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I just read the article in the NY Daily News. The management blames the Feds, claiming that the key fob system “was installed in compliance with federal Department of Housing and Community Renewal rules and regulations.” What I don’t get is that the Jewish residents aren’t just asking for a door with a manual key, they’re also asking for a Shabbos elevator, which apparently they didn’t have before.
According to a book I have (published by the American Foundation for the Blind), babies with typical vision reach 20/80 vision between 6 and 8 months. One of the activities suggested is to position an infant facing a mirror. By 7 to 8 months, the child should smile at his image and may even try to kiss it. I’d love to see that.
Move out?
I saw an ad in one of the Jewish shopping magazines a while ago that mentioned “goyta uniforms.” If your cleaning lady spends the whole day at your house, you may be able to tell her what to wear, but if she’s there for a couple of hours, I doubt it. A while ago I saw a woman who was hired help of some type (helping a frum mother with little kids) who was wearing an “I (heart) Yoshke” shirt.
I just read yytz’s response from 3 months ago where he said that the traffic fatality rate is higher in the U.S. than in Israel. I was skeptical, but when I looked it up, I found that by three different ways of ranking such things, it’s true (by number of inhabitants, number of motor vehicles, and by km driven). By inhabitants, Israel is surpassed by only a few countries (mostly small islands and Scandinavian countries where everybody probably drives Volvos). Source is Wikipedia article on List of countries by traffic-related death rate.
Certain frum websites use flashing ads that are very annoying (and not very professional — you seldom see them on secular websites). Fortunately, I use an ad blocker so I don’t have to look at them. I also have a problem with a certain tzadaka that has glossy inserts in Jewish papers dozens of times a year. I don’t go to the mountains so I’m not familiar with the billboards referred to by the OP. The only objectionable Jewish themed billboard I can remember was one on Rockaway Turnpike a few years ago for a matchmaking service.
Tuna soup?!
Mimzee, as proof that they’re isolated case, they made the news. Run of the mill stuff doesn’t dominate the headlines. Man bites dog and all that.
Joseph, the kind of crimes that concern most people are violent crimes and crimes against property. To most people, overstaying a visa is about as significant as parking for three hours in a two hour zone.
FWIW, I’ve seen gallon containers of CY in a couple of stores. I think it was Fresh and Healthy brand, but I’m not sure.
Google “Trump University.”
The Goq, you’re wrong. Arrogance aside, there’s the hair.
Haven’t several of his businesses gone bankrupt? How does that make him a successful businessman?
Aldi also owns Trader Joe’s. I went to the Aldi at Gateway Mall in Brooklyn and was very disappointed. They have a tiny selection and very few items with any kind of hashgacha. Not too surprisingly, there were few customers. I’ve been to an Aldi upstate and it was a little better.
ZD, it seems to me that there’s not a lot of mesiras nefesh for the OOTer to buy only Haagen Dazs, Ben & Jerry’s, etc. He’d really prefer Piggly Wiggly’s store brand that (according to your scenario) doesn’t have hashgacha?
Along the lines of what cherrybim said, the Star-K gives hashgacha to certain national brand packaged salads. If there’s no Star-K inkjetted on with the bar code, it’s because they deem that batch infested. I’ve seen such packages with a yellow sticker from a heimishe hashgacha. I have a hard time believing that that sticker isn’t fraudulent.
ItcheSrulik, I don’t know where you’re from and I don’t know who Rabbi Avner Katz is, but I’m using this opportunity to kvell about how much easier it is in communities that basically have hashgacha monopolies like Queens and the Five Towns. I know that if I trust the VHQ and the Five Towns Vaad (which I do), I can eat almost anywhere in those areas. Which takes us back to the original question. I was told that the reason the Hewlett location of Bagel Boss isn’t under the Five Towns Vaad is that the non-Jewish owner would rather deal with just one hashgacha for all his locations. I have not verified this. The Five Towns Vaad does give hashgacha to non-Jewish-owned Dunkin Donuts locations that are open on Shabbos.
Yes to all your questions. Some people make up their own rules (“I use CY milk but CY cottage cheese is too expensive”) and some people have a more defensible basis (there’s an idea that may or may not be correct that the milk of non-kosher animals simply can’t be made into whatever — butter, cheese, you name it). Regarding your side note, outside major frum population areas, CY products tend to be unavailable or have crazy prices.
Regarding chaplaintzvi’s story about the Chassidim davening at the Rama’s shul: I believe there are significant differences between “regular” nusach ashkenaz (aka nusach Artscroll) and the Rama’s nusach.
The CRC website lists certain flavors as recommended. They don’t list any as “not recommended,” as they do for some other brands of cough drops. Possibly they don’t want to publicly contradict Rabbi Schlesinger.
Another connection to the 4th is the big barbecue that Balak made with lots of beef and lamb.
OK, so I looked at pictures of highland cattle. If you tie back the hair in their faces so they can see where they’re going, would the string passul her?
The solution. Is simple. Only get one type/color of socks.
I think the human brain is the #1 aveira device.
Be sure to write the topics on your sleeve so you can refer to it when you run out of things to say.
With getting your sleeves wet when washing, you’re also wetting your clothing against your will.
A few points on this: The special education classes for children from Yiddish speaking homes (so called “bi-Y” classes) are not just for children with autism spectrum disorders.
I have taught at a private secular special education school in NYC. The children there had parents who successfully fought for their children to be outplaced because the public schools did an inadequate job of teaching them. For example, one boy was a head taller than his classmates. I was told that he hadn’t learned to read, so the public schools held him back — twice. They used the same failed technique to teach him to read each time, so of course he still couldn’t read. Contrary to what some posters have implied, it’s not just wealthy parents who fight for their kids. That school had children from many socio-economic groups.
Lastly, I don’t want to mention names, but some of the replies here are so full of misspellings and typos that they’re painful to read. Proofreading isn’t that difficult. If you’re a poor spelling, consider typing your reply in a word processor that has spell checking and then doing a copy and paste.
Pule, the world’s most expensive cheese, is made from the milk of Serbian donkeys. Really. Google it.
That’s the same typo that caused all kinds of trouble in the Itche Kadoozy Passover mini-series.
Joseph, I believe The Wolf is an aveil.
JT, in what country are there “basically no non-kosher animals?”
interested613, I’m hoping you’re one of the people who gave a gift to my daughter and son-in-law.
You should start reading to babies as soon as they’re born. Hearing your voice helps them bond and it also helps them learn language.
Since when do frogs have hair and beards?
It’s ironic that you’re looking in the CR for a story about bitul zman.
Isn’t it good to blow off hat[e]rs?
emunah, do you mean Rav Kanievski?
There are (at least) three different diseases called hepatitis. Which one is this supposed to cure?
scared driver delight: The quotation long predates George Orwell. Try Lord Acton in 1887.
What are their names?
Besalel, if you’re just concerned about accidentally or absent-mindedly flipping a switch, why not just get a switch cover?
Avi K: Not every canard is a blood libel. Just ask Sarah Palin. Or not.
Star-K: go to star-k.org, click on seasonal, click on Pesach.
OU: go to ou.org, click on OU-Kosher, click on Kosher for Passover, click on Passover Guide.
CRC: go to crcweb.org, click on 2015 Passover Information (near the top of the page)
I couldn’t find a Pesach guide on the Kof-K website.
Check out the NYS Department of Education website. It describes all the paths to certification.
I think the idea that hands-free cellphone conversations aren’t distracting is bogus. If you need to talk on the phone, park (legally, not double) and chat to your heart’s content.
I don’t think there are any government-run mikvaos in Brooklyn, so they’re all private.
Not true in China, where the one child policy led to a surplus of boys. There they have a true shidduch crisis. Hey, if all the Chinese boys converted, it would solve our shidduch crisis.
I’ve never heard of an airline that won’t allow a personal item (mine — which I’ve taken on El Al and other airlines — is my tallis bag, which in addition to tallis and tefillin contains seforim and an iPad). If it’s a normal size, I doubt if there would be a problem, but if your personal item is as big as everyone else’s carry on, or if you’re struggling to carry it because of its weight…
Incidentally, Delta has no weight limit on your carry on. I’ve had another airline weigh my carry on just to make sure it wasn’t way over weight (it was maybe 20% over, but that was OK with them).
Why Borough Park? Why not Austin?
If he gave the conservative shul their building for free, why do they have a mortgage? On their website, they’re soliciting donations to pay off their mortgage.
This whole thread is fishy. While Michael Dell did donate land to the Austin Jewish community, there is a Modern Orthodox congregation on campus (with a YCT graduate as rabbi, FWIW). I also find it hard to believe that Dell would go from giving cash bonuses to giving one slice of pizza and some candy. If they decided they couldn’t afford bonuses, they wouldn’t give anything.
One other thing: calling Dell the third largest computer company is using a rather outdated definition of a computer company. It’s apparently based on Gartner’s ranking of “the annual worldwide market share of personal computer vendors includes desktop computers, laptop computers and netbooks, but not tablet computers.”
I don’t have an unlimited plan either, but I don’t have the problem you seem to have. Do you not have a landline? For long conversations, I use my unlimited landline. I usually pick up my cellphone messages using my landline.