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Yes, but I would not do it because they really have to be available 24/7 for emergencies,
That said, I have been an elected Town Council member, Board of Finance Member and Planning and Zoning Commissioner. I was asked to run for State Senator, but in CT, that is a part-time position requiring full time work and would have taken away from my family and law practiceTrump, who stated this week he is Proud of Putin?
Trump. Putin’s puppet, who owes untold millions to Russian banks
I am thrilled to have voted for Biden, so Trump lost@Always
a quick history lesson
The Interstate Highways….those numbered I-xxx (I-95, I-80, I-678 are examples) was originally known as the National Defense Highway System. It was devised and pushed by President Eisenhower based on his horrific experience trying to move an army convoy from the west coast to the east back in the WWI era.
The width of the roads, how much must be level straightaway, etc., was determined by the needs, of tanks, troop carriers, etc. Originally none could have toll booths which were too narrow for this equipment.
Here in CT, what is now I-95 from Greenwich to Waterford was named the CT Turnpike, paid for by bonds the Turnpike authority issued in 1958 and had tolls til the 80s. The receipts could only be used to pay off the construction bonds. Road paid off, tolls gone. Then the road officially became I-95 and federal funds accepted for maintenance and improvements I-91 and I-84 were actually built with federal money and never had tolls.@screwd….
Why is requiring the Covid Test legal for those who want to enter the USA?let’s start with the easiest:
Read the Preamble to the Constitution and when you get to “promote the General Welfare” it is game, set and match.
We have the federal system for the stated reasons in the preamble and societal health falls into the General welfare.No case citations needed.
Don’t want to take the test, don’t enter the USA, don’t want to wear a mask? Instead of buying cheap seats on Spirit or Jet Blue, try NetJets and charter.
@screw
“how can the feds have jurisdiction before the plane is even in America? The entire commerce–that’s transpiring in a different country–is under their regulation?”The feds have jurisdiction because the carriers must certify they have met regulations and bear the cost to repatriate those denied entry to the port of embarkation at the carrier’s expense. This goes back to ocean travel. That is why visa and passports are checked before boarding and a passenger manifest is made at the departure point to be presented on arrival.
The carrier accepts these regulations if they want permission to operate into the US.@Participant
More years ago than I care to admit, I won a prize in law school for top performance in Aviation Law. I have never practiced that kind of law, but I am an aviation ‘geek’No airline exists in the USA that does not a Federal operating license. All commercial pilots licenses are Federal, not state (like your drivers license). Planes operate under FARs…Federal Aviation Rules
The FAA governs airline activity and has the power to approve, ground, fly, etc.
Thus all airline operations are subject to all Federal regulations, laws, mandates, etc.All determination of entry into the country is Federal, now Customs and Immigration is part of ICE.
One cannot be stopped from traveling from state to state by private conveyance (car, boat, walking, private plane), BUT as soon as one boards a public conveyance licensed to carry passengers to cross state lines, then due to the Interstate Commerce Clause in the Constitution all powers belong to the Federal Government.Now the carrot and the stick moshul.
In the 70s many states lowered the legal drinking age to 18 (NY was already there, but CT and most others were 21). Highway deaths among the young skyrocketed, Congress could not pass a federal minimum drinking age (it was 21 on planes and trains for the control reasons stated above), SO, the Federal Government said to the states if you don’t raise the drinking age to 21, we will cut off all federal highway funds to your state. It worked.Are you wrong? YES
Interstate Commerce is governed by Federal not state law and this includes transportation.
Furthermore, a law cannot be illegal, actions violating a law are illegal. A law may be found to be UNCONSTITUTIONAL and struck down by the courts.$12 an hour is ridiculously low in 2022. Here in CT minimum wage is $14 an hour. If I could trust this cleaning person in my home with my possessions he/she had better be worth and paid far more than minimum wage. We have been paying $25 the past year, and during the worst of the pandemic in 2020 and early 2021 were paying $40.
Tikun Meir
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If YWN wants to do its own reporting fine, but of it subscribes to newswire services, it is not free to change things as you wish.What embarrassment, they are both honors.
Did you pay for the honor of Hagbah that morning? If not, move on.
If it makes you feel better, discuss what happened with the Gabbai, so it doesn’t happen again,
.Lastly, follow the methodology of modern synagogues, spend a few dollars and buy a set of honors cards for the Gabbai to hand out. They list the honor: Cohen, Levi, Slishi, etc., Maftir, Hagbah (or 1 and 2), Gelillah (or 1 and 2). The holder of the honor card comes up to the bima and hands the card to the Gabbai or puts it on the Shulchan. Everyone knows which honor the man is getting.
It is common to hand the cards for honors for a Bar Mitzvah or Wedding family to the father who distributes them to his guests (who may not be known to the Gabbai).Golabki……………….
My eldest BIL’s family calls it Chunt. They hailed from Minsk in the 1880s
@Lostspark
I am not a moderator of the CR@always
Representing CCP types in American Courts??????????????????????????????????How many times do I have to post that I am a family law attorney. I do divorces, wills, trusts, estates, adoptions. I don’t do criminal law, real estate, slips and falls, auto accidents, medical malpractice, etc. In fact 90% of my personal work is for one family and its trusts across five generations.
I take very few new client families at this point of my life, I don’t do any advertising and a prospective client would need a really fine referral to see me. The chance of representing a CCP type in American Courts is virtually nil.
There is not enough room to post why I don’t like Trump (and his spawn). Biden is a better option, but not THE better option.
DO NOT put words in my mouth. I challenge you to show where I supported killing anyone in China. I supported letting countries make their own domestic decisions. I did not state whether or not I agreed with the decision.
You again lie about my post when you say I condemn Kent State. I said don’t get me started, as the Deceased Jeffrey Miller was m cousin. I prefer not to open a wound and discuss the situation.
Tie for you to get a job, or go back to learning and stop trolling. No further replies, you are not worth my time
I am a Zaidy, but still actively practicing my profession. My house may be mortgage free (because I paid it off on schedule over its 20 year term), but I have many mortgages on properties I own. In fact, yesterday I closed on a property and another mortgage. With rates at historic lows and rents at historic highs, it makes sense for me to borrow to finance these new acquisitions.
#1 I don’t have to believe, I watched the news coverage of the massacre live
#2 There were alternatives, but this is what the Chinese government chose to handle the domestoc situation
#3 I support letting countries make domestic decisions without our interference.#4 Don’t get me started on Kent State, the dead Jewish male lying in the street in the iconic photograph was a cousin of mine (not first degree)
@EJMBRO
or should I call you bigot?
Youngest CTL daughter was born and adopted in China. All of our grandchildren are fluent in Mandarin, taken as their foreign language requirement, as it is more useful in their professional lives than French or Spanish.
You have no clue what is going in in China.
Major areas on lockdown to stop spread of Covid. Vaccination and masks are mandatory, period.I’m glad you think VP Harris will be President in the future. I have been a delegate to the National Democratic Convention for decades, and I don’t think she will the party’s nominee. As long as President Biden stays healthy, she will not be President.
Your fear mongering is disguting
Things change over time. I am a baby boomer. When I was in high school, I went o Yeshiva from 7:30 to 12:30 and then the afternoon shift at public high school from 1-5. Then to an Ivy league college and law school.
My daughters and granddaughters went to a Chabad girls high school that has been around 60 years. It prides itself on top notch secular studies half a day and their students being admitted to top colleges and universities. Outside of members of the Principal’s extended family, virtually no girl goes on to only seminary after high school. This school had a boys high school as well in my sons day, it closed before my grandsons time, so they went to high school in Brooklyn, but were listed as being homeschooled in CT, got CT diplomas and admitted to top colleges and law schools. Mrs. CTL and I taught them most of their important secular subjects or engaged specialist tutors.If your child or grandchild is playing the sport, perhaps on a school or camp team, not showing up, watching and shouting encouragement is dumb.
Watching professional sports may be a waste of time.
Taking my grandsons to see minor league or college baseball in the springtime is time well spent in a wholesome environment4 hours is enough for me…………..
11-3 if I conference calls with clients in China
1-5 if not@guteyid
“‘its 100 percent true that vaccines WORK’
Not true. End of conversation.”They work, no one posted that they are 100% effective.
Some vaccines work better than others” banned outdoor church and synogogue services because of covid ”
I call out your lie,
The PARTY has/had no power to ban anything. Bans were put in place by elected state and municipal officials according to emergency powers granted by state legislatures.
Last April, those gathering bans were ordered by CT Governor Lamont (D) and our next door neighbor, MA Governor Baker (R).Get it out of your head that every action by a member of a party means it is the official stance of the party, or even that the party takes such a stance.
Right now in CT, Mandatory mask wearing inside buildings besides schools and Government offices is a decision made by the municipal chief executive. My Town, led by a D does not have a mask mandate, the 4 contiguous towns led by Rs do have mask mandates.
@CoffeeAddict
Have you ever seen me mention CRT?
In my school days it referred to a Cathode Ray Tube…..the picture screen of your television or computer monitorNo, things will get much worse. Kiss your religious freedom goodbye
@Gadol
doesn’t sound like there is a drasha from the shul Rav when there are 11 separate minyanim in 11 separate rooms each with 100 participants@gadolhardorah
Why an assignment for adolescent boys. My comment was in reference to those required to perform x hours of community service by their schools, not adolescent boys in general.As for asking noncompliant sfarim users to daven elsewhere………………….
I come from OOT. People pay membership dues to belong to their shuls, that why I mentioned it being part of what the shammos is paid to do. The OP wrote of a shul large enough to have 1100 men davening in Shabbos in 11 minyanim in separate rooms. This sounds like a large enough institution to have paid employees…..or is it 1100 men who enjoy the heat, lights, furniture sfarim paid for by others?@amom
I discussed both public and day school salaries here in CT in my comments.
My mother spent her 40 year career in the public school system ending up as Asst Superintendent of Schools for Special Education. She retired in 1984. Back then the Jewish Day schools and local yeshivos would not admit that there were Jewish children who needed Special Ed and did not accept them as students.
In 1962 my mother approached the Director of Jewish Education for the Community Council in New Haven (H. Henkin) and offered to teach a Sunday school class for Jewish students with mental retardation (back then the basic diagnosis of special ed students, way before Autism and the spectrum were en vogue). He refused, saying those children should not be out in the community. She approached Yale University and was offered a classroom free of charge. he ran a Sunday program for Jewish students without regard to how religious the family and its practices were. By 1980 the local day schools and after school Hebrew Schools were employing Sped teachers and she stopped the Sunday program. 18 years with no salary, just love.OOT, teachers at day schools and yeshivos get paid far more than in Brooklyn and Lakewood. I remember all the years on the synagogue boards I put in…general rule of thumb: the closer to Brooklyn the lower the dalary you have to offer teachers and Rabbis
That’s part of the job of the Shammos. We pay him to put back sfarim left out by inconsiderate people as well as to go through the shelves in the course of the week and put things in order.
Some day schools are now requiring X hours of community service, just as public schools do. Perfect assignment for adolescent boys to fulfil the requirements.@AbbaS
“so electricity not used is lost.”
It is not lost, it does not disappear in thin air.
The excess electricity we generate goes to our local power company. Unlike your post’s assumption, they don’t buy it at the selling rate. They bank it and a running balance appears on out monthly bill.
So when we use power from the utility in bad weather, at night, etc. we are withdrawing KHW from our savings account.
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Generation by wind farms and hydroelectricity may be a better solution for a utility to produce electricity, but not for an individual. Our town’s zoning would never allow windmills of requisite height in the backyard of a home on a typical 1/2 acre plot. All windfarms and hydroelectric production do is reduce costs for utilities and cut down on fossil fuel waste. I am in favor of Nuclear production, but that’s for a utility not a homeowner.Last year, we were guaranteed 30,000KHW production by the company who installed the solar on the main house in the compound (all our buildings have solar), we produced 47,000KHW. We have enough banked to carry us through a stormy winter. I love when I open the utility bill and it is only for the minimum $11.46, prior to solar this house bill was $650monthly in winter and $1300 in summer.
I am close with all my siblings, but not their spouses. I am closest with my sister who is 5 years older than I am and we speak at least 5 times per week. I was in business with my eldest brother for almost 20 years, we seldom see each other (since Covid) but speak 3-4 times each week. I prefer not to speak to his wife and call him on his business line.
My children and their spouses are close. Most live in the compound or within a block or so. Most work in the CTL law firm. All of their children were ensconced in the compound during school shutdown for Covid and spend their summers in the compound with their first and second cousins.@Romain
My experience with teachers’ salaries in the USA, has been as the son of a public school teacher, the brother of a day school teacher. As an Adjunct professor at both University and Law School
As a member of the Board of Directors who negotiates salaries and makes sure there is enough money to pay those salaries.
Excluding the adjunct professorial work, all the other teachers’ salaries are based on the school year: X dollars for the year, paid biweekly or bimonthly.
Part time specialists are paid by the course taught.I have never come across American teachers paid by the month. In fact in public schools the pay is paid out over 10 months bi monthly (how teachers hate 5 week months and love February) UNLESS the teacher elects to receive less each pay period and receive payments over the summer break. This makes budgeting easier for the teacher.
The average teacher in our local public schools with a teaching license, bachelors and masters degrees and 10 years experience is being paid about $90,000 for a 185 day work year.
A teacher with similar qualifications in our local day school would earn about $50,000, but only teach a half day. Our local day schools don’t hire teachers without 4 year college diplomas.@Romain
$4000 salary???????????????
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You make ZERO sense in you post@yungermanS
Farina is the major ingredient in kishke@AbbaS
NO, here in CT, Counties don’t do a single thing you mentioned. All county government was abolished in 1960. Municipalities assess and collect property taxes.
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Regarding using a charging station. There are quick charge stations at our local shopping mall, you pull up and if one is available, you use it. No reservation son an app, Last night I had to drive to JFK to pick my daughter up from a flight. There are charging stations at the gas stations on the Merritt Parkway, again, no reservations. I waited in the cell phone lot at JFK for my daughter to be ready. I had not been ion that lot in about 9 months. There are now a dozen chargers. 7 were in use and 5 were available to whoever drove up.
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Please don’t use your conception about Government and taxation when replying to a post such as mine. My username is very specific as to the fact I am in CT, just as CT Rebbe, another member of the CR.@AbbaS
There is no state property tax, it is municipal. The tax credit is assigned by the property owner to the company providing/installing the rapid charging station. This is the same system that got us our solar at no cost out of pocket.
Our local mall had had the public charging stations for a year or two. Car owners insert their credit or debit card to pay for a charge.
My solar system produces more than enough to sustain rapid charge, but in most cases we charge overnight at a slower rate@Always
I said it was a proposed zoning reg change in my town. Not statewide. The charging station is free to the property owner. Not land or cost of using it. The charging station is about the size of a parking meter pole and head. At our office they are installing them between two spaces on the dividing line at the concrete tire stop at the front of the space. There are cords for both spaces on one station.
They can be key operated, credit card operated, etc. we are using keys as only family will use them and I will provide the power. The state is paying for the stations through tax credits as it did for solar installations. Each landlord will decide how power is to be paid for.Mrs. CTL and I leased an Electric Jaguar I-Pace to replace her Lincoln whose lease expired recently. When comparing costs it was similar to a new gas powered Lincoln of similar size and equipment/trim.
We have full solar in the CTL compound and sell excess to our local utility so it will cost nothing to charge. The mfg of rapid charge stations who is in the process of installing 4 at the CTL office building will also install a double unit at the compound at no cost.
Right now in CT there are state programs that make the cost of a rapid charge station free to the building owner,
Our town is considering changes to the zoning rules that will require every new commercial building to have as many rapid charge stations as required handicapped parking spaces.
All new residential (1-4 family) construction will be required to have one rapid charging station for each two units. Again, all at no cost to the owner.We realized that we typically don’t drive more than 50 miles in a day, so range is not important to us.
I haven’t lived in a city since 1988. I live in a town in Fairfield County, CT
Only Joseph (of CR members knows which one) as his daughter loved to stay here in the compound with my grandchildren BC…before Covid@Lostspark
It is not a sacrifice, I am giving nothing up, as I established that schedule/regimen when I opened the CTL firm. I hung a shingle upon passing the bar exam and never worked for anyone else.
You have made comments on my billing rate previously, but fail tp understand that billings do not equal profit. There are rents, salaries, taxes, insurance, utilities, etc. That are paid out of revenue.
As senior partner, my non-court rate is a modest $500 hour, modest because here in Fairfield County most name partners charge more in 2021. I am not greedy. My in court rate is much higher. That said, not every minute or hour of the working day is billable, and at this stage of life I enjoy a certain amount of pro bono work.I learn an hour in the morning before my office opens, an hour lunchtime, if not a court day, an hour at the close of business (with my sons and sons-in law in the office, and two hours in the late evening.
Been following this schedule for more than 30 years, except no sons-in law back then.
During the summer, I tend not to work afternoons and learn with my grandchildren who spend the summer in the compound
Mrs. CTL has used a hyphenated last name throughout our marriage because she was partners in her family’s real estate firm.
My daughters kept their (my) last name, as they are part of the CTL Law firm. Starting out being known as Sarah Schwartz would be meaningless, but as Sarah CTL was advantageous. Two sons-in-law hyphenated last names for same reason. They are in the firm, e.g. Atty. Josef CTL-SchwartzMy mother never worked before marriage, so changed her name, her sister who was 3 years younger was working while her husband to be was off fighting WWII in the US Army, so she kept her Maiden name for professional reasons.
All of these women use(d) Mr and Mrs X for social occasions
@Gadolhadorah
Your comment I object to said first wave, not largest wave. Two different things@ujm
You miss the point about the question asking how many of your families have 3 or less children.
We are discussing dynastic or inherited wealth, not the wealth of the current generation. the more parts into which your estate must be divided, the less money for each who inherits.Someone leaving $1,000,000 (not unusual with the value of housing) to 3 children leaves them with a measure of wealth that is far greater than if there are 12 children sharing that amount.
@Gadolhadorah
“In the early 1900s, during the first wave of European immigration to the U.S….”
Sorry, you’ve got that wrong.
Many Jews came to the USA following Pogroms in the Russian Empire in the 1800s. Odessa 1859 and 1871 come to mind and many in 1880, 81, 82.
I was born and raised in New Haven. Although y family had immigrated from Germany and Russia in 1868 and 1872, the 2 shuls we belonged to were founded by Russian Jewish immigrants before 1883. We did not belong to the German Jewish synagogue founded in 1840 because by 1900 it had become a Reform institution@n0mesorah
I have never supported the idea of having a democracy, I support having a Republic. Democracy cannot work in a political division of more than several thousand people. A population bigger than that calls for representative government. As soon as you have representative government, you have given up your individual say in most decisions of government.BTW>>>>>I am old enough to remember when my town was ruled by Town Meeting and not elected officials and a Town Council
@lostspark
There is no normative ideology of a national political party in the USA. There are no card carrying members, as in other countries, who subscribe to a uniform ideology.
I am liberal. I did not say I am progressive, or far left, or anti- this or that.We had a discussion at or town’s Democratic Town Committee meeting last week. 28% were anti-abortion, 30% were pro-death penalty 90% were against school vouchers, 100% are anti-Trump. That was the only totally unifying factor found in poll results.
I don’t vote party, I vote candidate. In the 2021 elections for municipal office, I voted for 4 Republican candidates because they were better qualified for the office than their Democratic opponents. What I don’t do is publicly endorse non-Democrats for office, as that goes against the stated purpose of a Party Town Committee….to aid in election of members of our party.
@DovidBT
anyone who undermines justice in a criminal manner should be prosecuted.BUT, why limit yourself to members of Congress? After November 3, 2020 Trump and his henchmen (women) were trying to intimidate judges to overturn the results of the election he lost. I’d like to see them prosecuted, as well