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Democrats because they hide their Jew-hatred behind their political positions. At least with Hamas you know where you stand. I’d rather deal with Hamas than a duplicitous phony like Barack Obama any day of the week.
I’m 59 years old and I have never been to a hotel for Pesach in my entire life. The closest I have come to going away for Pesach was going to my in laws when I was first married and believe me, that was no treat.
Zaphod is like a totally frood guy, you know?
You know what else is bad for you? Pizza and French Fries. Should the OU or the Vaad take away the hechsherim from every pizza store in Boro Park? Red meat is also bad. So is bread – no more challah? So is sugar – no more Coke?
The point is you have to learn to control yourself. Like you, I ate a lot of Entenmann’s when I was in high school. But now I’m pushing 60 so I have to watch what I eat. No donuts, no pizza, no ice cream, very little challah. Donuts are for children and young people. If you must have, break off a piece and shoin.
Hey UJM – we’re a few weeks past Tisha B’Av and heading into the Yomim Noraim. How about toning down the Sinas Chinum, huh?
My mother was a Holocaust survivor from Czechoslovakia. She was more comfortable with Yiddish than English so my brother and I were raised to speak Yiddish at home. When I was very little, she’d sing songs to me from her childhood in the 1930’s. Almost all of them were very sad – about lost loves, losing one’s home, loneliness, poverty. One song she sang was called “Papirineh Kinderlach Hub Ich” (I Have Paper Children), a mother’s lament that all of her children have grown up and moved away or died, and all she has left are their pictures. It made me cry every time.
The passing of Rav Edelstein ZT’L, while sad, is not a tragedy. He lived to be 100 years old and had a life filled with Torah. Every person dies, even Moshe Rabbeinu. We should be celebrating that we were zoiche to have lived in his time and were able to share in his knowledge.
Men do get breast cancer. Refuah Shelaimah.
The worst airport anywhere. Crowded, inefficient, expensive, rude employees and stormtroopers posing as traffic agents bullying people trying to pick up and drop off at Terminal 4.
My wife and I have discussed making aliyah. It’s on the radar.
I hope and pray that practical nuclear fusion will be perfected in the lifetimes of my children. It would put the Arabs and their oil out of business for good.
When I was in my early 20’s, I wanted to start dating badly but my mother objected, saying in Yiddish “koidem der elterer”, meaning my older brother had to go first. And he waited until he was 30. It wasn’t fair.
29th century?
Never cared for herring.
Next time a Jewish member of the House claims to be supportive of Jews and Israel, remember this vote. Jewish politicians, in the House and Senate, only care about themselves. This is ESPECIALLY true of Hypocrite #1, Chuck Schumer.
What’s a meat board?
Aviary – giving “petch” was child abuse. Don’t kid yourself. You didn’t need to give “petch” to help a boy learn. My sons are now learning in Eretz Yisroel, one in his third year. They attended a Yeshiva where they didn’t give “petch”. BH a lot of fine boys came from that Yeshiva who now are in chinuch without ever having had “petch”.
And I’m not talking about “petch”. I’m talking about sadism. I’m talking about the principal who once hit a kid so hard he knocked him unconscious and an ambulance had to be called. I’m talking about a rebbe who relishes verbally abusing children, calling them “ferd” and “hoont” and putting snow down their backs for laughs.
You say that many Bnei Torah came from that Yeshiva. I personally know three classmates who went off the derech after graduation because of the abuse they received. Does that make it worth the “petch”? And now you’ll tell me these three probably had bad parents or were going off the derech anyway. You’d be flat out wrong. All three were from yeshivish Flatbush families.
Deal with it.
Avira: I was in Mirrer Yeshiva from 1978 to 1982. I’m sure things have changed in 40 years. For example, I’m sure the current principal of the high school doesn’t beat up talmidim anymore, like the one in my day did.
My post was meant to say what it was like when I was there. I have no idea what it’s like there now.
When I was in Mirrer Yeshiva, they went out of their way to keep us from learning to speak Hebrew. They told us that Ivrit was only spoken by the non-religious Jews in Israel and that Ivrit was an impermissible version of Loshon Hakodesh, which was only spoken by the greatest tzaddikim in Tanach. We were expected to know Yiddish (which I did). The Yeshiva refused to provide a Hebrew language course so we could take the Hebrew Regents exam. They even wouldn’t mention Yom Ha’atzmaut.
I had a Shabbos bar mitzvah – a sit down lunch after davening, with a few speeches, some dancing and that was it. No music, no photographers.
I wish I could ask my father anything – he was niftar over 41 years years. Yom Kippur is his birthday.
Marxist:
I grew up in Kew Gardens Hills, lived there until I was 35. I’ve had enough of that place too.
I’ve been living in the 5T for the past 21 years and I’m ready to get out. There is too much development going on, with large buildings planned, and the level of gaiva is ridiculous. Middos are lacking too. I’m not saying Teaneck is better but the 5T, in my mind, is done.
Sounds like a scam.
Zaphod’s just this froody guy, ya know?
UJM: I’m a first generation American-born person. My parents were Holocaust survivors from Eastern Europe who came to the US in the late 1950’s. All of their ancestors lived in Europe. None of them ever owned an African slave. I never have either. Why should I pay reparations?
I’m not a safek manzer because I look EXACTLY like my father. And he was an only child so there’s no chance of hanky panky with a sibling. Plus, I have photographic evidence to show that my nose is the same as every male ancestor in my father’s family since at least 1800.
My mother a”h spoke mostly Yiddish to my brother and myself in the house when we were growing up. It was her first language (she was from Eastern Europe). My father a”h was also Eastern European but he only spoke to us in English. I am very conversant in Yiddish which has come in handy sometimes. Unfortunately all of my Yiddish speaking family members have passed away so I have almost nobody left to speak Yiddish to anymore. 🙁
Looking at the OP, seems to me the elderly men were telling the young man to stop making such a commotion when lighting the candles. They used a colloquial expression.
Best invention: Indoor plumbing. People take it for granted. My mother grew up in a little town in Eastern Europe and she had an outhouse in her backyard. She’d tell me about having to visit the outhouse in the middle of the night in the winter.
Worst invention: Social media. It gives a voice to people who really shouldn’t have one.
My mother was from Czechoslovakia and she called it grfilte kraut.
One word answer: Shidduchim. Or, more precisely, admitting that one has autism or has autism in the family would be a death knell for the possibility of being redt shidduchim. It’s shallow and stupid but that’s how it is.
Mayim Bialik is an actress who has been on several TV series and is currently the host of Jeopardy. She is a baalat tshuva who is an aspiring Orthodox Jew. She is quite public about it.
Reb Eliezer, the same goes for Paul McCartney – his children were born to his now-deceased wife Linda, who was Jewish.
I had a rebbe in high school who once said that five years for him went by faster than one year did for us teenagers. At the time I thought he was exaggerating but now that I’m older than that rebbe was at that time, I understand his sentiment.
Lawyer
You can often find frum Jews in unexpected places during Chol Hamoed Pesach and Succos.
I have an English name and I use it constantly. That’s because when I was a kid, my classmates would tease me endlessly for my Hebrew name.
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Didn’t China save the Mirrer Yeshiva by allowing it to relocate to Shanghai during the Shoah? There is no historical animosity between the Jews and China although it’s true, you never knew.
If your son is 16, how old should the girls be who are going to be redt to him? 14? 13? Can you see your son marrying an 8th grade kid?
When he’s completed his education and has a good job with which he can support a spouse and not be a burden on parents, in-laws, the government or Klal Yisroel.
UJM: I was hoping there would be at least one “Hitchhiker’s” fan here!
I’m 56. Full disclosure. Bar mitzvah in 1978, I leined parshas Tetzaveh. Shoin.
Replying to zen3344: I am prone to sudden painful back spasms if I twist just the wrong way. To be safe, I never do hagba.
How frum is your definition of “frum”, though?