mild developmental delays. If you are saying that Chareidim don’t serve, keep in mind that this goes to show you that Chareidim don’t promote doing national service, yet they are open to accepting girls who are doing national service for them (which, I think is an oxymoron, plus most of the girls that apply to that gan might not even be chareidi). I was actually shocked, like mamash shocked, when I heard that chareidi special ed fans accept bnot sherut.
Was there a trial yet?
Exactly my point.
I am so angered by this video that I would have wanted to give her the death penalty, which is why I would never be a judge. I have an internet filter, so I only got to see 2 minutes and seven seconds of it.
I plan on wearing a snood for purim and I am not married… shhhhhhhhhhh…
I feel like the US is not much farther behind in that respect. I sometimes wish agurot would go away as well.
the apple store might sell refurbished ones.
I just sent an inquiry through the classifieds section… is that the right place to send it.
try t-mobile prepaid service. Unlimited everything is only $50 a month.
For sure it would be tax deductible if you do not win, I would say that they probably give you a tax deductible receipt after you enter and donate the amount of money you donate.
you can unlock the phone yourself through certain services for about $25. That is how i unlocked my smartphone before coming to E”Y.
Take a perek of tehillim that you want the chasson and kallah to emulate and write a hashkafic dvar Torah on it with a lesson that applies then and applies now and in the future. That is what I would do.