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  • in reply to: The Chumrah Song #1077037
    apushatayid
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    After listening again to both the chumra song and the original aveira song, I have concluded that I dont like either one. I dislike the sequel even more than the original (sequels are usually never as good as the original – yes, I know that technically, one is not a sequel to the other).

    in reply to: Aruch Hashulchan #1061529
    apushatayid
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    Just follow your Rav. I think both the Aruch Hashulchan and Mishna Berura would agree on that.

    in reply to: Can someone explain to me why day camp ends at 12:00 today? #966039
    apushatayid
    Participant

    Isnt this best answered by those who run day camps? why not ask them and let us know what they say.

    in reply to: Why don't the Rabbonim enforce Tznius? #967306
    apushatayid
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    Bottom line. Worry about yourself, not what someone else is or isnt doing. This means, speak act and dress appropriately and keep your eyes focused where they should be. This is true of both men and women.

    in reply to: J-E-T-S JETS JETS JETS!!!!!! #965508
    apushatayid
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    The Goq. I’m not sure when it is that Mr. Foxman came out in defense of Oday Aboushi, but I have a hard time believing Mr. foxman made such a statement after aboushi was a featured speaker at the el Bireh Societies annual get together this past June 28th in Arlington Va. To quote Andy Kaufman of frontpagemag dot com

    Certainly Mr. Foxman agrees with this sentiment. He has gotten all bent out of shape over less inflammatory things.

    in reply to: Do boys really have the upper hand in shidduchim? #966405
    apushatayid
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    Interjection: It is clear you do not have daughters (or sons) in shidduchim.

    in reply to: Do boys really have the upper hand in shidduchim? #966401
    apushatayid
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    If boys didnt have the upper hand, would otherwise rational, intelligent and normal people promise money they dont have to a boy they never met, so that he would consider dating their daughter?

    in reply to: Why don't the Rabbonim enforce Tznius? #967280
    apushatayid
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    “i will guarantee you the number is significantly higher than the percentage of girls walking around dressed not in accordance with the shulchan aruch.”

    Sure, if you factor in the non jews.

    in reply to: Why don't the Rabbonim enforce Tznius? #967276
    apushatayid
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    You are reading way too much into the OP.

    If everyone would get close to a Rav, they will receive all the proper guidance. Of course, it’s easier to sit back and wait for someone else to do it for you and complain when they dont.

    in reply to: Where one can learn Yiddish #966477
    apushatayid
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    Take 4 or 5 roud trips on the monroe bus and you will know enough yiddish to get by.

    in reply to: Why don't the Rabbonim enforce Tznius? #967271
    apushatayid
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    “Can “Rabbonim” set standards, and can they enforce it?”

    This is not relevant. The Mishna says “asay licha Rav”. It is your responsibility to find a Rav and learn from him so he can guide you in life. If you dont do so, he cant be blamed for not taking out full page ads and hanging posters in the street detailing any shortcoming he perceives in you or your neighbors.

    in reply to: George Zimmerman is not innocent #966803
    apushatayid
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    since he is being tried under the laws of the state of florida, he does not have to be innocent, he only needs to be found, not guilty

    in reply to: Is theyeshivaworld.com nothing more than a tabloid in disguise? #964873
    apushatayid
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    those interested in ny politics should read the site city and state ny dot com.

    for an interesting read on dov hikind bashing by ywn do a search on that site using the words hikind gordon yeshiva world

    in reply to: Why don't the Rabbonim enforce Tznius? #967265
    apushatayid
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    “No, it’s not Halacha. It’s a chumra.”

    Whatever it is, it is not a bad suggestion.

    in reply to: Mozzarella cheese doesn't need hashgacha? #964565
    apushatayid
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    “Rav Schachter (along with a sizable chunk of other Rabbonim) holds that gluten content is what makes something Chametz.”

    1)I think this is worded poorly and you really do not mean what this says. If gluten content makes something chometz, then by default all kosher lipesach matza would be gluten free and those with Celiac would have no problems on Pesach. What did you really mean?

    2)Besides Rav Shachter, who are some of the other Rabbonim that belong to this sizeable chunk?

    in reply to: Labeled OU-D but no dairy ingredients. Why then is it OU-D? #1155104
    apushatayid
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    “And what happens if Oreos changes their formula and puts actual dairy into the cookies? How will anybody know about the change?”

    Why is this the OUs problem. They already label the cookies OUD. If you want to try and outsmart them and start klerring about each individual item and its certification, that is your problem, not theirs.

    Listing dairy as an allergen and labeling something ou pareve, or just plain ou are not mutually exclusive. The allergen can potentially be one part in a million, but it is listed as a medical precaution, not a kashrus issue.

    in reply to: Mozzarella cheese doesn't need hashgacha? #964562
    apushatayid
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    “But it doesn’t help with American oats anyway because they’re cross-contaminated with wheat.”

    Which is why I specifically wrote certified gluten free oat flour.

    “apushatayid: R’ Schachter is not Meikil for celiacs. He says by celiacs that Ones Rachmana Patrei.”

    That may be true, but he is not my Rav. Numerous poskim a)maintain that Oats IS in fact one of the 5 types of grain and 2)maintain that is so on a doraisa level and that someone with celiac may use matza made from Certified Gluten Free Oat flour and make the bracha al achilas matza as well as hamotzi all year long whenever eating bread made from oat flour.

    “I just don’t have the industrial knowledge to know what it is in that GF bread that causes it not to be KFP).”

    For starters the hechsherim that certify Katz or Udis are those that follow the ashkenazic minhag not to use kitniyot on pesach and probably do not want to be involved in certifying such products. MANY certified GF products contain rice flour or corn flour, and I am guessing the preparations necessary to make a KFP run (cleaning the equipement, etc) are not cost effective.

    in reply to: Why don't the Rabbonim enforce Tznius? #967256
    apushatayid
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    Why is there an assumption “Rabbonim” are not doing anything to elevate or simply maintain certain levels of tznius in their own communities or shuls? Is it the absence of full page ads in the papers? Leaflets strewn about the tables of the shuls? Posters plastering the walls of the neighborhhod? Is it the absence of local Rabbonim standing with squirt guns filled with bleach? I’m just Apushatayid, and dont know “Rabbonim”, I only know my Rav. In my shul, the Rav does in fact speak to those men whose wives and/or daughters his Rebbetzin feels are not dressed appropriately. This is only after the Rebbetzin herself has spoken to the woman in question and feels the need for her husband, the Rav, to approach the husband/father and get them involved.

    I think this thread is motzi laz on “rabbonim” and should be shut down.

    in reply to: Mozzarella cheese doesn't need hashgacha? #964550
    apushatayid
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    “apushatayid, I have news for you. Your kosher supervision has been in business for a while and everybody who has ever eaten in your home has relied on it.”

    But now, I am going to market it to the public.

    in reply to: Mozzarella cheese doesn't need hashgacha? #964549
    apushatayid
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    Those same shittos are maikel for those who have gluten sensitivity, such as those who have celiac and will get sick from eating any other matza.

    in reply to: Dating Places near the Catskills? #964089
    apushatayid
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    Go to one of the parks, such as Morningside Park in Hurleyville or the park in Mountaindale. Bear Mountain is only an hour away.

    in reply to: Mozzarella cheese doesn't need hashgacha? #964542
    apushatayid
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    “I would just as soon stick with matza.”

    One can always eat certified gluten free oat matzah.

    “No reason why a bread made from tapioca or coconut flour couldn’t be marketed to the public for Pesah.”

    At least two companies already do. Manishewitz and Yehuda both market for Pesach and all Year certified gluten free “matza style squares” whose bracha is shehakol.

    in reply to: The Chumrah Song #1076995
    apushatayid
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    there is a chumra not to sing. will that be part of the song?

    in reply to: Mozzarella cheese doesn't need hashgacha? #964535
    apushatayid
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    “In a word, any food product that is marketed with the hechsher of a rabbi, whether Haredi or Zionist, whether from Eretz Yisrael or from abroad, is kosher.”

    Interesting….

    I hereby announce, that effective immediately, I am hanging out my shingle and offering a new kosher supervision under the name Rabbi Apushatayid. According to the website cited, you should have no problem relying on my supervision, since I am a) a Rabbi (I sent away 17 box tops and received my certification last week), b)Haredi and Zionist (which is surely better than haredi or zionist) and c) I am either from Israel, or abroad (on my letter head I will use one address from E’Y and one from abroad to cover all my bases). You will find my certification on everything from agar to ziti and everything in between. B’Teiavon.

    in reply to: Greatest Frum Jewish Philanthropists #1029934
    apushatayid
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    “Greatest Frum Jewish Philanthropists”….

    ….Are the ones you never heard of.

    apushatayid
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    “At times, I puzzle about R”chaim’s piskei halocho.”

    Just because people claim he said it, doesnt mean he did.

    in reply to: Hazard on the BQE #959947
    apushatayid
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    was it the yaffed billboard?

    apushatayid
    Participant

    dont believe everything you read.

    in reply to: Chasidim button their coats like …. #959873
    apushatayid
    Participant

    Interesting. I always wondered why ladies adopted the practice of buttoning their jackets the way chassidim do.

    in reply to: Famous Personalities who are Jewish #1027131
    apushatayid
    Participant

    yawn

    in reply to: Yaffed Billboard on Prospect Expressway #957891
    apushatayid
    Participant

    “how does it make one less suited for a job such as schlepping boxes?”

    Would you hire someone who had one foot out the door before their first day on the job. Typically, those who are overqualified for a position are always looking for something that fits their skill set. It is not fair to the company to hire someone who is already looking to leave. Of course, if you are the company and you wish to do chessed with your business, that is your right, however, a hiring manager whose first obligation to his employer does not typically have such leeway. From their perspective, over qualified candidates are simply not a good fit.

    in reply to: Who posts too much? #957910
    apushatayid
    Participant

    me

    in reply to: Yaffed Billboard on Prospect Expressway #957885
    apushatayid
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    YAFFED (at least in their literature – I know nothing about them except what I read online at their site) does not appear to be advocating college for anyone.

    in reply to: Boys school like Ohr Naava? #958417
    apushatayid
    Participant

    Try Rabbi Wallersteins cousins at Birchas Shmuel.

    in reply to: Yaffed Billboard on Prospect Expressway #957873
    apushatayid
    Participant

    On the YAFFED website under the “who we are” section, after stating why the organization was started they write:

    “We, therefore, have come together to effect change, to work in concert with community leaders and public officials in order to create an improved and more diverse curriculum in our schools……”

    What “community leaders” are they working in concert with by the placement of this billboard? The communities targeted by the billboard in particular and the groups overall activities in general are led by a Rebbe. How many Rebbes were consulted prior to the creation of this group or the placement of this billboard? How many community leaders are actually working with this group? I see this garnering lots of media attention and very little in the way of anything meaningful and real.

    To their credit though, YAFFED is not hiding behind anonymous billboards and advertisements. They give the names and contact information of those who head up the group.

    in reply to: Driveway issues #957019
    apushatayid
    Participant

    You give some people a hand, they put it into your pocket. that is how the folks across the street are acting.

    in reply to: Kashrus of Dunkin Donuts #1022476
    apushatayid
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    “So how does this affect the kashrus?”

    Fakon (as do many other soy based “meat products”) has a reliable hechsher. It is what is sold in the DD that are under a hechsher.

    in reply to: Shared Driveway #957394
    apushatayid
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    If you have an easement, tell him you wont stop him from building his porch but he has to build it on hinges so that every time you need the area he would have to fold it up.

    in reply to: Using chessed vouchers for shabbos shoes�no. 2 #955988
    apushatayid
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    “What is wrong with payless for shoes?

    Nothing. What is wrong however, is that people are sitting and discussing how someone else should buy payless or second hand shoes from a thrift shop and dont fargin people a nice new pair of shoes. What is more appalling is that the subsidies for the shoes come from the owners of the shoe stores who participate in such programs and people STILL dont fargin others a pair of shoes. It is obvious you prefer the shoe store owner fund food and not shoes, however, it is not your place to tell shoe store owner how to give tzedaka.

    in reply to: An Open Letter from R� Shteinman Shlita Regarding IDF Draft #955886
    apushatayid
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    “I also read the Hebrew, where it says in the fourth paragraph”

    You also read BETWEEN the lines of the original hebrew and it appears that by reading that which is not there, you distorted even the words that appear on the page.

    in reply to: Using chessed vouchers for shabbos shoes�no. 2 #955965
    apushatayid
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    Again, you are confusing the vouchers issues by your store with the “chessed dollars” people are talking about, not one and the same.

    As for the vouchers your store donated to the local organization, obviously this organization feels they distributed the vouchers to those who need it/them. If you dont like how it is used, take it up with the organization that distributes them.

    Let me ask you this question. If these children are wearing $12 payless shoes to school every day, should they wear those on shabbos as well?

    Lastly, the mother who used these vouchers had to get them from a tzadaka, its enough she had to swallow her pride and approach someone for help, now you dont fargin her kids the shoes? For goodness sakes, get a grip.

    in reply to: Using chessed vouchers for shabbos shoes�no. 2 #955961
    apushatayid
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    There are chessed dollars sold by organizations such as yeshivos as a method of fundraising. There are organizations that give vouchers to people to procure the things they need, including food and clothing. In the case of the former, shopkeepers agree to accept these “chesed dollars” in place of the money printed by uncle sam as a means of giving back X percent to the organization who issued these “dollars”. The latter are vouchers distributed by organizations dedicated to helping people who can not otherwise purchase these basic items.

    in reply to: An Open Letter from R� Shteinman Shlita Regarding IDF Draft #955879
    apushatayid
    Participant

    Why are you reading between the lines? Just read the words that appear on the page.

    in reply to: There is NO Shidduch Crisis #955681
    apushatayid
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    “would you commend the fool who started tinkering and yanking

    wires?”

    At least 70 signatories who are smarter than me do not believe they are fools tinkering with and yanking wires. Perhaps 70 others who are smarter than me do, but until at least one of them takes out an ad and signs his name to it, or makes such a statement that I hear, I will refrain from calling anyone a fool.

    in reply to: There is NO Shidduch Crisis #955665
    apushatayid
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    “Perhaps there are hundreds or thousands of guys who have dated 5/10 years and are still single but no one seems to know where they are. Not shadchanim, not dating websites, not Rabbonim, not therapists, not the girls.”

    I heard it suggested, but obviously have no way of knowing and have no idea how to even try to verify this, that the reason we dont see these guys is because they have “left the fold”, at least as the term “fold” is defined by the yeshivish community. A lot of this happens, this suggestion says, in the late high school early post high schools years (which I am calling 17-21 years old), and in fact there ARE less guys available for the average typical BY type girl. I am not a sociologist or ben sociologist, perhaps these types of guys are included under those who therapists might know of, perhaps this suggestion is outrageously wrong, I dont want to speculate it doesnt help anyone. It is abundantly clear though that, at least on a community wide level, NASI is the only group doing anything to try and resolve this problem and for that they should be commended, not condemned.

    in reply to: Shidduch Crisis Solutions #956912
    apushatayid
    Participant

    It is noble and praiseworthy that NASI is promoting what they believe is the answer to this dilemma. If others see the problem differently with a different set of required actions, they can also seek approval of Roshei Yeshiva and Rabbonim and promote their proposals in forums such as YWN, Yated and Hamodia. I dont think they are married to NASI, nor will they discriminate against anyones advertising dollars.

    Instead of attacking NASI, can this thread take a new turn, with those who maintain the NASI course of action is wrong, misguided or even harmful (the opinions seem to run the gamut) offer their own insight into the problem and their own proposed course of action? I notice the title of this thread is called “Shidduch Crisis Solutions”, in the plural. Nobody, not even NASI, claims there is a SOLUTION, rather they propose a solution based on how they see the problem. If you see the problem differently, please share it and if you have a recommended course of action, please also share that. I agree, it is way easier to knock NASI, but is that productive? Does it help anyone?

    in reply to: Bride with 25,000 wedding guests #954386
    apushatayid
    Participant

    Why is everyone interested in what she looks like,the only one who should care is her chassan. Is this the people magazine website?

    in reply to: Shidduch Crisis Solutions #956876
    apushatayid
    Participant

    I didn’t put those words in your mouth.

    “How can it be that a majority of girls don’t get dates?”

    in reply to: Shidduch Crisis Solutions #956868
    apushatayid
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    “How can it be that a majority of girls don’t get dates?”

    Please dont put words in my mouth. I wrote many state they find it very difficult to get a date.

    in reply to: Why do they teach girls to sound like Harrys? #1144980
    apushatayid
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    Huh? Or is it Heh?

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