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Homicide is killing of a human. It can be deliberate (in English that is “murder”). It can be accidenta. It can be suicide, or by someone authorized by statute to kill people (soliders killing enemy soldiers in war, exeuctioners working for the government, etc.). Homicide in both Jewish and American law can be justified (e.g. in self-defense or in defnese of another) and therefore lawful.

Abortion in Jewish law is perceived as homicide which may be justifiable homicide. A physician/midwife/surgeon performing an abortion in the rare situation where it is necessary to save the mother’s life, incurs no penalty – similar to how anyone who engages in justifiable homicide incurs no penalty.

The pro-choice advocatges maintain, contrary to all scientific evidence, that the baby from conception until birth is not alive and as an inanimate mass of tissue has no more legal rights than a tumor or an infected appendix or a wart.

BarryLS1: But even in the past (back when JFK was elected for favoring tax cuts, opposing deficit spending, favoring strong national defense, and supporting traditional social institutions regardless of what he did in private), the Democrats were still into populist pandering whereas the Republicans were into principles.

Joseph: Under current law, almost all Jewish immigrants to America would have been illegal. Being in the United States without a “green card” was the norm – there was no “line” to get immigration status. You arrived, wern’t diseased (TB was a big issue back then), or a know criminal, and could sujpport yourself through honest work – you were welcomed. A lot of people complained that American was being overrun by undesirables – but except for the Indians (who were ripped off by illegal aliens), the “huddled masses” (a Yid wrote that) are what built up America. Indeed, the US’s relative economic strength is due to immigration (countries like Japan keep out foreigners, and they’ve been in a deep depression for over 20 years) – especially since the good “old stock” don’t like to have children. America’s strength is from immigration. The reason American is full of Jews, with more freedom than anywhere in the world (just try being hareidi in Europe or Israel if you want to see the comparison), is based on policies reflecting the pro-immigration, pro-diversity bias of the American people.

1, He certainly acted like the “star” – after all, he’s better known as a television celebrity as anything else. “Star” doesn’t mean “winner” – in fact he was the “bad guy” in his TV series.

2. If he turns out not to be as conservative as first believed, his third party threat is more credible in terms of winning, but less of a threat for the Republicans. The reason is that instead of being a “extremist” appealing to “true believers” (cf. Pat Buchanan and Ralph Nader in 2000), he would be a moderate running against the “extremists” of the “Tea Party” and the “Occupy Wall Street.”

3. While he is very anti-PC and racist, most of hie other views are not so radical, and he’s been a big advocate of corporate welfare in the past, and a frequent support of liberal Democrats.

Parents decide most things for kids -what school, what clothes (up to a point), what they eat. If you don’t like it, perhaps you want to convert to being a reptile since baby reptiles usually are allowed to fend for themselves without parental involvement (which is probably why most baby reptiles don’t make it to adulthood). Most reptiles can care for themselves at birth – mammals and birds are dependent on their parents (particularly the mother).

In America, they even decide if the kid will be born. If parents don’t care, that’s a problem. I seriously doubt this is an issue in our community, and parents make very deliberate choices as to what school their children will go to.

“Rules” implies halacha. This is a matter of “social rules”, i.e., etiquette.

A matanah to tsadakah means very little since one can stick a few coins in a pushka.

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I didn’t make this up myself. I claim no rights in the above. It has nothing to do with zionist/hareidi or Democrats/Republican.

But if you do read history, and realize that until recently most people lacked some luxuries as central heat in the winter, air conditioning in the summer, refrigeration for food, food not produced locally, vaccines, antibiotics, surgery, cars and trains, electronic communications, and a government that lets Jews be frum and not to have to worry if each day will be your last, etc. – it is very easy to realize you are well off.

If the parent gives a kid a horrible name (the boy named “Sue” comes to mind), and he changes the name when he is older, he’ll need both names on the “get”. The parents presumably used the name until the kid was old enough to object, and that’s probably a good many years.

In practice literacy tests were and are (where they are allowed) targetted against undesirabled. To many Americans, especially the secular Jews who have great influence, we frum Jews are especially undesirable.

Better to have the current rule – everyone gets to vote (except convicted criminals and children).

pcoz: MUDs and Telnet are all internet applications. As is voice mail and telephonic communications.

to several people: If you buy a computer and choose not to have a wi-fi card included, and you do not plug anything into the ethernet port, you can not access the internet. At some point someone (perhaps the vendor who sold you the computer) had to take explicit stepts to get internet access.

Read about life in the not too distant past. No refrigeration for food, no air conditioning except in winter, no heating except in summer, no anesthethics (if they couldn’t operate after giving you some shots of whiskey and holding you down, they didn’t operate and you probably died), no antibiotics (strep was life threatening), for Jews getting killed in a pogrom was often a problem.

Now whine.

The lion was NOT hefker – he was owned. He was property, and not that of the hunter. He had a permit to kill a wild lion, not a privately owned one. Unless he was drunk, he should have noticed the lion was not acting like a wild savage beast but like a tamed domesticted one that was used as a tourist attraction (normal wild lions go to great lengths to avoid humans – which is why the goyim consider it a test of skill to catch one).

If an American had gone to Zimbabwe, or anywhere else for that matter, and shot some person for sport he would have been confronted by much than outrage. In the US, had he show someones pet or livestock for “sport” he would have caused outrage, and would have been sued and perhaps arrested.

He goes to a foreign country as a tourist. Breaks the laws. Destroys a local tourist attraction (a tame lion that was used to attract tourists in a country in which tourism is a big industry). Claims it was a “sport” to kill what was basically a pet (as sporting as if he bought a domesticated cow in order to shoot it with his bow and arrow). And apparently he already has a conviction in the United States for doing the same thing.

If you totally want to avoid undressed women during the summer months in most western countries, spend the entire summer in the mountains (to be really safe, consider camping in a remote area). Avoid needing to shop, Certainly avoid stores, public streets, mass transit, etc.

If you want to hire an undressed goy to work in your house, that is a problem. Of course you can do your own housework, or hire someone with clothes. Air conditioning helps (no one wants to run around in your house in their bikini if its 65 degrees inside). In all fairness, most blue collar workers dress a lot more modestly than beach “swimmers”.

The beaches during the summer are especially problematic since even by the goyim’s standards they run around excessively undressed – which is something many of the goyim also complain about. Avoid going to the beach – which is not a big problem.

1. What happens in Korea doesn’t affect us. It is probably in everyone’s interest to get North Korea put out of business as that will promote regional stabillity (a unified Korea as a balance to China, and no danger of war in that region). The US should follow the South Korea’s lead, as they have the most to lose or gain on the matter.

2.Islamic State is a serious threat to Israel in the short run, and the US in the long run. However opposing them means allying with the other enemies of Islamic State, including and especially Iran. If the goal is long term American and Israeli survival, and alliance of Israel, the Iranians, the Turks and the Sunni Arabs is in our interest – but the US doesn’t understand the region and the Israelis prefer to go it alone against all comers (unwise, but it does reflect their zionist background).

3. From a Jewish perspective, we have no “horse” in the race. Ukraine is just as friendly/hostile to us as the Russians. The US however needs to opposed Russian expansionism and to protect pro-western countries in Eastern Europe (which are still effectively Judenrein, though the locals seem to have realized they miss us).

Especially in America, we have become an affluent community, and there are a lot of merchants trying to sell us goods and service, and who value our patronage enough to make a serious effort to advertise their products to us. It is a sign of prosperity.

In the good old days, we weren’t a market worth competing for.

In democracies, protests help as well.

It is hard to know what to pray for (Iran to have a devastating earthquake that destroys its nuclear facilities, Iran to get into a hot war with the Americans so the US destroys it, Iran to be so scared of Islamic State that they (along with the Arab states) decide to make peace with Israel so they can concentrate on Islamic State, etc.).

What’s wrong with cats? Would you rather have rodents? You really side with the rats and mice over the cats?

Remember that in America, you need over 50% of the votes to win – and America doesn’t consists of 50% nativist conservatives supporting corporate welfare. To win Trump, or anyone, of either party, has to appeal to his entire base and the independents and try to get some support from the other party — and insulting people doesn’t help.

While he has alienated a great many people since announcing he was running, he shouldn’t be totally ignored since:

1. He is the only one appealing to the “red meat” (secular right) Republicans (even though he has alienated the Tea Party and the Religious Right and the Country Clubbers)

2. He is in many ways more of a media celebrity who personna is a tough bully, but as a good actor, he may adjust to a new role, in this case, acting like a politiican. For example, without contradicting himself, he could come out for liberal immigration of law abiding Hispanics as long as they stay out of jail and don’t become a public charge. It depends who writes his lines. Good actors are very adaptable, and he is the only candidate with professional acting experience.

“Why is it so hard to find employment these days?”

1. People with job credentials that are in demand would disagree with you. In those areas, employers complain how hard it is to find qualified workers.

2. At the bottom of market place (for those with minimal job skills), the minimum wage and required employee benefits price many people out of the market (in other words, if you can’t produce $10/hour of extra profit for the company, they save money by not hiring you).

3.Everyone has trouble getting a “first” job unless they have solid training and credentials (okay, everyone whose family doesn’t own a company). Working part time, or as a sub, or as an unpaid intern, etc., are ways of starting off a resume and convincing empolyers you are capable of being an employee.

4. Why don’t you mention what sort of job you are looking for, where, and what your credentials are? The fact you mentioned that you were relying on connections suggest you may have a problem.

They raised the pay for nursing, and suggenly it attract more males.

They increase the job flexibility for many professions, and it attracts more females.

Companies that seek out women for coding jobs do so since they feel that’s an area where they can find employees. If a male feels he has been discriminated against, he can file a complaint. Given that most people in the industry are male, it might be hard for such a complaint to be taken seriously. As computer and engineering jobs are largely male, a company needing to find employees looks for new reservoirs of potential talent on the assumption that any males interested in the job have already applied.

There are some jobs that are inherently female, such as “wet nurses” (largley obsolete since most mothers will bottle feed if they can’t nurse a baby). Most of the rest are determined by economic factors and social factors. Even among goyim, many women greatly value job flexibility in order to also work as mothers (among frum workers, everyone values flexibility in order to keep Shabbos without getting fired).

Note that within the Jewish community, the outside rules don’t apply. There is a big demand for male nurses since many frum men don’t like strange women touching their bodies. Similarly, there a demand for female doctors by many frum women who don’t want men touching them. Also note that teaching is considered a respected, honored, and sought out profession by frum men, where among the goyim it is regarded as what you do for a living if you lack the skills for anything more productive.

But what if you are using Hexadecimal?

(actually, all of your examples would stay unchanged, but if you change the basic assumptions, what constitutes equality and inequality changes).

If a product comes out in versions with and without a hecksher, one should be wary of buying the ones without a hecksher. The cost of assuring a production is kosher is fixed, so if the whole output is kosher, why don’t they say so. If only some are kosher, we should assume they did a special “kosher run” and changed something (e.g. using a kosher red dye rather than carmine made from crushed insects).

If cough drops are a food, their halachic status is different than if they are a medicine. For example, one rabbinate says the “Hall’s” is kosher only for sick people – suggesting it meets the standard for a medicine, but not for a food. At least in the northeastern United States, there are plenty of similar products available with a reputable hecksher – so why buy something without a hecksher and risk eating mamash bugs?

If you were better read in history, both the the Jews and the goyim, you would realize that in the world is a lot less amoral, less wicked, less perverse, than it ever was before. Not to mention that the standards of living even of the poorest are well above what they were in the past. You should stop worrying yourself into a frenzy. Be happy. Do Mitsvos.

P.S. You seem to believe that learning Torah is done by Yidden because HaShem ordered to, even though we hate it. We like learning.It’s fun. Why do you think people look for heterim to learn during the times it is prohibited, or debate whether one can learn in shul during davening. Try it some time.