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NYIP will tell you first that their course costs about $1000. But if you dont apply right away, they will send you discounts. I signed up for $600. It was definitely worth it- it was a great course

I always get his videos emailed to me thru adorama. If you sign up to adoramas mailing list they always have great photography tips and lots of times they have videos and tips from Bryan Peterson

Wolf-

Have you ever watched any of Bryan Petersons videos on photography tips? He’s great. Anyways, he had one recently where he attached his camera to a rake with a bogen superclamp and then went on raking colorful leaves and shooting at the same time. It was a stunning picture and quite interesting video to watch.

I would love to try that but I’m afraid I’ll get some strange looks if I go outside my building in Ramat Eshkol and do that. Its just not something you would see a kollel wife doing… ; )

But the truth is I would go out and shoot more if I had a car and I could go to interesting and private places. I dont hve ways of getting around here especially with equipment. I guess I’ll put it on the “things to do when we move back to america” list

Yes they are motivated (both to keep their husbands happy and to keep themselves happy)

But why are men under the impression that their wives must be wonderwoman???

Maybe you should try working, cleaning, cooking, caring for kids, having kids….and still make time for dieting, preparing healthy meals and excersizing.

Then you can come back and make a complaint

blueberry muffin-

yes but smoking is taking away his life while driving is not.

(then again with Israeli drivers…you never know…)

popa-bar-abba-

mitoch sheloh lishma bah lishma

real brisker-

I was wondering the same thing! lol

“I’m glad to get back to the desk, where I can get some rest.”

I sometimes wonder where everyone works that they can post on YWN all day

Thanks for the idea! thats so nice

tangy taffys and twerps!

BYA and Nachlas I think are pretty much the same type. BYA might have more of a good name (in shidduchim) being that its around for ages. Tiferes is more yeshivish or so they say.

I went to BYA- I wouldnt say that it was easy on the workload but I guess compared to BJJ it was. But let me tell you there was still plenty of work. And they have great hashkafah classes there with excellent teachers.

Are you talking about the DVD Yankel Am Haaretz thats based on the song by Abie Rotenberg?

Some haikus are nice

some just don’t make any sense

refrigerator

A part of the problem is that girls have to take their responsibilities much more seriously than boys.

For example, if a young married wife is working, and she has to be at her job at 9:00 than usually she is there at 8:55. But if a guy starts seder at 9:00, than its perfectly normal for him to show up at 9:15. Shmiras sedarim allowances give the money if you show up within the first 10 minutes and then reduce (not take away) the amount if you show up within the first 25)

For a girl there is no such thing as saying im not in the mood of doing laundery or cooking supper- tough! its gotta get done and theres no one else to do it. But her husband can easily say on a shabbos afternoon “im not in the mood of learning now”

so its understandable that when she sees this she is thinking why can he slack off and i cant? yes he just got married and its hard to stick to his sedarim. but so did i just get married and im still doing everything I did before (work, college) plus all my new obligations (cooking, cleaning etc)

I’m not sure I understand- What exactly do you want to learn? hilchos niddah? Why would you want to learn that in 12th grade? Why should all the girls in your class know what a niddah is or when a woman goes to the mikvah? So they can look out for it in their parents relationships??? And take away their privacy?

And if youre in a BY HS dont tell me you never heard that you cant read or watch dirty things!

Well Informed Yid- Why do you “find it rather depressing that girls in 12th grade dont know about Nidah.”????

Theres a reason why it isnt taught untill later on…

Smartcookie-

i have a few ideas if you are looking to do something locally in bklyn for a couple of hours at nite

1-drive to the Brooklyn Bridge and walk accross- the view at nite is magnificent. and it doesnt take longto drive there just might take long to find parking 😉

2-Pick up ice cream and take a walk with it to your local park. Sit on the bench or the swings and shmooze

3-Go to the brooklyn marriott and watch the other dates

4-Go to target or toys r us and pick up a board game. Take it to the park

5-just take a drive

Enjoy!

First of all, I dont think many people here know what they are talking about becasue some of these opinions are just completely not true.

About the money issue- Its not 20k because you dont have to go home for pesach (I didnt and neither did about 35 other girls in my seminary) and you can get plenty of scholarships (I did even though my father makes over 200,000) and most girls contribute some of their own money for seminary(I did and so did my roommate who paid for everything that the scholarships didnt cover).

But if you will argue and say you know people who did spend 20k let me tell you that had my parents spent 50k it still wouldve been worth it. Of course this isnt true for everyone, but each parent should know their own daughter and while some girls belong in EY others really dont and just get worse.

I definitely dont think that it should be a given that everyone goes. But let me tell you about my experience.

Firstly, the learning was on a totally different level than high school. I can say without a doubt that what I learned in four years of high school doesnt even come close to what I learned in a month of seminary.

There is also the advantage that you are away from family and friends who know you well and can start life anew and grow without them bothering you and without wondering what will they think if I start doing this and this to improve myself.

WIY- You started another post about how this generation is lacking emunah. I can honestly say that while I never heard a class on emunah and bitachon in high school, in seminary we had a subject devoted to Chovos Halevavos where everyones hashkafos drastically changed for the better. I would not be the person I am today, married to the ben torah that I’m married to today and be able to face the challenges that I have, had I not gained such a strong foundation of emunah and bitachon in seminary.

No question about it- Seminary in EY is necessary for those who will benefit.

I agree 100% with misterhock. This is not only the womens problem- why do you think they dress the way they do? Because they want to impress their husbands so he wont be impressed by every other lady on the street. Its a huge problem but it has to be addressed to both the men and women. Maybe if each man would make sure his wife and daughters are dressing properly it would work. Like WellInformedYid said- we have to enforce it within the home. And its the same problem with those long showy shaitels that everyone prances around in.

And BTW- artchill and popa- it definitely does help when you get rebuke from an outside person. Years ago, I had more than one occasion that I tried to make something pass for tznius and someone came over to me and told me I’m sorry for saying this and I hope you are moichel me but this and this is not so tznius. And let me tell I was so embarrassed that I never wore that thing again

I found out some info about it because I was thinking of signing up. If you check their website they have student testimonials. And if you call them, they can also give you references- names and phone numbers of people who took their courses. I think the prices were about average for graphics courses. It seemed pretty interesting that teach people from different time zones all together. But its nice that you can choose the time of day you want to learn.

I agree with Mod 80- you definitely need a photographers eye and be creative enough to get stunning shots. But untill you learn the basics of aperture, shutter speeds, focal length, depth of field etc… you’re no different than the next guy

Vezakaini Legadel Banim by Baruch Levine is definitely top on my list right now.

Also love Hashleich al Hashem Yihavichah by Yosef Chaim Shwekey- it helps me get thru life

Nachman Seltzers books- The Link and The Network

NYIP is a correspondence course. Its not online but you dont actually have to go to school somewhere.

Its interesting that so many people are against EY for girls but for boys its a given that they will go. Having gone to seminary, and now living in EY as a married kollel wife(and hosting many bochurim for meals), Ive seen plenty of seminary girls and plenty of bochurim here. I can honestly say that there seems to be so many more girls that grow from the experience than boys. Yes the serious boys will feel a difference in the learning in EY but the rest are sort of on vacation. The girls that come are mostly comitted to reaching higher goals and they really do. There are for sure those girls that come for a good time but they are few and far between (especially now with the recession). Bottom line- EY is not for everyone but for some people it does wonders, no matter if you are a girl or boy.

Really depends what you feel comfortable doing. But my opinion is that in public you should still dress tzniyus and in private its fine to be untzniyus. The music should still be jewish unless its classical, but I have some friends who once took a gym class in a frum place and danced to this horribly disgusting music that made them move in sick ways. As far as the video you choose, I think it depends how sensitive you are but I would only watch an untzniyus lady if I knew no boys would mistakenly walk in. Otherwise I wouldnt care how shes dressed.