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If someone is smart enough and with good enough grades to get into Yale (Or any other Ivy League School) then he does not belong in Queens or Brooklyn College
Also Queens College because its mostly a commuter School, there is less partying going on and more studying .
Queens College has Kosher food at most events, there is a Kosher Cafe and other Kosher food available.
The Professors are also more open to issues relating to jewish holidays like no exams during Sukkoth.
Queens College also accepts some credits from yeshiva in Israel as college credits
I am sure Brooklyn is similar, but since I went to Queens I can vouch for it better
Queens College, Brooklyn College and YU
I eat meat, but you do need to check how the animals are taken care of, it IS inhumane.
Cows are given cow feed that contains cows (Thats how Mad Cows diesase is spread, cows are not canabalistic animals) Chicken Coops are barbaric, the chickens are so couped up they peck at each other.
Veal is an animals that is chained up so it never moves.
Foie-Gras is a goose that is force fed.
Kids feel pressured from classmates and teachers to go to Israel, if all your friends are going and your favorite teacher says to go. You want to go.
But the reality is not all kids are ready. Some are mature to go and others are not.
My personal advice is the following. It IS alot of money and I dont know your financial situtuation
IF you can afford it, take a trip to Israel and see her.
If you CANT afford it, try skyping with Webcam that way you can have an interactive chat with her, Its the next best thing to being there.
Actually I am going to Lakewood for the first time ever for shabbos, but not from Brooklyn
Go to Seminary in Israel is ALOT differnet than going to Seminary in say Cooperstown (Eurphimism for any sleepaway , but somewhat local school)
If someone went to seminary in Cooperstown and felt homesick, they could come home for Shabbos, You cannot come home for shabbos in Israel.
Sometimes its better to slowly walk into the water rather than jump
This is not about sons or daughters
Not everyone at age 18 is ready to go on their own to a foreign country with possible strangers.
I was strongly encouraged to go to Israel for a year and I refused and frankly it was the best decision I made, I was not ready to leave home yet (I went to College and lived at home, I was not ready for sleep away college either).
Kids should go when they are mature enough to go.
There is one story in particular that was real famous, He was on a low floor and could have espcaped
On a side note I did donate blood over the summer, first time i did that in a long time and I am a member of the Bone Marrow transplant registry.
They thought they had me as a match (Ashkenazic Jews are easier to match) and I had to re-submit my DNA, but I guess I was never a match, but I would donate my Bone Marrow
The Neuteri Karta are not welcome in Borough Park, they tried to stay at the Hotel there, but due to protests they were asked to leave
Who was the man who said in the tower with his friend in the wheelchair and eventually was killed because the friend could not get out?
no
Why have this the day after a 3 day Yom Tov ??
Between Rosh Hashana and Shabbos if you wanted to you could connect with those people who you wanted to (Assuming they lived near you) and if they did not, you would have to call them after Shabbos to re-connect
People go to Shul on Rosh Hashanna and Shabbos, they go visit friends on Shabbos (Or go to the park) etc.
Sorry for your loss
I dont think I could donate my Kidney or most of my liver though. Not for any Halacha reason, I just could not do it
If its October 2, Thats the Sunday after a 3 Day Yom Tov (2 Days Rosh Hashana and Shabbos).
I saw a whole bunch of charadim in Pensilvania who went without electronic devices for even days at a time……oh, wait…
Actually they use Cell phones
The Satmar Rebbe Escaped from the Nazis and the NK’s went to a Holocaust Denial conference in Iran.
Whatever Satmar’s opinon of them was before, they was excommumicated after that.
Gardening is becoming more and more taken up by women and likely the majority of garderners are women
I make my income from the internet.
to live in a ghetto where everyone was your version of frum by force (those who disagrred are forcibly removed), but have no interaction with the outside world,
Did Bais Hillel forcibly remove members of Bais Shammai from the community?
Is there any support for DDD, instead of halacha, in the Rishonim? I never saw any.
Rashi talks about in his time jews would sell non-jewish wine as a business
As far as Yerusha, what argument could anyone advance as to why halacha would be set aside? And this machlokes you reference, is it between Rishonim? Achronim? Others?
Didnt Aharon Lie to both people having a fight in order to get them to make up, Here we all know that money is the root of all evil and frankly unless the money is split even steven in many cases the siblings may never talk to each other again
With the large US Debt people want to cut entitlement spending
Dont expect the largess by the US government to last much longer and unlike Israel which has some socialist backbone, the US has none
The Higher the price of Gold, the more of it there is
Your grandmother left you a beautiful gold candlesticks, Its been in your family for generations.
When gold is $500 an oz and its worth $2000 you keep it, when Gold is $2000 an oz, its now worth $8000 , Forget about the family airloom, Most people will get it melted down.
Not true, do a google search stealing wifi and see the different articles that come up
Its illegal (Although its hard to enforce)
And the Cable/DSL Companies dont allow it.
So its a case of Dinah D-Malchusa Dina
I was in Bermuda about 10 years ago, it was very nice but expensive
I dont know if you go in the water, bur we did this thing called Helmet diving (We dont know how to Scuba dive), It was cool to see the coral reefs up close.
I flew there though, I dont think a boat is something for me
Annual Frum family income: $21,700
Average Yeshivas Tuition: $38,200
New debt on the credit card: $16,500
Outstanding balance on the credit card: $142,710
Cutting “Non-essentials”: $385
Sounds Like the money I spend on yeshiva Tuition
Holy Roman Empire Is Basically Germany , Austria and Prussia. Most of Prussia is NOT in Germany anymore.
There was a competition who would Germany re-unite under Austria or Prussia and Prussia was the winner and Austria was left out.
Germany was greatly shruken after WWI and WWII and much of prussia became part of Poland and Russia (Many Cities were known by German name now have a different name like Danzig which is now Gdansk Poland ) and Koningsborg which is now Kalingrad Russia
No experience on this level, but I do have experience with MOTHER-IN-LAWS…
Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach once saw an old man dragging a table on Shabbos while a young man stood by and walked next to him.
He asked the young man why he stood there and watched. The young man said My father holds by the Eruv and I do not.
After it happend I did check and there are definatly opinions who said it was permissable.
Also even more opinons said it was permitted to salt the ice as well and some said it was only permitted to salt the ice.
And this was even in places without an Eruv.
Hatzolah does have someone man the board 24/7 even on Shabbos and even if there are no calls coming in. Obviously that person could man the board even if no phone calls
No I didnt need any therapy and I asked the person where I fell to pay my damages and they gladly did (I only asked that that pay co-pays and a few incidentals)
I will admit I can be emotional about stuff and I know people feel differently than I do on stuff here.
I will say I would rather break shabbos and get an averia so that someone does not fall or get hurt. Let hashem decide if I was right or wrong.
The food Chumras that I have I would never ask anyone to follow them (Like I dont eat Dairy Salad Dressing) and if somone served me Dairy Salad dressing either I would quietly not eat it or make sure it was a dairy meal
When you cant walk for a week and limped for a month in pain, it was a big deal and there was more I wont post here that occured because I dont think it would pass the mods
But its all and done with, I am back to the way I was (Although some think I changed my walking)
Maybe you miss the point, there are different levels of Pikuach Nefesh, there is direct Pikuach Nefsh, Someone is having a Heart Attack NOW , there there are people on a Ventalator who would die without it.
Then there is indirect or unintential cause of Pikuach Nefesh. Lets say there is no electricity and one day you need to call EMS and because there is no electricity you cant call EMS, BUT most times you dont need to call, but the one time you need to call, you really need to call and if you couldnt call, someone might die .
This is just food for thought.
Of course Doctors, Nurses , other vital Hospital employees would need to work.
Most people would not fit into these catagories
In Israel its the Charedim who use generators, the more modern use the normal electric grid on Shabbos.
For those who use the Normal Electric Grid there is obviously some good Heter , I havent heard any Posek who ruled those who use the grid are committing Chilul Shabbos
Somebody has to work the grid, otherwise you will have major problems
Actually I always wondered what would happend in an All Charedi society on Shabbos
You cant shut down everything for Shabbos
You Need people to monitor the Electrical Board for the Electric Company (There ARE people who need Electricity to Live like people on ventalators and Hospitals)
You Need people to man the 911 call center (or whatever you have instead)
You need some pharmacies to be open for emergency drug supplies
You need police , fireman and EMS workers on call
etc
Its amazing the amount of Lashon Haron spoken in Elul
I belive Ir Miklat and Ben Sorer o’morer never happend and never will
The machine only fits the udder of a cow, No other animal fits the metal tubs
Smells a bit Fishy to me
Probably because its cheap
Red Snapper is expensive after Fileting its almost $15 a pound
I went fishing last fall for Sea Bass, Those Fish are HUGE , Like 20-30 lbs
Dont care for tilapia
I like Salmon, But Red Snapper and Flounder are good too