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Akuperma, how do you figure that the Libertarians will get enough electoral votes to matter? In only two states, Nebraska and Maine, is it possible for a candidate without a plurality to get electoral votes. Do you think Johnson-Weld can get a plurality in any state?
You’d better hurry before Canada builds a wall and makes the U.S. pay for it. The good news is that virtually every U.S. resident who posts here is eligible to move to another country that’s less cold than Canada.
Descartes, not DeCarte or even DeCartes.
I’m wondering why people start topics with meaningless titles like “wondering???” and “How to help.”
Ain’t no such word as irregardless. (We miss you, Haifagirl!)
I also has the zchus to go to my first grandchild’s pidyon haben almost 2 years ago. It was only the second one I’d been to. Mazel Tov, Syag.
Health, I didn’t imply anything. I gave a straightforward narrative. It is one data point. It’s you who are generalizing.
Health, I didn’t imply that it’s easy to quit. I’m assuming my son-in-law had to work hard to quit. And obviously it doesn’t take years for everyone to quit. In his case, I think it was the impending birth of his first child that sealed the deal.
Akuperma, during the Vietnam War, many young men attended yeshivas primarily to avoid the draft. One yeshiva that attracted these young men was known as “the home of the Brooklyn dodgers.” Deferments for divinity students pretty much disappeared around the time that the lottery system went into effect. The draft ended in 1973.
My daughter married a smoker. He went to a yeshiva in Israel where everyone smoked including the Rosh Yeshiva. She (and we) saw that despite his smoking, he was a good person and would be a good husband and father. Within the first year of marriage, he quit smoking.
If you google Sholom Bluming, you’ll find his website in which he discusses Jewish life in the Bahamas. It’s possible to be frum where there’s a beach. Think Far Rockaway, Belle Harbor, and Long Beach.
I call troll. When was the last time you were in a doctor’s office with only one other employee? There’s one male patient and no doctor? She’s 17, in college, and afraid to quit a job because people will call her a quitter and it will ruin her chances for shidduchim?
Ben Levi, by your reckoning, Ashkenazim should have different schools for gebrokts eaters and those who don’t eat gebrokts. After all, to a little kid whose family doesn’t eat gebrokts, it’s chometz, just as rice and beans are chometz to a little kid who’s an Ashkenazi. One would hope that when they get a little older, they understand that these are minhagim, and alternative minhagim are just as valid.
Chaplain, not chaplin, unless you’re talking about Charlie. ZD, what’s your point? Hospitals and the like probably don’t put much weight on how frum a potential hire as a chaplain is, so there are Reform chaplains in areas with and without large frum communities. With a few exceptions, areas with large frum communities also have large numbers of non-frum Jews.
Most sheitelach come from cadavers? Sorry, I find this hard to believe. It’s obviously a one-shot deal, while a living human can produce hair year after year. I’m guessing that in most cultures, cutting off the hair of a dead person in order to sell it would be taboo.
There’s no serious evidence that Rafael Cruz ever met Oswald. A grainy photo of someone that the Warren Commission couldn’t identify is evidence only for publications like the National Enquirer and people like Donald Trump.
From Wikipedia: “Sardine” and “pilchard” are common names used to refer to various small, oily fish within the herring family of Clupeidae.
That doesn’t mean that canned sardines are the same species as pickled herring.
Since this has become another “Who’s worse?” thread, I’ll post here. I admit I haven’t followed the server story closely, but didn’t the FBI find that other secretaries of state, including Colin Powell, did similar things?
Trump supporters, save your attacks on me. I’m not voting for either of the major party candidates.
And here I thought the topic would be about over-the-top kiddushim like the ones that were described in a WSJ article several months ago.
Where’s Haifagirl when we need her? “In fact, 2 out of every three smokers does not die…” DOES not die? Did Trump insist that his running mate have even worse writing skills than he has?
Nisht, could you explain the relationship between liberals and deaths from AIDS?
Akuperma, do you really think anyone can turn Trump into anything? He’s the guy who says he takes advice from himself (whatever that means).
You can get Nauga dolls from the Naugahyde website. For some reason, they’re all smiling even though their fate is sealed.
Cigars are worse than either Clinton or Trump. Come to think about it, they’re worse than Clinton AND Trump put together.
Charlie, when I said no one in his right mind would appear on a reality show, I wasn’t thinking of Trump, whose reality show was clearly to his benefit (and who’s probably not in his right mind). He apparently made a lot of money from it and it increased the value of his brand. Arguably, he wouldn’t have made it as far as he has in the presidential race if not for his reality show.
I have no idea why anyone in their right mind, Jewish or not, would appear on a reality show.
I’ve used minute steaks as cholent meat when my preferred cut, kolichal, was unavailable or overpriced. It’s OK for that purpose, but not as good as kolichal. I suspect they would require a great amount of preparation to not end up like shoe leather when grilled. By the way, kolichal seems to be a generic term for meat that has a roughly the shape of the Goodyear blimp. It could be from the shank, the neck, or the shoulder.
Sam2, which Rav Schachter? Fischel or Hershel?
A little googling reveals that the company was bought by Charles Lieber of Spencertown, NY in 1980. He died in April of this year at age 95. Judging from his NY Times obituary, he was involved in the Reconstructionist movement.
DY, Rav Neuwirth hedges on the use of Shabbos elevators. In my edition (English, copyright 1989) there’s a footnote saying, “Due to the complicated technicalities involved and the differences of opinion among the authorities, one would be well advised not to use an elevator on Shabbath or Yom Tov without consulting a properly qualified rabbi.” He mattirs escalators with this only this proviso: “One may not use them if they are put into motion by one’s approach.”
Joseph, that’s a specious argument. Donald Trump makes a lot more money than I do, but he probably pays less in taxes. As Leona Helmsley said, “Only little people pay taxes.”
Joseph, can you back your claim that Jews pay more taxes per capita than non-Jews?
Thanks, Cherrybim. According to the last part of the article, Shmiras Shabbos K’hilchasa (Rav Neuwirth) mattirs the use of escalators. I just looked it up, and it is indeed in there.
Since nobody here has claimed to be an elevator or escalator repairman, I think lots of you are talking through your hat (it may be a Borsalino, but it’s still not edifying). That said, I’ve been on lots of non-Shabbos elevators that have what’s apparently called a door safety edge, which is a mechanical switch. With such a safety device, there’s no infrared motion sensor.
A back of the envelope calculation gets me 10 cents per 8 ounce cup for Tasters Choice and 15 cents per 8 ounce cup for middlebrow brewed coffee. Also, in both MDG’s shul and CTL’s shul, the coffee is donated by a generous congregant (I suspect that’s also the case in my shul). So I think it’s mean spirited to refer to shuls that have a higher coffee standard than yours as “uppity.”
theprof1, Taster’s Choice is one of the more expensive and one of the better tasting instant coffees. Clearly, whoever buys coffee at your shul (which I maintain is not every shul, since at least three people in this thread say their shul has fresh brewed coffee) has some rachmanus — he could easily have bought worse instant coffee.
While taste is all a matter of taste, I think you’ll find most coffee drinkers prefer brewed coffee to instant coffee.
“All shuls use the same coffee?!” Have you been to all shuls? The shul I daven at uses fresh brewed coffee. They used to use instant during Pesach, but as of a couple of years ago, they got a machine for Pesach. It’s as good as what I make at home. No idea how it compares to Starbucks, since I’m not willing to spend $4 for a cup of coffee in a treif restaurant.
Health, Alizgit didn’t say anything about the quality of her geirus.
Of course you should ask your LOR. FWIW, if you’re talking about the symbol of the Vaad HaKashrus of Buffalo, it’s on the CRC’s list of “common acceptable kosher symbols.”
I’ve been using this service for a number of months now as a secondary service with no complaints. My regular cellphone is Page Plus on the Verizon network — I need the reliability since I use it for business. I use RingPlus primarily for Waze. A used iPhone 4 cost me $50 on eBay. I rarely use it for voice calls.
For an iron guy, try your local Chinese laundry.
I suspect the dairy lobby pushed for a regulation requiring coffee creamers that aren’t primarily milk products to be labeled “non-dairy.” The dairy lobby used to be very powerful. Back in the day, it was forbidden for margarine to be colored yellow or to be compared to butter in advertising. I remember some brand of margarine claiming it was as good as “the 70 cent spread,” a euphemism for butter.
I’m not sure how much mamzerus is an issue. Doesn’t there have to be a halachic marriage that’s not terminated by halachic divorce? I can’t imagine that’s a common situation.
Also, most children of mixed marriages don’t identify as Conservative or Reform. They most likely are not affiliated, identify as “half Jewish,” and to them it’s at best a cultural identification.
A related question is what percentage of Conservative and Reform “rabbis” are not halachically Jewish.
Joseph brings up the problem of BTs who discover they’re not Jewish. It’s not so hard to resolve — they just need to convert.
Since you’re in Boston, why not check out the Bostoner Rebbe? He’s a warm down-to-earth man with a great sense of humor. Despite 147’s warning about multiple rebbes, this doesn’t apply to the multiple Bostoner Rebbes, all of whom get along (and simply cater to different geographies).
The quote in the OP isn’t about housing, which is not an “expensive luxury item.” It’s talking about things like multi-thousand dollar watches, expensive jewelry, and over-the-top vacations. I’d add designer clothes for children.
Is a Jew allowed to use Uber, which just got a $3.5 billion cash infusion from Saudi Arabia?
Speaking of tznius and weddings… The Torah Times (a weekly advertising publication based in Brooklyn) has a listing of upcoming chasunas. Apparently people send in invitations and the publication gleans the particulars of the wedding. I find it interesting that it lists the chasan as “Ploni ben Ploni,” but the kallah is just “bas Ploni.” I’ve never seen a wedding invitation that doesn’t list the kallah’s first name, but maybe I travel in the wrong circles. I understand the idea of not publishing photographs of women, but are there people who consider publishing the first name of a kallah to be a breach of tznius?
RebYidd, in general I agree with you. But in Florida in 2000, every vote mattered.
I could understand a peach shaver or a coconut shaver, but I’ve never seen a peanut that needed a shave.
I saw the title and I thought it another thread about the presidential election.
Joseph, that’s not true of many OOT communities. For instance, Baltimore attracts young people because the housing is cheaper. Boston attracts young people because of the opportunities for secular education.
If you don’t live in the community where your wedding was raise your hand. (Raises hand).
Joseph, OOTers (at least the ones I know) marry off their kids in Lakewood, Monsey, or Brooklyn, so the absence of affordable wedding halls OOT isn’t important.
Since the Bostoner Rebbe of Har Nof probably doesn’t read YWN, this is probably the wrong place to ask.