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I know no one here are נביאים
And how do you know that?? Some of the CR geonim have a reasonably good track record on their geopolitical prognostications.
BOTH parties have totally miscalculated Putin’s resolve to be remembered as having restored Russia’s cold-war power as defined by the geographic extent of its sphere of influence. While he may not succeed in bringing back all the Eastern European countries under the Russian umbrella, he clearly is counting on Western fears of a nuclear war to allow him to add additional real estate to the new Russian empire.
The same “doom and gloom” investment gurus have been predicting Armageddon for two decades or longer. Using classic value investment metrics (P/E, P/S, P/B, PEG etc) the market today, on an inflation adjusted basis, is actually cheaper (i.e. more rationally priced) than it was during prior “bubbles’. In simple terms, you can buy a dollar’s worth of S&P 500 company normalized profits today for less than you could 5, 10 or 20 years ago. Obviously, there were Covid-related bubbles in a subset of stocks like Zoom, Peleton Docu, etc. which have recently been substantially deflated. These companies never had real profits for any sustained period so it was really hard to value them. Also, the various Crypto related stocks are in a bubble of their own but have come down more than 50% in the past several months. Otherwise, the rest of the market is trading quite well and reasonably price for a rising interest rate, mega geopolitical risk environment.
“Its a side effect of TDS”
Side effect?? Its a primary symptom….just like ‘long Covid” (with a plea for mechilah from those talmedi chachamim who live in the zip code but outside of the walls of the palace)
“A vaccine mandate for all companies with more than 100 employees was b”h ruled unconstitutional…”
Screwdriver: Tighten those screws a bit and don’t credit the Ebeshter for something that didn’t happen. The Supreme Court did NOT rule that the vaccine mandate for companies with more than 100 employees was “unconstitutional”. The Court did find that OSHA, which regulates workplace safety for the Labor Department, issued the mandate under its emergency power established by Congress rather than under a notice and comment APA rulemaking (which would have required 12-18 months) The Court found that the generic vaccination rule, as a broad public health rule, did not fall within the emergency authorities granted by Congress to regulate workplace safety and a more narrowly focused rule would have to be adopted using regular APA rulemaking process.
“PS other than in the zip code 08701 an am haretz is not insult.”
I think you meant 33480 which is zoned exclusively for am haretzim.
Favorite of the frum members of The American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
“Ale tseyn zoln bay im aroysfaln, not eyner zol im blaybn oyf tsonveytung…'”
Don’t rely on ANY network. Wherever possible, do your own diligence based on source documents. It so easy today to quickly locate and download court filings and decisions, government reports, etc. Don’t rely on any filters…read and decide for yourself.
For a change, Rightwriter is 100% right. China is the primary source of both generic drugs and the chemical/biologic ingredients used in drugs manufactured in India, Ireland and of course, the U.S.
While the FDA ostensibly has inspectors at Chinese production facilities, they are limited in both the frequency of inspections and what they are allowed to inspect. At the end of the Obama administration and through the Trump and Biden administrations, there are ongoing efforts to onshore those production efforts, which of course accelerated during Covid. However, it could be another 5 years or longer before those efforts result in “most” of the drugs produced in the U.S. or by U.S./European countries being sourced 100 percent in either the U.S. or Europe.SCOTUS has ruled on several of the vaccine mandates. It has upheld the EOs dealing with health care workers and rejected the EO (implemented through OSHA) that created the mandate for all employers >100 employees. In both cases, the rulings were NOT based on constitutionality but the procedure through which the rules were adopted (short-circuiting the APA) or absence of underlying statutory authority for a rule of the scope contemplated (aka the blanket OSHA rule).
vus macht ah Yid?
מיר מאַכן אַ בריתScotch
AVD: Well stated. There is a strange generational component about obsessively “sharing” your life online that is obviously more prevalent among goiyim and secular yidden than among those living in the “yeshiva velt”. I’ve been in restaurants with younger business colleagues and truly cannot understand the motivation to pull out their phones and photograph a plate of nondescript chalupahs with borscht (aka “beet emulsion”) and garnished with a cactus flower. Same for hiking down to see an incredible lava flow at the currently active volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii where the visitors seem obsessed with getting their selfies and posting them online immediately than actually watching the incredible natural phenomena occurring behind them. In both cases, they were oblivious to the disrupted effect their camera flashes and flailing selfie camera poles had on those around them. You may occasionally see this among younger folk dressed in yeshivish lvush but its much less prevalent and usually (albeit no always) done with a lot more derech eretz and consideration of those around them
“Why would a woman be traveling alone??”
@UJM: Are you offering your services as a “heimeshe travel companion” ?If so, where does the line form?Not sure what level commercial or legal positions you are addressing. We have done multiple transactions with Israeli companies represented by Israeli counsel and bankers and I’ve not encountered situations where anyone on either side of the deal who was shomer shabbos had any difficulty finding accommodation. Even the closing schedules routinely took account of shabbosim and yom tovim. If you are talking about mid-level management positions in retail or commercial service companies or routine legal/accounting work for individuals, I’d agree that willingness to work weekends (including Saturday) is more likely to be an issue both in the U.S. and increasingly in EY.
Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution gives Congress the power “to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes..”. The Feds use that authority, inter alia, to regulate all forms of “commerce” including all forms of interstate and international transportation. The so called “Dormant Commerce Clause” refers to the prohibition, implicit in the Commerce Clause, against individual states passing legislation that discriminates against or excessively burdens interstate commerce.
“How is it legally different for the government to regulate a requirement to cover ones legs, stomach or other body parts than to regulate covering ones mouth and nose?”
Probably not an appropriate question for the CR but take my word that there are peer-reviewed studies showing why uncovering certain parts of the anatomy may offend pubic sensibility and decency and trigger midflight disruption more than others. Until 2 years ago, there were a few episodes ever year where flights were diverted or passengers removed from planes for “displaying” too much of their real estate. None of those, to my knowledge were either a nose or mouth. Passengers COULD be denied boarding if they openly appeared to have a contagious illness but that rarely happened. All of those rules were specified in the airlines’ filed tariffs. Conversely, the FAA’s authority to promulgate rules (using proper APA procedures were codified in its organic statute and were not changed by airline deregulation which eliminated the CAB).
Johnny:
Roses are blue ‘
Violets are red
The Trumpkopf lost big time
The Electoral College saidSuch actions are fundamentally prohibited in the Aseres H’adibros Shamos (20:17)
לא תחמוד את המנקה של רעך“When you make a wedding, ask your LOR if it’s the right thing to lift up the chassan!
Johnny: And just assume its OK to lift up the Kallah??
Feds have full authority to set rules governing interstate commerce which spans all forms of jurisdictional interstate transportation by air, rail, bus, trucking etc. The 1978 Airline Deregulation Act “deregulated” the airline industry in terms of removing federal control over such areas as fares, routes, and market entry of new airlines but the regulatory powers of the FAA to set rules governing air transportation health and safety remain intact.
“With all due respect….”
“There’s the obvious issue of the choson being lifted over the mechitza and viewing the women’s section…”
I’m glad its an “obvious issue” of a Choson being carried on a table holding on for dear life being “lifted over” the mechitza where the bochurim presumably hand over the table (with the Choson still hanging on) to the women on the other side so he can watch his kallah and all her friends engaging in you know what??? Meanwhile, the Mashgiach at the simcha hall is checking his Hashgacha Manual to decide whether he needs to yell STOP!!
“When I go on a trip, most of the time the principal purpose of the trip is photography”
You can stay home and post photos of your wife’s chulent and claim it is a $59 chulent entree from the most expensive restaurant in South Beach and photoshop a picture of a smiling mashgiach in the backgroundAAQ: Most of the major national law firms and investment banks offer up to 6 months paternal leave for their associates and VPs (an entry level position in the banks)… most with full pay for the first several months. some for all 6 months. The policy in our firm and many others also grants a separate category of paternal leave for adopting parents. If a woman supporting her husband in kollel has completed law school or with an MBA working in a bank is eligible, she could take off for months with pay and still have an income. I’m not sure how often the paid-leave option can be taken for those contemplating big families.
“And it’s lacking in the tznius department, especially since the chosen and kallah aren’t the only ones who gain visibility across the mechitza when that happens”
I would strongly suggest that it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that there is almost a 100 percent liklihood that the majority of guests at the simcha will as you say “gain visibility” of the kallah that is ganz assur under hilchos tzinius. Ask any woman you know about the practical challenges of maintaining modesty while walking up one of the modern open staircases or having a office with glass doors and standup desk with no modesty panel. I don’t understand why this is even an issue if the table/chair lifting is done on opposite sides of the mechitza. Find a more respectful way of showing kovod.
The funniest part of the interview with Trump was where he seemingly acknowledged not having read the Durham filing nor had his lawyers explained it to him but he still insisted it vindicated him entirely (just like the Mueller Report vindicated him by stating they had found 11 possible instances of obstruction of justice on which he could have been indicted but they decided not to make the criminal referrals because of the DOJ policy that a sitting President cannot be criminally charged). The dumb as a doornail Fox host listened to this garbage w/o interrupting him or correcting his false narrative.
“The bracha of Jewish survival is tznius and privacy”
“No need or use for causing yourself pain by being jealous about anything”Both are the themes of frum yidden in yeshivish lvush posting photos at 2AM motzo shabbos of their escapades in South Beach on their Facebook, Twitter and Instagram feeds….
It may come as a shock but some of us cannot imagine willingly getting on a plane to South Florida absent a visit to an elderly snow bird relative or giving a speech at some trade association meeting and then getting out of town asap.The real reason that no one other than Fox/OAN/NewsMax are not running the Durham story is that its mainly not a story. Please read his filing to the Court, not what others are speculating his filing MIGHT mean or can be twisted to mean.
There is no “there” there, even for YWN.Johnny: Keep your day job….I don’t see a future for you as the CR poet laurate unless the Trumpkopf ends up in the WH again but even then, he will probably declare such positions as part of the swamp culture since the only poem he eve wrote was removed by Twitter as a violation of its editorial guidelines.
As a factual matter, Biden won because as Akuperma an 62 federal and state courts found to varying degrees, he had more votes, both popular and electoral. If you think the Ebesheter screwed up by allowing Joe to take office, file an appeal with beis din shel maalah. The matter has been adjudicated and resolved by the “lower” courts.AAQ: In a world of telecommuting, our firm and others I work with typically have no problem accommodating the needs of those who are shomer shabbos or with other religious preferences. Our bigger problem these days are the burdens of dealing with increasingly generous paternal leave policies where younger associates can take off for up to six months with pay after the birth of a child and be assured of returning to their prior position with no loss of status. It creates significant frictions with those who have to pick up the slack while they are out on leave.
CAA: Agreed….a sidur is really not a sidur unless it includes a periodic v’yatzmach purkanei v’karev moishichei….
P.S. As the years go by, even the most geshmach sephardeshe siddur is useless with anything smaller than 8 pt font.AAQ. Unlike the vaccines, the government did not enter into agreements with the PCR test providers that would provide a fixed number of their tests at a negotiated price. Instead, Congress mandated that testing be covered by insurance under defined circumstances, and the insurers negotiate with the test providers as to reimbursement rates. The government does not have authority to set prices for Covid tests, absent very specific circumstances.
AAQ: Fortunately, most major law firms and investment banks today (especially those based in NYC) go out of their way to accommodate their frum associates. Many firms had started Friday tele-work even before Covid and its actually gotten quite better since Covid has provided almost everyone with greater flexibility in scheduling their “work time”.
However, for those with more formal 9-5 hours, I would use the example AAQ cited of needing time to “prepare for shabbos” and perhaps not reference your intentions to go home and “take a nap”.Aside from the general obligation to be mesamach choson v’kalah I doubt there is any actual source where chazal bring down that lifting the choson/kalah on chairs, tables etc. is simply an extension of the custom for some to hoist the kalah (not the Choson) on their shoulders and dance. We learn this in several places including Ketubot (17a)
רַב אַחָא מַרְכֵּיב לַהּ אַכַּתְפֵּיהּ וּמְרַקֵּד אָמְרִי לֵיהּ רַבָּנַן אֲנַן מַהוּ לְמִיעְבַּד הָכִי אֲמַר לְהוּ אִי דָּמְיָין עֲלַיְיכוּ כִּכְשׁוּרָא לְחַיֵּי וְאִי לָא לָא
Very loosely translated: Rav Acḥa would place the kallah on his shoulders and dance. The Rabbonim said to him: What is the psak…is it permitted for us to do so as well? Rav Acha said to them: If brides are comparable for you to a beam, fine, but if not, no, you may not.
Apparently this minhag was subsequently extended to the choson but some rabbonim felt the custom of having the brides legs dangling over someone’s shoulders and carried around the simcha hall of that era was undignified, untziniusdik and potentially problematic from the perspective of negiah etc. and chairs were added to the formula. (Nitei Gavriel, Nissuin, 41:14)The cost per test is de minimis. The “price” is what a person needing the test is willing to pay at a specific time and location. If you are at home and sneezing and your elderly shver is coming over for shabbos dinner, you might want the comfort of a negative test result. For that you might be willing to pay $25-$35. If you have to fly out to London for a client meeting or Zurich for an expensive ski trip and the airline suddenly requires a negative test result within 24-48 hours of departure, then most would willingly pay upwards of $150-$200 for a test where results are guaranteed on time.
“People who learn during the week should sleep more on Shabbos…People who work during the week, should learn more on Shabbos…
And normal people who BOTH work and learn during the week should enjoy shabbos, get some rest, and find some time to learn a vert or two…
Yidden don’t live in a binary world.“Our kids have shnitzel, potato kugel and cholent for Erev Shabbos snack..”
You are fortunate that the CR relies upon a strictly anonymous screen name system for user IDs. Otherwise, you would likely be receiving a call from Maryland Child Protective Services.
AP, Reuters and sometimes WSJ may have a slant on some stories, but overall, they are far more balanced and objective than the alternatives. For many of us, YWN already puts its editorial “spin” on news articles by the headlines and stock photos they run over the wire service stories. YWN readers have the sophistication to read the articles, know its source, and assess the information provided.
If you want an echo chamber for your own views while ostensibly hearing alternative perspectives, you can get a dual subscription to the online Hamodia and AlJazeera websites.This stuff is so “yesterday”….lets move on to the more current and urgent topics such as “Rav Gavornlik’s powerful segulah to solve the shidduch” crisis “The Grey areas of Halacha regarding Techeles” and perhaps most importantly, “the long-term effects of sleep deprivation among those davening vasikim”
I’ve learned its really not worth the effort to debate anyone who feels their “life and liberty” were fundamentally disrupted by having to wear a mask in certain circumstances. These sad individuals typically were angry underachievers prior to Covid and now have a “new” issue to to grab on to that helps them cope with their sad lives. Yes, there are legitimate differences on the efficacy and metrics to assess various protocols, drugs and therapies but to those who claim its an existential matter for them, nothing will help and after a point, they are unworthy of further dialogue. As most posters have noted, masks were an annoyance but we complied where necessary and have now moved on to pretty much a pre-covid lifestyle.
Memo to the anti-everythingers: Get a life and move on too before your anger and hatred eat you up from the inside.We live in a western secular society subject to legal rules and norms, some of which may conform to halacha and Torah and others that don’t. There already are frum Jewish women serving as judges in the state and local court systems. We have frum jewish women litigating in the federal, state and local courts. Protection of omen’s “rights” under secular law (not as you would define them per halacha) benefit from having women in the role of advocates and adjudicators at every level of the court system.
In a larger context, not all disputes can or should be settled in a beis din. Some well known cases of physical and sexual abuse were forced into secular courts as a result of a time when batei din were paralyzed in their dealing with these types of accusations. More frequently, parties to a psak din simply won’t accept the outcome or cannot even agree on the proper forumedited
BY1212; Thanks…I wouldn’t have know the Daniel reference but embarrassed that I didn’t remember the clear references in the Megillah.
Aside from putting on a mask in certain situations, the vast majority of yidden have been going about their business the past several months reasonably close to normal. We daven inside, eat at restaurants (sometimes flashing a V card), making T-times for golf with friends and going on airplanes w/masks on and off to business meetings and vactions. Yes, there are still some residual restrictions but those are being removed relatively quickly.
We didn’t “hide in our homes” even during the peak of the pandemic, we didn’t feel “enslaved” 2 years ago and B’H with the vaccines and common sense protocols, we are all healthy now.
Your nonsensical rhetoric is a lot of hyperbole. Go out and enjoy life and stop looking for strawmen about which to cry gevalt!!Where is the inyan of there being an Adar A and Adar B first mentioned in Tanach or was it brought down later by chazal? My vague recollection is references to a chodesh by the number (aka 7th month) or in the context of other naarative where the time is known (aka h’chodesh hazeh lachem rosh chadashim). But where do we find the first reference to Tishrei , Adar Aleph etc.