Ex-CTLawyer

Joseph…

Mrs. CTL and I are in our 60s. There will be no more pregnancies for her.

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16 1/2…the state minimum age here in CT. All 5 of ours got licenses as soon as legally possible. They proved their responsibility and their curfews became relaxed over time. It was a great relief when they could drive to school and we did not have that duty.

CT has time restrictions on new drivers (not after 11PM) and they can not drive non-immediate family members for the first 6 months after getting a license..so no dragging friends to school or malls.

OOT, driving is essential, not a luxury…we don’t have the public transportation options of metro NY or other large cities.

13 years ago when I broke my leg I relied on the kids to drive me to clients, etc for a few months, glad they all were proficient and licensed. MIL lives next door. From the time the kids were driving they took her on errands daily. My kids also had summer jobs and cars were necessary to get to and from work. All 5 had their own cars by the time they were 18….

BTW, only the boys getting licenses raised out insurance rates, rates did not go up for the girls.

I also taught all of them how to drive a stick shift. In an emergency you should be able to drive any vehicle that is available. BUT…they are not allowed to drive MRS. CTL’s 1971 Jaguar XKE Convertible…that’s off limits (even to me).

I’ll be spending the August vacation period with my children and grandchildren in residence at the CTL homegrounds.

We have worked out the hours for male or female swimming in the pool and use of the hot tub. The kids can play tennis or basketball or soccer in the yard or on the court. We’ll have enough for our own minyan and eldest SIL will be giving a daily shiur. The girls will do some serious back to school shopping.

Day trips to local attractions and minor league sports, will get the boat out on Long Island Sound for some fishing and fire up the outdoor grills for most meals.

Hopefully all the family in attendance will cheer up Mrs. CTL after her many health issues.

So nice to be able to accommodate the entire family, and have them here more than for Pesach.

popa_bar-abba

2B did not exist at that time!

Draft Classifications during the Vietnam War

Draft Board Classifications

The following is a list of Selective Service classifications

that could be assigned by draft boards:

I-A

Available for military service

I-A-0

Conscientious objector available for noncombatant military service only

I-C

Member of the armed forces of the U.S., the Coast and Geodetic Survey, or the Public Health Service

I-D

Member of reserve component or student taking military training

I-H

Registrant not currently subject to processing for induction

I-0

Conscientious objector available for civilian work contributing to the maintenance of the national health, safety, or interest

I-S

Student deferred by statute (High School)

I-Y

Registrant available for military service, but qualified for military only in the event of war or national emergency

I-W

Conscientious objector performing civilian work

contributing to the maintenance of the national health, safety, or interest

II-A

Registrant deferred because of civilian occupation (except agriculture or activity in study)

II-C

Registrant deferred because of agricultural occupation

II-D

Registrant deferred because of study preparing for the ministry

II-S

Registrant deferred because of activity in study

III-A

Registrant with a child or children; registrant deferred by reason of extreme hardship to dependents

IV-A

Registrant who has completed service; sole surviving son

IV-B

Official deferred by law

IV-C

Alien

IV-D

Minister of religion or divinity student

IV-F

Registrant not qualified for any military service

IV-G

Registrant exempt from service during peace (surviving son or brother)

IV-W

Conscientious objector who has completed alternate service contributing to the maintenance of the national health, safety, or interest in lieu of induction into the Armed Forces of the United States

V-A

Registrant over the age of liability for military service

Joseph…………..

Private home with private beach on one of the small privately owned out islands will avoid that problem.

NOT CHEAP, but it can be done.

Akuperma…………..

Sorry, to burst your bubble. American did NOT ban conscription. It justr happens that we don’t currently use it. BUT, all 18 year old male citizens and many resident non-citizens must register with the US Selective Service System within 30 days of their 18th birthday so that if a draft is implemented it can work.

Failure to register will make one inelligible for Federal student loads, etc.

Disclaimer: This OOT Baal Habayis, local politician sits as an alternate on the regional Selective Service Review Board

Sparkly…………

I was born and grew up and still live in CT. My parents and older siblings were from NY. We are what we used to call European Traditional Jews. Father’s side is Litvak, mother’s side-German-a mixed marriage. In the USA since approx 1868. Still observant. We all went to day schools then either half day yeshiva for high school and public high school in afternoon for secular and then college and professional schools.

My kids did day schools and yeshiva high schools, the girls a year of Seminary before college, boys two years of full time learning before college, then law school.

We typically are the Jews who maintain the local shuls, including those where we used to live as well as the cemeteries and support all Jewish Day Schools in the state, Federation, Hillel, Jewish Family Service, the local mikvehs, and all the collectors who pass through.

Active in local politics, and I am a Liberal Democrat, I still give to Agudah and have an endowment fund at Ezras Torah. We live well, but don’t have to keep up with the Cohens…no noveau riche McMansion in Monsey, Deal or New Jersey.

My great grandparents started on the lower east side, my grandparents and parents in Brooklyn and the Bronx, working their way up the socio-economic ladder while not foresaking orthodoxy. We are not like the post WWII immigrant community or the great post 1980 shift to the extreme right. We get along with all factions. I’m as likely to write a check for Kiryat Sanz Laniado Hospital as the ADL…a misnagid who believes in supporting all Jews and their institutions.

We make money the old fashioned way, we work hard for it. We save, invest and give tzedaka.

Time for Truth……………

A lawyer doesn’t push/argue his/her beliefs.

It is his/her job to advocate the best and highest interests of the client. The attorney is the mouthpiece, not the moral compass.

This is why in law school students are trained to write for both plaintiff and defendant (civil trials), or Prosecutor and Defendant (criminal trials).

I don’t believe in the death penalty, but in law school I had to write an appellate brief to uphold a death penalty decision in the trial court level. It’s all part of the education. Would I take such an assignment in private practice? no But it doesn’t mean I shouldn’t know how

bek_2125

I state first that I am not an advocate for any particular law school. None of my family attended the schools being discussed here. I have hired graduates of all three in my firm over the years. They got a couple of years private practice experience in family law, trusts, estates and contracts and moved on as no hires are considered for partner, only family members.

I do not think Touro Law is worth an additional $100,000 in expense compared to CUNY Law. CUNY Law mandates and provides a year of clinical experience that is invaluable when seeking a job. Many other law schools have limited clinical positions or only offer clinic as independent study…you have to find a position, report to and have it approved by a faculty advisor you see a few times a semester and pays thousands of dollars for the privilege of doing so. At CUNY Law you’ll work in a Queens firm representing the poor in all kinds of legal work…criminal, housing, immigration, family, product liability, consumer protection, etc. You’ll try cases under the supervision of licensed attorneys. Many law students never get this experience before graduation.

All law schools will have professors whose idealogy is different than yours. You are not going to law school to be indoctrinated, you are going to learn law and the mechanics of the American (and state) legal system. If you plan on staying and practicing in NY, then CUNY Law may be just fine for you.

RebYidd23…………

Mrs. CTL has one sheitel that was made from our 28 year old daughter’s hair when she cut off 30″ of growth.

All it cost to be made into a wig by a local stylist was a couple of hundred dollars.

Our daughters all wore long straight hair that reached below their waists when they were single. When they would get summer cuts of 10-12″ of yearly growth it would be donated to Lock for Love (for cancer victims). When the 28 year old decided she was too old for this look (about 5 years ago when she finished grad school and was to be married) she presented her mother with the cut hair as a loving gift.

Syag………

The last paragraph contained an opinion (Hausfrau) of my late mother who was a very proper German-Jewish-American lady, always wearing hat and gloves when she left the house.

The observation about hearing Chemo comments when wearing a headscarf was related to me by my wife.

Sparkly…………..

These are not top tier Law Schools………

Touro Law Tuition $47,000 per year

CUNY Law Tuition $14,000 per year

Stern is an Undergraduate college, no law school..it is part of Yeshiva University and its Law School (Cardozo) costs $55,000 per year.

While Touro and YU are “Jewish’ institutions, their Law School are loaded with non-Jews. The main advantage of them are no classes scheduled on Yom Tov and kosher food in the cafeteria. BUT if you live in NYC these can all easily be commuter schools and food is not an issue.

Having spent a lifetime in Law and with two of my children and a son in law also lawyers, it is all about graduating and passing the bar exam and getting a license. Unless you plan to work for a major Law Firm or the Federal Government the school is not the deciding factor in hiring. Your performance, where and for whom you clerked and your published law review articles and summer internships make the difference.

I am also biased in favor of the CUNY system (not just for law). It allowed my parents and many of their Great Depression generation a path out of the low income class with a free and excellent education (based on competitive examination entry). My father A”H went on to law school and a successful business career that enabled him to prosper, raise a frum family and support Jewish institutions. My Mother A”H went to Hunter and later attained 3 post graduate degrees at public university and had a 40 year career in Education.

akuperma………..

Liberal Democrats (I’m one) don’t like Trump better than Pence. They don’t like either one. It’s not a comparison on a ratings chart.

I’ll do my best to see that Trump is not elected President. I don’t have to waste time on Pence, because if Trump loses, so does Pence.

Living here in a CT, I’m not concerned that Trump will win our Electoral votes.

BTW>>>Congratulations to the residents of Indiana…you have now shed yourself of Governor Pence effective the end of his current term.

I’ve been many times. In Dublin and Shannon I’ve worn a kippah. In country areas or in a pub for a beer with work associates, I wear a cap.

As a whole the Irish are not anti-semitic and are welcoming

Coffee Addict

You blew it with 10 out of 10 car accidents are caused by cars.

10 out of 10 Car accidents involve cars. Cars and/or their drivers are not always the cause.

I live in small town America. In 1992, I was driving my car and was hit by a 10 year old girl on a bicycle who rode out from behind a tree and smashed into my passenger door.

It is common in the spring and fall, for cars to be hit by deer running out of the woods.

Finally, on June 28 1983 I drove over the Mianus River Bridge on I-95 returning home from a Mets Game. 10 minutes later the bridge collapsed into the river taking 4 vehicles with them 3 people were killed and 3 injured.

None of these car accidents were caused by cars

Popa_bar-abba

This past year our youngest child started college (after doing a year of seminary).

She came home for a long weekend in October. Motzei Shabbos she was going out with friends. When asked when she’d be home she replied by 1AM. She was told she had an 11:30 curfew.

But daddy, the curfew in the dorm is 1AM.

My reply, when you come into the dorm after midnight you don’t disturb your parents. Here we don’t fall into a deep sleep until you are in safely and the doors locked and all lights out.

As the iconic 1950s TV show title read: Father Knows Best.

You may not agree with every rule some other parent makes, but unless abusive or illegal, we do get to set the rules in our own homes.

Joseph…

comparing Federation allocations nationally makes no sense. The vast majority of Jewish Federations exist in places without orthodox day schools or yeshivos.

That’s why I highlighted OOT Federations I’m familiar with who all allocate funds to orthodox day and high schools if they exist.

OOT Jewish life is far different that in town. It’s not unusual for Jewish business people and professionals to belong to and pay dues to multiple synagogues. We support the shuls we grew up in even if we no longer live in the area. After all, OOT the shuls generally own and keep up the cemeteries, not lansleit or for profit businesses as in NY and NJ.

When New Haven had a litvish Day School in addition to Chabad it got Federation funding. Bridgeport uses the fund the former Hillel Academy and does contribute to both the New Haven and Stamford Day school where Bridgeport area kids attend as commuters.

If Hareidi NYers expect NY Federation to fund their schools then they have to get involved with Federation. They can’t say we won’t work with non-frum towards the grater good and still expect a handout.

akuperma……….

OOT Federations support orthodox Day Schools as well as Conservative

IN CT the Federations fund:

Chabad Day School in Orange

Ortho Day School in West Hartford

Ortho Day School in Stamford

Ortho High School in Stamford

Ortho High School in West Hartford

Yeshiva K’Tana Waterbury

Federations also support Orthodox institutions of higher learning. Looking at the IRS form 990 of the small Jewish Federation of Western CT I see $10,000 given to Yeshiva University

While many in this forum don’t consider MO as Chareidi. there is no question that YU is a Torah institution.

The Federation in Boston supports 13 Jewish Day Schools INCLUDING:

BAIS YAKOV of Boston High School for Girls

New England Hebrew Academy (Lubavitch)

Maimonides and Torah Academy in Brookline

Health………….

I did not defend RBG in my post, so calling my defense pathetic is laughable.

As it happens I agree with her statement about Trump. The wonderful thing about appointed, as opposed to elected judges, is that they don’t have to be muzzled in fear of losing the next election.

I live and practice in a state where judges (with the exception of provate) are appointed, not elected. They are free to express their opinions without fear of political repercussion.

The judicial code of ethics deals with times a judge should recuse him/herself from a case. Members of SCOTUS do so when appropriate.

CTRebbe

I think the Yeshiva Tuition crisis really revolves around the difference of opinion as to whether men should become Kollelniks or Baal Batim.

I’m from the pre-WWII American Orthodox school of thought that this is a land of opportunity and you can succeed and make a good living while sending your children to yeshiva and college and professional school so that they may do the same for their children

I have sons and sons-in-law. All went to Yeshiva through high school. Places that offered competent secular studies., They continued learning full time for a year or two before college, then did college and professional school. All are professionals earning a healthy living while maintaining a learning schedule and sending their children to yeshiva. I did not underwrite the cost of their post college education nor am I paying for our grandchildrens’ tuition. B”H they can manage the bills.

That said, I give more than my fair/expected share of Tzedaka and I resent those who feel I should have less or spend less in order to fund salaries in assorted yeshivas.

By your handle I assume to teach in one of our few CT yeshivas. Chances are you don’t have any of my grandchildren in your school, but chances are I’m an annual donor supporting the institution.

And for our Brooklyn friends….surprise much of the funding for Day Schools and yeshivas in CT comes from Non-Frum Jews, Including annual allocations from Jewish Federations throughout the state. I fought for this more than 35 years ago when Federations started to fund the Schechter schools.

Charlie Hall……Surprise

“There are 13 Public Schools in the country that offer Ancient Greek

There are 67 Private Schools in the country that offer Ancient Greek

Public:

Belchertown HS – Belchertown, MA

Boston Latin School – Boston, MA

Centennial HS – Roswell, GA

E.O. Smith HS – Storrs, CT

Great Neck North HS – Great Neck, NY

Henry Grady HS – Atlanta, GA

Holbrook Jr/Sr HS – Holbrook, MA

John Handley HS – Winchester, VA

La Jolla High School – La Jolla, CA

Northeast HS – St. Petersburg, FL

Shaker Heights HS – Shaker Heights, OH

Thomas Jefferson School – St. Louis, MO

Towsend Harris HS – Flushing, NY

Wellesley Public Schools – Wellesley, MA

Private:

Belmont Hill School – Belmont, MA

Boston College HS – Dorchester, MA

Boston Latin Academy – Boston, MA

Boston University Academy – Boston, MA

Brooks School – North Andover, MA

Covington Latin School – Covington, KY

Crossroads School Arts/Science – Santa Monica, CA

Fordham Prep School – Bronx, NY

Georgetown Preparatory – North Bethesda, MD

Gilman School – Baltimore, MD

Gonzaga College HS – Washington, DC

Gustavus Adolphus College -St. Peter, MN

Highland School – Warrenton, VA

Horizon HS – Scottsdale, AZ

Jesuit HS – New Orleans, LA

John Carroll Catholic HS, Birmingham, AL

Logos School, Moscow, ID

Loyola Academy – Wilmette, IL

Maret School – Washington, DC

Menlo HS – Menlo Park, CA

Milton Academy – Milton, MA

National Cathedral – Washington, DC

Oratory Prep School – Summit, NJ

Phillips Academy, Andover, MA

Phillips Exeter Academy – Exeter, NH

Randolph Macon Academy – Front Royal, VA

Rockhurst HS – Kansas City, MO

Rye Country Day – Rye, NY

Seton Jr/Sr HS – Manassas, VA

St. Albans School – Washington, DC

St. Ann’s School – Brooklyn, NY

St. Anselm’s Abbey School – Washington, DC

St. Catherine’s School – Richmond, VA

St. Demetrios Greek America – New York, NY

St. Ignatius College Prep – Chicago, IL

St. Louis Priory School – St. Louis, MO

St. Mary’s Episcopal – Memphis, TN

St. Mary’s Academy (Anastasis) – St. Mary’s, KS

St. Mary’s Academy (Dredger) – St. Mary’s, KS

St. Paul’s School – Concord, NH

St. Thomas Episcopal School – Houston, TX

St. Timothy’s Hale School – Raleigh, NC

St. Xavier HS – Cincinnati, OH

Staten Island Academy, Staten Island, NY

The Episcopal Academy – Merion, PA

The Hill School – Pottstown, PA

The Roxbury Latin School – West Roxbury, MA

The Williams School – New London, CT

The Winsor School – Boston, MA

Wakefield Country Day – Flint Hill, VA

Westminister School – Augusta, GA

William Penn Charter School – Philadelphia, PA

I have a niece who attended Townsend Harris in Queens and took Greek…she just graduated Law School and works for the Justice Dept in DC. My sister’s youngest son attended Boston Latin where he took Greek and Latin. He is a Day School Principal…

As for the last century. My father A”H graduated Townsend Harris when it was still in Manhattan in Dec 1938 having 4 years of Greek and Latin. My mother A”H graduated Hunter HS in January 1940 having 4 years of both Greek and Latin. She continued on at Hunter College as a classics major with 4 more years of Greek. She spent more than 40 years as a school principal here on CT having earned a Doctorate in Classics Education from Columbia.

As I’ve written before I went to Yeshiva High School in the mornings and attended public High School in New Haven in the late 1960s. They did not offer Greek. I did take 4 years of modern Hebrew, Latin and two years of Yiddish. In all 12 foreign languages were offered at the time.

Out local public high school offers, Latin, French, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese.

Abba_S

Chances are that the small basement apartment for $800 is illegal. Students should not e helping landlords to break the law. Unlikely to have a Certificate the apartment will not have its own legal mail and may have substandard and/or dangerous construction done by unlicensed contractors and never inspected by the city.

I remember my middle child moving to Brooklyn and showing me prospective basement apartments as possibilities. As soon as I asked to see the Certificate of Occupancy the landlords ended the conversation.

and why you consider a basement apartment whose windows are at street level secure is questionable…..

Avi K

They are schools. Campuses are closed for security reasons. Need I remind readers of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre 2 1/2 years ago…only twenty minutes from me and we knew some of the families who lost children.

Utilities, and Cable TV/Internet/phone providers are utilities cannot be free enterprise. The cost to build is so expensive that unless awarded a franchise none would exist. I spent 12 years as a Cable TV Commissioner in Ct and am very familiar with the industry.

I’m old enough to remember when the CT state legislature only met every other year and passed two year budgets.

“Minute Steak” is NOT a cut of meat. It is a name used by butchers for thin cuts of beef that may go from raw to plate in a few minutes time.

I would not serve the cuts of chuck minute steak (with the center gristle) that I’ve seen in self service kosher markets to my family or guests.

In general, I buy primal cuts of meat and do my own cutting and grinding.

When I wish to serve small, quick cooking steaks, I’ll cut 3/8″ slices off a boneless ribeye and broil or grill quickly to medium rare.

In fact, if the rain lets up and the sun comes out I’ll fire up the BBQ and serve “minute” ribeye steaks with salad fresh native corn on the cob and sweet potato fries for lunch around our pool.