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To summarize. when you rely on a hechsher, you are relying on their standards AND their ability to enforce those standards.
The twizzlers went to the mikva before packaging.
There is lots of Ka$h to be made in Ka$hrus.
Is it assur to eat hot dogs?
No. It is not assur to go on a cruise, if you can find one that poses zero halachic problems. When you find it, please share it, i would line to go on one.
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Interesting, not a single chaim berliner would admit that rav ahron is “behind” the paper.
its become fashionable that anyone with an agenda, and a few dollars to pay a printer puts out a paper, a kuntres (call it what you want) hangs flyers or posters to “spread the word”.
Zdad. Your not missing anything.
The only thing it makes on my block, is a mess.
True to form. When nothing else to say, he cries Mesira.
unless you post a guard at your home 24×7, you cant stop anyone from leaving unwanted material at our door when you are not there. send the publisher a letter stating you do not wish to receive the publication and if he persists (its his business to work it out with his delivery company, not yours) file a complaint with 311.
I once heard the chabad shliach from a spanish city say, that the most non observant jew is literally choking on the catholicism that permeates the air, especially this time of year. They will grab at ANYTHING having to do with yiddishkeit to help them them from suffocating from it.
It may be an intimidation tactic, but, it is VERY effective when those tasked with enforcing regulations look the other way, or worse, ignore those who bring the issue to them. Right or wrong, in the big city, everyone tries to gain every inch, bu hook or by crook.
Academic levels aside, would you want your competitor evaluating whether you should remain in business, or not? The fact that it is the local school board that is tasked with evaluations, no matter what standards the state wants, creates an inherent conflict if interest. In many districts across the state the local public school is often competing for the same student (and by default the dollars they must alloxate) as private (often catholic) schools. Think local school board in ramapo, lawrence and ither district’s where There us friction. Imagine the conflict of interest, now that the local board can do away with the competition by simply declaring it not up to standard, and shutting it down.
@haimy. Where is PEARLS and all the other mouthpieces for the chasdidish community.
The experience itself, is best addressed to someone inside Chabad, who is part of this program.
If you are asking general advice on how to pick up a better understanding of a)reading hebrew and b)understanding hebrew, perhaps those in the field of education can offer advice.
Regarding the importance of being able to read and understand “biblical hebrew” as you put it, is critical. For many years I volunteered for a group that billed itself as “anti missionary”, their favorite targets and where they have the most success are the ignorant. not just of judaism in general but even those who simply cant read hebrew. They would set up shop with jewish looking symbols and books, printed in hebrew and make claims about their beliefs and base them on pesukim in tanach. With no ability to refute them or even read the source material in the original, many were duped. my point is NOT that you or your son are targets for missionaries, rather, the inability to read and learn something in its original is a HUGE handicap. You are at the mercy of the translator. Like the saying goes, “something is lost in the translation”.
“THAT’S HIS AGENDA!”
His alliances (google them) make it pretty clear that education is the least of his concerns.
what are the catholic and moslem schools doing about this? the NY state “guidelines” arent directed at yeshivos specifically (even though the intention is 100% directed at yeshivos) but at private schools.
“What are we waiting for?”
“Why isn’t Rabbi Bender from Darchei and Rabbi Shechter from Chaim Berlin and Rabbi Brudny from Mir urging the parent body to sign up for school?”Question 2 answers question 1.
“Yes, I got a much bigger one from the homeopathic remedy company, so I don’t need the other.”
Never mind, the miracle working rebbetzin from yerushalayim conjured up a months supply of fruit for me. give it to someone else.
Could I have your fruit basket?
i’m wondering if this entire discussion is limited to very specific situations. at times hatzalah does not have available resources to transport someone (especially to the hospitasl of their choice) and they bring in one of the private for profit companies to pick up the slack (it happens daily). the for profit company is entitled to make money and if they dont bill the patient, they can bill hatzalah, or, they can write it off as a donation to hatzalah. if they dont, this is an additional expense incurred by hatzalah.
@Syag. I’m not in the habit of assuming what others mean, so, to make sure I understand you. You are either saying, if Hatzalah will bill insurance, giving calle$ $kin in the game, so to speak, then they would only call in a true emergency, something hatzalah would like to see happen and is using this as a subtle way to ensure that happens. In which case you are ok if they implement this change. Or, you are saying, it will have a negtive effect because even in a true emergency, people MAY not call. In which case you are against. Or, I completely misunderstand what you wrote. Please clarify?
“Once they start making money the motivation will change ”
I’m wondering why this is,seen as a for profit endeavor? Perhaps it a way to break even? Perhaps they don’t generate the donation$ we think they do.
I have NO idea either way. I assume Mr. Rowe has an understanding of Queens Hatzalahs operations and finances that none of us have and more importantly, reportedly was given a psak what to do.
I’m not following. In the case of a TRUE emergency, Chas vshalom, someone would refrain from calling for help because of a copay or deductible? I’m trying to picture situation where Chas vshalom, someone’s having a heart attack lo aleinu, and in response to “someone call hatzalah” the person gasps, “no, i didn’t meet my deductible”.
If you need an artificial boost, skip the coffee, drink a 5 hour energy.
“How often does it occur that Hatzalah cannot get any member to respond to a call and instead calls a private ambulance company to take the call?”
Often, I have a family member who works for a private, for profit, ambulance company and he gets dispatched to calls handled by hatzalah daily.
Another question to ask is: How often is a responding member asked “can you drive me to my doctor” (often a trip from brooklyn into manhattan) in a non emergency situation (many times daily in fact) and member cant accommodate the request (nor should they quite frankly, they are emergency 1st responders, not medical transport company).
joseph, if you believe the article on YWN is wrong, the reporter is wrong, mr. rowe is wrong, or is misquoted, why didnt you say so from the moment it was cited?
we can also say, that if rav epstier is mr. rowes rav, and he believes it should not be done, then mr. rowe is following the advice of his rav. he isnt forcing the organization to follow his personal rav.
im sure joseph will tell me that he knows mr. rowe davens elsewhere, and has a diferent rav. in fact, he knows someone else who is really mr. rowe and the one quoted in the article is an imposter.
I guess joseph knows better than the article that quotes mr. rowe as saying rav kalman epstien is the mara d’asra of queens hatlzalah.
Thinking this is a news site, is your 1st and biggest mistake.
They implemented a policy against the explicit ruling of their posek. That is quite troubling for a frum organization. Reason enough, for him to resign.
No valid “argument” presented.
40-50 years ago, there were frum yidden, who shidduchim with frum yidden. Yes, chassidishe tended to marry chassidishe, and non chassidishe tended to marry non chassidishe. if you were a shomrei torah ummitzvos you were a candidate for marriage. Fastforward 40 years, wrong camp, wrong seminary, wrong denier stockings, wrong yeshiva in ey, wrong chabura, wrong type of sheitel, wrong shul, everyone is the wrong “shnit”. of course there is a lack of potential shidduchim.
Move to E’Y.
Someone is still living in the 50s.
They care claiming a religious exemption. Let the clergy of their religion start a school and educate them according to their religion. We are not responsible to educate children who claim a different religion.
I hear you.
Minyan challippin?
Why is anyone trying to use logic with people who are completely closed off to listening to logic.
As it relates to the topic of this thread, chanuka presents and not the bas mitzvah sidebar, read Rabbi Yaackov Solomons little blurb in his “out of the box” piece on page 6 of this weeks FJJ (google flatbush jewish jourmal to read it online).
Sariray, to many immuno compromised, they ARE 1 and the same.
“Seriously, you are comparing not getting a vaccine to my kid going to the store and buying a measles sandwich and feeding it to your immunocompromised child….”
Guess what, that IS what you are doing.
Sariray. Peanuts are also not usually fatal to the average healthy human, yet, as a society of civil people the overwhelming majority of people, those not affected in any way, make accommodations for those who are. in this case, those who do not choose to vaccinate and accomodate all the immuno compromised members of the population who are susceptible to these illnesses, are being asked to refrain from being in proximity to those people, at least for the duration of an outbreak of such a disease. what it boild down to is “I dont want to help protect those members of society by getting vaccinated – for whatever valid reason you believe you have – then at the very least respect their wishes by not endangering them by coming into close proximity to them”.
To the OP:
“Can you understand that we never entered an agreement that I, who oppose vaccines will get vaccinated, to help protect you?”
Lets assume this is a halachic and hashkaficly sound statement: What if I rewrote the sentences as follows:
Can you understand that we never entered an agreement that I, who do not have a child allergic to peanuts will stop sending peanut butter sanwiches with my child to school to help protect your child? What is your response?
“Apushatayid, you said on a gadol hador thread, repeatedly, that there is no such thing as one singular gadol hador. Why are you so adamantly agreeing with someone who is saying exactly that now?”
Actually, I said we should all take the On Ben Peles route and get drunk and sleep through the entire issue.
I encourage everyone to see the igros moshe inside. draw your own conclusion from Rav moshes own words what his opinion is on a bas mitzvah.
shows how warped someones thinking can get when they are hyper focused on a single topic.
anyone wish to chip in a buy joseph a gift certificate for a one night stay at a manger in bethlehem?
Neville, you are free to pick up the copy of lehovin that is dropped off by my house. You can find it I the paper recycling can. Feel free to come by and take it anytime before it is picked up Tuesday morning.
So, in the spirit of on BEN peles lets get drunk and sleep through all conventions and asifas. Anyone recommend a good scotch?