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I really think that the little I know is right on the mark. I’ve been to places on Purim and you see these pitzi kids standing in the middle of the street between the cars on either side. It is so unsafe. My uncle always tells them he’ll give them twenty bucks if they get out from the middle of the street. I’ve seen kids knock in the windows of cars at red lights on VERY busy streets. It is absolutely unsafe and irresponsible of the schools, who are often the ones sending the kids out. (For the record, I’m not talking about mesivta age. I’m talking about kids who look like they’re in fifth or sixth grade.)
Are you going to do Campus (leaving 4th-6th), Pioneers (leaving 7th and 8th), or Heller (leaving 9th)? Or are you doing Kesher (special needs kids)?
Just a quick shout out, does anyone know whether you get paid for Kesher or need to pay (or neither)?
You mean people who ruled over Jerusalem? Because there is a separate kingdom called the Kings of Jerusalem that lasted about 200 years during the time of the Crusades.
Well, after the destruction of Bayit Sheni it remained in the hands of the Romans for a while, after which it was ruled by Byzantium (really an extension of the Romans but it’s not always considered the same). Then the Muslims conquered it in the 600s and the Rashidun, Ummayad, Abbasid and Fatimid caliphates ruled over it. In 1099 Godfrey of Bouillon and his Crusaders of the First Crusade captured it and established the aforementioned Kingdom of Jerusalem. In 1187, Saladin captured it, and it pretty much stayed in Muslim control until the British captured it in 1917 except for a brief Mongol capture. In that time were the Mamluks, until the 16th century, and then the Ottomans. After the British part was controlled by the Jews in Israel and part by Jordan until 1967 when it was united.
Leshana haba beYerushalayim!
That was not a psak. That was what I heard somewhere.
My parents always tried to pay full tuition, but I now go to a school with somewhat higher tuition and my parents are now somewhat annoyed that they need to be on the receiving end.
more_2: Not so. Perhaps people want to be able to pay full tuition. I know plenty of people who do try to pay as much tuition as possible in order to save the tuition fund for people who need it more than they do. I believe that in some cases it can actually be considered giving tzedakah.
Tactless people. I’m not talking about just people who don’t think before they speak (or I’d cringe at myself a lot). I’m talking about people who organize enormous delegations to visit people who just had an operation and DON’T want visitors.
True story which happened to a friend. She was absolutely miserable at being seen in her hospital bed by a whole brigade of friends.
Also, “yes-men” really annoy me. I mean people who, whenever someone says something to them, they will instantly agree. Like one girl I know. She spends ten minutes detailing her personal opinion on something, and as soon as I say my opinion, which is diametrically opposite to hers, she says, “You’re so right!” A really sweet girl, but she’ll say anything.
I also get annoyed at people who don’t proofread.
Avi K: I remember that song! It was on some tape of songs my sisters and I sued to dance to sometimes (Music and Motion kind of thing) when we were toddlers. Now I know: assur!
And MonseyFan, as a fellow Monseyer, what school? I am really curious now.
By the way, you can email in your own picture to the Yated and they’ll put it in if it has someone important enough in it. I know someone who does it. You may have seen him in a chicken suit one year.
Baruch Hashem, nobody seems to read my posts, because I accidentally wrote BELOW instead of ABOVE in my second post. Now it will actually make sense.
Are you kidding? Who needs other people’s adaptations of existing songs? There are already Jewish songs that just take totally random phrases and put them to a tune.
For instance, as mentioned above, “Timche” by MBD. I’ve never understood why that’s a song. Especially with a tune like that.
And “Im Lavan Garti.” I think it’s Shwekey. But that’s okay, really, compared to some of the other ones.
Then there’s my favorite. In ninth grade, we were learning about the Zugot in Historia, and we got to Hillel and Shammai. We’re learning some anecdotes about Hillel and we get to his establishing the pruzbul. One girl raises her hand and says, “Oh, that’s a song, right?” My teacher looked like she was going to ROTFL.
But honestly. That is some song. A song about an edict about lending money before shmittah? Really?
With today’s rapid advance in technology, we thought it important to bring to our readers’ attention some new engineering conversions:
2000 pounds of Chinese soup: Won ton
1 millionth of a mouthwash: 1 microscope
Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement: 1bananosecond
Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour: Knot-furlong
365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer: 1 lite-year
Half of a large intestine: 1 semicolon
Shortest distance between two jokes: A straight line.
(think about it for a moment)
1000 aches: 1 kilohurtz
Basic unit of laryngitis: 1 hoarsepower
453.6 graham crackers: 1 pound cake
1 million microphones: 1 megaphone
10 cards: 1 decacards
1000 cubic centimeters of wet socks: 1 literhosen
2 monograms: 1 diagram
8 nickels: 2 paradigms
2000 mockingbirds: 2 kilomockingbird
I seem to be the only person here who uses a Magic Mill and loves it! It’s heavy (I’m pretty small and have weak muscle tone so I get my dad to take it out for me) but that’s the only minus I can think of off-hand. It’s a great bread dough mixer (we don’t use it for anything except for bread, so I don’t know how to judge it as far as other stuff is concerned) and it’s very thorough. I love not needing ti scrape the bowl. And the challos come out great (if I do say so myself)!
I don’t like coffee!
What I usually do is I babysit a lot. I babysat at the Project Inspire convention for free (12 hours) and then I do little bits if I don’t have time.
Another great thing is to find something you love and make it into chessed. For instance, I’m obsessed with challah baking. So now I make challah for people who need it.
A Heimishe Mom: LOL!!! I’m Ashkenazi and I go to Great Neck a lot– if you say Gut Shabbos they will look at you as if you’re OUT OF YOUR MIND!!! (At least in my uncle’s neighborhood.) It’s Shabbat Shalom. And half the people I know from that area either speak Farsi or their parents speak it.
My brother was a girl last year (as I mentioned in another thread). He was nine. At above bar mitzvah he wouldn’t be allowed to do it (if he actually wanted to, that is…)
My dad’s friend was an Arab.
Personally, those are not the weirdest costumes I’ve ever heard of.
Ask her. She’ll probably have opinions if you ask some leading questions. If not, a gift certificate to her favorite store, in a predetermined amount, can be great, or just some money smuggled to her mom and SHE buys it :).
You’re not reading it so that the characters can be role models. Sherlock Holmes can be an unlikeable character and still have a bunch of awesome books written about him.
I happen to love Murder on the Orient Express. To the best of my recollection it’s very clean (though there are two very minor romances).
Funnily enough, I’m actually being a detective for Purim. You know, a big pipe, a magnifying glass, etc…
If you want to avoid all romance then you’ll find very few books. There are some really clean (and really good) Agatha Christie books but there’s always a teeny bit.
My friend once had a summer job at a local chassidishe yeshiva— her job consisted of taking a Sharpie and blacking out objectionable words (like evolution and atheism) and drawing in sleeves and skirts on the women in the pictures.
After hearing that, I’ll believe anything.
These are not even objectionable books, they’re textbooks. Not exactly pritzusdik pictures.
We only give to people and get from people whose kashrus we trust. While we use chalav stam during the year, for instance, we don’t on Purim so that everyone can eat the stuff, and the recipients know that.
Wolf— Amen!!!
more_2: He obviously lives in Yerushalayim.
There’s also a lot of Christian themes in Father Brown, and you may want to read the Sherlock Hoilmes stories beforehand. Most are great, though.
bekitzur— I’m not going, and either way, I’m aged out of Heller. I’d be a pioneer aide or waitress or something. I was talking about my friends.
My aunt works in Goshen!
It’s actually right by Monroe.
Depends on your price range and the number of people. Nowhere is exactly cheap, and distance can add cost.
Try browsing the ads in the Jewish newspapers and magazines (though some of the best ones, like the one we go to, are booked up in advance and never even publish an ad).
I assume you’ve already decided to go away, so I’m not going to say anything aboiut how you should really stay at home, because I know very well that elegance and laziness is NOT the only reason why people go to hotels.
sternberger– some first, some second.
It seems to be just an added hashgacha. What really baffles me is the second brand name thing.
What about the guy who took a girl out to walk down the Riverside Drive path for two hours, subsequently spent another hour trying to find the car, and then got himself a drink and NOT the girl?
Or the girl who brought her mother with her on a date? (She was locked out of her hotel room and had nowhere else to go. She made the boy take her shoe shopping.)
I’ve been at hotels for Pesach, as I’ve said in another thread, and we just leave the door unlocked. You can put in a door wedge and then use the chain when you’re inside, and when you’re outside nothing really happens.
Stamford Plaza has keys.
My friends are being pioneer aides if that counts…
On the subject: Can someone explain to me the rationale behind taking a product (for instance, I think I’ve seen Twizzlers) and putting a sticker over the OU with not only a different hashgacha but also a different brand name (I believe it’s Oneg in this case)? What is the point? Is that run and only that run certified by the second hashgacha? What’s the point of putting another brand on the sticker?
Possibly David’s Bridal? That’s where I got mine for my cousin’s wedding. They’ve got a lot of stuff (purchase) and a seamstress to alter it— but that depends on your budget.
I recommend checking out the website. I bought my dress from there for less than I would have paid if I had RENTED from another store we looked into.
My cousin’s family does themes. One year, they were all characters from the Wizard of Oz. The oldest girl was Dorothy, then came the Tin Man (homemade costume— it was actually really good), then Glinda, then the baby was the Cowardly Lion. Then another year (after the last Summer Olympics) my 8-year-old cousin was Michael Phelps! He thought it was funny to be a swimmer. It was a really easy costume— he went around in his bathrobe and a bathing cap and goggles.
My neighbor was also once a snowman one year when there was still snow. I actually couldn’t tell she wasn’t a real snowman. I got kinda freaked out when I saw it move.
coffee addict: It was kind of a last minute decision on his part, anyway— his original costume was ruined (he made a white beard out of cotton balls and it fell in the mud). This was a last ditch effort.
I make cookies or something for my whole grade which I give out in school, and then have separate shalach manos for on Purim itself.
What’s wrong with a red pedicure? Nobody’s gonna see it.
No, no, NO!!! Let me dress up!!!!
coffee addict: My brother was nine at the time. If he had been bar mitzvah my mom wouldn’t have let.
Because their dads do.
Or their friends.
Or their rebbeim.
Medium Size Shadchan: Um, no. You can’t. We’re not some dystopian society where they can determine your entire future and bind you to it.
First of all, there’s no criteria.
Second of all, let’s say you have a pre-marriage standardized test or something. So if you fail you can’t marry a frum guy? You can’t have frum kids? You can’t even try to rise above?
Are you PUSHING them off the derech or are they going on their own?
And besides, as mentioned above, what about bechirah and the power to change?
I’m sorry if I sound harsh, I’m just shocked at the question.
I know someone who dressed up as Siamese father-in-law and son-in-law—- I won’t go into details for fear of insulting anyone but it was HILARIOUS!!!
Someone else I know was an Arab one year. He was actually very convincing. He’s Sefardi and has a short black beard. He got a lot of weird looks (I live in Monsey, where the Arab population doesn’t exist.)
Then there was my brother the girl. He was actually extremely convincing. He wore my sister’s clothes and he would go to his friends and whenever there was someone else at the door he wouldn’t tell who he was, just that he wanted to give the shalach manos to, say, Shmuli. One of his friend’s mothers told him that this must be a mistake, because HER son didn’t talk to girls!
Hey, I’m American teenager and I got an 80 (top score) on the grammar section of the PSAT. Please don’t make generalizations.
They throw it out anyway.
The shampoo, not the light bulbs.
Menachem melamed: As far as some of these are concerned, you are emphatically right. As far as others are concerned, I disagree. As far as the ones I posted are concerned, they were all, to the best of my knowledge, performed in Adar, in schools where they weren’t exactly expected but at least weren’t really out of left field.
In my school, if you’re the senior class and you DON’T have a good prank, you’re ‘shvach’.
Added note: In the case of the popcorn, after the initial reaction one girl held up a bowl to collect the popcorn and recovered most of it. The rest was cleaned up by the girls. The Saran wrap was removed by the girls.
One bad prank I heard of was someone pretending to hit someone else with a car(prearranged by both, with the intention of scaring a third person). Unfortunately, they were a bit too realistic, and scared a fourth person, who happened to be the fake victim’s yiddishe mama. That is not the kind of prank I personally condone.
Longarekel: I always learned that he and his followers wore them.
Who was the name of the Plishti man who converted and was a companion of Dovid Hamelech? (How is he related to the question about the crown of Malchus Bais Dovid?
My cousin’s class had one of those ceilings where you can lift up a panel and there’s an empty space between the ceiling and the next floor. So one day in Adar they put an open popcorn popper up there, right above the teacher’s desk, and turned it on just before the teacher came in.
I heard a rumor also about a class who brought in a CD player with a CD that said “Help, help” on it and kept repeating it, and then hung a stuffed pair of pants with shoes off the windowsill of a classroom on the nest floor. I don’t know if it really happened but my cousin swears it did.
And of course, there’s the old trick of Saran wrapping the secretary’s desk.
I’m sure I’ve heard of this before, but I just have one question: does this declaration have any significance whatsoever? I mean, Hashem is the only one who knows how long we have to live and He is the only one who can decide or change it. How are we to know if he really gave of his life? It’s like committing suicide in the respect that we can’t kill ourselves because Hashem owns us. Same thing here- our lives aren’t ours to give to others.