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zd, in this case (assuming the cashier didn’t pocket the money), there would more than expected in the drawer (is that called a longfall?). Maybe one of the CR’s cashiers can tell us what happens in that case.

In many stores, the cashier doesn’t put the money tendered into the drawer until the customer has received the change. That’s so the customer can’t claim he gave the cashier a $20 bill when it was actually a $10.

In my neck of the woods, the larger Chareidi shuls are Agudahs. They certainly don’t fit ZD’s model. The rabbis have other jobs in chinuch. I suspect the rabbi is the only person on the payroll (except maybe a part-time janitor).

Why stop at the mother? He should ask for a picture of Mrs. DY, the great grandmother. Or better yet, all four great grandmothers.

goofus, I don’t know about hummus because I’ve only had homemade once, but for sure homemade challah is a lot better than bakery challah. I can’t believe what they charge for a challah! My wife makes a dozen challahs at a cost less than two bakery challahs.

Judging from the ads for the heimishe grocery stores, beer is only to be consumed at a shalom zachor.

Become Sefardi. Many Sefardi poskim ban shaitels.

There are situations in which it’s impossible to eat bread. I had my jaw wired shut for two or three Shabbosos, so I could only consume liquids. I imagine there are other medical situations as well. For example, I heard of someone who was so sensitive to gluten that she couldn’t eat so-called gluten free oat matzo. Since you need one of the five species to make hamotzi, typical gluten-free breads wouldn’t do.

Lior, who do you think reads frum papers? What makes you think they’re less frum than people who read Reb. Kanievsky’s bio?

The issur on publishing pictures of females is not total. Hamodia published a photo of a baby girl a while ago. I’m not sure if it was a mistake, or if they have an age below which the deem it OK.

Istanbul.

I don’t see the comparison of Turkey (whose government is anti-Israel) and the UK. Oxfam may be an anti-Israel British organization, but there are plenty of anti-Israel American organizations. So why not boycott American goods as well?

I did this last year and this year. I live I chutz la’aretz and traveled to EY after they changed but before we did. I was told to say v’sein bracha but add v’sein tal umatar in shma koleinu.

I use several apps for finding the best deal. Besides Skyscanner (which I find often has wrong prices but is nonetheless useful), I use Hipmunk, Kayak, and OnTheFly. Each of them has their pros and cons. Consider being flexible. For example, right now there are good deals on flights from Boston to Tel Aviv. If you’re in the NYC area, it’s relatively easy and cheap to get to Boston especially since Logan Airport is easily accessible by subway. There’s also hidden city ticketing. We recently booked JFK-TLV-BOS. The return trip was TLV-EWR-BOS, and since we live in the NYC area, we simply got off at EWR and went home. This saved us a considerable sum. We’ve done similar stuff with flights from DC to Israel.

I would never let my daughter date a flax hatcheller.

Glue traps are probably the least humane (well, cats are probably worse). Snap traps kill them pretty quickly, but they don’t work that often and there’s a high “ick factor.” The trap I recommended electrocutes them, which presumably is relatively quick. You can close your eyes, turn the trap upside down, open the door, and dump them in the garbage without even looking at the dead mouse. I don’t recommend flushing them — snaking a dead mouse out of clogged toilet is too gross to contemplate.

Poster, do you live in BP? The reason you have mice is because they can’t afford apartments of their own. Vote for Caller and he’ll solve the mouse house problem.

I don’t want BP to have additional housing because I sometimes have to park there. How many illegal driveways are included in Caller’s plan?

Why would anyone want to live in BP?

Cholent is a potent soporific. Unless you include coffee beans.

Convicted of assault, not attempted murder. Juries aren’t told of the sentence, but I found out that he got several years. This is 30+ years ago, so I don’t remember the details.

I sat on a jury where a guy shot his neighbor in an argument over a parking space. The victim didn’t die, but he had to spend six weeks in the hospital.

So should someone named Malka introduce herself as Queen?

PBA, are you including unaccompanied minors?

If you take the census stats kindly provided by Lior snd subtract widowed from total, you’ll find that there are more men than women. I’m guessing this is a fairly accurate reflection of my original point that the overall gap is due to women outliving men. I suspect there’s an age breakdown somewhere on the census website, but I’m too lazy to look.

In nursing homes, the ratio is even worse.