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Here’s an example of a so-called heimish hechsher being more lax than a mainstream one. Many kosher stores carry name-brand bagged salads with a yellow sticker attached indicating that according to whoever puts the sticker on, there’s no infestation problem. When the mainstream hashgacha (Star-K or OK) determines there’s an infestation, they don’t allow their symbol to be stamped on the bag (otherwise it’s inkjetted along with the use-by date and lot number). On many occasions I have seen yellow-stickered bags of salad without the mainstream hashgacha.
Next thing you know, someone will post a comment on an old topic about LGA saying “LaGuardia isn’t even the mayor anymore.”
Joseph, please quote anyone — anyone — who agrees with your definition of winning the popular vote. In almost all U.S. elections (other than the presidential election, in which the popular vote doesn’t determine the winner), the candidate who gets a plurality wins.
FWIW, here’s what Wikipedia has to say: “Losing the popular vote means securing less of the national popular vote than the person who received either a majority or a plurality of the vote.”
RY23, it could be a new batch of makeup. When painting a room, they always recommend getting all your paint from the same lot. Or it could be he’s tired of being compared to a Cheeto or a tangerine.
Who is Rabbi Kuber?
Joseph, she won the popular vote because she got a plurality. No one except you interprets “winning the popular vote” as requiring a majority.
Health, it seems to me we’ve had a president who couldn’t even stand unsupported and still managed to run the country.
BTW, if he was fired by a tweet, that fits into Trump’s pattern. He fired Comey by proxy as well. He allegedly told the New York Post he was divorcing his second wife, then gave her the news by showing her the headline.
Tillerson was disastrous as Secretary of State. He had no experience in government or in diplomacy. His reorganization decimated the diplomatic corps. Pompeo may be even worse. Trump is like a tinpot dictator who wants to be surrounded by yes-men, and Pompeo fits the bill perfectly.
Our esteemed president clearly weighs more than his doctor claims, and he is clueless about the Constitution. HTH.
Vernor’s.
The comment was not made at the Gridiron Dinner. It was made at a donor affair at Mar-a-Lago. The audience laughed, so they took it as a joke. The real problem is that Trump seemed to support Xi’s power grab. Given his admiration for autocrats like Putin, Duterte, and Erdogan, that’s not too surprising.
Since iacisrmma is resorting to whataboutism, here’s one: What would Republicans have said if Obama had made a similar remark? I’d guess they’d be preparing to impeach.
Joseph, where do you get the idea that Yekkes used to wear shtreimels? Also, the ostensible reason that German Jews are called Yekkes is that they wore jackets as opposed to the long coats their eastern brethren wore.
There are many baalei tshuva who attended public school right through high school. Obviously, if they had been gunned down in a school shooting, they never would have been able to become baalei tshuva. To answer the original question, yes, it’s less of a tragedy. Orthodox Jews are still a minority of American Jews. Even though Orthodox Jews have many more children per family, I suspect there are still more school age heterodox children that Orthodox ones. Hence the majority of American Jewish children attend public schools because their parents want their children in public schools. Tuition is not the issue. Given the choice of sending their children to a public school, a private secular school, or a Jewish school, even if they were all tuition-free, very few heterodox parents would choose the Jewish school.
There are special glasses to be worn when proposing? Are they rose-colored?
Midwest2, just because they didn’t have a lot of chips, cookies, and candy back in the day doesn’t mean our ancestors ate healthy. Shmaltz and gribbenes aren’t exactly health foods.
Gadolhadorah, do you have statistics to back up your claim?
ZD, Joseph wouldn’t wear the earring.
If we had two mouths, could one eat milchigs and the other fleishigs? How about conjoined twins?
ZD, shockeling is the frum equivalent of those games. It has an advantage in that it can be done solo.
Presumably more and more people have central air, so it becomes a non-issue. Even lights aren’t as much of an issue as they used to be. Modern lighting uses less electricity than old incandescent lights, so we leave lights on in non-bedrooms all Shabbos. In bedrooms, we use Shabbos lamps.
I think the OP in conflating green cash and blue Monday.
Chofetz Chaim 1, the girls at the ball game are presumably no less tznius than the girls on the street, in the stores, on public transportation, etc.
Footballs aren’t made of pigskin, and apparently they never were. Lucky for the pigs.
Off topic, but why does this topic say it has 83 replies?
LB, what’s the problem with my Seiko?
CY, what would he say about a ball game?
Joseph, many restaurants have windows. If the only available table is near the windows, do you walk out?
According to the website of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, “in some case, the seeds sold for use in foods still have a significant amount of opium” on them. The amount “depends on how well the poppy seeds are cleaned and processed, which varies depending on the country the seeds are from and how and when they are harvested.” They recommend that athletes who a subject to drug tests abstain from poppy seeds for a few days before and during athletic competitions. Nevertheless, I don’t think the Russians were thrown out of the Olympics because they ate too many hamentaschen.
Mrs Plony is right. Lesschumras is wrong. Cross breeding is not genetic engineering as the term is generally used. Cross breeding works just fine, as it has for millennia. It’s a relatively simple process that does not require elaborate equipment. Amateur gardeners do it all the time. On the other hand genetic engineering is a recent innovation, requiring a great deal of scientific knowledge and elaborate equipment. One of the most common genetically engineered crops is Roundup-ready soybeans. Roundup is a herbicide used to kill weeds, but it doesn’t differentiate between weeds and desired plants. Monsanto created a variety of soybeans that is resistant to Roundup so the herbicide can be applied to soybean fields and kill only the weeds. They did this by incorporating genes from two types of bacteria and from the petunia into soybean DNA. They did this not with a virus (as the OP claims is the case for GMO), but something called a “gene gun.” This explanation is culled from Wikipedia, so (a) it may not be entirely accurate, and (b) it’s based upon my layman’s reading of rather dense scientific explanations.
Presumably Joseph thinks they were unjustly convicted.
When a whole raft of Republicans are convicted for the current Washington scandals, the GOP will be pushing for voting rights for felons.
Ok, so I googled it. Monsanto says the guy asking the question is probably talking about the Seralini study, and then says peers said it was flawed and the publisher retracted the study.
BTW, it’s not just candy that from companies get from China. Check out frozen vegetables and even dry yeast.
I’d use a shorter title. I’d also realize there’s no “chord” that will change the direction of a train, and the guy who controls the train is not the conductor.
So it’s OK for Jews to swing elections to whoever promises them the most benefits by raising everyone else’s taxes, but it’s not OK for everyone else?
Joseph, if there were some way of counting the number of “idiot American dropouts on drugs and gangs” who vote, I think the numbers would be quite small. As for “swinging elections to whoever promises them the most benefits by raising everyone else’s taxes,” I think you’d find a lot of such voters in Jewish neighborhoods. It seems that there are press releases (or quasi press releases) in YWN several times a week from Jewish politicians who are touting their work to provide benefits to their constituents, all of which are paid for with tax dollars. Who do you think pays for school vouchers?
A better question is whether Trump could pass a literacy test.
Uh-oh. Joseph just banned all restaurants. Wedding halls too.
Should Rubashkin be allowed to vote?
Actually, the donkey is superior to all other non-kosher animals. It’s the only one for which their is pidyon bechor.
I guess that makes Joseph a Democrat.
I forget where I saw it, but someone pointed out that while the Israelites in Mitzrayim supposedly didn’t change their names, we never see that they’re named after the Avos or Yaakov’s children. They mostly had names we don’t use. Have you ever met a Shlumiel (as opposed to a shlemiel?) And of course, Moshe was named by Pharaoh’s daughter, so it’s presumably an Egyptian name even though the passuk explains it with a Hebrew word.
It’s a little bit disingenuous to claim you’re tolerant because you have friends who are Jews when it turns out they act as evangelical Christians. I suspect Moore and wife think you and I, as practicing Jews, are going to burn in hell. This is what he said about George Soros: “No matter how much money he’s got, he’s still going to the same place that people who don’t recognize God and morality and accept his salvation are going, and that’s not a good place.” I read the salvation part as referring to Yoshke. Do you have another interpretation?
Just as in the Roy Moore thread, Joseph makes a claim that implies he’s a navi.
I’m named after my grandmother.
It turns out that the “attorney who’s a Jew” isn’t the guy who’s a friend and supporter of Doug Jones. According to Moore’s wife, he’s another lawyer who’s a so-called Messianic Jew. That would explain her curious remark about how they fellowship with “Jews and rabbis.” My dictionary defines the verb fellowship as “to join in fellowship especially with a church member.”
I’m certainly no expert, but I suspect there are eight-month babies who don’t require medical intervention such as incubation. The survival of seven-month babies but not of eight-month babies in the the times of the gemara can’t be explained by modern medical intervention.
It’s in several gemaras. Obviously, it flies in the face of modern reality, where an eight-month baby has fewer risk factors than a seven-month baby, and we even have survival of some 22-week babies today.