Jersey Jew

CharlatanHall, if you think Canada is better, you are welcome to LEAVE whenever you wish. As for me, once we get rid of you socialists, the country can ONLY get better.

If he is found guilty of anything, it is a sham!!!

Waterbury like any yeshiva can be good for the kid however they wont take a kid if they see he’s not interested in improving.

If you want to believe your grandfather was a monkey, thats your tough noogies! I will stick to the mayseh with Reb Yaakov Kaminetzky on the plane.

Problem with both of them (and Gourmet Glatt BP) is parking …. or lack thereof!

OTT,

BH BH BH there are still some normal yddin left in Boro Park who WOULD eat from Dunkin Donuts if under a reliable hechsher. BH Rabbi Mehlman qualifies as such an individual. He set it up the best he could for the hassids that want coffee from there but dont forget DD didnt open for the hassids.

To the original poster,

It is common NOT to play the anthem at non sports events. I spoke to many Meadowlands workers etc while there and there wasnt a ki hu zeh mention about it. In fact they were BH BH BH more complementry about the whole event and how everyone was well mannered and behaved.

Dont let your desire for the anthem to get in the way of the wonderful night. If you wanted, you should have looked up to the flag high above the endzone and sung the Star Spangled Banner by yourself.

While I was typing my last comment, I was thinking that most people dont understand the background of this issue so I will copy from Rush’s transcript of Monday (http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/03/05/why_i_apologized_to_sandra_fluke) :

What’s gone on since and what really is going on here is what we all know to be true. Our president, Barack Obama, has a socialist agenda when it comes to health care, when it comes to birth control, when it comes to virtually every aspect of his agenda. In this case, Barack Obama wants the government, his government, making moral decisions about what treatments, prescriptions, pills you pay for through your insurance premiums. He isn’t willing to let you or the market make that decision for yourself.

Now, the hearing that started all of this, I want to go back and put the timeline here in context, start at the very beginning. The hearing that started all of this was called by Darrell Issa, a California Republican, he’s the head of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Issa is on our side. His point in calling this hearing was to get facts into the record that otherwise would not be aired. But his committee is made up of both Republicans and Democrats, and there are rules and procedures that are followed in calling witnesses. What this was all about was the president of the United States acting extra-constitutionally, mandating that Catholic churches and their schools provide contraceptives, abortifacients. He doesn’t have that power constitutionally. He cannot mandate these things.

That was the original purpose of the hearing. He was to get facts into the record that otherwise would not be aired, but his committee is made up of Republicans and Democrats and there are rules and procedures that are followed in calling witnesses. So the Democrats tried to play a game with Darrell Issa and his committee, and he rejected it. What they did was, they requested a witness for his hearing, a man named Barry Lynn to make their points for them. Barry Lynn is a guy that remits the Democrat point of view. They asked for him in advance. Issa’s committee checked him out, invited him, and prepared for his testimony. Issa agreed he has a degree of expertise about the subject matter of the hearing, which was not contraception. That’s what Obama wants to turn this into.

Obama is sorely hurting with women in preelect polls. He wanted to turn this into an issue much as they used to use abortion. So the Democrats played the game. What happened next is instructive, and it’s very important. At literally the last minute the Democrats decided they want Sandra Fluke. What happened next, at the last minute the Democrats decided that Sandra Fluke would be a better witness for them, not because she had any special knowledge or credentials like Barry Lynn has, but because her optics as a woman and a college student, a 30-year-old college student and an activist on Democrat issues, by the way.

They thought all of that would show better than Barry Lynn. Now, this is at 4:30 p.m., 4:30 in the afternoon, the day before the hearing that the Democrats asked Issa to un-invite Barry Lynn, the guy they had asked for originally, and replace him with Sandra Fluke. Darrell Issa said (paraphrased), “Sorry, it’s too late. She hasn’t been vetted. We don’t know who she is. She doesn’t have any real qualifications to appear before this committee. We don’t have the time to prepare for her and ask her questions. So the answer is: ‘No. You cannot have her testify.'” All of this, by the way, is in a very interesting Washington Examiner article from last week, and I’ve linked to it at RushLimbaugh.com so you can read it yourself.

Now, the Democrats and the leftists sensed opportunity over this controversy that they created themselves. They publicly turned the situation they created to their own advantage. They invite Barry Lynn. They disinvite him at the last moment and they want him replaced with Sandra Fluke. “Who is this? We don’t know who she is.” The second panel of witnesses. It was Carolyn Maloney. If you don’t recall last week, Carolyn Maloney, Democrat from New York, started shouting, “Where are the women? Where are the women?” They start saying Republicans hate women; they started attacking Issa and Republicans on the committee, saying, “They don’t want hear from women! They’re misogynist, sexist,” or what have you.

Issa’s committee invited the Democrat choice again, Barry Lynn, and the Democrats on the committee tried to replace him at the very last minute with this sympathetic woman when it was too late for the committee. So again they said no. So the Democrats played their game of lies, and Issa complained. On February 16th, he said, “The Democrats on his committee have appeared,” this is a quote, “outright giddy in attempting to distort the testimony offered and purpose of the hearing.” You bet they did. They wanted to turn this from a committee hearing on Obama and his unconstitutional mandate to the issue of contraception so as to bring back to life page 1-A of the Democrat playbook: Republicans Hate Women.

They wanted to change the whole subject. So how did they do it? Well, the Democrats have their own little subcommittee called the steering committee. This subsets inside the larger oversight and reform committee that Issa chairs. And they wanted their sympathetic witness on the record, Sandra Fluke. So they called her to testify before them, not Issa’s committee. The subcommittee. They staged what was essentially a conference to look like a committee hearing. She gave the testimony that she was going to give to the full committee. It was taped and released and made to look like a committee hearing. And Darrell Issa had been right all along. Her testimony was not that of an expert.

It was just another non-expert person in this case, in Sandra’s case: A 30-year-old, longtime birth control activist who went back to law school after a career of years of championing birth-control issues. In fact, she told stories less about birth control as a social tool (which was, of course, the left’s true agenda) and more about birth control as a medication for treating other conditions, such as pregnancy. To the left, pregnancy is a disease. If you’re listening to me for the first time, you may say, “Well, that’s crazy.” It’s not. They treat pregnancy as a disease for political purposes. All of this, folks, is political.

Sandra Fluke gave vague examples based on unnamed friends who she says couldn’t afford birth control to treat medical conditions they had, since Georgetown University wouldn’t pay for them. Georgetown paid for all of their other medical treatment, but it wouldn’t pay for the birth control pills that these doctors prescribed should they be necessary — or so she says. We still don’t know who any of these friends of hers are, these other women, and we don’t know what happened to them. Her testimony was hearsay, and it was unprovable. And Issa was right not to let her give the testimony, particularly when the Democrats foisted her on the committee at the very last minute for the express purpose of pulling this fast one, this trick.

Now, let’s get a few facts on the record here. Georgetown is a Jesuit University. It’s Jesuits, run by the Jesuits, which are a Catholic order of priests. Their policy on birth control is not exactly a secret. It’s not given to you in a sealed envelope after you sign up. It’s out there for everybody to see. It’s a Catholic university! Everybody that goes to there knows. Miss Fluke stated on occasion she went there specifically to change the policy. If birth control insurance is important to you as an enrolling student, and you find out that Georgetown doesn’t offer it, you might want to attend (or work at) a school that isn’t run by Catholics. I mean, just a thought.

But if you know the place doesn’t offer contraceptives when you sign up, and that is your big political issue, then why are you really there? Actually, they know what they’re doing. They intentionally target schools like Georgetown to advance an agenda of ultimately forcing them to abandon their religious beliefs. All of this is to serve Obama’s agenda. The agenda he worked all summer on. He abandoned it only when America stood up, united, and this said they would not tolerate tearing down religion to increase government’s control over our lives. You did that. You stood up to him. You made him stop. That was a proud moment for all of us.

This is his second attempt at mandating Catholic churches and other organizations (under the cloak of a so-called committee hearing) be forced to provide contraceptives against their moral conscience, dictates, what have you. So Sandra Fluke, a 30-year-old birth control activist gives unverified and inexpert testimony about how Georgetown’s long-standing and public policy has hurt her unnamed friends. And let’s be clear on something else. I haven’t called Georgetown to see if they pay for birth control pills when being used to treat her medical conditions. I have no idea if they do or don’t. If somebody at Georgetown wants to weigh in on that, I’d be interested.

But the point here is that this was an issue that represents a tiny, tiny slice of what the Democrats really want here. They use Sandra Fluke to create a controversy. Sandra Fluke used them to advance her agenda, which is to force a religious institution to abandon their principles in order to meet hers. Now, all of this is what I should have told you last week, ’cause this is what happened. I use satire. I use absurdity to illustrate the absurd. The story at the Cybercast News Service characterized a portion of her testimony as sounding like (based on her own financial figures) she was engaging in sexual activity so often she couldn’t afford it. I focused on that because it was simple trying to persuade people, change people’s minds.

1. I dont see it that way at all. YWN is reporting the news as it comes from other sources. They report and you decide. If you want to believe everything hook, line, and sinker, you should watch CNN or something like that.

I dont see any “chareidi” – I refer to them as Shomrai Torah U’Mitzvos – bashing here at all. As is the case with all blogs, if you dont like what a poster says, please disagree. When do so, please make a solid argument, not that you will change the commenter’s opinion but you may sway someone else to your thought process.

You need to ask your rov or someone who is well versed in halocha as it pertains to microwaves. Someone up there write 3 mins. NO WAY!!

Look these things go in spurts. When I was in high school and Bais Medresh in the 80s almost NO ONE wore white shirts. We wore colored dress shirts. My wonderful nephews looked at a picture of myself and their father in amazement like “OMG we were wearing blue shirts!”

Let him wear what he wants to wear and dont fight his fight. You will be better off and so will he!

dont eat too much of it because it has a major laxative effect!

The mishigasim that come from the “holy” city of lakewood are amazing. Bugs in corn? I looked on a number of ears. THERE WAS NOTHING!

to the original poster….

we wear hats (for davening) because we are supposed to cover our heads with more than just a yarmulka. back in the early 1900s the color available wasnt black so they wore whatever the prevailing color was – usually greyish. as for the dress of a yid, i would rather walk around with clothing on than to walk around looking like the typical goyish’e b’haima who feels the need to expose just about every part of their disgusting body. Think about it, you have probably seen animals in the zoo covered with more!

@ deiyezooger,

I lost my chup some 20 years ago which is why I need the bobby pin! If anyone wants to judge me due to my bobby pin, let them. I am glad they are not the ultimate judge!

Why would you want to use or patronize AVODA ZORA anyway?

You will learn fairly quickly what works for you and what doesnt work. Dont try to be an oyber chuchem to beat the system. If you plan on downing gallons of ice cream, dont do it!

yesterday my wife said to me she has a weird feeling with the p’tira of the 3 gedolim, the same weird feeling she had in the summer of 2001 when we also lost a number of gedolim.

There is a Milwaukee Rebbe… Rabbi Michel Twerski who is also known as the Hornisteiple Rebbe. Interesting to note, that the Steipler Gaon (born to a chasidishe family!)was from the same city!

You want to know why there really arent too many rebbes named for American cities? Well, Chasidisism sprouted in Europe and the rebbes became rebbes of specific cities. If someone like the Satmar Rebbe is from the Satmar dynasty why should he call himself anything other than that name?

@ yossi z,

The Rebbe Reb Moshe had 2 sons, Reb Avrohom and Reb Pinchas Dovid (Reb Pinya). Reb Pinya had a yeshiva in the building on 49th street but ended up moving to Flatbush (J & E29th area) where he relocated his yeshiva and opened a bais medresh.

Back to Boro Park …. Reb Avrohom moved to Beit Shemesh to try and start a k’hilla there while also spending time in BP. His son Reb Yankel opened a Bostoner Bais Medresh in Lawrence and his son Reb Yona stayed in BP under no official title.

Unfortunately the Rebbe’s health is not the greatest so he ended up staying more in EY which left the BP mispalelim without a rebbe or rov. They ended up asking Reb Avrohom if his son Reb Yona (a major talmid chochom!!) could serve as Rov, which he approved and he serves in that capacity currently.

Now it gets dicey…. When the Alta Rebitzen was nifteres about 3 or so years ago, one thing lead to another and the building was sold right out from under the Boro Park k’hilla. B”H they were able to find room in the Novominsk basement (16 ave & 47st) where they are today.

The older mispalelim look at Reb Yona as an extension of his grandfather Reb Moshe ZTL. The way he speaks in learning and interacts with people is quite reminiscent of his Zayda ZTL.

I hope that helped.

Where is RJJ now? Not in Manhattan. Edison NJ is a new invention.

My wife and I were trying to come up with all the characters on the CD. For example you had Yogi & BooBoo. Who were the others?

Hold up an open plain white napkin, wave it around, and ask, “Can anyone tell me what this is?”

Answer: The French Flag!!