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Japan surrendered unconditionally.
America letting the Emperor retain his title while stripping him of all power, was out of America’s good will; it was not required under the terms of Japan’s unconditional surrender.
The current peace plan that Biden announced originated from Netanyahu, not from Washington.
Israel always to a greater or lesser extent licks up to Washington’s demands since if America dropped Israel as an ally Israel is up the creek.
DaMoshe: Did any set of your grandparents ever live in Lita?
akuperma: Japan did surrender unconditionally.
Regarding Hamas, they do not seem inclined to agree to end the war if they have to give up control of Gaza.
yytz: A majority of today’s so-called “Litvaks” are of Chasidic heritage.
Including Reb Shraga Feivel. (Although he preferred to be called “Mr. Mendelovich”.)
Ex-CTLawyer: Please allow me to be the first to congratulate you upon your new name.
I can understand why one would change the second part of the username, but there is nothing embarrassing about being from Connecticut.
I certainly don’t disagree with this sentiment, but, of course, if one had the choice of highlighting their New York affiliation or their Connecticut affiliation, certainly any reasonable person would tout their New York credentials.
“could someone here clearly articulate how a jury could convict Trump?”
It’s very simple. It was preordained from the get-go. It was deliberately a cherry-picked jury in the most left-wing zip codes in the country, chosen for its location.
Wolf, how are you? It’s been ages since you last treated us with your wisdom. You need to come by more often.
How is your health coming along?
Reb Wolf makes an excellent point. You CAN change your existing username. Go to:
https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/users/ctlawyer/edit
Add a “Nickname”. Then switch your Display Name to the Nickname you just chose. Then click Update Profile on the bottom of the screen.
One thing to keep in mind is that doing this will also change your display name on all your old posts.
“their current leadership is a lot less controversial and definitely to the right of who and what it was forty years ago.”
Surely you jest. You can’t seriously believe that today’s YU is more to the right than it was under Rabbi J.B. Soloveitchik.
All the homosexual rights started in YU in the late ’90s, when YU officially recognized and funded YU homosexual clubs. This was shortly after RJBS passed away. Since the ’90s it has gotten much worse; in the 2000s even the YU mashgiach Joseph Blau himself was defending the homosexual movement.
Mazal Tov!!
Username NYLAWYER is still available…
OTOH, I have a few spare usernames available for your perusal, if you’d prefer to disassociate with your previous persona.
Something that may motivate Modern Orthodox adherents to return to traditional Orthodoxy can be considered to be a Baal Teshuva movement helping Jews come closer to Torah and Mitzvos.
MO is a newfangled 20th century American movement, that while still mostly observant, has no mesorah and was designed for minimal observance while modernizing their religion.
Rav Avigdor Miller zt’l always encouraged flying the American flag on July 4th.
Ari: Much as JTS moved to the left far enough to leave Orthodoxy, YU too has consistently moved further and further to the left, with the passage of time, that some of them already have a toehold outside of Orthodoxy.
Let’s not forget that Avi Weiss, founder of the newest non-Orthodox movement, was not long ago a YU rabbi and teacher.
AAQ: Joining the Nachal Hareidi is the greater evil compared to geneiva. Rav Shteinman clearly and explicitly wrote that even bochorim who are weak in Yiras Shomayim should NOT join Nachal Hareidi, since the IDF is much worse.
Only “bochurim who are mechallelei Shabbos and actually committing other grave transgressions for which the punishment is kareis” can be possibly considered to join Nachal Hareidi or the IDF if the “father wants to save the boy and to save the street from enduring damage that we do not have the power to withhold him.”
“But for sure it is an unforgivable sin if he were to persuade or entice in any possible way which might cause anyone who is not a mechallel Shabbos or committing other chayivei kerisos to be placed there” in Nachal Hareidi or the IDF.
Above quotations are Rav Ahron Leib Shteinman’s own words.
In America murderers like OJ Simpson and Lemrick Nelson are acquitted of the murders they’re guilty of whereas actually innocent people are often convicted.
opinionated-2: Hashem, our Creator, gave us a blessing we are commanded to say everyday of our lives thanking Him for not making us a woman; isn’t that much much better than a National Men’s Day? (We already have Women’s Month every year in March in America.)
Unless you hold it against HKB”H for giving us this Brocho to recite seven days a week, all year?
Rocky: That’s a complete falsehood. Rav Shteinman was OPPOSED for any normal person to join the so-called Nachal Hareidi or any other part of the IDF. He was ONLY in favor of a Mechallel Shabbos who would otherwise be on the streets to join Nachal if that was the lesser of the two evils.
See:
Recently Released Letter By Maran HaRav SHteinman To Hagon HaRav Don Segal Regarding Nachal Charedi
What’s wrong with the CR?
Sadly, Moshiach didn’t come last week as we hoped and expected
But he WILL be here this week!
Yid1818: HaRav Moshe Shternbuch shlita.
I only wear religious clothing.
Chaim: Why aren’t you equally vocal and outspoken in your, presumed, opposition to Jews shopping in Macy’s, Kohl’s, Target, Walmart, Old Navy, etc., where they have terrible pruste images plastered all over the store and on their websites, and where employees and shoppers milling about in the store are dressed horribly?
Imagine The Donald cashing out just 17% of his holdings in Truth Social today. (The Board of Directors, which he controls, could authorize him selling early.)
That would mean $1 Billion in cash. He’d still have another $5 Billion in Truth Social shares after cashing out $1 Billion.
And then he can pump that $1 Billion into his 2024 presidential campaign.
Truth Social has been having some beautiful rallies on the market in the last few weeks. The Donald’s stake, alone, is now worth $6 Billion. That’s not accounting for the billions he’s worth outside of Truth Social.
As far as the short sellers of Truth Social are concerned? So far this year they’ve lost $216 million.
Chaim87: Have you ever gone around the internet posting comments demanding all Yidden working in goyishe workplaces immediately quit, since they are around shiktzas dressed immodestly?
You should also be demanding that Yidden never attend professional sports games as it isn’t permitted to be meschaber and join goyim who don’t observe to Torah, as you put it.
Shelo Asani Isha should be made with the same simcha, with the same kavana, with the same intensity, with the same love, and with the same thankfulness as you make on Shelo Asani Goy and Shelo Asani Eved and on every other brocha during Birchas Hashachar.
“When will Jews get SERIOUS about stopping this very dangerous evil?”
First get serious about stopping the Open Orthodox.
First get serious about stopping the Reform.
First get serious about stopping the Conservative.
First get serious about stopping the Reconstructionist.
First get serious about stopping the secular.
First get serious about stopping the Avoda Zora worshippers (in churches across the country).All of these are much more very dangerous evils than that of which you worry yourself about.
“Well as I view it as a particularly unfortunate bracha”
Haolam: There’s nothing “unfortunate” whatsoever about this Brocha. Baruch Hashem we all have the great Zchus to make this Brocha will 100% kavana seven days a week, weekdays, Shabbosim and Yomim Tovim; every day of our lives from childhood through old age.
The Broacha, absolutely, was instituted by Chazal as “a conscious effort to ensure its underlying belief would remain for millennia”, as you so succinctly put it. This is a bakasha that we absolutely are proud of.
There are numerous holocaust survivors, who were in the Feldafing DP camp in Germany after the war, testified to this story of the Klausenberger Rebbe occurring in Feldafing/
“Jews have no problem changing their clothes. Just look at sephardi youth in Lakewood and other towns – they wear black cylinders and fully abandoned their traditional turbans and kefyiahs (which may be a good decision in current political environment). Why are they so quick to abandon their traditions? And why are their Ashkenazi bruders not telling them to keep their indigenous traditions? An Iraqi dresssing up as a Litvish is as funny as a Yekke dressing up as a Ungarishe.”
AAQ: Why aren’t you as concerned as above, and as vocal as above, regarding the other Sefardim who have, as you put it, abandoned their traditional turbans and instead walk around without any kind of hat altogether. Better to swap one kind of hat (i.e. a turban) for another kind of hat (i.e. a fedora), which you protest, than to abandon a head covering (i.e. a turban) for nothing at all, leaving their head mainly unhatted — something you do not protest.
And on the same token, why your failure to protest the Modern Orthodox running around hatless (and often jacketless, as well), having abandoned their traditional (what you refer to as) black cylinders that their grandparents, great-grandparents and earlier all used to cover their heads.
Migrate to America.
dbrim: Don;t confuse Eretz Yisroel with the State of Israel. They’re two very different things. Eretz Yisroel includes parts of Lebanon, Israel and Jordan.
In turn all three — Lebanon, Israel and Jordan are partially in Chutz L’aaretz and partially in Eretz Yisroel.
And all three — Lebanon, Israel and Jordan — are secular, non-Jewish, anti-Torah entities.
Evalimoshavlo: Since 1948, the State of Israel has, consistently, been the most dangerous place for Jews to live. Jews in Russia have been safer, since 1948, than Jews in Israel.
Do you realize how many tens or hundreds of thousands of Israeli citizens have actively and specifically procured for themselves and for their families foreign passports from countries in Europe, South America and North America, in case they ever need to escape from the so-called “safe haven” allegedly provided by the Zionist State?
Never forget that Israel in in Golus.
cousin sue: Interesting points.
Chareidim have been around since, either, Avrohom Avinu or Moshe Rabbeinu; depending whether you start counting from pre-Matan Torah or post-Matan Torah.
What is today called Chareidism is what used to be called Judaism; much as what is today called Orthodoxy is what used to be called Judaism. They are simply the default Judaism that never broke away. When the Reform broke off, the new movement called the original Judaism — Orthodox; when the MO broke into their own movement, they called the original Judaism — UO/Chareidi.
Clothing don’t make the man; I have no idea why you are harping on how who dressed when, when attempting to make artificial distinctions between how Jews dressed before the Reform and/or MO versus thereafter. Clothing changes over time; that has nothing to do with the practice of Judaism.
That being said, what absolutely is true is that Jews dress as Jews, even if what it means to dress as a Jew may change with time. Practicing, observant , Jews do not dress as the Gentiles. Just as the Navy uniform was different 200 years ago from 100 years ago, and again 100 years ago from today, doesn’t mean that they aren’t the same Navy. If a Sailor today decided to toss today’s Navy uniform for that of what the Navy wore 100 years ago or 200 years ago, it won’t help his defense at his court martial when he defends himself saying he was wearing the original Navy uniform.
A Jew, too, needs to dress in the uniform of the Jew today.
And with that, let’s conclude by pointing out that the mode of dress of Chareidim such as the Vilna Gaon and his Talmidim who settled in Ottoman Palestine as well as Chareidim such as the Talmidim of the Baal Shem Tov who settled in Ottoman Palestine, (all of whom continued their presence in Eretz Yisroel into the British period and the Zionist period) as well as how Chareidim like Rav Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld dressed both in the Ottoman period and in the British period, are easily recognizable and comparable as how Chareidim dress today during the Zionist period.
The Zionist Dream was stillborn. It was DOA from the outset.
No money, no Prozac?
whitecar: Yes, I absolutely do believe Moshiach will be here within days. And, yes, I have a suitcase ready to roll with my basic necessities.
If you don’t like to live under Zionist regime, you are free to move to Islamic enclaves
Chareidim have been in Eretz Yisroel long before the Zionists, Zionism and their State. Indeed, long before Zionism even existed. And Chareidim will remain in Eretz Yisroel long after Zionism, and their State, is gone.
We lived under the Ottoman and British regimes so we can live under the Zionists regime — until they go the way of the Ottoman Empire and British Empire.
The Zionists are, of course, free to move out to Uganda — their first choice for a State.
whitecar: My response answered your question precisely.
Rocky:
Israel is not currently a theocracy in which we will be able to create laws based on pesukim or statements of chazal.
Which is wrong. It should be a Jewish theocracy. We don’t dismiss the wrongdoings against Jews by Czarist Russia or the Soviet Union because it isn’t a theocracy or a Jewish state. Neither should we dismiss the wrongdoings of the non-Jewish zionist entity simply because it isn’t a theocracy.
1) The country needs an army to exist.
Chareidim didn’t ask for this country. We lived in Eretz Yisroel before the zionists and before their state. The zionists created this disaster of a state that now has been under constant unending attacks for 75+ years. They need to deal with the mess they made.
2) The country is made up of a majority of people who either do not view Torah learning as a valid form of protecting the country
And they are dead wrong. There is no reason to change our position and the truth simply because the majority of people have a wrongheaded and incorrect view.
3) The current concept of exemption for full-time learners (i.e the status quo) was created as half-hearted concession at a time when the situation was totally different than today (400 vs 66,000)
There’s no reason to reduce what so-called “concession”; indeed, there’s every reason to increase and enlarge than “concession”.
4) There is no way of knowing numbers, but there are many chareidim who are gaming the system and not really learning full time but still take advantage of exemptions
Baruch Hashem for that. No Chareidi should be in the army. Even if they are a full time baal haboss working full-time. Let them find every loophole that works, even not as designed, to avoid an army full of pritzus.
5) There are many in the general Israeli population who have grown angrier and angrier at the Chareidi population because of issues 2,3 & 4 and also because of the money given to yeshivas. The war has exacerbated this anger and the PR response from the charedim has not helped.
5) There are many in the Chareidi population who have grown angrier and angrier at the Chiloni population because of the answers given to issues 2,3 & 4 and also because of the money given to Israeli universities and sports leagues. The Chiloni hate-mongering has exacerbated this anger and the PR response from the Chilonim has not helped.
Refusing to negotiate in any way will only last for a short time.
There’s nothing to negotiate. If they want to impose a non-negotiated draft against Bnei Yeshiva, they should start building new prisons to house tens of thousands of Yeshivaleit who will become draft-dodgers who will choose prison over the zionist army.
if that means cutting short the vacation time (which is much longer than the rest of the working population), might be a good start.
Sure. Cut back vacation time of soldiers.
Even a well placed “thank you” would go a long way
The Bnei Torah have long been waiting for that “thank you” from the chilonim. It would, indeed, be a good start.
Mnay within this same majority are resentful of the chareidim
A majority of the world is antisemitic; are you suggesting we accommodate their antisemitism since they are a majority? A plurality of the world is Christian; are you suggesting Yidden accommodate Christian minhagim?
Why so long?? I expect Moshiach to be here in three days.
“UJM-I think you are confusing the issues. Your point about effort is true but only in regards to heavenly reward.”
Rocky: What basis do you have to say it is only applicable regarding “heavenly reward” and that it is inapplicable otherwise? Where do you see such a differentiation in the seforim hakedoshim? Please provide such sources.
In New York, I would say 90% of the Matzahs are whole.
It’s probably the interstate (or international) shipping.
The fact that this thread exists gives the so-called NK a victory. Every time YWN and others run a story, they notch another victory.