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I think the confession and the camera would be accepted even by the Sanhedrin if we had one today.
tobg, you don’t understand what we are dealing with here. You are being fed this kind of nonsense from psychological manuals that are written by the permissive leftists who create the conditions that allow the Arons and the Dahmers to walk the streets.
We are dealing with defects in brain chemistry, not normal people who just aren’t friendly. If the rav of wherever he was from had said good morning to Hitler yemach shmoi when he was growing up, there still would have been a churban. If the Fogels HYD had said hello every morning to their murderers, they’d still be dead. These human animals cannot be socialized. They’re born wired wrong. In some cases it is clear what happened – many street thugs were born to mothers who used drugs during pregnancy.
Still, we had fools in Crown Heights back when I lived there saying that if we were only nicer to our local thieves, they’d stop stealing. Yeah, right. Williamsburgh has hardly any crime because they don’t tolerate it – their shomrim don’t fear the law because of their political connections and they don’t mind leaving a miscreant in critical condition as a warning to the next one who tries.
What you are saying is the same as saying that if Solomon D-ek’s parents had given him more as a kid, he would not have grown up to be a thief and a moiser. Solomon D-ek lacked for nothing as a child; he has very wealthy uncles who knew he wanted to go into business and they supported both him and his father who is a rav very well.
And the king of the sociopaths, Osama bin Laden yemach shmo, had everything in this world and did what he did.
These people are born reshoim. Until Moshiach comes, we will not understand why people are born this way. But for now, we have to keep them far, far away from ourselves and our children.
The answer is who falls under each category.
Hopefully, prison justice will take care of him as it did with Jeffrey Dahmer.
Sadly, even if someone had reported him as being “suspicious”, civil rights laws would have kept him from being forced into treatment unless he had clearly been arrested for a crime.
And it is a tribute to our community that we cared as we did. Dahmer got away with what he did again and again because the people he murdered did not have anyone other than family (if that) who were concerned enough to look for them. Of course one murder is one too many, as is one abuse case, but at least this creep will never do anything again.
The question is whether it will help the community identify and deal with the rest of the sociopaths and criminally insane in our midst.
Regardless, if you plan to vote for Obama in 2012, you are a shoite even if you have an advanced degree or two or smicha yodin yodin for that matter!
It is just that we now understand that only the most profoundly mentally disabled LA are really shoitim. Someone who is developmentally delayed but educable, such as a person with Down’s Syndrome, is not a shoite by any means – 2 generations ago a person with Down’s would be considered a shoite.
He would be chayav missa al pi halacha, that is for sure.
Seriously, don’t play around. See a doctor. Topamax is not marketed for weight loss and unless you’re already on it for other reasons you should not be able to get hold of it.
Notwithstanding the Chatam Sofer, there are no treatments that I am aware of that work differently on Jews and non-Jews.
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There are, however, treatments that work differently on members of different races. I forgot which one in particular works differently for people of African origin – I think it is a blood pressure medication.
It would not surprise me that as we get further and further into genetic based treatments, there will be some that will work differently on many Jews versus many non-Jews based on our shared DNA.
The only true shoite is one who votes for the present occupant of the White House in 2012.
That Daily News headline is from a week or so ago. The man seems to be a very recent BT who still has more than one foot in the secular world. His daughter’s boyfriend is Muslim.
The Post is poorly written and is meant for the less educated reader – ditto for the Daily News. Both are sensationalist tabloids.
However, the New York Times is a poisonous rag which consistently supports toeva, giving in to Islam and other values that are neither Jewish nor American. It is dangerous; the other 2 are bird cage liner.
There should have been a third paragraph but I could not and still can’t formulate my thoughts :).
As for the Schmoigerman blog, I felt it ran its course. I’ll probably be back to it next Adar unless something really happens to warrant a post earlier than that. There are 2 recent cases that just may warrant a post…..
Bluming Dale in Chinatown, which is known for its sign in Chinese characters signifying “Counterfeit and Stolen Goods” has far better prices on Gucci bags and Chanel sunglasses than either of the two locations you mentioned here.
The most reliable blog when it comes to arson is the one that depicts arsonists as followers of a certain Rabbi Schmoigerman who lives in an abandoned mental institution. The author of that blog knows that the problem exists but he also knows that a tzibur by definition has bad apples.
Nowhere does it say that keeping any one mitzvah is a vaccination against not falling in another area. If that were the case, then why do we have dinei mamonois and dinei nefashois? Yes, you can keep kasher lemehadrin and be a total gonif or a megale arayois. But al pi Torah, an issur skila is an issur skila regardless of what civil law or public opinion thinks about one issur skila versus another.
The Chicago CRC would not recommend CY only. Rabbi Semelman from Y-m has a note that he is checking again but in the meantime he does not recommend any Bailey’s liqueurs even though he has information that they are LBD approved.
Eastern Europe is once again burning with the fire of Yiddishkeit, although the small towns where many of us come from are indeed just batei almin. Leaving aside some regional pockets of ignorance or extreme nationalism, which you have everywhere, Eastern Europe is now one of the best places to live proudly as a Jew (unless you’ve got to have two pizzerias, three take-out places and four Chinese restaurants – but even decent kosher restaurants can be found in the big cities here.).
The hatred in Eastern Europe was because of bad governments that riled locals up against Jews (except for Poland, where there is a problem because of an extreme Catholic church group and the guilt over collaboration – ditto for the more nationalist parts of Ukraine which border Poland and are the area from which Chmelnicki YMS sprang).
Anti-Semitism is not in the people’s blood the way it is in Western Europe. Once Communism fell and people were free, attitudes changed. Communism also neutralized the old church, which was the other big source of anti-Semitism. The Eastern “orthodox” church that emerged after the fall of Communism doesn’t care one way or another about Jews. Where I am, the mayor is known for being a devout notzri, and he also goes out of his way to help whenever the shul or a moisad chinuch needs a building permit.
Also, Islam is not too well regarded in this part of the world and Jews are therefore allies against what people see as a real threat.
What I will never forget is how a ragtag nationalist gang in usually quiet Kiev vandalized a shul and a school around the time of the surrender of Gush Katif – because they saw Tzahal doing the same to shuls in Gaza and figured if Jews care so little about kedusha, why shouldn’t they have a little fun at our expense.
Now, back to Gateshead – how much can the kehilla grow? Is there even land available for expansion? It seems to be a transient community – girls learn in the famous sems and go back home to get married, never to return – same for all but the top kollel yungerleit.
So this is now the YWN Coffee LIQUOR room? A shonda! Yidden drinking low proof syrupy kid stuff :))))!
Seriously, Orlander’s on 13th Ave and 48th Street (4812 13th Ave) is the place to go for your Kahlua, because they have a nice selection at decent (but not the lowest) prices and the owner is very careful to tell you if something is not kosher. IIRC the Kahlua situation is also confusing because some is and some is not kosher.
And if you really want to try something with a kick, there is a hardware store a few doors down that carries paint remover, which everyone holds is kasher lemehadrin :))).
Woolworth 5 and 10 cents store….LOL Pac-Man, how old are you? They’ve been gone since before Pac-Man was popular!
Attn Brooklynites and anyone who works in midtown Manhattan:
The “Muslims” who conned Oomis sound like the extended family of tsigane who masquerade as Israelis and work our neighborhoods in Brooklyn as well as the midtown Manhattan shmatte district in front of J2 and Kosher Delight. I’m sure they are still there – they actually operate in Paris as well.
Once you tell them you know they aren’t Jewish, they stop – but call Shomrim as well if they approach you. They need to be removed from our midst once and for all.
They also offer old people help carrying groceries and then steal from them. I saw this happen the night I left the US and the only reason I called Shomrim to handle it is that I would have ended up arrested had I made a citizen’s arrest.
Velfare Velvel’s, on the corner of Division St and Avenue J. His merchandise is so hot, it’s a ness how he unloads it from the backs of the trucks he hijacks. He also cashes welfare checks and EBT cards and takes only 99 cents on the dollar.
Yes, I heard about that. Aguda is probably not the one to do it, at least not directly. Plenty of frum marketing and PR agencies out there; they should be the ones doing the work or at least guiding someone.
Alternately, someone should volunteer from the grass roots and get assistance for SEO matters from donors.
🙂 I hold by CY as well as by not drinking anything below 80 US Proof (LOL) so I don’t know. I only mentioned the issue that could have changed things.
One more issue. I don’t know where the Bailey’s in the US comes from. LBD probably OK’s Bailey’s from Ireland.
It is no better on the men’s side. All kinds of phoney meshulochim, segula sellers, sharp characters organizing minyonim for money. I go only after chatzois when it is quiet.
I saw the thread. Fear not. Mechutzaf is exactly what the one who attacked you is. He comments anonymously on just about every thread, and because that site thrives on negative comments, they let him brech out his inflammatory nonsense.
Cholov stam it is, but make sure they haven’t added gelatin as well.
The Eda haCharedis in Y-m and Rav Landa in Bnei Brak are also charged with preserving the overall “kashrus” of their communities.
I don’t think either of them would withdraw a hechsher from a factory because the employees don’t dress properly, but they are far more than kashrus authorities when they certify any establishment in their own areas. Their job is to maintain “vehaya machanecho kodosh,” and food is just a part of their responsibility to their communities.
Rav Landa does not supervise any restaurant open past 7 PM in Bnei Brak and he has instituted rules about seating there as well in order to prevent 13th Avenue or Avenue J style “hanging out”. He doesn’t even think to institute or enforce seating rules in the employee cafeteria at Coca Cola (which is just a long Shabbos walk away from the heart of Torahdige Bnei Brak). I think he is stricter than the Eda haCharedis but they have the same mandate in “Yerushalayim shel maala” that he has in Bnei Brak.
Mo the Moiser Allen and company want to push a leftist, socialist, non-Torah agenda. They forget that tzedek is also the right of a hard-working entrepreneur to keep what is rightfully his and to make decisions that benefit his business and his consumers. He’d rather see the US become another Greece so he can flaunt his version of tzedek that comes out of the wildness of the 60’s counterculture which in turn was influenced by tzadikim like Guevara and Castro.
Something like “kvetching” or “yachne” where people can rant.
The problem is that the democratic nature of the Web means that whoever is loudest and most controversial, and has the most time on his hands, is the one who gets heard. Then, the media even pick up his ramblings as if they are authoritative information.
The other problem is that Google ranks its own Blogspot.com (Blogger) blogs way up in the rankings. I saw it myself a few years ago when my infamous satires of NK figures ended up one level below Wikipedia (another inaccurate source) in the Google results for the name of the letz I was lambasting. My most popular title was “(insert name of former NK activist) and the Magic Bedsheet,” an obvious parody with no authoritative information. It is still among the highest ranked results for that topic.
It may be time for askonim to hire someone who can blog properly and al pi halacha about Yiddishkeit and Yidden and drown out the nonsense. However, it would cost quite a bit to get the kind of SEO services needed to displace some of the “orthoskeptics” (grube yung) who have infested the Web with their ranting and reached the top of the charts.
Krechtz un Brech – Nigunei Creedmoor ve’Shaar Marin Bishin? It’s still out there but L’Azazel Productions is still only set up to take EBT payments – no cash, no charge, no PayPal.
There is a Michiganer Chassidus. It is a branch of the famous Creedmoorer chassidus. The signpainter who made the sign for their shtibel on the corner of Hewes St and 13th Avenue could not believe anyone would call themselves “Mishigginer” so he spelled it “Michiganer Beis Medrash” in English.
The Pittsburgher and Clevelander (who are indeed part of Nadvorna) Rebbeim live in EY now, but there may also be a Clevelander Rebbe in NY.
Darmstadt
“I don’t care if the goyim violate the mitzvos bnei Noach. That is their problem, we have enough of our own to worry about.”
Such was the derech of a certain town in the Negev, the one that you get a few granules of every time you buy Ahava cosmetics. Laor goyim means being a moral light, because the whole world goes down when people act as they did in Sdoim.
We are leaderless. We need the Lubavitcher Rebbe ZYA, Rav Avigdor Miller ZYA and others who understood that we have to influence the goyim as well – and not through politics or extreme actions but through education. When leaders of that caliber left the world, America in particular sank – from Reagan, to Bush 1, to the immorality of Clinton, to Bush 2 who tried but couldn’t reverse the decline – to the present situation where the US is barely the leader of the free world anymore and the malchus shel chessed is becoming more like good old Sdoim where they cut you or stretched you to fit their mold.
Dov Hikind can try all he wants, but he is a politician with no moral standing. Rav Levin is an NK style loose cannon who takes things to an extreme and ends up sounding lehavdil like Westboro at times.
The only answer is Moshiach. Otherwise, we will be speaking Chinese as they know better than to let things like toeva marriage destroy the fragile fabric of the civil society they are just beginning to build.
What is more, I can just see what will soon happen.
HIV + individuals from Muslim and other backward countries will come to the US as refugees from persecution, and enter into a toeva marriage so they can stay in the country. They will then spread a new strain of this disease that will also affect those who are not baalei toeva.
In addition, you do not have to hold any religious beliefs to realize that this toeva is contrary to how nature means for us to function. As for my favorite non-argument that animals have been observed doing this, and I myself have seen it BTW – those same animals eat their young. Is this the level at which civilized society operates? Maybe in Sodom of old, or in Amin’s Uganda – but nowhere else.
Again, there are other conditions of unknown origin that make it hard for people to function naturally – but sufferers want to be freed from these conditions, not to be proud of them.
The whole problem is that instead of those who struggle with this problem asking for help, they turn it into a lifestyle.
It is like reform that made a movement out of breaking halacha – or clans of tzigane in this part of the world who have been making a living from stealing and begging for generations now and claiming it is their ancestral way of life.
Those dealing with this toeva should be storming Congress the way yenna machla patients, genetic disease sufferers, spinal cord injury victims LA etc are doing to ask for research and a cure for their disorder. They should not be legitimizing this any more than a kleptomaniac or a pyromaniac should claim that his disorder is an alternative lifestyle.
As for the marriages, the only ones who benefit will be the divorce lawyers. People with this toeva are very volatile and rarely maintain relationships over a long period of time (yes, there are exceptions).
People who suspect they have a chemical imbalance that causes behavioral issues should seek help from a qualified MD or DO who can prescribe the proper treatment for that physical illness.
Therapists – be careful. Some use all kinds of strange techniques that can damage sholom bayis, or kibud av voem etc. The worst will tell you to fry out, but that was more two or three generations ago when the koifer Sigmund Fraud’s dubious ideas held more sway.
I suspect there are rabbonim who can do just as much for you as a therapist. The difference is that they may not have time to give you the same attention as someone gives you when you are paying $150 an hour.
The best solution if you really feel you need a professional may be someone like one of the Twerskys (one is definitely named R’ Ben-Zion and the other may be R’ Mordechai) in Brooklyn who is both a rov and a therapist.
Maybe go with a guide – but really I think looking at the pictures online and reading the history gives you more than visiting the camps as they are preserved now.
I was not at Bergen Belsen or Terezin. If I ever go back to Prague I will go to Terezin. They are not in Poland and they may be run and preserved differently.
If you want to recognize the miracles of 48 (HUH??) then wear a blue UN soldier cap.
If you want to recognize how the medine thumbed its nose at the miracles of 67, wear a dunce cap or clown hat.
Meanwhile, a black knit yarmulke makes NO statement and is easier to wash than velvet or leather. It also breathes better. I had a very big one once but it didn’t stay on even with clips which was too bad. I don’t know what I did with it; I think it was in an old luggage bag that I threw away.
I love jaguars, especially the ones between 6 months and 2 years of age. That is why I pay a couple of chevre who graduated Rikers to trap them for me, and then I adopt them as pets. They sure drink a lot of gasoline.
Boro Park used to have a 600 Kilo Bear roaming around on Thursday nights, starting at dusk between Mostly Music, Gal-Paz and Eichler’s, then prowling for smoked tongue at Crown Deli, and even heading as far out as Landau’s Supermarket and Dougie’s as it got darker. No one was afraid to walk the streets.
When I walked through Williamsburgh about as fast as I could, realizing I was late for a minyan on the Lower East Side coming from (and by my dress obviously coming from) Crown Heights, people went out of their way to wish me git Shabbos. One Chussid in particular who really looked like he was racing against the clock made it a point to turn all the way around and wish me git Shabbos as he was running to his shul. Some WB’ers, like Yerushalmim, are a bit direct, but they are not davka rude.
In NY, people are aggressive. If it looks like you’re just lounging around on line, they think you’re waiting to ask someone something and they’ll cut so they can pay quickly and get out. That goes for all New Yorkers, not just Jews. Here where I live now, people are so lazy and disorganized that I have inadvertently cut because the line was so sloppy, and gotten away with it.
At least in the CR, I’ve never seen one poster call another poster an “apikorus”.
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That is because the comments are moderated :). There is no point even trying to break the rules; the post won’t go up.
I went to Auschwitz and Majdanek on my own because I was in Warsaw.
I really can’t say I gained much from going. Between the ill-behaved locals and the just as ill-behaved student groups from EY (secular and national-religious) I thought I was at a theme park :(. Everything is just too refinished and too well-preserved for anyone to get a sense of the horrors of those places.
I was forced to take a trip for visa renewal purposes where I was living at the time and Poland was the best deal. Once I was there, I felt I had to go to the camps. I should have visited the ghetto and shul in Lublin on the way to Majdanek but I had no time.
I went to Auschwitz on a Sunday and had to use a very convoluted route (Poland is a Catholic country and Sunday is not a workday there). If you go from Warsaw to Auschwitz by train don’t go on a Sunday.
Hey! I’m a guy and I use nail polish………………because it is easier to find than appliance touch-up paint and does a great job on scratched appliance and electronic gadget housings! (I am a bit embarrassed to buy it though and because the lowest grade is good enough for my purposes I buy it at the supermarket when I need it.)
Mashal- young boy wants to get a gumball from the machine. puts in quarter and turns but nothing happens. tries again but nothing happens tries one more time, still no gumball comes out. opens the cover to see whats blocking the gumballs and sees that theres something blocking the gumballs- he knocks it out and then he gets three gumballs!
A perfect story about – hishtadlus!
Refers to my build, my appetite for salmon (until the mercury scare) and my strength. Beware the 600 kilo bear!
Probably not mesira, but if there is Chaverim in your area, the right thing to do would have been to call them first and see if they could help.
Protest against Jews being thrown out of their homes, and enjoy two weeks in a correctional institution eating beans, while you watch Arab terrorists have three course meals brought in by their supporters.
Eric Yoffie is president of the Union for Reform Judaism.
Was. He was just replaced by Richard Jacobs who is active in J Street (the Yevsektzia of today). Yoffie was truly a tinok shenishba with a Jewish heart who unfortunately ended up where he did because of the times in which he lived. Even reform does not want J-street Jacobs.
And what Yoffie said could not be more true. Many an Israeli emigrant or his offspring has intermarried. After all, they were taught to become nothing more than members of a new nation called Israeli that is as artificial as another new nation that was called Soviet.
Those who keep even their “Israeli” identity, even Hebrew for another generation, are the many Israeli baalei tshuva abroad or those who are at least traditional. What’s more, the baalei tshuva often go back to EY to live there bekedusha instead of the way they lived there before their yerida letzorech aliya.