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Adjustment issues is a polite way of saying that the MO school won’t work out either which means back to square one.
It has happened in almost every instance I know of where someone tried that route – and the end result was complete OTD.
MO is a completely different world. Just the more rigorous secular studies program would cause more problems for a bochur coming from a regular yeshiva. So would the social order.
In any case the point is moot. No MO school is going to accept a new student for senior year (age 17) and there is no more time to even try because classes start the week after next.
Advice to the OP – contact Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz for advice. I think he has contact info on his website. Forget the kibitzers here :). Hatzlocho!
Not the Trotsky story AGAIN!
1) He had two parents.
2) He was never frum.
Inaccurate stories like that end up leading people astray.
Irene the Polish cleaning lady? She’s never on time, don’t worry. Just lock up your silver and your jewelry and everything will be OK. :)))
There never was such an incident regarding Trotsky of less than blessed memory. He was never in any yeshiva and did not come from a frum family.
An MO school will not help because it will be too hard to adjust to a completely different framework for someone who has already had adjustment issues.
The rav was not right in throwing you out. How in the world did he find out you were talking to girls? I really have no respect for any rav or menahel who takes the word of a snitch – or even if he does, he should take it as a reason to work with you and not to throw you out. Someone once snitched on me to my public school teacher in the 6th grade – and I was actually guilty as charged – but the teacher disciplined the snitch for being immature and I had the last laugh. Today, that teacher is enjoying his retirement in Florida after a second career as a very successful real estate broker.
There are probably other bochurim in your yeshiva who get away with more than you were thrown out for – because they are fakers and know how to hide their aveirois, or because their parents are (wealthy, big names etc). Throwing out should be reserved for bochurim who disrupt, or who really need to be in a vocational framework, or who are truly OTD and convincing others to go off.
Yes, you do need a broker. Hatzlocho. I’m gone for too long to know who the good brokers are in BP. Mrs. Raizy Brisman (Brisman Realty) on Coney Island Avenue and hmmm..Ave L or M.. in Flatbush is a very professional broker but I don’t think she handles apartments in Boro Park.
I think it is Borsalino that makes a straw hat which looks almost exactly like the regular yeshivish hats but is much more comfortable and weather resistant. My friend has one – he probably bought it in EY but I am sure that the usual stores in NY have it as well. He’s had it for over a year and it hardly shows any wear. I’d get one myself but I wear a “kasket” during the week as was the minhag here in Ukraine and I live so close to shul now that wearing my regular hat on Shabbos hardly bothers me.
NOT AGAIN!!!
Can you pls close this thread. It will just be a rehash of the last one which got us nowhere.
Yes, but not in a negative way. Some of the older songs just remind me of a simpler time. However, the quality of the recordings and the simple arrangements compared to what the same artists produce today also remind me that in those times the community was not as well off as it is now and that we did not have access to the kind of technology that we use today.
Black nail polish is great for touching up scratches on camera housings :).
To someone who does not know, a woman wearing a tichel could pass for:
A chemo patient L”A
A Muslim and therefore a potential security risk
That is why a workplace would prefer a shaitel outside of EY where everyone knows why a woman covers her hair.
I use a particular “official” English transliteration for my name, which has a ches, because when anyone who reads Russian and English reads it that way, they know exactly how to transliterate it into the Cyrillic alphabet. They also know how to pronounce it because Russian has a ches sound. However, I use a very “haimish” transliteration when I sign off on emails to friends.
A travel agent in Moscow before the days of computer-printed tickets wrote me a ticket for El Al and mangled my surname in the official reservation records (which were computerized) by back-transliterating it from Cyrillic. That meant my surname on the ticket did not match the correct one on my passport. Fortunately I had a connection at the airport who vouched for me with El Al security.
“Mayim Chayim Mey Raglayim” was an old joke about the color, (purported) quality and (purported) taste of Mayim Chayim soda. As I said, it is actually a fine product. In the 80’s the actual manufacturer was Hoffman which was a very respected local and private label producer. I don’t know who the manufacturer is today.
The other old line was to call it Chayim’s Mayim (and the other haimish brand Ber’s Mayim).
It is only the civil anniversary of the Crown Heights pogrom (and that is what it is – Dinkins told the police to let the rioters express their anger). I know from the date of a photo I have with the Rebbe ZYA the Sunday after the situation calmed down (15 Elul) that the kodesh date is in Elul.
Most human hair for better shaitlach is imported from Eastern Europe. There are ads on every lamp post where I live offering money for hair according to length, and for longer hair the money is enough to feed a family for a week or two.
Two high-end sheitel manufacturers make their better wigs in Ukraine, one here in this city (it is no secret – Freeda mentions it on her website and she has never used Indian hair nor does she mess around and substitute cheaper hair because it would be the end of her business) and one in another major city.
Chill is right! One participant is dressed as the chosson and one as the kallah.
I would even stage a mock same-gender wedding next Purim with a siddur kedushin full of puns and satire as a way of mocking how low NY has sunk – but I am not in NY.
Yes, I prefer the haimishe sodas (except colas) to the nationwide and store brands. When I lived and worked in Manhattan in the late 80s until 1992, I often shopped at the old 47th Street Photo and I would pick up a few cans of Mayim Chayim lemon from their soda machine along with whatever else I bought. I also schlepped it from Boro Park every couple of Sundays. (My community doesn’t even hold by it and I did know who the actual manufacturer was, but it was easier to find it as Mayim Chayim.) Mayim Chayim or perhaps another of the haimishe re-labelers had a brand called Naturale 90 when I was last in the US and that is a premium brand, as good as anything you’d find in a store like Zabars or Dean and deLuca.
And yes, I know of the old slogan: “Mayim Chayim – Mey Raglayim!”
Rabbi Abadi? I used to flood his site with questions about drinking Windex and bleach, especially in Adar, so he would have less time to lead Yidden astray. He answered quite a few of them.
We can assume that the Chazon Ish would have asked for an exemption no matter the numbers. The question is whether the medine would have agreed and whether agreeing would have even been beneficial to the Torah world.
The other question was whether the Chazon Ish would have wanted the present situation of koilel for all just to avoid the army. This we do not know. If not, then the Chazon Ish might have changed his request or agreed to a limit on the number of exemptions or their duration.
The whole system in EY is so corrupt that the only real Torah choice is “beshitas hakoifrim ein anu makirim.” However, if there were no charedi representatives in Knesset, the medine would have no Jewish identity and charedim would have no services. A separate charedi and dati-leumi state may just happen at the rate things are going, especially in 2 generations when the problem of non-Jewish and non-Arab “Israelis” becomes a major one.
Wine has been shown to have so many benefits that I started to drink 2 small glasses of red wine a day during the week as well as of course on Shabbos. I don’t enjoy it, though, and I often forget.
Charlie, I believe that and I also believe that Obama is Moshiach. Hamas gets their hands on that aid through corrupt contractors and food providers. Haman Obama and Zeresh Clinton know that and they could care less.
YUKELsons – are you serious or is that a typo? Then again, if people spend the summer at a place that is called Lokh shel Dreck, I guess there could have been a Yukelson’s.
Otis Hotel – Well, there is an Otisville but it is neither a hotel nor a resort (maybe the last resort but that’s about it).
I think it is a big deal to give government money to an anti-Semitic anti-Israel anti-American dictator. Don’t you? If Obama had given Chavez $35 million the Republicans would be all over him.
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How much has Obama given Hamas? How many times could he have withheld aid and did not?
Chavez is not forever. He is an oncology patient boruch Hashem. He has also never laid hands on a single Jew for anti-Semitic reasons (I don’t even know if he stole any Jewish property). Citgo is a company that has operated in the US for years under previous Venezuelan regimes, and when Chavez succumbs to the yenna machla he so richly deserves, Citgo will continue to provide jobs in the US.
With the exception of Chavez’s meshugge plan to distribute Citgo heating oil in Harlem which may or may not have ever come to be, Citgo operates as any other company does in the US. Some of the firms that have gas stations in the US build and operate in Yehuda veShomron. Obama’s cronies would love to block Dor Alon from doing business in the US – but you can’t do anything to US corporate entities no matter who owns them.
Hamas, on the other hand, has cells in the US that could pull off another 9-11 any day. Hamas may, like Hizbollah, be involved in smuggling scams in the US.
Calling the Tea Party terrorists is worse than accusing anyone of treason. That being said, Barack Hussein Obama is a fifth column and a traitor to everything that once made America great. He may be the first nail in the coffin as the world shifts its focus to Asia, or he may be a passing aberration like Jimmy Carter, who was also a fifth column.
Sorry, but (not in the case of the home health aide which is totally different) you absolutely should sell or hock your luxury items before you go on welfare. Many an honest businessman has had to do that with personal and business possessions during hard times – and they are the ones who go on to succeed again.
It is a complete busha and chilul Hashem berabim to use aid cards if you obviously have luxury possessions. Plenty of fraudsters double-park new luxury cars in front of the grocery and buy the most expensive things possible with food stamps they get by pretending to be single mothers because their weddings were never registered. They have nothing but expenses and their husbands have cash businesses. One day there will be an ezras nashim in the Otisville shul.
The undisputed gadol of the dor, the Admou”r meCreedmoor, prints his own food stamps and EBT cards to avoid any sofek of kiddush Hashem!
Do it in private. I used to smoke and occasionally I will chew gum if I get very desperate. However, I do so at my desk only. If I need something on the street, which I rarely do since I never smoked outdoors and just did it to concentrate on work, I have a couple of hard candies.
Licensed changer of food stamps and provider of welfare check and EBT cashing services. Also run a dry cleaning business that handles even the dirtiest money without leaving a trace of shmutz.
I was the rov of Kehillas Sitra Achra but Solomon D-ek needed a job so I gave up my rabbonus.
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That is called a freier in the slang of the medine. Hillel was far more realistic. We are human. RSRH is referring to an ideal and I have a feeling something was lost in translation here.
Today’s anti-Semitism is based on people having contempt for the medine because it can neither wage definitive war and stand up for itself after Hashem hands it victory, nor make peace because there is no peace to be made with the enemies of civilization.
The anti-Semite sees the medine as representative of all Jews, and he sees it acting like the nebach innkeeper of old who begs the poritz for a little more time. So, he sees the Jew as a weak shlimazl as well.
“Theological” anti-Semitism really only exists among a small minority of Catholic and Protestant notzrim who believe in replacement theology. They are not much of a danger to us – they are the rump NK of notzrus. The Westboro guys are just the loudest expressions of that ideology as are Pat Buchanan and Mel Gibson. (Al Sharpton and Jeremiah Wright are preachers in name only – they are really secular demagogues and rabble-rousers.)
We are our own worst enemies. We do not stand up for ourselves and we use golus as an excuse not to rock the boat. Decent non-Jews want us to rock the boat as Hashem wants us to do. The scum minority live in fear of us, as the Arabs in EY did for a few glorious months after 67 before Dayan let the Wakf have rights in Yerushalayim Ir HaKodesh, when we rock the boat.
If anything, I think the whole reason for Rav Ovadia’s psak is that in boiling hot Halab or Cairo or Baghdad, it was impossible to wear a wig and he never saw them in his community until the recent explosion of human hair shaitlach, some of which really are questionable. Maybe that is what Rav Ovadia means by “chased by fire” – your head would feel like it is on fire if you wore the quality of shaitel that must have been available when he was growing up in Baghdad or when he was a rav in Cairo!
In addition, local Muslim women wore scarves over their heads so that Jewish women found them easier to obtain and completely socially acceptable.
I am actually writing a sefer on the halachos of wearing tin foil hats for men and women. There is a problem because they produce solar energy that can set off rather than protect against the chips that the CIA implants in our heads so that they can monitor the activities of the Jewish community in order to prevent another Pollard scandal.
For women there is also the inyan of how much of the face they have to cover with tinfoil to qualify for proper tznius (which of course is a machloikes between burqa and chador levels of coverage).
1) Rick Perry will most probably not win the nomination. He just does not seem to be Presidential material. However, I am sure someone who enjoys sorting through trash could have found plenty of trash to dredge up regarding Reagan when he was Governor of California. Reagan was also considered too right-wing at one time.
2) Obama will most definitely not win the election. I actually would like to see him win, though, because he would make such a thorough mess that there would be no President from his party for ten terms after his second term.
I fear that with America fading and Asia rising, there will just be a constant jerking back and forth from term to term unless the average voter understands once and for all that leftist, statist policies and multiculturalism are the reason for the financial, social and moral decline of the United States. Only a real leader can reverse that decline, and while Obama = Carter, there is no Reagan on the horizon (unless someone is waiting in the wings or one of the Republicans is more than meets the eye.)
As for EY, it is time for the medine to act Jewish and stop worrying about what the US or anyone else thinks. However, because of the nature of secular Zionism and the malignancy called post-Zionism that now holds sway in the medine, world opinion and instant gratification matter far more to the state than Toras Hashem does. Sharon borei pri haadomoh told Bush that he wanted “peace,” not the other way around. So the one who is bad for “Israel” is – the state of Israel and until that changes, it does not matter who is in the White House. Regardless, a G-d fearing notzri is not a problem for Jews. Obama is.
Some communities that use Simantov as a male name also use Mazaltov but as a female name.
Sometimes, the clerks who gave the famous four surnames of Gross, Klein, Weiss and Schwartz to Jews throughout the historical Austro-Hungarian Empire davka assigned them to people in a way that was mocking. This was just as much a way to attempt to solicit a bribe as it was anti-Semitism.
Not hard to find a picture of a 600 kilo bear (Ursus maritimus) online.
Maybe the song is meant to help inspire people to respond in other ways? Lipa’s avoida is his singing (and his shul). Leiby is no longer in the news and we probably would not be talking about him now were it not for the song.
Section 8? You mean Parshas Shmini? The only part of the Torah that people say was written by Fetter Shmeel?
bpt, you really are a sucker! I know a place where you can get a 1.5 carat stone ring set in platinum with an EBT card! What’s more, it might be the same one that disappeared from your neighbor’s house a few weeks ago.
Food shtemps, food shtemps far alle Yidden
Food shtemps in velfare, s’iz shtark tzi frid’n
Food shtemps in yeder Yiddishe geshtelt
Fin Fetter Shmeel nem’n mir inzerer gelt!
(Niggunei Creedmoor)
2-1/2 feet sounds like avoiding potential litigation (or following NYC law) rather than an actual minimum working distance – it is probably based on the ladder maker’s anti-lawsuit recommendations.
ItcheSrulik is right – someone should be able to use scaffolding or another method of reaching if my spray idea is not feasible (it exists but may not be as good as real pointing).
It is very simple. The tzioini havara is a man-made street language and adopting it for tefila means that you put the values of modern Zionism above proper tefila. Listen to Shwekey sing Al Homotayich if you want an idea of how (some) Americanized Sefardim really speak – it does not sound like modern Hebrew at all.
Do you really want to speak to Hashem in the same language that you use to order a shawarma at the tahana hamerkazit?
In fact I use the old Russian-Litvish pronunciation at the amud davka because that is not my daily dialect even when I speak Yiddish (which was a street language as well but now is spoken mostly in the frume velt). I call my friend Moishe, but at the amud it’s Mayshe uvnei yisroel lecho onu beshira.
The size of this organization versus the Federation budget and their list of other donors (al ele ani boichiyo) leads me to believe they purposely request too small an amount for the Federation to have to make more than a routine, administrative-level decision.
Nevertheless, if they left the picture, the rest of the assimilationists would still fund it. The answer is to steal their thunder and provide real alternatives for those who are questioning or who don’t fit into the community mold.
Ofcourse, there might be a sealant that can be pressure-sprayed on if there is no room to stand a ladder.
Be careful though – loads of flim-flam home improvement contractors pop up whenever there is a sudden need for services. I only know of arson-for-hire contractors (Creedmoor Building Removal is one of the best) so I can’t really recommend someone good.
Lipa made it very clear that everything over expenses goes to the fund in Leiby’s memory. Just as he was honest when building his shul and got all of the proper permits, he was up-front and did not let people think he was not going to clear his expenses.
I bought it literally the moment I could (a few minutes after my local 12.46 pm chatzois on 10 Menachem Av). Yes, it is hurried and yes, Lipa can and has done better – but he is not doing it for the publicity – he doesn’t need publicity.
If it were better I probably would have bought a couple more copies to send as gifts. I will have to admit that I listened to it once and have not listened to it again. From a musical point of view he should have released a short track and then spent more time before releasing the final product. At least he did something and the family clearly approved – end of story.
The donors to the Federation barely know where their money is going because it is spread so thin. Few really have any ideology; they just want their name somewhere and the Federation is still the best place to be a macher based only on money.
The Federation will be irrelevant anyway in 30 years, but that is even worse because the reason it will be irrelevant is that its secular donors’ children are marrying out and have no interest at all in anything Jewish.
That organization is a sad story. The founder’s father became a BT and her grandmother was very resentful. The grandmother, who is now deceased, had money and gave it to the granddaughter for this feet thing both to spite her son and to dodge various taxes (probably legally). The founder herself went off because she spent time with secular relatives in EY and decided she wanted an easy, carefree life. Had she not had her grandmother’s money, she’d have just quietly gone off herself.
The founder is no longer in the picture and is studying law; now it is in the hands of non-Jewish counselors. When the original founder ran it, she tried to retain respect and/or she wasn’t very successful in brainwashing people – her own brother went back to Yiddishkeit after some time away. The non-Jews who do the day-to-day work are just paid employees who indeed consider it a success when they talk someone out of Yiddishkeit as opposed to just helping someone get a GED and giving them a place to hang out.
The answer is more options within our world. However, the Federation is supposed to support Jewish survival – and plenty of frum Jews do give to it if only for professional and business reasons. My very Chassidishe friend’s father-in-law, a Chassidishe yid from “der alter heim” who is a big wholesale jewelry dealer, was very active in the Federation when he was younger because his retail customers were members. Again, wait a generation and it will either disappear or become a funding source for day schools etc only. My guess is the former – the state of Israel hardly needs donations, Soviet Jews are free, and secular American Jews are vanishing. There goes the need for the Federation.
He moved to Creedmoor :)))))))))))))))! Creedmoor is a dimension of its own and it transcends physical place!
If this organization has anything to do with feet, then yes, the Federation is the main sponsor. I’ll tell more once I am sure that I am on the right track – however, the Federation is the main culprit at this point and the other info doesn’t mean much.
I have a few anti-malwares. The one I keep loaded at all times is Spybot – Search and Destroy. The interface is a bit primitive but it does a good job.
Someone I know never married his wife legally so she could get benefits as a single mother but they are married al pi halacja. Last week he took advantage of a certain new law to marry his (male) business partner for tax and insurance reasons and it is recognized by the government. There’s a plural marriage for you!
Another dangerous story. Please don’t circulate these baabamaaises. They are no credit to anyone and just make us look like fools.
I heard Rabin spoke to his daughter in a dream and told her that this year was the last yom haatzamois because next year the Jewish state will come to an end. I also heard that Sam, who told the Son of Sam what to do, came to Yehuda Levin in a dream and said that there will be a 10-strength earthquake in NY because of the toeva marriage law.
A true story…or is it:
Rather than asking what color tablecloth a family uses for Shabbos, a certain shadchonis (actually I think the correct form is shadchonte) would ask the lady of the house what brand of bleach she uses to wash her Shabbos tablecloth.
Of course, when someone answered “color fast bleach” or “bleach would ruin my tablecloth” she knew to remove that family from her list of potential mates because obviously the Shabbos tablecloth was not white. If someone answered “I send it to the cleaners” she would ask “Is there really a dry cleaner out there who you can trust with a white tablecloth” to see what the reaction would be.
How about:
What brand of bleach does her mother use for laundering the white Shabbos tablecloth? And which offshore bank does her father use for laundering the money from his cash businesses?
We need to have songs with words that are more controversial.
I composed a nigun called “Ibeavoid Reshoim Rino” for Creedmoor; I am waiting for some good news from Venezuela or Iran before I release it.
For example, I would love to hear a song that takes words from psukim connected to toieva being a capital offense as a protest against the toieva marriage law.
I don’t know why I chose Avast over AVG this time around (new computer back in Shvat). I was very pleased with AVG on my last machine – it just might be my nature to try new things. In fact, after a year of McAfee I went over to AVG last time.
I would be banned if I told you what I really think about Norton; I’ll use the strongest word that they allow here which is dwek.
Either Avast or AVG is a better deal than these rebates.
Which literally means that Hashem is the “anointed one” or the “savior” and it is just fine.
Indeed, many singers and plenty of baalei tefila make mistakes that change the meanings of psukim.