http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/editorial/96901/op-ed-weprins-jewishness-the-jewish-votes-in-ny-9.html Fri, 24 Jul 2015 22:49:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.9 http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/editorial/96901/op-ed-weprins-jewishness-the-jewish-votes-in-ny-9.html#comment-223828 Tue, 12 Jul 2011 03:32:16 +0000 http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/?p=96901#comment-223828 In New York City only 16% of the population are smokers. And in my own modern Orthodox community, I do not know a single smoker. That is no surprise since it is basically slow suicide and most poskim today hold that it is asur to start smoking and a chiyuv to try to stop.

]]> http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/editorial/96901/op-ed-weprins-jewishness-the-jewish-votes-in-ny-9.html#comment-223826 Tue, 12 Jul 2011 03:28:53 +0000 http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/?p=96901#comment-223826 A23, the Wikipedia article on NY-09 says that the district is only 4% African American.

]]> http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/editorial/96901/op-ed-weprins-jewishness-the-jewish-votes-in-ny-9.html#comment-223594 Fri, 08 Jul 2011 13:21:51 +0000 http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/?p=96901#comment-223594 Doesn’t the black population outnumber the Jews in the 9th?

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