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The Vatican is cash wealthy.
Well said, lightbrite, very well said,!
Another failing is that most of that junk isn’t Jewish.
RJ, I don’t need a source. If you want to claim there’s an issue in the Torah against monopolies,*you* need to bring a source. (There isn’t any.)
Furthermore, the well known Halacha of Hasagas Ge’vul frequently prohibits creating direct immediate competition with an established merchant.
For Lubavitchers it does. Not for non-Lubavitchers.
I know nothing about this dispute, but the Torah and Halacha does not oppose monopolies. Indeed, Halacha often supports an existing merchant and prevents competition (depending on the circumstances.)
Is anyone referred to as the The Rebbe by anyone other than his Chasidim?
Why would anyone care for sushi when we have our own delicious fish traditions such as gefilte fish?
CTL, where’d you send them after pulling them out?
What about imitation pork chops, with an OU certification?
This’ll just delay most ElAl flights since the flight attendants can no longer assist finding new seat assignments for men and women wishing to sit next to the same gender, what’ll now start happening at the beginning of every single ElAl flight is that you’ll have a 100 men and women going around themselves politely asking other passengers if they’re willing to swap seats until they find a kind passenger willing to make the swap.
Since everyone will be doing it on their own at the beginning of each ElAl flight without using the staff, it’ll take much longer till everything settles and the flight can take off.
Yes, we certainly must raise the bar for salaries for rebbeim.
mw13, what jobs are those two taking after their resignation?
You mean those (not only chasidim, btw) who hold by Rabbeinu Tam’s zmanim, such as the (second) shkia 58.5 minutes after sunset or 72 minutes after, as per the basic psak of the Mechaber (and Rema) and as practiced in Galicia?
cherrybim, DaMoshe: I’ve never referred to him as anything other than Rabbi JB Soloveitchik. That’s how he referred to himself, that’s how his rabbinical peers called him (except those close to him or working with him in YU, who simply called him JB without title or last name simply since they were on a first-name basis with each other), and that’s the byline he chose to print his own books under. I’ve never omitted his title as Rabbi.
And I’ve never c’v denigrated him. Quoting gedolim who said he was mistaken on various issues and policies is far from personally impugning or being inappropriate.
Don’t blame him. Yogi never said half the things he said.
Avi, kosher/frum living costs are comparably less in NY. Also property taxes are less in NY.
yytz: Would you argue that if a potential convert was blissfully and earnestly unaware that Judaism prohibits – eating pork, doing labor on Shabbos, having a toeiva partner, having a party on Yom Kippur, and going to church on Sundays with his unconverted parent. And he was honestly led to believe that the main, and perhaps only, requirement of being Jewish is to light two candles every Friday night. And with that misunderstanding goes through a conversion which he celebrates after drying up from the mikva with a party with his new Jewish friends, including his toeiva partner who convinced him to convert as a sign of commitment to him, at Ruth’s Chris Steak House with delicious steak and pork chops. And then the next day lights two beautiful Shabbos candies Friday evening before he heads to his day labor job the following Saturday morning. Followed by his being kibud av by attending church with his father that Sunday.
He, as you said, clearly stated honestly and earnestly that he accepts as binding on himself all the mitzvos, and the entire Torah without reservation. He simply didn’t know all the preceding was kneged halacha.
And his conversion was presided over by left wing Orthodox rabbis, not any who consider themselves Conservative, who did the conversion because they felt it would keep this potential converts Jewish partner within the fold. So they never told him all the halachic prohibitions in order not to scare him away from Judaism.
His conversion is valid?
And, bderech teva, better parnassa in NY too.
Muslims and Christians get married and divorced in Israel.
Yeshiva bochorim davening in Meah Shearim are as likely to don a tzahal t-shirt as they are to don a t-shirt from the Army of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Either one is disrespectful to enter the shul with. Would you go to shul with a punk rock t-shirt?
Standardize.
Hador, the cost of frum Jewish kosher daily living is less on a yearly basis in the NYC/Monsey/Lakewood area than OOT frum kosher areas.
Additionally, the growth of the frum community in the NYC/Monsey/Lakewood area is greater than the frum growth OOT. Indeed, many of the newer frum residents in the NYC/Monsey/Lakewood area moved there from OOT. There are numerous OOT areas than have experienced a dwindling frum community.
And as described earlier in the thread, the NYC/Monsey/Lakewood area has a plethora of frum services such as kosher groceries and food options. Yeshivos, Botei Medroshim, Chesed orgs (Hatzolah, Shomrim, Chaveirim, Bikur Cholims, Tzedakah orgs, Gemachs, etc.), in addition to the easy availability of many roshei yeshivos, rebbe’s, gedolim, etc, that aren’t nearly as easily or readily available in other towns.
The Agudas Harrabonim supported RIETS until they introduced secular studies. The Agudas Harabbonim saw in RIETS a counterforce against the Conservative JTS. In 1906 the Agudas Harrabonim helped create a smicha board in RIETS, publicly denouncing the rabbis who graduated from JTS.
But the new “American social-economic order” struck, as the students demanded secular studies in RIETS. The board of directors was undecided about whether to concede. But pressure mounted, and in 1908 the board expelled 15 students for going to secular schools during time allotted for religious studies. This spurred a student strike. Many students left the school. Resulting financial pressure and bad publicity caused RIETS to compromise their principles and after three weeks, they caved in. They reaccepted the 15 expelled students and instituted a secular curriculum. As time passed, the secularization of RIETS accelerated, due to various influences. Harry Fischel, a philanthropist, became vice president of RIETS in 1908. He was bent on step up the secularization of the institution. In 1915, with the completion of the new RIETS building, Fischel made a speech stating that his goal is to “unite Orthodox Judaism and Americanism”. The Agudas HaRabbonim were not happy.
Neville, you’ve made very good contributions to this thread providing your perspective as a convert to Judaism. Thank you. You’ve also made very accurate comments on the state of Modern Orthodoxy in America today.
I believe yytz is correct. The Israeli rabbanut, for what they’re worth, accepts American Chareidi non-RCA/GPS conversions.
Regarding the topic at hand, be it known that I’ve made what you describe as “before it was cool” comments right here in this CR years ago, long before her father ran for president. Most didn’t make it past the censors but you might find some from back then. That said, I’m not sure why you think it is cool now; where other than here do you see these points being made?
I agree with you that she almost certainly didn’t utilize a rabbanut approved or GPS beis din. The claims that she had used such a beis din only hit the internet rumor mill after Donald was well on his way to the White House. (Not that if it had been GPS approved, that point would change the underlying circumstances of the situation.)