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Since it never happend, its unlikely we will ever know the answer
Part of protesting is the PR campaign, You have to convience outsiders that your cause is right.
And that is where these protests have failed. They have failed to convience outsiders that their cause is just and they give sympathy to the other side.
IMO if they want people to be sympathetic to their cause they need to draw the other side into doing things that make them look sympatheic. Calling women Shiksas, calling IDF soliders Nazis is not the way to acheive this
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The lady didnt seem to be all there. I was significally taller than her so Im not sure she could have just put her hand over my head. However my hair is a little bushy so its likely she just touched my hair and not my head anyway
If there are medical issues there is no reason to keep it up, Your #1 issue should be getting well, not worrying about C’Y
CY milk doesnt last as long as Chalav Stam, It expires before the expiration date
There was a letter on the Home page about someone who missed a flight because of the protests.
What is the Halacha if someone protests something and causes others financial Harm who had nothing to do with the issue.
Is a person Chayiv for the extra costs involved in chaging a plane ticket because you missed a flight.. Who is Chayiv for lost wages because you were late because of the protests
There is no written constitution in Israel like there is in the US and there is no right to protest. So any comparision between the Peleg and BLM is irrelevent. Now if Peleg protested in Times Square that would be totally different
A landlord or Home Owner Association has the right to make almost any rules they want even if normally the thing is legal.
When you get into those you sign a lease or contract agreeing to obey those rules
I am not going to discuss if he Halcha allows it or not, However shaming someone like that is not likely to give people a positive feeling towards yiddishkeit and children subject to this punishment might leave.
Some places have rules about temporary structures that are not grounded. Usually this is either a safety or Asthetic issue (Some Home owners associations have asthetic issues, meaning what kind of structures can be built because they dont want “eyesores”)
Safety / Insurance is a real issue as a wind can blow down a succah and someone gets damage or hurt (I know of a case where a succah blew off a roof and damaged a car)
There is social work training if you get Smicha from YU. To get the full chaplency you probably need the smicha AND a MSW
In Singapore they Cane (Whipping with a Bamboo Pole) for litering
A degree in RIETS is not just Halacha, but in social work as well
to be a Chaplin, you need to know more than just halacha, you have to be a social worker as well
And you have to deal with all kinds of jews, not just frum ones and dealing with some of them at a distressed point in their life
I have seen Shayraim with Fruits (Maybe not Apples, might have been grapes or oranges, but defiantly fruit from a fruit platter).
Ubiquin, I have seen tshuvoth about Shayraim (It was about Bread) and how to keep this bread over Pesach), It seems it might be permitted to keep this bread, but Im not 100% sure
I dont think you are supposed to eat Shayraim
So Joseph, lets say a Yid does something wrong that is against the law, but maybe not against the torah,
She he get the lashes
While most Jews are Ashkenzi, a good percentage are not, especially In Israel.
There is no confusion among children speaking more than one language.
A Bocher from the Mir Yeshiva needs to take a bus to Bnei Brak and needs to ask for directions. Hebrew is more useful there than Yiddish
Its called Shayraaim (Or something close to that, I forgot the exact word)
food touched by a Tzadik is considered holy and considered good to keep, there are even Shaalots if one can keep Sharaaim that was chametz over Pesach
There are plenty of houses for sale in Brooklyn, As long as you have a spare million. If you only have about $10,000 or less, you are out of luck
Using a book vs an e-book is more of a generational thing, I personally do not like e-books, but other people feel differently
Someone who has issues with seeing, might like e-books better as you can increase the size of the text
Most likely Rav Miller said this in the 1960’s or 1970’s when white flight was in issue in Brooklyn. In 2001 Brooklyn was already having a renaissance, but he might have seen it
Last I checked Monsey, Kiryat Joel and Lakewood were all Suburbs
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They have kosher Swedish Meatballs at Ikea? If yes which ones?
The other place to look at is Lincoln Square Synangouge in Manhattan. There are some Jews of color there as well.
You really need to go to a place that already have JOC attending
JMO in some communities Yichus, meaning your ancestry is very important and highly admired. You are best avoiding those communities that highly value yichus.
CHabad is one community where yichus is less emphasized and IMO you should look into there. There are quite a number of POC’s in the chabad communitiy
I didnt touch her, I was passive
I cant say for sure, but it was in the parking lot of a frum store and the woman and her daughter looked frum (They were wearing hats)
Since she said she was a survivor, she was likely quite old and didnt have all her senses (It sort of seemed that way to me)
So Joseph what would you have told a 90ish woman who said they were a surivivor that likely didnt have all their senses if they wanted to put their hand on your head to give you a Brocha
You cant always ask your LOR
Yesterday I was in the supermarket parking lot unloading my shopping cart and these 2 women (Probably a mother and daughter) and the older woman asks me if she can have the shopping cart (I was done with it) and I gave it to her.
She then told me she was a holocaust Survivor (She sounded like an old jewish grandmother) and insisted on giving me a brocha. Being that she was a survivor she must have been close to 90 or higher. I mean she really wanted to give me a brocha, Like put her hand on my head and give me a Brocha. The other woman (probably her daughter) was looking horrified.
So I ask the Oilam, What would you do if some 90ish year old woman insisted on putting her hand on your head to give you a brocha. You cant ask your LOR there is no time
Yekke obviously is not a chassid. One of the innovations of Chassidus was the telling of inspirational stories by the Rebbe. This was looked down upon by the others
Nobody can study everything. Listening to a Shiur on Torah Anytime is just as valid as any other learning
Neolog Judaism is not reform, its Neolog. Its somewhere between Conservative and Orthodox, but its really its own thing
I went to the Doheny Synagogue in Budapest (As a tourist, not to daven, I never even heard of Neolog until I went there) which is Neolog and they had a Mechitza and an Organ which I was told was played by a non-Jew on Shabbos .
In the alter Heim jews spoke all sorts of languages, the common thread they had was Yiddish, in fact there is a Psak from The Chasam Sofer that says a Derasha should only be given in Yiddish, which makes lots of sense consider how many languages were likely spoken in Pressburg (Modern Day Bratislava). Its like jews there spoke German, Slovak, Polish, Hungarian, Ukranian and Yiddish. Yiddish was the common Language
Today that is not the case, instead of being a united among jews Yiddish has become a divider as English and Hebrew and the main languages spoke. There are benefits to learning a second language and there are good reasons why Yiddish could be that second language, My objection is not that yiddish is spoke, more that it is forced over English or Hebrew (Or whatever the local language is) Too many people in Brooklyn can speak Yiddish but not english and that is a problem
Joseph is correct
However just because people use the words Shul, Daven, Yamulka, lern , Layin or some other words really doesnt mean very much
Even if you take no direct government funding, they are still taking from the government
What Passport do the Satmars who live in Israel Use? Do they have Hungarian Passports or something else?
Do they walk the streets, do they ever call the police , Do they ever ride the buses. Tax Payer money pays for these things?
What currency do they use? Do Hungarian Forints works in Israel? Or if not, do they use Euro’s or Dollars?
Its the same word, but it sounds a bit different
I think one is Hebrew and one is Yiddish. Some yiddish words and Hebrew words are similar but sounds slightly different
Hebrew – Misphacha
Yiddish – MishpoochaA better question should have been, Is Not guilty by reason of Insanity a valid defense under halacha. There really are insane people (I didnt say this guy, but in general there are)
It evil because its not right to put something delicious looking in front of someone who wont eat it
It would also be evil if you had nice looking food from a Hashsghca the person wont eat from (on purpose)
Chabad likely wont eat Chalav Stam, but I dont think they are opposedto others eating it and will tell people they are Mekarav they can eat OU Ice Cream (They would never tell someone to eat Hebrew National for example)
Sherry Casks are containers that are used to ferment Sherry (A Liquor). Many times the same casks are also used to ferment wine (Non Kosher wine)
The Christian 10 commandments are different than the jewish 10 commandments
the Czars of Russia were some of the biggest Anti-Semites who ever lived, to claim Napoleon was a tyrant compared to the Czar is at minimum a lack of knowledge of history
This is the story of the Lubavicher Rebbe and La Marsaiiles
There was someone from France who went to meet the Rebbe for some reason, I guess he had some importance.
The Rebbe wanted him to feel at home and comfortable so he sang a familiar tune to him (All frenchmen know La Marsaiiles ) and then it became standard for chabad to sing it even though its not a chassidic niggun
Prague is different than Brooklyn Ir HaKodesh where there is at least one shul on every block
Prague was a Kehilla, Brooklyn is not.
There already is a seperate reclycing truck
When you put garbage in a landfill it biodegrades, but you cant use it otherwise, It will just stay there because there are other toxic items there
If you make a special landfill for only biodegradeable items, you can remove the compost and use it and the garbage mound does not get any bigger
Leftover food is turned into compost which is used for fertilizer and methane gas
Trash disposal is a major issue for NYC. The city collections millions of tons of trash and needs a way to dispose of it. It is not cheap to dispose of trash. Just because you put it in the garbage, doesnt mean it doesnt have to be dealt with.
There are no more landfills on Staten Island so the trash must be send to landfills in either Pennsyvlania or Virginia which is not cheap. Its alot cheaper for the city to try to recycle at least some of the trash in various ways , otherwise your taxes will have to go up to pay for it
Shul dues can be from a few hundred dollars to a few thousand.
There is no need to make an annoucement that you left, just pack up and go