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Yitzchok, the issue of Yeger having first run against Chaim Deutch is something I find disturbing. How do you justify that?
Yoni Hikind has learnt the political ropes by being close to his father for many years in the State Assembly. This is a much better background than Yeger’s “community board”.
Yeger had initially started running against Chaim Deutch. This is very troubling since it indicates naked political ambition even if it means going against the communities established councilman who is doing a very fine job. (In addition to attempting to take away a Yid’s job, which isn’t halachicly permissible.) He only switched to Greenfield’s district when he announced he’s retiring. Otherwise he’d be going against Deutch.
That all said, being he’s the official Democrat candidate, he will likely win as the Democrat political machine will supply Yeger enough votes on Row A.
New England is seriously considering moving from Eastern Time to Atlantic Time, essentially putting them on Daylight Savings Time year-round.
LB: Thank Hashem you’re not from the left coast (aka the West Coast.)
iac: What kind of crimes is your prosecutorial focus?
iac: Did you prosecute any of those cases?
YY: Why’d she stop buying from them?
Williamsburg has a lot more Chasidim than just Satmar. And BP has Satmar too, as well as having many non-Chasidim.
Saidgur: Specifically which minyanim or yeshivos are struggling?
Buy your wife sheitels from Paula Young.
What’s the difference between Listerine and Scope?
NCB: If BP is for Chasidim, what’s Williamsburg for?
People still do it all the time. Why would you think otherwise?
Hashem is punishing users of human-hair sheitels:
Exactly, apy.
She should always be baking more! 😉
Brooklyn has trees and grass too.
So let me rephrase: In short, there’s no halachic or hashkafic difference between giving Halloween candy to your neighbors on Oct. 31 mipnei darkei shalom than giving Christmas presents to your neighbors on Dec. 25 mipnei darkei shalom.
Are you a hot-head, cool headed or cold blooded?
Brooklyn has the young ones moving out to Lakewood. Queens has the young ones moving out to the 5 Towns.
5 Towns is much more expensive than Lakewood whereas Lakewood is much frummer.
“If you must use an ATM, use one inside a bank.”
That’s what I suggested above, but iac retorted that even those are vulnerable.
iac: Which old CY milk brands are you talking about? There used to be J&J milk, New Square milk, etc. But now there are other CY alternatives to Golden Flow. Probably more now than ever before.
If I’m not mistaken, a gallon of non-CY milk cost less than two half gallons of the same. Hence the popularity of the gallon containers.
do you really not see the difference between the two?
No.
I don’t think considering the religious backgrounds of “Official Christian Holiday A” and “Official Christian Holiday B” has an effect in what way a Yid can participate or partake in either of them. Even in the context of giving gifts or sweets to those celebrating Holiday A or Holiday B.
The religious reasons the church established either of the two holidays should have no bearing on the limits of our commemorating or interacting with those holidays, however minor or major.
In short, there’s no halachic or hashkafic difference between giving Halloween candy to your neighbors for a Happy Halloween or giving Christmas presents to your neighbors for a Merry Christmas.
“so there is no difference” … “I happen to think there is a difference”
Which one is it? You are saying contradictory responses in the same breath.
If you “happen to think there is a difference”, I asked you to please explain what the halachic/hashkafic differences are between giving Christmas presents and giving Halloween candy bo b’yom.
(It is indesputable that Halloween is an official Christian holiday today, for both Catholics and Protestants. This can easily be confirmed with any church clergyman. All Hollows Eve begins on the evening (Oct. 31) prior to All Saints Day the same way Christmas Eve begins the evening of Dec. 24. These are both holdovers of the church beginning a holiday the evening before the day.)
ubiq: Please explain the halachic/haskafic difference between a) you giving your non-Jewish neighbors Christmas presents (in red stockings or otherwise) on December 25 and b) you giving your non-Jewish neighbors candy on October 31.
Hint: None.
Eli, Queens is becoming increasingly Bucharian. I hear that many Ashkenazim moved out over the last several years.
Gaon: You are simply, and completely, and absolutely incorrect about the *METZIUS* of Halloween, otherwise known as All Saints’ Day and All Hallows’ Day. It most certainly is an official Christian festival celebrated and consecrated TODAY by the Roman Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion, the Methodist Church, the Lutheran Church, and other Protestant churches. Christian celebration of All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day stems from a belief that there is a powerful spiritual bond between those in heaven (the “Church triumphant”), and the living (the “Church militant”). In Catholic theology, the day commemorates all those who have attained the beatific vision in Heaven.
Everything you said about the halachic status of Halloween applies equally to Christmas and vice versa. Christmas, too, is celebrated today in a mostly secular fashion, even by those who aren’t religious and aren’t Christian.
To paraphrase you, the fact is that Halloween is an official holiday directly associated with religion.
Okay, dear!
What if both the husband and wife insist that their spouse be the one to eat the last cookie?
“You have it, dear! No, its for you!”
Wouldn’t a skimmer attached to a bank’s ATM prevent the ATM from reading the card, thus alerting the customer that something is amiss?
Something tells me that if it was an influx of Modern Orthodox Jews, there wouldn’t be the same resistance.
When the Jewish community in Wyckoff, NJ applied to build a synagogue in the 1970s, one of the opponents arguments against permitting it was “do you want Wyckoff to become another Teaneck.”
I think Meno needs encouragement to muster a response.
(My attempt at humor sometimes doesn’t come across a textual conversation.)
Milk price regulations (and farm subsidies) in the U.S. (as well as in Europe regarding farm subsidies) are completely out of whack and idiotic.
Meno: DY’s last comment seems to answer your question that what you suggest is already the case.
WB, arwsf. You’ve been away for a long time.
apy: You were asked three times whether you acted upon your own daas or asked a shaila, and what you asked, and you deflected an answer each time. Even now when pushed you simply say you “asked” something but you still decline to say what you asked and what the answer is. You can’t blame folks for being skeptical in the absence of a response. What was the exact shaila and what was the exact response? Whatever it is, is fine. No one needs names, we’ll take your word, but please simply be clear when commenting.
You received a psak that it is okay to give Christmas presents to non-Jews on Christmas? Only around Christmas? Only around New Years? Only if it is a New Years gift but not a Christmas gift? These nuances make a difference.
In either event, please zats moichel for the acidic tone my comments came across.
I simply meant that food produced specifically for the kosher market will almost always cost more than food not specifically produced for the kosher market. In virtually any food category.
On some blocks in Brooklyn you can visit three decent sized Yeshivas on one city block.
Some Jewish stores sell non-CY milk.
Queens uses a crazy street numbering system. For example, you got 159th St followed by 159th Ave and 159 Pl before it goes to 160th and does the same thing. Brooklyn goes in numerical and alphabetical order in an easily understood street grid plan.