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If Shimon is on such a tight budget, how can he afford Costco’s membership fee?
I’m wondering if Dancingmom is one of Joseph’s aliases.
I don’t know how big a problem drug abuse is in the frum population anywhere, and I have no idea how you’d quantify it. One thing that is quantifiable is the seriousness of the drug problem in the U.S. in general. Drug overdoses kill more people in the U.S. than any other accidental cause of death. Many more are killed by drug overdoses than traffic accidents.
Where does Shimon live where CY milk costs 2.5X CS milk?
Frum men doing workouts? Where did they find them?
Lot’s daughters thought they had a real shidduch crisis.
Here’s a reason to buy from an expensive sheitel macher: she’s probably supporting her husband in kollel. Think of your purchase as a Yissocher/Zevulun relationship.
I should buy my wife’s sheitels? Joseph, are you married?
Many years ago, my wife bought sheitels from Paula Young. Some were human hair, which IIRC were around $100. She’s definitely not a vain or materialistic person, but today she wouldn’t buy from them. I think now she usually gets sheitels from a gemach, and she keeps them for several years.
Neville, your commute depends (obviously) on where you’re going, how you’re getting there, and what neighborhood you’re living in. For instance, Kew Gardens Hills has no subway stops, but Kew Gardens has the E and the F at Union Turnpike and the J and Z at 121st Street and Jamaica Avenue. The trip from Union Turnpike to 53rd and Lexington takes less than 30 minutes.
As for the language barrier in BP, in my experience, most Chassidic women speak pretty good English. Many men don’t.
DST confuses the software that the CR uses. It’s currently 1:11 AM after the switch. There are replies with later timestamps, so in the index it says the topic was last updated “some time ago.”
Speaking of crazy street systems, Avenue R becomes Avenue O when it crosses Flatbush Avenue.
To add to WTP’s explanation of Queens street numbers, the numbered streets also have places and lanes. Like Brooklyn, Queens was made up of several villages. Some areas have numbered streets, others don’t. Some areas just have north-south streets and east-west avenues and not all the other flavors (WTP presumably meant to say that the streets are perpendicular to the avenues). Even Queens’s well-known hyphenated house numbers aren’t universal: there are a few streets in Kew Gardens that have regular three digit numbers, and the in the Rockaways, house numbers usually aren’t hyphenated.
It would seem that the reason that CY milk is rarely sold in gallon containers in NY is that people are used to half gallons, and the cost of producing a gallon isn’t significantly cheaper that the cost of producing two half gallons.
I read. Ask Joseph how he knows so much about various TV networks.
Baltimore has a major league baseball team. Monsey doesn’t.
When the issue of Indian hair came up several years ago, didn’t Rabbi Belsky pasken that it wasn’t a problem?
Joseph, when you visit those Brooklyn communities on Shabbos, make sure you don’t have a cold, because you won’t be able to carry tissues.
I think I’ve seen gallons at Moisha’s on occasion. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen them at Aron’s Kissena Farms in Queens. Sorry to be vague, but I’m pretty sure a gallon wasn’t cheaper than two half gallons, so I didn’t dedicate any brain cells to remembering where I’ve seen them. Why are you so interested in gallons of milk?
Meno, I can get CY milk in Queens for $2.50 or less. It’s often on sale for $1.99. ZD, which eruv in Queens was approved by Rav Moshe? There are many, at least these days.
Joseph, before your “back in the day” besserer mentchen moved from the Lower East Side to the Bronx. Neither of which is Brooklyn or Queens.
One difference that’s significant to the readership of the CR is that many neighborhoods in Queens have eruvs that are widely accepted.
WTP, Brooklyn used to have an airport. In fact it was NYC’s first municipal airport. It also used to have a baseball stadium. Queens also has a 13th Avenue where it’s easier to park than on Brooklyn’s.
iacisrmma, I’ve seen gallons of CY milk in at least two NYC kosher stores.
In areas where there’s a lot of competition (i.e. frum neighborhoods in Greater NY), CY milk is not a lot more expensive than non-CY milk. In the rest of the US, it’s a lot more expensive.
I understand the Yiddish ads, I just don’t understand the absence of English ads. Surely there are many voters in the district who either can’t read Yiddish or are more comfortable reading English.
From the NYC Campaign Finance Board’s voter guide: “Delegates can recommend changes to any part of the constitution or even rewrite the entire constitution.” Whatever they decide, it requires voter approval before becoming part of the constitution. It’s obviously a very different process than amending the Federal constitution.
iacisrmma, of course I didn’t watch it. I don’t have a TV.
I don’t live in Brooklyn, B”H, but I’m wondering about all the Yiddish ads Hikind is running in the Torah Times. Pages of them, but no ads at all in English. What’s with that?
Joseph, I don’t think amend is the right word. Isn’t the point of a constitutional convention to rewrite it from scratch? BTW, many people of various political persuasions oppose it because it would cost a lot of money.
It’s not only tzedakas that call. A couple of years ago, I was getting robocalls from a frum furniture store. The worst part was that they tied up the line even when I hung up on them, which is not only illegal, it’s also dangerous. There’s a simple solution to the robocall problem: if you don’t recognize the caller ID, don’t answer. If it’s important the caller will leave a message,
One data point: when the other media were discussing the indictments of Manafort and Gates and the guilty plea of Papadapoulos, Fox News was dwelling on the Google cheeseburger emoji issue.
Coffee Room fanatic, obviously.
Pumpkins are one thing, jack-o-lanterns are another. Also, having a mezuza on your front door doesn’t mean you’re frum.
The Doctor of Credit website has a listing of high-interest bank accounts. I can’t put a link here, but you can google it. Rates are up to 5%.
zaltzvasser, I think you’ve been taken in by PETA’s propaganda. Why would fur farmers do that when it would be easier to just gas the animals and skin them dead?
ZD, a lot of fur animals are farm-raised, so they’re obviously not trapped. According to a Wikipedia article on fur farming, the by-products (e.g. meat) are used in pet foods, etc., so while the meat isn’t eaten by humans, it doesn’t go to waste.
A math teacher was apprehended with a compass and protector. He was accused of having weapons of math instruction.
Opium is the correct spelling, but not all opioids come from the opium plant. Many are synthetic. Popular ones are hydrocodone, oxycodone and fentanyl. They are commonly prescribed for pain.
There was CY shelf-stable milk in the U.S. for a brief time maybe 15 or 20 years ago. I guess there wasn’t enough of a market for it to be profitable.
Yitzyk, a look at the ingredients in skim milk show that they’re identical in vitamins only because vitamin A is added (in addition to the vitamin D that’s added to whole milk). Removing the fat removes the vitamin A, which is why they have to add it back in.
Joseph, you should travel more. One would think that any large frum community more than a few hours by truck from NY or Baltimore would have local brands of CY. I know you can get local CY milk in Detroit. I haven’t been to Cleveland in many years, but when I was there, they had local CY. Much to my surprise, the website for an LA kosher store shows they sell Fresh & Healthy and Devash!
And of course, most (all?) milk sold in Israel is CY.
Basically R’ Miller is saying that pool means trouble, with a T.
According to R’ H. Hill, the alternative to playing pool for entertainment is to learn a musical instrument and play in a band.Joseph, you’re slipping. First you incorrectly define skim milk, then you overgeneralize. Perhaps the color coding in universal among New York area cholov yisrael brands, but believe it or not, there are cholov yisrael brands of milk in other parts of the world. They do not necessarily use the color coding scheme that the NY brands use.
Yet we see that it was the men who gave over their gold jewelry for the egel.
Klugeryid, all your Colombians are going to be upset that you misspelled their country.
If you don’t grow your own coffee beans, you’re not a serious coffee drinker.
ZD says CY doesn’t keep as long as CS. That’s changed. I seldom have CY spoil these days (and I almost never get Golden Flow). Of course, if the store doesn’t keep it refrigerated properly (or you don’t) or if you purchase milk near its expiration date, any milk can go bad. I think the expiration date on milk is much further out than it was 30 or 40 years ago, at least in the NYC area.
FWIW, I’ve seen Pride of the Farm at the Inwood Stop and Shop, for a price that’s way more than local kosher stores charge for milk.
akuperma, Democrats consider Ben Carson a white supremacist?
Nixon was an anti-semite. Lyndon B. Johnson did a lot for Israel. Joseph, what has Trump done for Israel?
As an explanation for those who aren’t in NYC, the Sanitation Department is rolling out curbside collection of compostable materials, i.e. yard waste and food scraps. Presumably the point is reduce the amount of garbage going into landfills, as well as to provide compost to the Parks Department.
When NYC started curbside recycling, they did it on the cheap. Most communities provided bins, but NYC just handed out stickers that homeowners were instructed to put on garbage cans that they would need to pay for themselves. I suspect that they decided to provide the brown bins because regular garbage cans containing food waste would attract various creatures. They haven’t rolled out the program in my neighborhood yet, but I’ve seen the bins in my travels for several months. They always seem to be tightly sealed, and I never see flies around them. My only concern is that they’re too small for yard waste in neighborhoods where people actually have yards. I also wonder about including bones and the like, which are usually not composted.
Corporal punishment is legal in public schools in 19 states, primarily in the South. It’s possible that corporal punishment of criminals is considered “cruel and unusual punishment.” In any case, in Ingraham v. Wright (1977), SCOTUS said corporal punishment of students wasn’t a violation of “cruel and unusual punishment” because that clause only applies to criminals.
ZD, I think you’re wrong about caning for littering in Singapore. Caning is used as a punishment for a variety of crimes from rape to vandalism to hiring illegal immigrants, but as far as I can determine, not for littering.
I suspect the OP is referring to sukkahs built on sidewalks or streets, not those built on private property.
Takahmamash, as ubiquitin pointed out, throwing bags of candy at aufrufs is pretty common. Interestingly, at my aufruf an elderly yekkish woman who was not familiar with the minhag took the candy/raisins/etc. out of the bag and threw the loose contents. I gather from that that yekkes don’t have this minhag.
LB, one of the recent gedolim hardly slept at all. Can someone refresh my memory as to who it was?
I’ve only heard of credenzas in the realm of office furniture. I looked it up on staples.com and found 934 items.
Joseph, you misunderstood. I was trying to express two different ideas. 1. It can be dangerous to travel at the speed limit when everyone else is significantly exceeding it (just as it is dangerous to be doing 35 on an Interstate). 2. There’s a real speed limit which is greater than the posted speed limit (as explained to me by the officer who stopped me for traveling at perhaps 45 in a 30 zone).