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In America, I walked out of the office after waiting an hour. I spoke to the practice manager and told her why I was leaving. She threatened to send me a bill for the missed appointment. I told her I would send her a bill for my missed work time. I never heard from her, and switched doctors shortly afterwards.

First of all, you don’t need to say “spicy schoog.” Schug is spicy by definition. There’s no such thing as “un-spicy schoog.”

Most of my kids like spicy stuff, as do I. We mix schoog into our chumus on Shabbat. When ordering shwarma, I stopped asking for a little schoog, and just take the regular Israeli size portion.

Your answer, of course, is to make aliyah. You will never run out of schug here in E”Y.

Marines are not soldiers, and soldiers are not Marines.

The fastest way to make a Marine angry would be to call him/her a soldier.

Tevel is a small caterer that works out of the Bait Hachayal across the street from us. They sell a huge selection of Shabbat take-out foods, which are actually pretty good. Tevel also operates the hall attached to the Bait Hachayal, which can be rented out for bar/bat mitzvah celebrations, sheva brachot, etc.

When Uncle Moishy first became popular, there were two – one did the recordings, the other did the live gigs.

There are apparently places in Meah Shearim that are having their mesibos on time, including music. They were so full of joy they even danced in the street on the night of the levaya.

Since when are HUD and food stamps considered a perk? They are government handouts. More of an embarrassment to be on these programs than a perk.

I believe that for the first date I had with the young lady whom eventually became my wife, we went out to dinner and then sat outdoors – for several hours – at South Street Seaport. I see nothing wrong with going for a walk on the first date.

When we lived in Baltimore we used tzedakah scrip from the Agudah. That ensured that there would be no fraud.

I read it years ago, and I still have it. In fact, Chaim Shapiro z”l was chazan at out shule for a few years, and he lived not far away from us.

I believe (although I don’t have sources in front of me) that a person on the last day of his 11 months of Kaddish has a place on the chiyuv list as well. I know when I got to the last Arvit for my parents, another member of the minyan with a yahrzeit very graciously allowed me to daven for the amud. That was a kindness I will never forget.

It all depends if the wisdom tooth (or teeth) are impacted.

If it (or they) are not impacted, the procedure should go relatively quickly with a local anesthetic. My daughter had all 4 wisdom teeth extracted (at an office in Yerushalayim) in less than 10 minutes. Other than a bit of discomfort and pain when the anesthetic wore off, she was fine.

If it (or they) are impacted, they extraction takes longer, and may involve being put to sleep by the dentist. I had this done for the two wisdom teeth I had removed back when I was a teenager.

You really need to consult a dentist/oral surgeon, and not depend on the answers of anonymous posters.

If you take the time to give the person honest, heart to heart responses you can save a person who never thought there was hope of getting their private personal questions and concerns answered.

I don’t know which is worse – that fact that people would put private personal questions on the internet, or that they would trust anonymous people (who could be anyone) on the internet to give them correct and proper answers.

You do realize, of course, that the sketchiest part of Tel Aviv has more kedusha in a fingernail size piece of dirt than all these other places mentioned here?

You do realize, of course, that when Mashiach comes soon, with Hashem’s help, that all the places here will be ghost towns?

I collected coins as a kid into my early 20s. My dad z”l also collected coins, and some of my most cherished memories are of the two of us attending coin shows together. Our collection was modest, but the time we spent together was wonderful.

joseph, apple throwing is not a minhag Yisrael – it is the minhag of a few sects of Chasidim. The vast majority of frum Jews do not throw apples, or food in general.

Why don’t you just daven at a shule with less people, or at an earlier minyan?

1. Gratis means free – not sure where you are, but there are no IKEAs that give away free meatballs.

2. From what I’ve read, seen, and heard, the words “good chassidese hashgacha” are a misnomer. According to a few friends who are mashgichim for various agencies in the U.S. and E”Y, the Badatz hashgachot are no better or worse than any other hashgacha.

We went to IKEA in Rishon last week, and bought some living room cabinets. We had no problems. We didn’t have the meatballs, but we did have falafel. It wasn’t bad.

Why isn’t the “Israeli bachur (whose parents made alliyah from the US) in his twenties” looking to find work/training in Israel?

Anyplace outside of E”Y is OOT.

Thank you, Lightbrite, that’s very sweet! I will show this to my daughter later, when she returns from work. (And I don’t think we’ll be having Old Bay at the wedding!)

Thank you! I’m also curious – do you know me?