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I asked this before but I don’t think anyone answered. We don’t vote for a president, we vote for electors from our state. So how do American citizens who live in Israel and don’t have an American address vote?

H’isreading: I couldn’t bring myself to vote for either of the deplorable major party candidates. Since I live in a non-swing state, I didn’t have to vote for the less deplorable of the two, so I wrote in someone who seems to meet my criteria: a decent person, knowledgeable, and a philo-semite.

lightbrite, Hitler brought in television ads? Television hadn’t been invented yet.

Mammele, Robert Kennedy was Attorney General in his brother’s administration. It’s certainly legal, but it may not be wise.

Akuperma, when I raised the issue of antisemitism, I wasn’t referring to Trump or even his inner circle (though Bannon makes me nervous). I was referring to his supporters, some of whom are open antisemites (e.g. David Duke, the NC KKK). When, as seems likely, Trump moderates his positions, the Jews will be to blame. When bad things happen, the Jews will be to blame.

Joseph, it’s ironic that you mention Abarbanel, since despite his influence, he was unable to prevent the expulsion of the Spanish Jews.

Rabbi Avi Shafran wrote an op-ed piece for Ha’aretz in which he states that given the choice between Roe v. Wade with no restrictions on abortion and totally criminalizing abortion, he would have to side with allowing abortion because there are cases where halacha requires abortion. However, he goes on to say, he would prefer a middle ground.

I read the Republican platform section on abortion, and find no mention of any exceptions.

Apparently Jared Kushner is very influential with Trump. I’ve said I think having a Jewish president would be bad for the Jews because it could exacerbate anti-semitism. For the same reason, I think having a Jew who could be seen as pulling the president’s strings is bad for the Jews.

Akuperma, apparently you haven’t seen what the OP is talking about. It’s some kind of engraving process. Washington Cemetery in Brooklyn has several that are visible from the street.

dovrosenbaum: “In the case of Jesus, he was wicked because he was a false messiah, and he did horrible things. He cursed people, disrespected his mother, and called a Samaritan woman a dog.”

Reminds me of a certain president-elect, although as far as I know, he didn’t disrespect his mother.

Jews for Judaism is an excellent anti-missionary organization that might be helpful in regards to explaining the Jewish attitude towards Jesus.

If we take women who accuse men of harassment and worse at their word, both Bill Clinton and Donald Trump are criminals. They were both pals of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. It will be interesting to see how various court cases against Trump unfold.

LuL, I hope they weren’t talking about leftover cholent. If nobody ate it, that would violate bal tashchis.

FWIW, Jaguar hasn’t been British-owned since 1990, when Ford took it over. Ford sold it to Mumbai-based Tata Motors in 2008. So your Jaguars may not be German or Japanese, but they’re not strictly British either (unless they’re pre-1990).

I also live in an area where my vote didn’t count. It’s a given that Hillary will get NY’s electoral votes. U.S. senator and congressman face token opposition, state assembly unopposed. There are eight people unknown to me running for seven slots on the state supreme court. Rather than voting for one of the two deplorables at the top of the major party tickets, I did my first-ever write-in.

I’ll add another opinion: every Orthodox Jew should vote for a decent person who in fit to govern. That eliminates both major party candidates (and probably all third party candidates as well).

Since someone mentioned the DD’s under Rabbi Mehlman, I’ll add some other data points. There’s a kosher DD/BR in Oak Park, MI. The whole store is under the hashgacha of the Vaad Harabonim of Detroit. The DD’s under the Vaad of the 5 Towns do not include BR.

Probably not in a Spanish speaking country either, given the misspelling of cinco.

agutyar (which it certainly isn’t for the U.S. in terms of the election): You’re not just spouting a discredited conspiracy theory, you’re trumping it. First, her name is Huma (unlike Obama, she’s not from the place where they hula dance). Even the conspiracy theorists (five congresscritters, including Michele Bachmann, ‘nuf said) claimed her father, mother, and brother were connected to the Muslim Brotherhood, not that she headed it (it’s pretty hard to believe they’d ever be headed by a woman). That wild-eyed liberal, John McCain said, “The letter and the report offer not one instance of an action, a decision or a public position that Huma has taken while at the State Department that would lend credence to the charge that she is promoting anti-American activities within our government….These attacks on Huma have no logic, no basis and no merit.”

So how do balabatish shabbos shoes differ from non-balabatish shabbos shoes? Less pointy?

A Trump supporter in Des Moines was arrested when she tried to vote for him a second time. She said the polls are rigged and she was afraid her first vote would be switched to Clinton. It’s not clear if she thought her second vote would also be switched.

LF, I don’t want to speak for LUL, but an obvious reason for a woman to talk to somebody else’s husband is to make a polite request (pass the salt, don’t park in the driveway, etc.)

So “herr nur” is basically “hey you.” I don’t think my wife would like me to call her “hey you” when we’re with non-family.

LUL, what if they want their spouse’s attention? “My wife, please pass the salt?”

prof, why does throwing apples show more love than passing them out?

And here I thought the video was about destroying iPhones.

My basement keeps my sukkah safe from the elements.

huju, try again. Not oragami, not oregami, but origami.