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That’s not an answer, that’s a dismissal.
You’re criticizing Rav Shteinman, Wolf?
You’re disagreeing with Rav Shteinman, Sam?
stam, I hate to break it to you, but Eretz Yisroel is in galus.
HaRav Pesach Eliyahu Falk shlit”a has an invaluable sefer that covers all areas you are asking about. Literally A to Z. It is available on Amazon as well as most seforim/Judaica stores.
It’s title is – Modesty: An Adornment for Life
They give them out in most Beis Yaakov schools and learn from it as the complete reference. There is nothing else comparable that is nearly as comprehensive.
CTL: I said that the Federation, on a national basis, gives far far less per capita to Orthodox students or their educational institutions that it gives to non-Orthodox students or their educational institutions.
I know they give a few shekels to a small number of OOT Orthodox schools. But the reality is that current Jewish growth is occurring, by far, within the Orthodox community. The UJA’s own 2011 Jewish Community Study of New York showed that 61% of Jewish kids in the New York Metropolitan Area are Orthodox. Yet we both know that virtually no Federation funds go to Hareidi Yeshivos, despite that Pew’s 2013 survey of American Jewry shows that 66% of American Orthodox Jews describe themselves as Ultra-Orthodox (including 81% of American Orthodox Jews aged 30 and younger).
It is clear that the Federation does not provide funding to the vast majority of Orthodox Jewish students or educational institutions.
Passaic.
I think MA is entitled to make a mistake without getting beaten up over it.
I bet if you were to compare the benefits the Orthodox receive compared to the contributions made by Orthodox people you will see that the Orthodox come out way ahead.
I bet if you were to compare the benefits the poor receive compared to the contributions made by poor people you will see that the poor come out way ahead.
So the poor should stop whining that they receive so little benefits. Let them pay the piper; little contributions, little help.
CTL, whatever support the Federation gives out of town to a small number of institutions of Orthodox education, it is a tiny minuscule portion of its national budget and incomparably smaller, even per student capita, to its support of non-Orthodoxy.
Yet the KS was originally created to be a group identifier for the folks who switched to it, to set themselves apart.
The Islamic State became as big and powerful as it is now because Obama pulled out of Iraq. With thousands of US boots on the ground Iraq the IS never got a foothold. It only did because the Obama cut and ran.
Obama originally was going to pull almost completely out of Afghanistan too, but redfacedly changed plans after he saw how badly the Iraq pullout backfired.
Obama also failed to follow through on his so-called “red lines” in Syria regarding Assad, before the IS became large, thus feeding the Islamic State which saw Obama was puppeteer pulling strings but not following through on his promises.
We’ve been hearing about the impending collapse of the frum yeshiva system due to its unsustainable financial structure for… well over 50 years already.
How do you know the music really is from the teiva?
or whatever other language you would want to use
My language for you is tzadik and lamed-vov’nik.
The only reason a kipa is perceived by some as being used to identify with a group, is because that’s why the kipa sruga was invented. Prior to it’s introduction not that many decades ago, a yarmulka wasn’t popularly thought of as being a group identifier. As you pointed out, those wearing it today either switched to it or their (grand)father did so from what he was wearing previously.
So the question, as you said was food for thought, was why the switcheroo.
You’re not following the point of contention. An all-volunteer army versus an involuntary draft. The points you are raising don’t point to benefits of an involuntary draft over a volunteer army. America needed one of the largest armies in the universe to protect almost the entire continent of Europe and the entire free world against the threat of a nuclear armed superpower. It needed humongous amounts of armed manpower to accomplish that.
And it did so with an all-volunteer army.
Indeed. The nuclear threat to the US, as well as the threat of the Soviet army quickly overrunning Europe, which the US was sworn to protect under its NATO obligations, was far higher and more dangerous than the Arab threat to Israel.
If nuclear war broke out, which was a constant threat, there would hardly be time to institute a draft. America was well prepared with an all-volunteer army to match the mighty USSR on the battlefield in Europe, the high seas and around the world.
The draft was dropped while the Soviet Union still had Atomic bombs on ICBMs pointed at NYC and LA.
The American army has been doing quite well over the last 40 years of it having an all-volunteer army with no draft.
When was the kipot serugot invented and why’d those folks switch over to it from the earlier types of yarmulkas worn?
Even if Israel becomes majority Chareidi and chareidim don’t serve in the army, there are enough non-chareidim (even if they’re a minority) to fully staff the army without Chareidi participation.
I once carried on shabbos, outside the eruv.
Are you a choshuv Rav?
gavra, and if the family of eight is about to become homeless, do we first give money to the yeshiva or first to insure the family has shelter?
gavra, does a yeshiva have kadima for tzedaka over a poor Jew whose family is on the verge of starving?
ubiq, no. The same thing happened as by your chasuna with the Rov who you gave krias hatenaim to. The flower girls rabbonim stormed out as soon as all the flowers were done and looked very upset.
I know a chasuna where there were so many big rabbonim, way more than any way to slice and dice the kibudim, that even some of the rabbonim were made before the chupa to be the flower girls!
I know of at least two cases that people killed their roommates in the frum community.
What years were these? Students?
Most OTDs eventually come back to frumkeit.
The Yeshivish seem to rate Krias HaKesuba second to Sidur Kidushin.
ZD: There are four BTs for every one OTD.
They trespass on MTA property, abandoned stations and on the tracks to commit their offense.
akuperma suggested the religious Jews could team up with the religious Muslims to outvote the secular Jews.
kapusta, what’s the risk regarding luach being on the internet?
miamilawyer: “This does not explain why when two individuals who are pulled over for the EXACT SAME CRIME–no question, both are guilty, whites get treated one way and blacks the other.”
That’s your presumption which has no factual basis.
A far far higher percentage of blacks are criminal than are whites. So when an officer pulls over a black suspected of a crime, there’s a far greater likelihood he’s a criminal than a pulled over white. Are law enforcement officers supposed to ignore this difference in likelihood?