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I love my dogs, I also love chicken soup, chopped liver, and swimming in my pool.
This is NOT the same ‘love’ I have for my children and grandchildren.
However, it is a level above ‘like.’It is nonsense to belittle someone who says they love their pets by comparing that to loving Jewish children.
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Life is the country is different than in the city.
I live in a small town where everyone lives in a single family home. There are about 13,000 households and more than 13,000 licensed dogs (per our Town Clerk). Many are not licensed. We have 4 dogs. Our shul Rav has two. I don’t know any local non-senior citizen frum Yidden who do not have a dog. Many had them when they were younger and did not replace them because the senior Yidden in town tend to be snow birds and many have Florida condos that do not permit dogs.When my parents OBM lived in NYC, prior to 1950 they did not have dogs, neither did their parents. They were not suitable to life in a six story apartment building and required walks on leashes, Shabbos being a real problem. As soon as they moved to CT and had a single family house with a fenced yard they got a dog. All one had to do was open the door and let the dog run in the yard. No leash, no Shabbos issues.
I am in my mid-60s, the only time I did not have a dog was when I spent a year in Yeshiva in Brooklyn after yeshiva high school in New Haven, and college. Mrs. CTL is of a similar age and has always had dogs.
All of our children and grandchildren have dogs, all live in single family homes.@Meno
Our dogs have allergies and can’t eat grain.
Our home-made fish has matzo meal in it (we eat gebrokhts)
The Ungar fish has no wheat and therefore the dogs can eat it.We have 4 dogs and two cats………………
We don’t sell them for Pesach.
We don’t use commercial pet food any time of the year.During Pesach, the dogs eat a mix of sweet potatoes and Turkey with carrots mixed in.
The cats eat bits of fish, turkey, chicken or beef, chopped up with vegetables from the soup pot.All of them like gefilte fish, particularly Ungar’s .
We used cloth diapers for two of our oldest children because of allergies/skin reactions to the disposables.
We used a diaper service and they dirty diapers went in a covered pail in a shed next to the back door. Back then (about 40 years ago) it was $5 per week per child. Pampers cost about $25 per week per child.
We have 2 grandchildren using cloth diapers. Our daughter has a separate washing machine in the basement for the diapers (she bought it on Craigslist for $50).@Zahavasdad
No one has to contest anything……….
If the man dies without a will and any property (house, car, bank accounts, stocks, etc.) are titled in his name then the estate must be probated in order to LEGALLY distribute the property to heirs. Then the statutory distributions may be made.It is NOT possible to ‘contest’ an estate distributed in this manner. One can only ‘contest’ a will. One can mount a challenge in Probate/Surrogates Court to any particular heir based on testamentary evidence or challenge paternity.
Just a clarification on probate court distribution to children when there is no will
You state that grandchildren will inherit if their parent is no longer alive. The grandchildren will only get their deceased parent’s share if the parent died before the grandparent.
Sam dies leaving 3 living children (a, b, c), no spouse, no will. The 3 each get 1/3.
B predeceased Sam, then B’s children split B’s 1/3
BUT, it B dies after Sam, but before estate is settled. B’s 1/3 is paid to B’s estate and subject to B’s will and/or the probate process. The 1/3 could very well end up being shared by B’s spouse (widow/er)@Millhouse
“The main point is that the GOP has no control over this, and is not responsible for him in any way. He is not a Republican.”Sorry. I don’t agree.
In some states, such as my own, Connecticut, the courts have ruled that a Town Party Committee can have a member of the party stricken from their rolls if that person disavows the party’s platform, rules, beliefs, etc.
Once, stricken of party affiliation, the elector can’t run for the nomination or be on the general election ballot as the candidate of the party.The CT Appellate Courts rued on this within the past 3 years when a Town committee instructed the Registrar of Voters to remove party affiliation from a member.
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Your continued questioning makes me laugh, it is the stuff that turns people away form religion.
Do I have a canopy, what does my rav think about baking matzo outdoors?
Where do you think those fleeing Mitzraim baked their matzo? They did not have buildings as we know them and modern ovens? They baked outdoors!
@Mod100
I’ve checked with my Rav before we set this up years ago.
He is of the opinion that what you quote from the Shulchan Aruch uses the word Etzel meaning next to or adjoining the oven. So I would not knead the dough on the couter whoch abuts the oven.Our work tables are steps away from the oven and he paskens that if just fine. Outdoors that distance is more than sufficient to make sure the work surface is not warmed by the oven which could cause the dough to rise at an accelerated rate.
We did our baking this past Sunday. The temperature was about 34 degree Farenheit. The 4 ft distance from tables to oven door were not affected by the heat from the wood burning oven.
Thanks for your concern, but we checked it out long ago. Since our Rav not only gave his ok, but eats matzo from our oven, I’m fine with it as it stands.
@Geordie613
I learned to bake matzo from my employer at the bakery in 1974. He was originally from Lodz and his family bakery had a separate location where they baked and sold Matzo. He continued to have a separate private matzo baking facility here where he baked for families and friends.Mrs. CTL’s grandparents also baled Matzo for sale in the early 1900s in Bridgeport. The tradition and skill was passed down in her family as well.
@twisted
with the death of local kosher bakeries due to supermarket bakeries under kosher supervision, home kosher baking OOT has been on the rise for 25+ years.
I was in the Kosher Bakery business in the 1970s
Mrs. CTL’s family owned and operated a kosher bakery
Thus we have always baked most of our own things.
In addition to inside kitchen ovens, we have a brick oven in our living room fireplace wall and both the outdoor matzo oven and an outdoor wood fired beeehive shaped pizza oven, used for all kinds of milchige baking, pizza, calzones, kugels, etc.
I built the outside ovens myself. The fireplace wall oven is more than 200 years old@klugeryid
We set up production tables outside within steps of the oven. All the mixing, kneading, etc. is done there. We have water source, etc. The have an outdoor kitchen with stainless steel sinks and counters that are easy to kasher, so there is provision for washing keilim, etc.
We are not dealing with making dough and shaping matzo in the house and having to get it outside and baked within the time limits. The distance from outdoor work station to outdoor oven is actually closer than if I was preparing food in one of my indoor kitchens and carrying from the center islands to ovens,@KLugeryid
Raw matzo is draped over a 2″ diameter stainless steel dowel. As one edge of the matzo hits the oven floor, rotate one’s wrist to place the entire circle on the oven floor smoothing with the dowel. Years ago we used wood dowels, but the stainless cleans much faster with boiling water, no chance of residue becoming chometz.@Joseph
Zaidy liked the look of them that way. Since he was paying the photographer, why shouldn’t he get what he wanted?@Midwest
Taller wife, a true story form our family.
My paternal grandfather was 5′ tall. In 1917 he was engaged to my grandmother who was the same height. He was drafted into the US Army and sent off to fight in WWI. My grandmother remained at home with her parents and finished high school and worked in my Great Grandfather’s office doing the accounts.
Zaidy returned from Europe and was discharged from the Army in the spring of 1919. He hurried to Brooklyn to see his family and his Kallah, My grandmother had continue to grow while he was away…she was now 5’9″ tall. They were married in June 1919 and enjoyed 58 years as husband and wife before she was niftara.
Every picture that they arranged had her sitting and him standing. Every non-posed picture shows them as the mismatched (by height) but happy couple they were.@Gaon
Most ‘commercial’ matzo is at least a couple of months old.
I’ll be baking our hand schmurah in a wood fired outdoor brick oven in our yard this coming week. It will be nice and fresh for Pesach.
My sons and I built the oven as a bonding project about 25 years ago and we enjoy using it every year. Once the matzo baking is over, the oven is secured and not used until the following year.
Our smokehouse is full of meats, fowl and fish that is curing for Pesach. As I have mentioned in other posts, we buy no prepared foods, but make everything from scratch. We have a separate Pesach kitchen and today was soup and potato kugel preparation day. All are cooling now and a freezer will be filled before we go to bed tonight. Mrs. CTL and I are eagerly awaiting the arrival of the gantze mishpocha for the entire Yuntif, should be about 50 sleeping and eating here in the compound.Final factor affecting the taste of matzo…………………
What fuel is used to bake the matzo?
I’ve had hand matzo baked in coal or wood fired ovens that has a distinctive taste. I like wood fired, not coal.
Machine matzos are baked in gas or electric ovens (as are some hand matzo) which impart no flavor to the matzoMy eldest brother is 3 years younger than his wife. They are married 51 years
My eldest sister is 3 months older than her husband. They are married 48 years.I don’t think a few months or years matter……………………………
Many considerations besides hand or machine…………………………..
#1 American, Israeli or other country of origin
In the 70s and 80s and early 90s I loved the taste of Rakusen Machine Matzo from England
Until the 2010s I could NOT stand the taste of Israeli matzo Hand or Machine. Now I stockpile Yehuda machine matzo for year round use. Stop and Shop gives away a 5lb box with a $25 purchase and I’ve already put 50 lobs away that cost nothing. I could have chosen other Israeli or American brands, but I like this taste better.
#2 Hand is it thick or thin? Texture isn’t really taste, but a blah taste lingers longer when the matzo is very thick.
#3 Is the hand matzo burnt and overcooked. I don’t like the taste of char.#4 which grain is used? My niece has celiac disease, We buy both oat and spelt matzo for her, I like the taste of oat, not spelt. In fact I think an Oat machine matzo tastes better than a wheat hand matzo.
I’ve read this thread with great interest and have a few comments think back on my time in the kosher food business and as a consumer.
#1 I just came back from a quick trip to Johannesburg and was there when Stan and Pete lost their hashgacha. The supervising agency did the right thing and made sure consumers who had booked affairs would be accommodated by other establishments under supervision.
In the 1970s I was in the kosher bakery business and later the kosher catering and restaurant business in the New Haven area.
Bakery supervision was lax. the mashgiach only visited monthly and was happy that I could light the ovens and take challah. Problem was workers on the night production shift (when owners were not present) would bring in their own treif meals and heat them in the ovens. I reported this to the mashgiach, but nothing happened. I left for other opportunities.
The kosher catering and restaurant business had great on premises supervision, BUT our keilim went out to synagogues of all varieties and were washed in their dishwashers and used ion their ovens with only the supervision of the synagogue Rabbi, not our kosher supervising authority. Once I saw that, I never ate from our catering division again. (It was housed in a separate building and there was no mixing with the restaurant).
Problem is that if you were a kosher consumer and you knew X caterers was under Y supervision and you were invited to a dinner at the JCC or Synagogue Z catered by X, you assumed it was kosher. BUT, as I learned, once the sealed containers left Caterer X’s facility kashrut was no longer at a guaranteed standard.In most cases, unless I know who is supervising the facility where the affair is held, I come to the simcha, will have a drink and maybe a bit of fresh fruit and that’s it.
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Another problem that is encountered out of town. Many brides like a particular baker for ‘wedding cakes.’ The baker is under ‘reliable’ kosher supervision, so area kosher caterers are permitted to allow brides to order and buy their cakes from the baker and the caterer plates and serves them at a x$ per head fee.Mrs. CTL ordered our wedding cake form the baker all those decades ago. At the chasunah, I heard her tell the caterer: ‘make sure to save the riser posts used to set the tiers, I have to return them to the baker and get my $100 deposit back’
Turns out this baker charged a deposit on all these post/risers and had no control over where they went, many non-Jews ordered form the baker. Who knew how these items were washed and then reused on the next customer’s cake.
We made a symbolic cut of the wedding cake and the caterer cut sheet cakes he had in his freezer to our guests for dessert.
The caterer’s supervising rabbi had never considered this problem and had allowed these cakes for years. That ended with our chasunah.@CoffeeAddict
Basic Civics Lesson:
Mueller is an employee of the Executive Branch of government. He can’t recommend impeachment because he does not report to the US House of Representatives (part of the Legislative Branch). This is Separation of Powers.
Any member of the House can introduce a Bill of Impeachment. But it has to make it to the floor and win a majority vote to cause a trial by the Senate.@CoffeeAddict
It is NOT semantics. Only the House of Representatives part of the Legislative branch of Government can bring an impeachment action against an official of the Executive Branch or Judiciary (Yes, Congress can impeach and Try Federal Judges).
The Special Prosecutor is part of the Justice Department/Executive Branch. He can lay charges for prosecution in the court system for violation of Federal Laws/Code/Acts. This can lead to conviction/fines/imprisonment. However, a sitting President has practical immunity form such an action and only is subject to Impeachment. If Impeached and convicted and removed from office the former President could be subject to prosecution for the ‘High Crimes and Misdemeanors’ which led to conviction in the Senate.
That’s why Ford pardoned Nixon when he resigned, otherwise Nixon could have been prosecuted as a private citizen and sent to prison.@CoffeeAddict
I can not agree with your hypothesis that Trump has been investigated by Mueller and if he had been found to have violated the Emoluments Clause and if Mueller fond so he would recommend Trump be thrown out of office.
The Special Prosecutor has no power to start Impeachment Process. He works for the Justice Department, part of the Executive Branch headed by the President. A Bill of impeachment (similar to an indictment) must be brought by a member of the House of Representatives. If passed, a trial would be held by the Senate. They could sentence the Impeached to removal, or something as simple as a censure or reprimand.
The Special Prosecutor can bring charges against individuals m(and corporations) for violating Federal Laws/Codes/Acts and the Federal Courts would try and sentence.@AviK………….
Typed on my touchscreen Kindle, which autocorrects and does not let me edit as I’d like.
Actually Ford was born Leslie Lynch King Jr. name changed to that of stepfather.The Senate can convict and NOT remove from office. They can also censure or reprimand.
The character of employment you mention has to due with employment by Government, NOT being employed by a business the person owned. There is no question in my mind that many foreign governments/officials suck-up to Trump by sending at his named properties, thus providing these profits. I do not believe he has gifted all the profits to the USA and he provides no backup audited by GAAP.
I don’t trust a thing Trump says or does.@Geordie613
Off topic for the rest.
Daughter arrive in CapeTown on her ship from Antarctica via Tristan Da Cunha. They immediately offloaded 90% of the contents of their freshwater tanks to provide for other ships at the port. The ship spent a week in port running its desalinization equipment and donating the potable water. She flew to JoBurg to meet me and the ship sailed on to Port Elizabeth to provision and off to the Indian Ocean. She won’t be on the ship at all until it’s in the Med this summer.
My comment was about SAA (airline) bound for bankruptcy. SA itself is no more. I found JoBurg to be a 3rd world City. Cape Town is even more segregated than I remember.Tillerson was fired by a twit
@AviK
After House votes to impeach the Senate conducts a trial. No removal after impeachment, only after Senate conviction. It is my belief that if impeached and convicted he would then be subject to other trials and penalties for perjury, obstruction of justice, tax evasion, etc. the convictions and incarceration presupposes his successor does pull a Jerry (the Republican) Ford and pardon Trump@Geordie613
The quick, short reply was to raise Joseph’s hackles.
I’ve answered DaMoshe that I believe Trump has violated Article I Section 9 of the US Constitution (emoluments clause). I studied and taught US Constitution in Law School for decades and that is my opinion of his actions.
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BTW, just flew back from a quick visit to SA last Monday night. 5 days there, two days flying. Probably the last time I’ll be on an SAA flight. Sad to see the way the company has fallen apart. Told the cab driver to take me to Jan Smuts for departure (I had flown into Capetown) and he stared at me like I was crazy. Silly me, in a time warp..Or Tambo is not a name that is in my vocabulary. Sad to see all the changes, 40 years since my last visit.@DaMoshe
Article 1 Section 9 Emoluments clause of the US Constitution.NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He should be impeached, tried, convicted and sent to prisonI’m in my mid 60s. My grandparents and great grandparents were born in the USA, not the alte heim. My paternal grandmother never made Pesach in her life. By the time my great grandmother no longer was able to make Pesach my grandparents came to my parents for the entire holiday. Mrs. CTL and I have hosted the entire clan for the past 25 years. We do not buy any prepared foods.
We taught our children they can live without the extras for a week and experience some of the deprivation those enslaved and then freed from bondage in Mitzraim endured.
We eat many simple meals during Pesach, green salads, with protein, stews, fresh fruit for dessert and almost no baked goods.My paternal side is Litvak, we eat Gebrokts. My maternal side are Yekkes, they also ate them.
A couple of my sons in law do not eat them, they get a different menu at our house during Pesach, as do their children. My daughters still eat Gebrokts in our home during Pesach. Since they are all here for the entire holiday they have never made Pesach in their own homes. This point was discussed/negotiated before they agreed to marriage. Our Rav agreed that they could still follow my customs when eating in my home. At some time in the future sould they make Pesach in their own homes, they’ll follow the husbands’ traditions.Many people buy cheap. no brand dollar store batteries that have a much shorter life than the name brands. So, twice a year when you change the clocks, you also change the batteries to help protect your family and guests.
We have hardwired smoke alarms which don’t need battery changes, but because we live in New England where winter storm power outages occur, we also have battery operated alarms in the bedroom areas. I don’t spend $4 each for Duracell 9V batteries for these when because one doesn’t need alkaline batteries for this type of use. I buy Sunbeam at Dollar Tree 2/$1. Last night I changed the 7 alarms.
ALWAYS mark the installation date on the battery with a Sharpie. Years ago I had an insurance company try to cut the amount of a claim stating there was contributory negligence because I did not have a ‘good’ battery in the smoke alarm. The battery had dating only 4 moths old. The CT Dept. of Consumer Protection found this carrier was using this excuse regularly and many people just accepted the lower payouts.
In fact, our local Volunteer Fire Department will come and change batteries for the elderly or disabled at no charge.
As I posted earlier, not everyone lives in the 5 Boros.
Our southern CT town had anywhere form 16-20 inches of snow. Trees are down all over. 18% of homes are still without power.
No one wanted to chance children getting hurt coming home from school in near blizzard conditions. A van transporting handicapped adults was struck by a falling tree on Main Street at 3 PM Wed.
Our shul is still without power. Morning minyan was held at our home (we have sifrie torah and ample space). Three local families have moved in for the duration as they have no electricity or heat, and one can not use their well (we have city water).
No school here again Friday…it’s about safety. If your kids don’t live in walking distance of school and have sidewalks to walk on, closing was the correct thing to do.
So, they’ll go to school a couple of extra days in June, BIG DEAL, better than spending a few days in a hospital after a school bus accident on an icy, snowy road.Sorry, Little Froggie…………………
we had 16″ of snow that had to be removed from our driveways and walks. Many trees down. 30% of our town lost power due to downed trees.
No school yesterday, today and likely tomorrow as so many roads are blocked by fallen trees and downed power lines.
Shul has no power, so morning minyan was held here…of course it helps that 5 adult males live in the compound.Not everyone lives in the 5 Boros. There is life elsewhere.
Schools and Yeshivos here in Southern CT cancelled. By 11AM snow was already coming down, and roads getting icy. The liability of possible school bus accidents was too great to hold classes. All schools, Yeshivos closed today, many will also be closed tomorrow,
Our town has more than 30% of homes without electric power. Many roads blocked by downed wires and fallen trees. A number of people killed by trees that fell on cars moving on the roads. State of emergency declared.
We have about 16″ of extremely heavy snow in our driveway and about a dozen 30-50′ tall trees that are down in the back woods. Fireplaces are all going in case power goes out….it is still windy.
Even if classes were held I would not have my children drive my grandchildren today or allow them to take the bus. My 11 year old grandson’s rebbi has scheduled a Skype Shiur at 9:30 today.I remember hearing this discussion more than 50 years ago with participants who has arrived in NYC from Eastern Europe circa 1910. In order to pay the rent, clothe the family and put food on the table they worked the American 6 day week in factories….goodbye Shabbos.
Children attended FREE Public School with limited rudimentary Jewish education given my a melamed a couple of afternoons each week.
As the family moved up the economic ladder, Shabbos work ended and the next generation kids went to Yeshiva or Day school. Those born in the late teens and early 1920s also afforded themselves of the college education available at CCNY and Hunter for only the cost of a subway fare.
This led to greater wealth as business owners and professionals and the ability to send the children to the best Yeshivos, buy the more expensive Cholov Yisroel and fund the frum institutions we take for granted today.
These families went from Euro-Traditional Jews to educated Frum Jews because of increased wealth, not in spite of it.
In the 50s and 60s increased wealth also meant vacations, summers and Yuntif at reliable certifed Kosher hotels in the Catskills or Miami Beach This was a much higher standard than the kitchens at a kuchelane in the 1930s, where all visitors prepared their own meals in the communal kitchen with no real supervision.
As prosperous businessmen, my father and uncles (A”H) had more available free time for learning than their grandfathers and great-grandfathers had as Greenhorns.@Zahavasdad
Putting construction equipment on your property does NOT make you liable.
If your neighbor trespasses and puts construction equipment on your property, you are not liable for consequences. Liability in tort depends on negligence. The equipment is not under your dominion and control. As soon as you notify the neighbor that he is trespassing you have basically absolved yourself of liability. Your neighbor has created the attractive nuisance that could cause harm to inquisitive children, not you. You have no legal right to move the equipment, but would have to get the authorities involved to do so.
Your copy of the notice of trespass to your neighbor, be it by text, fax, certified letter, email and your complaint to the building/zoning officials will stem any potential liability.
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For those who don’t want to get involved with the secular government, contact your homeowners insurance carrier, they’ll pursue the matter to avoid having to defend a potential claim.@Joseph
As I stated in my earlier post, using an attorney to compel compliance with laws and regulations does not mean going to court.
A strongly worded letter pointing out the violations with a cc notice on the bottom showing Building and zoning enforcement agencies usually does the trick very quickly. One doesn’t actually have to cc those agencies.This winter our next door neighbor’s grandson (not Jewish) decided he was going to operate a plow business. He stored all his equipment in grandma’s backyard. Not only was it unsightly, but lots of middle of the night noise occurs when he hooks up plows, sand spreaders, etc. and leaved heavy diesel trucks idling in the yard.
A phone call was ignored, I sent a letter showing the violations caused by storing commercial equipment and vehicles in a residential zone and marked CC Zoning Enforcement. Everything was cleared out within 4 days.When Mrs. CTL designed a house last year for a local client, the client wanted a sprinkler system. The local building codes don’t require them, but do require hardwired smoke and CO alarms.
She and the client ran the plans by the Underwriter for insurance (carrier the customer uses is a top notch name brand). Underwriter came back with quotes that were higher if a sprinkler system was installed than without. Here in New England, winter storms can and do bring power outages and frozen pipes. The exposure for internal damage from ceiling level sprinkler pipes raises the rates.
Our local Fire Marshal expressed his view that in small towns such as ours where so many have wells and not city water, the pressure would not be sufficient to put out a blaze before the fire company would respond with a pumper.To all those warning of sins an prohibitions of using secular courts:
Engaging an attorney does not mean this will go to court. Less than 10% of client activity results in a lawsuit.
The OP should see a land use attorney. This specialist will draft and send a letter to the abutting landowner pointing out the civil laws and regulations that are being violated. Also, potential civil fines and liability in tort law if the offending act does not cease immediately. An offer to allow temporary trespass in exchange for compensation could be offered.@Joseph
No.
The only non-referee Jewish judges I know in Connecticut either came from government employment which pays less than private practice, or some altruistic juvenile court judges who sought the appointment to help better the system.
I was offered an appointment about 20 years ago, but could not have afforded to keep my kids in yeshiva, etc. had I taken a pay cut of more than 50%@Chosid
You think 2 frum female judges in the USA constitutes filling the judiciary? I don’t.
That’s why my reply to the question posed by the OP is negative.@Joseph
I was very specific about lack of frum Jewish judges in Connecticut courts,
I have decades of experience there, you have none.
Merely removing a yarmulke would not stop regular appearing attorneys from knowing a judge is MO.
In a typical Judicial District (Such as Fairfield with it’s Superior Court in Bridgeport) there might be 25-30 Judges, There bios, addresses etc are all available, Not only do I know them, I would know if they were members of the few frum shuls in the area. I can immediately rule out the Italian, Polish, Irish and African Americans. There are almost no Jewish judges…….as a number I now who have been asked if they want an appointment say? Why take such a big pay cut? In fact there is only one Jewish judge at the current time and she is a member of a Reform Synagogue.
I can identify less than 1 dozen Jewish Trial Court Judges in CT and 1/3 are Referees…retired judges who work per diem to ease backlogs.
Judges are nominated by the Governor, confirmed by the General Assembly and have an 8 year term
Probate Judges are part time local elected officials and it’s been 30 years since the Jewish Probate Judge retired in New Haven and he was of German-Jewish Reform background.@AviK
“Can we expect Chareidi women to fill the judiciaries in both countries?”
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There may be a few elected in Chareidi pockets ion the USA. BUT they will never fill the judiciary in the USA. Most jurisdictions have few Jews, nevermind Chareidi Jewish women qualified for the bench.One might get elected in Brooklyn, but that won’t happen in Goyville, USA. Here in Connecticut, Judges are appointed, not elected and it’s not going to happen. The current nominee for Chief Justice of our state Supreme Court is an Irish-American Male married to another male.
I run into a few Chareidi attorneys in the courthouses, but I don’t even see MO judges on the bench be they male or female,
I am very biased when it comes to organ transplants. Eldest BIL lived 24 years with a cadaver kidney transplant. When the transplanted organ failed he had a live transplant from my nephew and that was 13 years ago