zahavasdad

I don’t know why you think descendants should be liable for the misdeeds of their parents/grandparents. I think that’s very wrong.

I guess you can use that argument about Millenial Germans or pretty much any German born after 1945, they bear no responsibility for the crimes of the nazis and shouldnt pay reperations either

DY

I dont think you understand, Yeshivas are usually ‘Family Businesses” and whomever was in charge 30 years ago, its likely in charge today or at the worst their decendents are . So they same people are in charge, even if the Perp is no longer there.

And I am fairly certain you cannot leagally sue the Perp if the crime happend during work hours. The employer is responsible

It definatly is a greater danger that people are more concerned about Yeshivas who committed offenses should be more worried about being sued than the crime they committed

In general money is used to pay for all sorts of damages to someone. If someone is killed, Will $5 million bring them back ? Of course not, but that doesnt mean the person doesnt deserve the money

And sometimes they might need it, Someone sufferent from PTSD from being a victims has medical bills that need to be paid for, the money from the offending yeshiva can help pay for that

Toms River is not the same as others, its next to Lakewood, so Likely at some point the communities will join and you can still have access to the lakewood services

However this would not be the case in more isolated communities and thats why I feel Scranton never really panned out, Even though housing is cheap there its too isolated from other communities to really make a foothold

Most Yeshivas are privately owned (A few are non-profit corporations like YU, run by a board of directors) but that is the minority, Even of the management at the time of the crime is not around, their heirs likely are

So you are in favor of the yeshiva “Getting away with it” in order words because some lawyer will profit

And the yeshivas did cover it up and not only that, many of these victims went OTD. All the averios of these victims squarely belong on the yeshivas for covering up the misdeeds. Sorry I dont want such Zchus from that Torah. its a Mitzvah Goreres Averiah

Im just trying to figure out how a week of Prizus in the promised land of Florida turned into a discussion of Abortion

The “Hechsher” on clothing is one of more insane ideas yet, The frum stores will be forced to pay for this “hechsher” and raise the prices and many will just go to stores like Macy’s or other larger department stores. You really think frum people will stop shopping at stores like Macy’s or Cough Cough Wal-Mart?

I saw a Story of Berel Wein. Berel Like to Jog and one morning he was jogging wearing Jogging clothes and he saw Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach. he was embarassed because of the way he looked and Rav Sholmo Zalman said to him NU your health is important too

The BJP in India which is the Hindu party is actually good friends with Israel

Yeshivos shouldn’t be promoting nivul birshus haTorah. It’s a crying shame that our society has deteriorated to the extent that this yeshiva (and at least one other that I know of) feels it can only successfully raise funds by appealing to the nefesh habehamis, but they need to resist the urge and not give their haskama to the rampant pursuit of extreme gashmius which has pervaded increasingly growing parts of frum society.

There are many yeshivos vying to the same dollar, in order to get your, you need to stick out a bit, especially if you want to attract people who do not know your yeshiva

Would Rag Chaim Kanievsky go on a cruise? There’s the answer.

Would Rav Chaim Fly outside of Eretz Yisroel?

While I never heard of this newspaper, just put a sign on your front door saying NO NEWSPAPERS, OR FLYERS

It then makes it against the law for anyone to put a newspaper or flyer on your property, I think its a $100 fine per infraction (This is a NYC law)

If the democratic house impeaches Trump , he is still President, The case then goes to the GOP led Senate where 2/3 of the Senators must vote to remove him from office. It has never been done, Only Andrew Johnson came close, He missed being removed from office by 1 vote.

Bill Clinton was impeached, but the Senate never had any votes to remove him from office

Felder is powerless now, because he caucused with the GOP and the GOP lost the NYC Senate (and Many Democrats were angry with him for doing so) they are going to punish him come January

The Blaine amendment is over 125 years old, its been challenged and held up. It was actually passed because of nothing to do with jews. it was passed as anti-catholism and anti-Irish to prevent money from going to catholic schools

Sabotaging the Public school system by registering kids and not sending them, will for sure bring down people against you, even those sympathetic to your cause

An even bigger miracle is the Oil from the Wok will last for 8 days

Rav Shmuel Kaminetsly has said vaccinations are a scam in 2014 and in the alst few weeks his rebitzen has re-interated those comments

Personally I like Greek Yougurt on my Latkes

Is there anything better than that?

From the Weekly Standard

Anti-Vaxxers Are Hurting Religious Freedom Now

A hundred years ago, the Spanish flu killed an estimated 20 million to 50 million people. Consider that World War I, which immediately preceded the pandemic, had just taken a toll of another 16 million lives. But aside from some supportive therapy of rest and hydration, there was scant little to do to treat and stem the tide of this rapidly spreading infection.

Today, with a simple jab of a needle, we have the ability to possibly prevent the flu. Historically speaking, that’s a phenomenal achievement. True, the vaccine isn’t 100 percent effective. Sometimes it is not even not even 50 percent effective. But imagine what a parent in 1919 would have given to be able to give their child even an additional 10 percent chance of survival.

The vaccine revolution is one of our greatest scientific and medical achievements. We are now able to prevent death and diseases that plagued humanity for centuries without mercy. And yet today, we are witnessing our society become victims of our success. With so many of these diseases virtually—but not completely—eradicated, a small minority seems to think that vaccines harm more than they help.

Let’s be clear: The anti-vaxxer view is complete nonsense. Hundreds of studies from all over the world have established the safety profile of vaccines. There is absolutely no link to autism, despite how many times this myth is repeated. Vaccines don’t stunt growth or cause food allergies. Every professional medical association on the planet testifies to their safety and advocates for their usage. And now in addition to the health risks created by anti-vaxxers, they’re creating a public policy risk, too.

Many vaccines are most effective when administered early in life and it’s one of the reasons school districts require them as a condition of admission.

Anti-vaxxers want out of these requirements, but they are hard to come by. Exemptions exist for children who, for valid medical reasons, can’t be vaccinated. But “I read bad stuff on the internet” isn’t a valid medical reason. And so some anti-vaxxers are now trying to shield themselves behind “religious exemptions” to vaccinations.

The idea behind religious exemptions is that while we as a society advocate, encourage, and support vaccination, we value individual liberty even more. Practically speaking, it means that if your particular religion opposes vaccination—meaning that getting a vaccine would violate the tenets of your faith—then society will not force them upon you, and still allow your children to enter the public schools. The (entirely sensible) reason for the religious exception is that religious freedom occupies a special place in American law and political philosophy. It is right that it should exist.

The problem is that this “religious exemption” waiver is being used as a catch-all excuse for people whose objections to vaccination are based on medical illiteracy, not religious conviction.

Obtaining a religious exemption can be easier than you might expect. In many places, parents simply declare in front of the board of education (or health) that immunization requirements violate their religious sensibilities. As public institutions, these boards cannot, do not, and should not make any determination as to the religious content of the parents’ declaration. They therefore grant the exemption to nearly anybody who asks for one.

At least that’s how it is in the public schools. It’s different for parochial and religious schools.

When parents submit a “religious exemption” they are stating that their religion prohibits vaccinations and it’s precisely on religious tolerance grounds that the exemption was granted. So for example, you get Jewish parents enrolling their kids in a yeshivah together with their “religious exemption.”

The problem is that Judaism doesn’t actually oppose vaccinations. But unlike public institutions, yeshivas, Catholic schools, and madrassas, are free to—and should—define the terms and boundaries of the religious instruction they provide.

Modern day Jewish law is complicated. Unlike Catholicism, there is no centralized body determining normative practice. Instead, there is a generally accepted hierarchy of rabbinic decisors, but ultimately, each rabbi is left to navigate these challenges in forging a path forward while embracing and being subject to a rich rabbinic tradition. But even within all of that diversity, the vast overwhelming consensus of rabbinic opinion is that Jewish religious law not only permits, but actually demands and requires vaccinations. And while a fringe minority opinion argues that vaccinations aren’t a religious obligation, there is absolutely no rabbinic opinion arguing that they are forbidden.

Meaning, that while we can argue about whether or not you have to, nobody says that you aren’t allowed to.

So when a parent submits a “religious exemption” to a Jewish school, they are effectively stating that they aren’t practicing Judaism, but some other flavor of belief that they concocted on their own.

This isn’t a particularly Jewish problem. It’s happening in Catholic schools, too. (There are virtually no organized religions that prohibit vaccinations.)

There is, of course, a problem: The governmental agencies that provide for religious exemptions are not able to, and frankly, shouldn’t be in the business of determining what constitutes an “authentic” religious belief. Religious and parochial schools though, do and should have an opinion about the religion that they are teaching. A yeshivah or Catholic school has a right to define guidelines and parameters of accepted Jewish beliefs and practices necessary for admission.

It’s therefore not only within the yeshivah’s right to reject such a student, it must do so to maintain the integrity of their Tradition, fealty to Jewish law, and responsibility to the rest of the student body.

It’s true, that this is only a band-aid for a small percentage of our country’s schools. It doesn’t address the broader problem nor broach the larger issue of balancing religious tolerance and public health. But it’s a start.

Anti-vaxxers will argue that unvaccinated children don’t immediate risks—but only theoretical, epidemiological risks. But think about it this way: If a child brought a gun to school that was loaded only with blanks, that gun would pose no risk to others. But you can’t let every child bring a gun to school because, eventually, one of them won’t be loaded with blanks. It will have real bullets. And the only way for most of us to distinguish between blanks and actual bullets is after we’ve been hit.

But there’s another risk here, too. By willfully conflating political opinions with religious beliefs, anti-vaxxers who seek religious exemptions are weakening everyone else’s religious freedom protections. This lunacy puts both our civic health and our physical health at risk. And it ought not to be condoned.

If you dont want to take El Al to Israel, there is always Luftsansa, with a change in Oswiecim, I hear there is a nice camp there