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  • in reply to: Where have all the Yekkes gone? #1979333
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    Here’s a blatantly plagiarized joke from almost a decade ago. Five points to whoever guesses who posted it (without cheating):

    You can tell everything by observing a kiddush.

    The people scarfing down herring and kichel are chassidish

    The people with a cup of vodka in each hand are Lubavitch

    The litvak is the one with cholent and kugel on his plate, but waiting for it to turn stone cold

    The ungarish oiberlanders are the ones who have their kugel on fancy plates.

    The unterlanders are licking the crumbs from the kichel off the table

    If there are any sephardim, which would be unusual, they are the ones being served by their wives and/or children

    The yekkes are the ones who are sitting at the table with one cookie

    in reply to: Where have all the Yekkes gone? #1979061
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    Yseribus: That explanation doesn’t make sense. All mesoras or kehilos transmits through the sons. Daughters always follow their husband. That isn’t unique to Yekkes. Furthermore, if the sons would continue the mesora, then the population following these sets of minhagim would continue to grow as each son has, on average, multiple sons of their own. Obviously that isn’t happening.

    in reply to: The 5% Prime Minister #1979053
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    The problem is the Likud refuses to put up another member other than Netanyahu as their PM candidate. If they’d do so right now, you’d have a right wing government led by Likud.

    in reply to: Where have all the Yekkes gone? #1978967
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    Lostspark: German Jews (and their descendants.) But, as squeak would add, not all German Jews.
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    Which raises the question, for those Yekkes who stopped giving their Bar Mitzvah bochorim a Talis, have they also started waiting six hours, instead of three hours, between fleishigs and milichigs?

    in reply to: Where have all the Yekkes gone? #1978959
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    For our newly identified Yekkes here, as well as those who proudly wear the label on their sleeve, is their any truth to smerel’s above contention that today’s generation of Yekke parents only donned the Talis as a bochor out of respect for their father’s (rather than from their own volition), but they don’t enrobe their own Bar Mitzvah bochor’lech with a Talis?

    in reply to: Where have all the Yekkes gone? #1978953
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    Suddenly all the Yekkes are coming out of the woodwork.

    in reply to: ben shapiro #1978948
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    The seforimblog isn’t reliable.

    in reply to: Where have all the Yekkes gone? #1978913
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    Et tu, squeak?

    in reply to: stuff that don’t have a place #1978911
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    Is there a cure to hoarding? Has it been proven effective for most hoarders?

    in reply to: Where have all the Yekkes gone? #1978825
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    smerel: Since when does a bochor get to pick and choose which minhagim to follow or discard?

    Although, what you’re saying might also apply to the Oberlanders. They, too, there seems to be much less of over the last 20-30 years.

    in reply to: Where have all the Yekkes gone? #1978792
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    LF: That reminds me of Feivel’s old joke: A Chosid and a Yekke were getting married. The Chupa started exactly 15 minutes late.

    in reply to: We don’t trust the people around you #1978720
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    Every Jew a .22. Take your concealed weapon with you to Yeshiva.

    Kahana Chai

    in reply to: Halachah of sharpening pencils. #1978507
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    The halacha is that you cannot sharpen them if they’re not yours — unless you have permission.

    If they’re your pencils, the halacha is you may sharpen them any of the six first days of the week. Unless the day is a Yom Tov.

    in reply to: Yiddish Language Control Board #1978435
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    Yiddish is Yidden’s common tongue. As such, the only “control board” that exists are the hundreds of thousands Yiddish speakers. As they use the language, it makes it a living language.

    in reply to: Yiddish Language Control Board #1978434
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    Yiddish is Yidden’s common tongue. As such, the only “control board” that exists are the hundreds of thousands Yiddish speakers. As they use the language, it makes it a living language.

    in reply to: Kid names #1978071
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    Kalman Zechariah Eibish.

    in reply to: President Biden the new Regan #1978069
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    President Ronald Reagan was the greatest American president since President Teddy Roosevelt. No one has come close since.

    Joe Biden is the new Jimmy Carter.

    in reply to: Constitutional Rights? #1977672
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    It isn’t the Torah view.

    in reply to: Favorite Dips #1977673
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    Fish juice, fish juice and fish juice. (Or, as some call it, fish sauce.)

    in reply to: Israel is the safest country for Jews #1977642
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    Gershom Scholem is not a credible source.

    in reply to: Why Are We Complicit In Violence Against Jews? #1977641
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    All of the AP’s competitors are as bad as they.

    in reply to: ECAP #1977640
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    How was the environment unsuitable for Bnei Torah?

    ujm
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    And let’s not forget part one of this tragedy. Namely, mother’s abandoning a large portion of motherhood for the sake of a “career” outside the home. Leaving the innocent children home with who-knows-which cleaning lady babysitting and, effectively, bringing up her children for a large portion of their childhood, with the mother MIA from the home for a large part of the week.

    in reply to: an unremarkable and unknown person from England died #1977608
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    So sad that William was vaccinated.

    in reply to: Chinese Lab Origination of Wuhan Coronavirus #1977530
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    With President Trump proven correct, yet again on another issue the leftists mocked him for, or certainly now proven incorrect that those denying the origination of the Wuhan Coronavirus was from a Chinese lab, will the media and their leftist politician supporters apologize? Don’t count on them doing the right thing.

    ujm
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    To those responding in denial that this issue hasn’t grievously affected the frum communities, simply look at the prewar size of our own families. Whether you shtam from Litvish stock in Lithuania or Russia or whether you shtam from Chasidic stock from Hungary or Poland or whether your yichus is from the rich Sefardish cultures in Syria and Morocco, in the lifetimes of our grandparents or great-grandparents having 10-12 children in a family was the norm.

    in reply to: COVID food boxes in Brooklyn #1977081
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    At Masbia.

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    Yseribus: Where does Shas and Rishonim ever mention practicing birth control in a favorable sense?

    ujm
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    That’s a misnomer. Families have babies because the Bore Olam gave them babies; and they didn’t reject what offered. Having less babies by rejecting nature as offered to you by the RBS”O is a relatively new phenomenon that was in previous generations never even a consideration.

    ujm
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    A woman’s place is in the home. The feminists certainly don’t like hearing that truth spoken. But it absolutely is a Torah and Halachic truth that is a very central fact of human nature and society itself.

    Shulchan Aruch (73:1): A man must give his wife clothing like women normally wear outside. A woman should not go outside much. The beauty of a woman is to stay inside – “Kol Kevudah…”

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    Amil: I would suggest you’re greatly mistaken. We have influence over social policy (via our electeds, etc.) that affects this issue as much as other citizens. This is a societal issue.

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    Yaakov: Good catch; but a perfect freudian slip for this conversation.

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    n0mesorah: Seriously, you think that social influences over the last half century have no bearing on the unfortunately rapidly declining fertility rate?

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    akuperma: Furthermore, the tremendous gains in longevity, health, medicine and education as well as the technological improvements resulting in less work in the home in no way whatsoever mandate or somehow require people to choose to reduce their fertility rate.

    Indeed, the very factors you cite make it all the more possible to have the naturally higher rate of fertility designed and graciously offered by the Ribono Shel Olam. It should not be rejected.

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    huju: It took me about 10 or 15 minutes to write this. It’s an unpaid, unhelped, original; if you like it I’m available for future articles on contemporary societal issues.

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    akuperma: You don’t recognize the significant problems resulting from an aging population where the demographic population of the old are rapidly reaching the tipping point of outnumbering the young?

    in reply to: Market for Jewish Books: Substance vs. Fluff #1976225
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    Rav Moshe writes in the Igros that it shouldn’t be translated.

    in reply to: ben shapiro #1976084
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    You’d be much better off encouraging your kids to listen to Rav Chaim Kanievsky.

    in reply to: Review of “Use of Force” & “Lethal Use of Force” Laws #1976045
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    As a practical matter of common sense and intelligence (and without discussing what the law ought to be), it is very wise to retreat from a fight or threat of violence if you are able to successfully retreat to avoid harm.

    Even if one’s ego might think otherwise.

    in reply to: Israel is the safest country for Jews #1975794
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    Amil: What’s Mr. Zola’s screen name?

    in reply to: setting up kiddush during mussuf #1975504
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    It depends what they serve for kiddush. Is the food good, at least?

    in reply to: The CDC’s Secret Weapon #1975274
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    Who was paying any attention to the CDC, anyways.

    in reply to: Israel is the safest country for Jews #1975139
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    Amil: I’m pleased you chose to live there, too. Though, I’m uncertain what that has anything to do with the discussion. The physical threat to Jews by Proud Boys and their nutty ilk is miniscule, to the extent of their diminutive membership and history with Jews. OTOH, the threat from members of minority/POC communities is real and significant, in relation to the great extent they reside near Jews and have both a current and a historical record of randomly assailing individual innocent Jews for no reason other than us being identifiably Jewish.

    in reply to: Israel is the safest country for Jews #1974920
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    Amil: The minority (POC) population in and near Lakewood (and NYC for that matter) is a far far larger threat to the Jews than any Proud Boys (to whatever little extent they even exist in Jewish areas) or their ilk ever were.

    in reply to: Israel is the safest country for Jews #1974903
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    The largest threat of physical violence to American Jews, who largely live in the major Jewish metropolitan areas, is threats from POC/minorities who have long standing issues of antisemitism and violence. The Proud Boys types are virtually non-existent; and to the extent they exist they’re hardly the greatest threat to Jews. Violence against Jews largely comes from the left; both verbally and physically.

    All that said, even the left-wing violence against Jews here pales in comparison to the much much greater threats to the Jews in Israel emanating from the local Arab population and the neighboring Arab populations.

    in reply to: Yiddish Language Control Board #1974557
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    99% of the words are the same.

    in reply to: Yiddish Language Control Board #1974527
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    France (and French) is an outlier. That is not the norm. The French aristocracy are a bunch of foolish nationalists that get offended that English words such as email. hot dog, sandwich and weekend have become the default common terms in France.

    Yiddish is determined by how the millions of Yidden use it in real life. Especially the hundreds of thousands of Yidden who speak Yiddish as their first language.

    in reply to: Hebrew Goes to Spam #1974506
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    Were these posts you found in spam new threads that were started or were they posts in existing threads? Were the posts all Hebrew or were some of the posts a combination of Hebrew and English?

    After approving week(s) old posts, do those newly approved posts appear on the bottom of the thread or do they get placed above newer posts (that were approved weeks earlier)?

    in reply to: Nice Guys Finish First #1974497
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    It’s self-explanatory. Vus iz shver?

    in reply to: why should i take the the vacccine if i had the virus already ? #1974367
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    “Ask your doctor. Period.”

    huju: What if your doctor tells you that you don’t need the vaccine. But then some government bureaucrats decree that unless you take the vaccine you are prohibited from doing X, Y and Z.

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