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CTL: As others noted, tourists in the United States are whole persons.
As a New Yorker, I’m very satisfied New York lost a seat in Congress (and an electoral college vote). That’s one less Democrat to do damage in Congress. (As far as redistricting is concerned, New York Democrats would have gerrymandered whether they lost a seat or not.)
And it was a close call. If New York had counted another mere 87 people in the census (yes, 87), New York would have gotten another seat in the House. Baruch Hashem we didn’t get that seat.
We ought to create a yichus registry to insure the kashrus of all members of the community.
Republican states gained House seats and electoral college representation whereas Democrat states overall lost.
“Someone walks on my property , i can blow their heads off. Someone abuses me for 16 years , I get the death penalty for killing them. Makes sense.”
Like it or not, that’s both the law in many states in the United States as well as Torah law.
Besides, in your example was the allegation of 16 years abuse ever result in a court conviction of the alleged person?
CTR: Emunas Chachamim isn’t merely a “phrase”. It is a Torah obligation.
Abuse doesn’t carry a death penalty. If someone murders someone they allege abused them they deserve the same death penalty as if they killed anyone else.
Anyone 18 or older should be subject to capital punishment.
Supreme Court precedents can be, and historically have been, overturned.
Hatzalah was operating in Florida until now by driving an ambulance with critically ill patients while driving at regular traffic flow, stopping at lights and not speeding?
Most countries (including the United States) grant their own postal service a legal monopoly on delivering letters.
If someone has the seichel to ask a shailah if he is ready for shidduchim, the answer is that he is.
How was Hatzalah of Florida operating until now, before this new law?
CTR: Emunas Chachamim.
To decorate your bookshelf?
Are you at least 40?
AAQ: Not every born Jew can learn gemorah.
Switch parties.
Which is exactly what many Jewish Democrats did after the party became anti-religion and anti-Orthodox.
Artscroll is the Gold Standard in translating Jewish books.
How do you know that he’s a Godol?
You should not be learning Zohar prior to reaching 40 years of age. (And that isn’t the only qualification.)
The larger problem is certain kiruv groups being “mekarev” goyim who joined the Reform or Conservative movements and pose as Jews after undergoing a Reform or Conservative conversion or identifying as “Jewish” based on patrilineal descent or being an offspring (child, grandchild, great-grandchild, etc.) of a maternal R/C convert or of patrilineal descent somewhere along their ancestral line.
We’re waiting for our report from Charlie Hall.
The United States should have an automatic death penalty for all capital murder cases by persons 16 years of age or older.
Camp Adas Yereim or Camp Yeshiva.
TLIK: One of the sheva Mitzvos is retzicha. As such, regulations of what constitutes retzicha and what does not and, rather, is self-defense, is part and parcel of the halachos goyim are subject to.
huju: Jews must respect and live by civil law only to the extent that it does not conflict with Halacha. When it does, it is very clear that Halacha takes precedence.
Why are you assuming that Halacha is the same regarding a goy as it is regarding a Yid?
CA: Is Camp Ohr Shraga also known as Veretzky?
Was this on your photography blog?
What prompted them to reach out?
The jury was intimadated by the mobs waiting to riot, loot and burn if the desired guilty verdict wasn’t achieved. So the jury complied under threat.
Pardon my ignorance but your other blog seems dormant for the past five years. What was this all about?
Click bait. Ad revenue.
You need a Rov. Without that this is improper.
Avi: There’s a clear halachic difference whether the owner is Frum or non-frum/non-Jewish.
As far as kinyan, if you put vanilla pudding into your cart but before checking out decided to change it to chocolate pudding, there’s a shaila whether you can put the vanilla pudding back on the shelf?
Wouldn’t hasagas gvul be more the question than loshon hora?
HaGoen HaRav Elazar Man Shach zt’l told American educators that Yeshiva boys should be taught Chumash in Yiddish, even if the boys speak English amongst themselves. He furthermore said that both boys and girls should learn to be comfortable in Yiddish. He also said that Yiddish is spoken by “all jews” (that is his phrase). He referred parents to send their children to Yiddish teaching yeshivos.
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My sense is this situation does not fall into the halachic category of telling someone “It’s cheaper in the other store”.
huju: “Yiddish is unknown – unknown – to the many Mizrachi Jews I know… It predominated in Central and Eastern Europe, which is hardly the whole world.”
Ashkenazim represented 90% of prewar world Jewry. And Yiddish is the international language of that 90%.
“I can understand the romantic and nostalgic attachment to Yiddish among many Ashkenazim, but that by itself will not maintain Yiddish as a living language.”
Yiddish is hardly in danger. It is a living, vibrant and growing language spoken by millions of Jews the world over. For many hundreds of thousands of them, and the largest proportion of Yiddish speakers, it is their first language learnt from infanthood and childhood on, and used as their primary day to day language at home, at school, on the street and at work.
There are some places in the United States, Canada, Israel, the United Kingdom and in Europe that if you landed as an alien on the continent there for the first time you’d almost swear you must’ve landed in some Yiddish-speaking country where it was the official national language.
“There are great literary and scholarly works in Yiddish, but if they are not carefully translated into English or other language widely spoken by Jews and scholars, those Yiddish works will wither on the Yiddishe vine.”
The junk secular literature you speak of is already a forgotten relic. But no need to fret. Far more additional religious based Yiddish literature is being churned out every year.
That’s should’ve read Yinglish is the new English.
Yinglish is the new Yiddish.
There’s a famous story about the Satmar Rebbe zt’l, the Divrei Yoel. When he was looking to hire an English principal (to meet the government mandates for secular studies) for the Satmar Yeshiva and found the right candidate it was time to negotiate a salary. The Rebbe asked him how much material he intended to include in the curriculum. The Rebbe told him if you set a curriculum to cover 2.5 hours a day, your annual salary is $20k. (This was in the early ’60s.) But, continued the Rebbe, if you set a curriculum for 1.5 hours a day, your annual salary will be $24k.
English is not the new Yiddish.
Yiddish was, s and remains the international language of Jewry.
A troll is someone you strongly disagree with. Sometimes the “troll” will make strong arguments that you can’t objectively refute, so you’re such yelling “troll” to deflect your intolerance of the facts.
Are you asking about biological age or are you asking about age of maturity?
Jack, under the law when an officer mistakenly and unintentionally kills a criminal attempting to flee justice (especially with the added factors of assaulting an officer and having an outstanding warrant for arrest), he is granted more justification by the law itself in being absolved than a general citizen. And rightly so.
Just to note I was being rhetorical. I’m only trying to understand the logic. Explaining the differences between using one but not the other might address the subconscious motivation.
Wolf, perhaps you should start doing so.
Jack, when a criminal shoves a police officer and flees from him in a motor vehicle, he bears the most responsibility if the officer makes a mistake when reacting to enforce the law and prevent him fleeing. The law specifically gives police officers, who are risking their lives, extra leeway in case they make a mistake when enforcing the law.
Welcome Back BaalHabooze! It’s been ages. Your seventh anniversary should be coming up. Mazel Tov!