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NFL Players (and All sports players for that matter) are not paid employees, they are independent contractors. Its not Paid time

Gadol, there’s internet access in olam habah?

Of course there is, and if you are in a place without internet access, thats called Gehenom

Its called Steak Tatare. Not for me, but its a famous dish

There is plenty that can be done, however you cannot force people to comply.

You can encourage more walking , You can make better bus service and you can make Bike lanes and encourage people to bike however none of these will work unless people will change their habits

Yiddish is not Pidgin german, it is Yiddish its own language. With a whole history , culture and Literature with it.

The problem none of these are taught and the yiddish spoken is lousy Yiddish and its taught at the expense of English and Hebrew. if AFTER your kids speak , read and write perfect english you want them to learn Yiddish, Gezun Deh heh. And when you do, make sure its GOOD Yiddish and not Yinglish

“Does the practice of speaking Yiddush have value as an anti-assimilation tool?”

If the only way people will be frum is to make them speak a language nobody else understands and not let people speak the language of the country, then there is something wrong with your yiddishkeite

The US State Department ranks language learning difficult levels on a scale from 1 to 3. 1 being easiest for an english speaker to learn and 3 being the Hardest. Germanic Languages (Except German) and Romance Languages are 1 and Asians languages are usualy a 3. German is a 2 they estimate it will take 1000 hours to become fluent in german as opposed to 400 hours to become fluent in French or Spanish. It is not so easy for an english speaker to learn german.

I agree that learning a foreign language is useful and good and yiddish is a secondary language, my issues with it are that is languages are more than just speaking, its reading and writing. There are very few books a frum jew would read in yiddish and the only sefer I know of is the Tsnea Urena . The other good books in yiddish are unlikley to be taught in a chassidic school like Tevye the Milkman (Fiddler on the Roof).

I also strongly disgree with making yiddish primary over english (or Hebrew in Israel) as one must communicate in the local language and people treat you by how well you know the local lanaguge and I dont care what you are told. Most people who come from these places have very poor english skills, not matter what they are told. If you want to make a good english speaker and reader and then teach Yiddish as a secondary language, that is fine

There are 600,000 jews in France and another 100,000 in Quebec and another 50,000 in belgium. gtranted not all speak french, but probably most of them do. There are not as many Chassidic jews (Sephardic frum jews speak Hebrew, not yiddish)

I am not Chabad , never was chabad and never intended to be Chabad. However I think this bashing of the Rebbe is wrong. He is not the moshiach , but he was still a great leader and did many great things and knew how to speak to people and connect with them

Pinchos was allowed to engage in his Zealoty, not because Zimri was involved with Cosbi, but because they did it publically. had they done it in private it would not have been allowed

Most Charedim that I see that arent Old Line Chassidish (Like Satmar or Viznitz types) speak either English or Hebrew among themselves , Im sure some speak Yiddish, Spanish or French (Occasioanlly I see French). It might be these people speak and understand Yiddish, but they dont use it for everyday speaking

Kicking people out is not going to work as many dont care and besides if its the woman who marries a non-jew the children are still jewish, Are we going to write off those Yiddishe Neshamas?

Please tell us Joseph of all the success stories how you got Jewish Men R’L married to Shiksa’s to leave their wives and goyish children for a torah life

Actually from what Ive heard from Kiruv people the biggest problems are people who converted Reform or Conservative. At least with Patrilenal jews you can tell them orthodoxy doesnt hold by that (and its still tough many times) but a reform or conservative convert you cant tell them much

Neville, She is very religious and the whole family is also quite religious. If you saw them you wouldnt even know the backround. You would think they were hemish people

Avi K.

I dont think you are correct about a Cohen marrying a convert. I know such a person . The woman had actually converted Reform and they got married. Later on the woman decided she wanted to become more religious and converted Orthodox. They were not forced to divorce. He is a Passul Cohen and their children are not cohanim. They do not have a Ketubah, but remain married (They are both religous as are their children and grandchildren)

I hope Joseph you will be correcting the Abusers , Tax cheats and other people who commit such averiahs

Houses built in Florida after 1992 were required to have wooden shutters built in and many built before were retro-fitted with the shutters, You can also use plywood instead of the shutters if you dont have them

There was a Hurricane Hanna in 2008

Waze tells you about real time traffic and dangers in the road (Like Potholes and shredded tires). a Garman GPS doesnt do that.

I probably use it more for the traffic help than directions.

As far as GPS’s in Israel (I used a regular GPS not Waze) , it would not take me to the territories, it kept telling me to go back via another way. In fact it had me going from Jerusalem to Masada without crossing the Green Line (As opposed to the direct way via Jericho)

LF

Its a Machlokes, because certainly some people need that power like hospitals and you can be mechalel shabbos for them

LF

The main generators must be on at all times and someone must watch the dashboards and fix any problems immediately , causing a shabbos problem

The portable generators if they shut down, they shut down and use just wait until after shabbos to fix