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Throw it in the garbage where it belongs
I wont comment if they are charging too much, but people are paying too much. Meaning the Schools have expenses to be paid, but that doesnt mean all parents can pay the money.
If you dont have money for food, you buy cheaper food or buy less food, no such option really exists if you cannot afford yeshiva tutition
Anyone who has ever driven or been in a car can see the crazy drivers. They are bad enough. Now imagine if those crazy drivers were also able to fly an airplane. The damage would be worse
Georgian college change of heart probably has nothing to do with religion and everything to do with Finances.
By not accpeting males they eliminate half to population.
And before you say Yiddishkeit is different, There are many Co-Ed yeshivas and Dayschools who are co-ed because they could not financially survive without being co-ed
Avram
There was a Tornado that hit a few Jewish areas in NYC a few years ago a few days before Yom Kippur. it was a very localized Tornado basically only a few blocks wide, but it did hit NYC
Obama Declares Major Disaster for NY After September Tornadoes
I really cant figure out how to add a thread either
LU
AFAIK you have said you are Charedi in Israel and many charedim in Israel stay off the internet. I woulnt expect them to know about alot of the things on the internet.
Even by some of the responses here one would think the only blog was a “Failed” blog. I can assure you that was not the only blog and most people who read blogs never heard of it. (It did have a following no doubt , but there were plenty of others on various topics unlrealted to Judaism or religion that had a much bigger following)
Blogs died because the bloggers just moved to Facebook
A few years ago there was a Hurricane either on Yom Kippur or right after Yom Kippur.
The Rabbi in a shul there where someone I know went, davened faster that day and sent everyone home at 4 or 5 and skipped Neilah
In general Single gender colleges and universities cannot survive. They do not get enough applicants. There were historically female colleges and most of them had to allow men to attend otherwise they couldnt survive
For 2000 years jews did not control their own destiny and so exactly how to run a county according to the torah was not thought about
Now that it has become a reality in the more charedi societies it still isnt really studied (There are some Dati-Leumi places that do study this topic and try to come up with solutions) even such simplet things as Shabbos is alot more complicated on a modern county than it is in a place like Kiryat Joel where jews do not really control anything (Like the Utiltiies , Water, Fire, etc) and to quote the Bostoner Rebbe. He was glad he was not in control of the government. he wouldnt know what to do about such things like the Airport (You cant shut down an airport for 25 hours, even if you dont scheduale flights) Flights get delayed in home country and are late and land after shabbos begins and foreign airlines could care less about shabbos
There are certain relationships that have confidentiality
If you tell your lawyer you committed the crime , that cannot be used as evidence against you either (He doesnt have to be your lawyer)
Some people here dont seem to understand that confession is part of the catholic religion and the law recognizes that. Just like there are certain tenents of judaism that are indicitive of judaism and the law recognizes that too (IE not working on shabbos)
Its is Priest , not a minister . A Priest is for catholics and minister for Protestants. Confession is part of Catholism , not most (if not all Protestanism) Its specifically for catholics who confess to the Priest, Its inadmissible as evidence. The Priest can go to the Police to report the body, but if he turns in the confessee the police cannot arrest him on this basis and the prosecutor cannot use this as evidence of guilt
YU is officially according to New York State non-sectarian in order to get government money
I suspect Touro is the same. Most if not all catholic colleges like Syracuse or St Johns are also non-sectarian
There was a case when someone went to a priest and confessed to a crime, the priest went to the police and the courts ruled it was inadmissible evidence
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Im not sure if OP asked this question in a vaccuum , or if they were referring to a real case. Since there was a real case in New York that directly answers the question it needs to be used
google Judith kaye. She was the Chief Justice of the New York Supreme Court. She died in 2016 so there were alot of obituaries about her
it went to the Chief Justice Judith Kaye.
you can google it
I am fairly certain WTP knows the case. its quite famous. The Chief Justice of NY admonished the Rabbi for his conduct from the bench, but said she was powerless as confidentiality was not part of jewish law
CTLawyer
there was a famous case in NY where a woman told her rabbi some confidential information, The Rabbi went to the husbands divorce lawyer with the information (She was breaking a Halacha)
The woman then sued the Rabbi for Clerical misconduct and the case went to the New York State Supreme court and the chief Justice ruled that the Rabbi was wrong, however he didnt break any laws in NY and therefore the woman could not win the case
Confidentiaty does not apply between a Rabbi and a congregant, Only between a priest and a confessioner.
Confession to a Priest is long considered part of the catholic relgion. it is not part of Judaism.
So if someone confesses to a Priest that he killed someone and the body is buried ___. The Priest cannot go to the police and its not considered admissable evidence, Even if they find the body.
However if someone does the same to a Rabbi. he CAN go to the police and it is admissable evidence
Most jews who were killed in the holocaust were NOT religious, that is a myth.
It is true jews who lived in the Shtels were religous, however many jews had moved to the bigger cities like Warsaw where religous jews were the minority.
There were TREIF restaurants in the Warsaw Ghetto
Yiddish, in my opinion has some Kedusha, because of the fact that so many Gedolei Yisrael and Talmidei Chachamim used it to discuss fantasic chiddushei Torah
There is probably today more Chidushei Torah in English , than there is in Yiddish, certainly more seforim today are written in english than yiddish
OP cut and paste his post from the Neuteri Karta website
Like it or not, this was the day chosen and has been accepted. Asseret B’Tvet has not been accepted by the ganzer Velt for whatever reason. Trying to debate the day only makes you look like you are disrepecting the Shoah (Even if that is not their intention). Its during Sefeira anyway when you can mourn.
However, this so-called “uprising” was against the Torah, as explained at length by the Gaon Rav Miller. (Look it up.) >
Rav Menachem Ziemba who was in the Ghetto during the uprising, gave his blessing. He was in the Ghetto during the uprising
Joseph
The Shoah was known to Jewish leaders in Hungary in 1944, not just kasner. “Others” knew about it as well and did not tell their followers to resist at all costs if the Nazis came into Hungary. In fact some of these leaders threw out those who came to tell them what was happening in Poland
There was a tshuva about a year ago here on YWN where Rav Shteinman said Jews should not leave France for Israel
During Nissan we mourn for the deaths of the students of Rabbi Akiva. Yom Hashoa already occurs during Sefirah
The idea that the Nazis would take money for jews was unfortunatly a false one.
When you give a bribe to someone the person is supposed to do what you want, no matter what the law is. However the Nazis when they took bribes ostensibly to save a jew, they frequently killed the jew anyway or waiting a short time and killed that person. It was not a Bribe, but rather theft. Meaning they were trying to steal money from the jews to pay for the war. Especially in 1944 when the Nazis were almost bankrupt and losing the war. They needed money and supplies to continue to fight. They had no intention of saving Hungarian Jewery, but they had every intention of trying to steal money from the only jews who had any left (American Jewery) to continue the war.
Spain was not a destination for jews in 1939. Spain fought a brutal civil war in the 1930’s and was in ruins. They were in no position to take huge chunks of refugees at that time. Go do some research on the Spanish Civil War before making any claims Spain could take lots of refugees.
I have been down south in the Bible belt and its VERY different than NY
I saw Huge crosses, bible quotes on buildings (I actually saw this in virginia) and everyone was talking about the man alledgedly born on December 25th , sort of the same way frum jews might constantly use Toraisms in everyday sentances.
Those people expect you to go to church every Sunday and were curious why you did not. Never seen anyhing like that before
Rav Scheinberg was asked what one should do if he is davening SE on a plane in such a way that he is blocking something that the flight attendant needs access to, and the Rav recommended that one should point to the siddur that he is holding in his hand and she will chop that he is davening and will wait for him to finish.
I really dont belive a Rav would say this. A person has no idea why the flight attendent needs to see a passenger. It could be a silly thing like the person needs a pillow or a blanket or it could be the passenger is feeling ill (Getting ill on a plane is quite common) and the flight attendent will not know until they get to the passenger who needs them
LU
There is no draft in the US at this time BUT everyone must register for the draft, Originally it was only men, but the law was just extended to women as well
The Happy Meals are meant for children, you cant expect little children to be learning torah instead of playing with toys
I used Badatz meaning Charedi hashsghacha
There likely are more Chassidish than Litvish only because Chassidish get married earlier, they get married 2-3 years earlier than Litvish girls so they can have more kids
East Ramapo School District includes Spring Valley which has according to the census had 31,000 in 2010.
Instead of asking schools in lakewood, you ask the Utility (The public utitities have the best estimates of population numbers since they know about how much electricity is used per person)
According to the census beareau estimates, the population estimates for Kiryat Yoel is 22,000 for 2015, which is 10% growth from 2010.
I think its fair to say you can use similar numbers for everywhere else
meaning
Kiryat Joel 22,000
New Square 7,700
Monsey 19,800
Borough Park 110,00
Lakewood 100,000 (Not everyone in Lakewood is frum)According to the US census
Numbers are from 2010
20,000 in Kiryat Joel
7,000 in New Square
18,000 in Monsey
92,000 in lakewood (Not all are frum jews, estimates are 50-60% are frum jews)
92,000 for Zipcode 11219 which is Borough Park (again not all are frum jews)There is nothing wrong with patronizing a kosher version of a treif restaurant. I used to patronize Subway and nathans, but it seems the buisness model did not work and they failed
As a side note there is a Kosher McDonalds in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I dont know why, but there is one there. The only kosher one outside of Israel.
I always wondered why they never made one in Brooklyn
All languages have nivel peh, Its just the nature of the life and if it doesnt, they will borrow them from another language. Hebrew borrowed them from Arabic.
Aramaic probably has those words too, however Aramaic today is only spoken by assyrian christians in Syria and there were not many of them before. Now with the Syrian civil war those people are probably someplace else .
Greek is holy because the emperor Ptolemy wanted a copy of the torah in Greek for his library in Alexandria. He then asked 70 Rabbanim to translate the torah into greek. He put the 70 Rabbanim in seperate rooms unable to communicate with other. They each made the exact same translation of the torah into Greek including I belive 5 changes. Like during creation, The torah says “Let us make man” they all translated it as “I shall make man” and the Emperor’s wife’s name sounded like the hebrew word for Rabbit and the torah says something not nice about a rabbit, so they changed that as well.
Since all 70 translations came out exactly the same inclduing the changes. It was seen as a miracle (and a bad thing to some as they thought now the non-jews could read the torah) from Hashem, so you can read the Torah in Greek.
Yes the McDonalds in Israel have some sort of Kosher Happy Meals.
The Kosher McDonalds in Israel are sort of geared to american and foreign tourists who want to eat from a something they all know at home, but cannot have.
Most charedim in Israel do not eat there, not because of the Happy Meals, but rather because of the Hashghcha. Most Charedim in Israel eat from a Hashghacha called Badatz, However the McDonalds are under a Hashghcha called the Rabbanut (Which is the municipality Hashghca run by the government under the Chief Rabbi). Charedim generally do not eat Rabbanut Hashghcha (Some might eat Jerusalem Rabbanut, but not Tel Aviv Rabbanut)
Abisther is yiddish for “the one above”
Benjamin Franklin needs to send me some more photos for my wallet
I just saw somewhere else a Non Jew who purchased the Chametz in Williamsburg showed up at someone’s house with a van wanted to take his Chametz that he purchased. he had to be persuaded not to do so