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All this time I thought your name was pronounced “oozhoo.”
Joseph, in 2014, Robert Christian Kemp of Orangeburg, SC gave a 14-month-old baby he was babysitting a bear hug and the child died as a result. Kemp pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter.
Bears are obviously romantic. Everybody has heard of bear hugs.
Interesting that megillos need genizah. It’s shaimos without shaimos.
By parshah sheets, does it mean those handouts in shul (Torah Tavlin, Weekly Vort, etc.)? In a shul I go to, they end up in the trash.
I have boxes of my kids’ handouts, classwork, etc. One day I’ll go through it and figure out what’s shaimos.
iacisrmma, I eat gebrokts but I prefer non-gebrokts cake. But anything that’s left over after Pesach has no takers in our house.
Yeast itself is not chametz. In some cases, it may be grown in a chametz medium. Presumably the only kind of commercial yeast with Pesach certification is wine yeast. Of course, there’s wild yeast all over the place — people were using fermentation long before anybody figured out what causes it.
Yeast is not chametz. You can buy KFP wine yeast. Regular active dry yeast is grown using molasses.
To add to what Nisht pointed out, other non-legumes that are kitniyos are corn (maize), millet, and buckwheat (kasha). Redleg, I think if you tested potato starch to see if it would rise, you’d gat a similar result to quinoa. So-called potato bread is wheat-flour based. But I also suspect that you’d get similar results with bean flour and rice flour.
SteveWallz, $20K may seem like a lot of money to you, but it’s really very little. I gather you’re recently married and your wife is bringing home a paycheck. IY”H, you’ll have children soon. What will happen to your wife’s income? At the very least, she’ll have to take off several weeks from work. When and if she goes back to work, you’ll presumably have to pay for childcare.
You need to have safe liquid assets in case of emergencies. If I were you, I’d put the vast majority (90% or so) of that $20K in the bank (where you’ll get very little interest), and the rest in an S&P 500 index fund.
WTP, they zap the dough with electricity. Check out the Youtube video “Panko Breadcrumbs: The Secrets Revealed.”
We do?
iacisrmma, panko is not necessarily made from white bread. Kikkoman sells whole wheat panko (with an OU). Panko differs from standard bread crumbs in consistency — it’s flaky and crunchy. Apparently the bread from which panko is made isn’t baked with heat — it’s “cooked” with electricity.
I looked at two brands of KFP pamko. One had potato flakes and potato starch. The other had tapioca starch, potatoes in some form, egg yolks, and some other stuff. This is from memory, so I can’t vouch for its accuracy.
The boneless ones are probably not a great source of calcium.
It’s interesting that the non-Jewish supermarkets around NY think Jews eat sardines and Fox’s U-Bet syrup on Pesach.
re OP: The correct word is jibe, and I ain’t jivin’.
Yeah, but that’s more of a title than a name. It’s like naming your kid Lawyer instead of CT.
LuL, March used to be the first month, which is why September, October, November, and December’s names are off by two.
Yeshua is not Yehoshua. Other than Spanish speakers (and the parents of James J. Angleton of the CIA), Christians don’t name their children after the founder of their religion.
According to something called Halachipedia, Rav Yisroel Pinchas Bodner says a prutah today is a quarter (Halachos of Other Peoples’ Money, published in 2003).
Joseph, you are correct. The Julian calendar was introduced by Julius Caesar.
FYI gadolinium is a rare earth element named after the Finnish chemist Johan Gadolin.
RY, I’ve seen parve challah for Shabbos use with sprinkles for sure, and perhaps with chocolate chips.
It’s intended to save energy but there’s little evidence that it does. Arizona doesn’t do it, so if you really dislike it, you could move there.
What Yserbius123 said. I’ve only met Rabbi Moskowitz once, but I was very impressed.
There’s a problem with milchig bread. It also sounds disgusting.
Ireland? Isamaa ja Res Publica Liit, the Estonian political party? Institut Ramon Llull, the organization for promoting Catalan culture?
Takahmamash, some packing peanuts are made from starch (which may be kitniyos or chametz), but most are made from plastic (pulystyrene, I think). There’s an easy test: starch ones dissolve in water.
lesschumras: There are usually some little kids who dress as cops for Purim. I’d better call the cops so they can arrest them.
I’ve never heard of selling your whole house unless you’re going away for all of Pesach. How could you use your house if everything in it belongs to some goy?
The NYC Department of Sanitation has begun compostable garbage pickups in (non-frum) parts of Queens (and maybe elsewhere). They give out cute brown bins, which is interesting because they never gave out special bins for other recyclables.
lkwd lamdan points out an interesting problem. When one refers to gedolim by their first name, it can be ambiguous. I have a modest proposal: use their full names. In some cases, you may even have to add a location or affiliation in order to disambiguate.
Technically, the night before Purim is Friday night, so the only music would be be zemiros.
Popa goes the weasel.
How about doing a little proofreading? And making sure videos correspond to articles? Toning down the flashing ads before they cause seizures? Showing less political bias?
LB, it’s less controversial than crocheting kippot serugot.
If it’s spelled Gumber on his birth certificate, does that mean he was born in Kenya?
It’s Goomber.
Although Health! has claimed to be in the medical field, I don’t think he has said he’s a medical professional.
In Mauritania, girls are fattened, sometimes forcibly, in order to get them better marriage partners. The practice is known as leblouh. Supposedly, Jewish women in Tunisia were fattened for marriage in the 19th century.
WTP, that takes care of the evening reading only. You still have to make a decision about what to wear for the daytime reading.
Related to ubiquitous. From the Latin for “everywhere.”
Try calling her at a different time. Maybe something came up that made it impossible for her to answer.
Wikipedia has a list of the 100 verified oldest people. Only one lived to be over 120: Jeanne Calment, 122 years 164 days. The woman in the #2 spot lived to be over 119. After that, nobody even hit 118, though there are a few still in the running. So I think it’s safe to start smoking on your 119th birthday, since it seems unlikely you’ll be there to celebrate.
lesschumras, AFAIK school choice doesn’t mean private/religious schools are publicly funded the same way public schools are. I’m no expert, but I believe the idea of vouchers is that part of the tax money that’s allocated for each student follows the student to the school of the parents’ choice, whether it’s public or not. Please correct me if I’m wrong.
Even without vouchers, private schools have to meet certain standards. Otherwise, they parents could get in trouble for not sending their kids to (a real) school.
ubi, it’s obvious that Health!’s worldview is binary. Republican = good, Democrat = bad. It’s pointless to argue with him. Maybe it’s time you be quittin’.
Quick, what’s the code?
If everyone in the CR chipped in a nickel, we could get some for LuL.
golfer, do you make tomato wine?
LuL, have you tried chocolate covered pickles?
Any decent seed catalog has tomatillo seeds. One of my favorite seed catalogs says they should be planted in pairs for best pollination and performance.
In the U.S., many regular ice suppliers sell dry ice. It’s really no big deal to handle it if you use simple precautions. As I mentioned above, it’s commonly used for shipping stuff. Liquid nitrogen, on the other hand, is hard to handle and probably is harder to find. There are some cool (sorry) liquid nitrogen videos on Youtube.
A little googling uncovered this dry ice provider in Israel: S.K.I. Marketing and Distributors Agencies Ltd. – Kiryat Ata. Their domain name has dryice in it.