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I paid $50 for “up to 2 hours” near 47th and Madison recently.

If you have a flex spending account for medical expenses you can be reimbursed for travel to and from the appointment including all parking and tolls. Mileage is paid as per the current IRS guidelines (it is not the same rate as a deductible business expense) which I believe is 24 cents a mile.

We can only fix our shortcomings (if any). Perhaps as a community we have to understand that not everything is coming to us, or that every kuntz in the book, while technically legal, must be implemented. Yes, one has every right to sit at a bar and drink a soda for 8 hours (assuming there is no clearly posted limit per customer), but, do we have to if we know it annoys the heck out of the establishment? This does not exonerate illegal behavior, nor should it encourage others to go and sit for hours on end either.

I admit Rashi is not a halacha sefer, but, he doesnt interpret “vhu yimshol bach” the way it is implied here.

I remember reading somewhere that the reason Kenyan (and runners from other sub-saharan countries) do so well in marathons is because the muscles in their feet are more fully developed since growing up they walked around barefoot. Walking barefoot requires that you use all parts of your foot, while walking in shoes, especially those that are not a good fit, do not.

Daven louder.

When I was in yeshiva, there was no reason to hitch. everything we could have possibly wanted or needed was contained in the yeshiva building (dorm and meals) and anything we wanted to purchase was available less than a 5 minute walk (the yeshiva had rules about where we could shop, the local wegmans and cvs were b”h on the approved list). Anything beyond that point was unattainable simply because one had to check out of the building and was always given a strict time frame for how long they could be out and had to check back in.

I personally forbid my children from hitching. You never know who will stop and offer you a ride.

“not when the pricipal sees his school as the “family business”.”

If you feel this way about the school you send your children to, then you are sending your children to the wrong school.

“The yeshivos are eager to take our money, but not our ideas, concern for our needs, or any other input.”

I am a first degree relative of a yeshiva administrator. I can tell you that this is absolutely false. I agree that it is the perception and administrators might be guilty in contributing to the perception, but it is not the reality. Administrators are more than open to constructive criticism (with emphasis on the word constructive) from the parent body. This thread is filled with demands from Yeshivas, the Yeshiva should be open on these days, on these hours, their teachers should be required to do X and be available for Y and they should make their “customers” happy. Does anyone know the Yeshivas side of the equation?

The biggest problem I have with most comments in this thread is the notion that parents are paying customers with the school providing a service. That is absolutely false. The parents and teachers are full partners. Successful partnerships exist when both sides work to the benefit of the partnership, not the individual partners. If the feelings of parents everywhere are as expressed here, then it should be a simple matter to gather 40 or 50 parents per school and get together with the policy makers at all schools to try and work things out. Ask yourself why this hasn’t happened at a single school (that I am aware of) in the tri state area, or anywhere for that matter.

“Our schools are communal Tzedakas”

This is the most inaccurate statement I have read in a very long time.

What has she told your husband about these things? What is HIS take?

Is the kid a social misfit that he is shmoozing with the janitors?

50/50 seems fair. You pay for 50 of your guests and the things that you want to serve them at $120 a plate, and I will pay for 50 of my guests and serve them what I want to at $40 a plate.

We keep them until they turn to vinegar.

Obviously, you have no questions that HKBH can and will raise the dead. Why do you think disintegrated tachrichim will be a problem?

Take the sentence, the chillen ruint the new sofa.

I wonder what the Rebbe would have said had she spoken to him, and what the teacher would have said, had he spoken to her.

“They rarely go to college and even their elementary and high school secular studies programs are very minimal.”

The second part of the statement is probably true, but I have not done a study on the secular studies departments of chassidishe schools to say one way or the other. Regarding the 1st half of the statement, may I suggest you show up at the mens campus of machon liparnassah, for example, and see for yourself just how “rare” it really is. The remedial classes offered there in math and english certainly point to the second half of the statement being true.

This thread has gone from the OP who seems to have invented a quote and a position of the Rosh Yeshiva, with others then declaring that the Rav is espousing the opinion of R’ Nehurai, ergo, anyone who questions the OP is a) challenging the Rosh Yeshivas interpretation of a gemara as well as b) challenging the authority of the Rosh Yeshiva.

“Would you like to subsitute Yiddish for Spanish in that statement?”

They speak yiddish in Mexico?

I liked Clint Eastwoods speech the best. He had nothing to say, and didnt take up more than 10-12 minutes not saying it, unlike some of the other speakers, who said essentially nothing and went on for 20 minutes or more.

whether he should or should not have joined the contest, whether he should or should not have sung whatever songs he did, are not relative to the discussion of whether millions of non jewish viewers were impressed with the way a jewish boy conducted himself.

“The Torah does not punish people based on predictive thinking of how he will act in the future.”

Did you do shnayim mikra, at least until sheini this week, yet?

I see an interesting dichotomy that places many women in a cath-22 situation here. On the one hand, those women who are mochel the support written in the kesuba and instead do whatever is necessary to allow their husbands to stay in the beis medrash and grow in torah, all day, are lauded. On the other hand, when those same women who assume the income responsibility and go out and take a job that doesn not allow them to be home, they are told they should be home with their children, and as seen here, even take flak from some people. Realistically speaking, how many half decent paying jobs exist that allow a woman to support her family AND be home with her children, at least most of the time.

Ideally, Manna would fall from the heavens, allowing the men to be engaged in torah study all day and the women to be involved with their children all day.

Ideally, people would ask their own individual questions based on their own individual circumstances to their own Rav instead of relying on reports of what R’ Shteinman may or may not have said to an individual based on his or her individual circumstances.

“So she too had hair.”

But how long? Perhaps it was nothing more than peach fuzz.

As long as the bachurim are not driving the limo (or any other vehicle), what they drink and how much they drink is the responsibility of their parents and/or rabbeim, not you. I guess if you were the caterer, you might also be concerned that nobody barfs leaving a messy clean up for your staff.