ZachKessin

Um your physics and astronomy is wrong on several points

Movement relative to another object depends on your perspective. And in order to know, ultimately, whether the earth revolves around the sun, because the earth is moving, or the sun revolves around the earth because the universe is moving and earth is stationary, you would have to measure form a vantage point outside of the universe, and nobody has been able to do that yet. At least not scientists.

There is no absolute frame of refrence for the universe. However we can compare motion against the background stars. If they Earth was stationary there would be a number of effects that would be very different…

1) We can measure the earth’s relative motion against the background stars. If the earth was not moving we could see stellar parallax. While this effect is very small (about 200x smaller than one could see with the unaided eye in the closest stars) it was first measured about 1830 or so by Bessel for the star 61 Cygni.

In addition classical Astronomy makes several very definitive statements about how the universe works that are all demonstrably wrong.

• The moon is a perfect unmarked sphere, it is pockmarked with craters and mountains
• The area past the Earth is perfect and unchanging, not even close to being true, there are stars that very over time AAVSO comets turn up at random times and so forth, we see supernova etc
• Planets orbit the sun in perfect circles, this is not true, the actual orbits are ellipses, and follow Kepler’s laws

I could go on but have limited time right now

I thought about joining the USAF Some years back but decided not too. However I was able to find a Rabbi who was serving in the Air Force (Go to the chaplaincy web page dig around a bit). From what he said it can be done but it is hard. The main thing you will have to keep in mind is that the “Needs of the Service” come first. So if they need you in Minot AFB (Minot ND) and you are the only Frum person for 500 miles well you won’t have much of a life.

That being said I would suggest you find someone in the Air Force to talk to instead of the folks here who probably don’t know much.

Good luck with whatever you decide!

Offer to do the dishes for a week. (or laundry etc)

Ariel Israel, we like it a lot. We have been there about 3 months.

If they wish to know what people think of them they can find this via google. Somehow I don’t think they care. If one threatens the life of the president (or vice president) you can expect a visit from the Secret Service, but besides that who cares.

Freedom of speech means you can insult the president, even look like a total fool while doing so if you want.

Just FYI, the Israeli solar hot water heaters are hot enough for a good shower or washing dishes, but not hot enough to say make a cup of tea from. Which is a good thing as if they were you could very easily burn yourself in the shower really badly.

Um, no. Just because some guy with an “MD” after his name said it does not make it so. If it was there would be clinical trials and the like. Trust me if using something that simple would work then they would empty the wards and the doctors would all go play golf, and enjoy boredom.

Just remember any idiot can put up a web site, or publish a book, it does not make them right. And there are a lot of people out there who need hope, thus snake oil sales men.

MY wife likes to roast a chicken over a bed of rice, you have to add a bit if liquid to cook the rice but it gives a lot of flavor to the rice. She normally does a whole chicken but it would work with parts just as well.

Try googling for “chicken +recipe” or the like, it will come up with lots of stuff, much of it not kosher but you can modify as needed.

Its amazing how much cool stuff you can find via google 🙂 Also the food network (foodtv.com I think) has a lot of cool ideas, of course you may need to adjust to make kosher but that can be done.

I will be working durring Chol Hamoed, I live in Israel so I get of on Hag but half days on Erev Hag and normal days on Chol. I could take vacation days then if we had something planned I guess but I would rather use them in Nov when my father comes to Visit from the US.

Would anyone be interested in a longer post on how to get into computer programming? I would be happy to write it, but would like to know that someone will care before I spend a few hours on it.

Temping can be a decent way to make money in the short term. And I know a few folks who did it long term, but I would not want to. (YMMV). Check out “What Color is your Parachute” you can find it for about $13 on Amazon or in your local public library.

If you are a smart person who is willing to work hard and learn new skills as needed you can find a job you will like long term. OK your first job will be lousy, mine sure was, but think of it as paying dues, learn all the skills you can there and learn how to work.

If anyone wants advice on becoming a programmer or similar please let me know, I will be happy to point you in some useful directions. ([email protected])

If you don’t sleep well or snore it might be worth it to having a sleep study done. I had one and got a CPAP, I sleep much better and don’t snore, which means that my wife sleeps better too. I also have a lot more energy.

ALL the yeshivos, AT ONCE, must close thier doors, from teh most right wing, to the most left wing, fromt eh frummest, to the most modern, ALL. a letter will go out to all parents, telling them which public school in their area they should go to for the first day of school. ALL parents must take off from work, and go with their children to the local public school. we are talking here of way over a hundred thousand of children on an already stressed system. i would say an emergency meeting in the city council, and state legislature would pass through vouchers in minutes, if not seconds, for the city and state, by law, has to educate all children, and if they dont have the capabilities, they can get sued.

What makes you think that they couldn’t take in the students? Yes they would have to scramble a bit, but they probably could do it. More importantly having the public schools fund yeshivas would violate state law. You can complain to the folks up in Albany if you want but I don’t think they will change the law.

Also if this trick would work why haven’t the catholic schools tried it? They are a lot more organized than Jewish schools are. One memo from the Arch-Bishop and its done, I would guess. Except the Arch-Bishop has lawyers who would tell him why it won’t work.

I just keep thinking that will all the problems that the community is facing this is what the leaders choose to spend time on? I mean really, which is more important a large number of families who can’t put food on the table or some folks listening to the wrong music?

I will fully admit that I am listening to random Irish Music as I type this.

It should be pointed out that in Israel at least there are several trains that regular minyanim on them. I think its the morning train from Beit Shemesh to Tel Aviv, but I’m not 100% sure on that. So it appears that daving in general on a train is not a problem. Now if this girl is off in a corner leave her alone.

Can I be part of the “Club”. I have a BA in the hard sciences from a secular university, my father is a professor of biology and an Ivy League school and we talk 3-4 times a week. Oh and I am very much a Zionist.

Shabbat Shalom, all. I have to get back to work

<i>yes you are right i agree ‘BUT’ how bout giving somone a chance to get a good job with out a degree</i>

Its probably not his choice to make, and even without a degree without the skills that the job needs you won’t get hired.

The reality is that the work world is very different from being in Yeshiva. Yeshiva students put themselves at a major disadvantage by starting much later than is normal in the secular world. Most of the secular folks I know graduated college at 21 or so, and went out and found a job and started moving up the ladder. By the time they had a family they had the skills and background to command a decent wage.

If you don’t even start thinking about work until you are 25 and have kids you are going to have to compete against those 21 year olds, and they generally don’t have kids to support.

The other thing to note is that for most jobs the mere fact of a BA is not really as important as what it is in. For example I work as a computer programmer, if you and I were both applying for a job my BA in Physics from a Top Tier university will beet you a BA in Talmud from a yeshiva.

In most cases for a given job a company will get a lot of resumes, they will sort threw and call in the 4-6 best people for interviews and hire one of them. If you don’t have the skills someone in that pile does.

I realize this is not what most of you want to hear, but that does not make it any less true.

All children from Yeshiva should sign up for public school. After the initial shock of having to bring in thousands of new students into the school system, the City iof New York will wake up and agree to pay for the secular education of the yeshiva children , so that they will stay in Yeshiva. THIS IS A REAL SOLUTION!!!!

Ah no, for one thing it would be illegal under NY state law. For another it would not be that big a jump in the total numbers of kids in the NY public school system.

<b>The way to fix the tution crisis is, CONVERT EVERY YESHIVA TO A PUBLIC SCHOOL!!

(in name and theory)

The non frum wouldn’t send there anyway as school ends so late, and has “weird students”.

If done this way, there would be no problem with seperation of Church and State. </b>

Um that won’t work. For one thing public schools have state mandated curriculum, and I think having a single sex public school is illegal.

However the major thing to keep in mind is that having the state pay for secular studies at all Jewish, Catholic and other religious private schools would add quite a bit to the state education budget (or maybe at a local level) which would require more taxes or cuts somewhere else to pay for it, I can’t imagine that being popular.

A solution needs to be found to the Yeshiva tuition issue, but it needs to not involve a large pile of money appearing by magic from the state government or other poorly defined sources*.

* IE We find some random rich guy to pay for it without mentioning who, or how he will be convinced.

Just remember that your cash back comes from somewhere, probably the merchant’s credit card fees. So doing this is probably a bad idea and may be illegal (IANAL)