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YMRbiat: I am obviously referring to the bizarre notion that adopting a Jewish-sounding surname would increase the likelihood of a black actress finding success in in post-War Hollywood where Jewish movie moguls were doing their best to assimilate into a goiyeshe entertainment velt.
When we were really little kids, a grandparent originally from Minsk served us something on Shabbosim she called “Plov” which in my vague recollections looked like and tasted like the stuff we now call cholent, chulent or chunt.
All the summer camps to which the more modernishe yidden sent their kids back in the 60s, 70s, and 80s had names like Camp Waheenee, Camp Miniwakka, Camp Mohawk, etc. Have you ever heard of a Camp for the kids of indigenous tribes in Oklahoma or South Dakota named Camp Silvershtein or Camp Gavornlik??
Akuperma says it better than myself or most of the other posts. Trump and other presidents have always said they would surround themselves with the “smartest people”, the “best managers” and the “most qualified” people for their appointments, whether judges or cabinet agency heads. With trump, there were some really good appointments (DOD, State, etc) who were either fired or resigned because they could not tolerate his meshugaas and the real drech such as his HHS, HUD etc cabinet secretaries who were incompetent sycophants who stayed around for years or were forced to resign for ethics violations.
All Presidents know they will have to reward their political base and supporters with jobs regardless of competence. They lie when they say this person is the “best choice”. The truth is it may be the best choice given the self-imposed constraints on the universe of potential candidates I was willing to consider.“There’s more important things to worry about [then Cholent]”
So true!!….the Shidduch crisis is raging out of control….Mike Pence is still walking the streets even though he failed to overturn the election……bugs are still crawling around in bags of romaine lettuce with hashgacha and the guys with yellow flags on Eastern Parkway have failed miserably in bringing Moishiach. And yet people are talking about Cholent????
“…but Catholics and Jews are overrepresented on the court for some time. ..
So are members of the Federalist Society and their ilk….
Guteid: Its really rewarding to know my eitzah is so highly regarded and valued by the real gedolim….not so much here at home. In the near term, I will publish a white paper, which I know all will be anxiously waiting for, to chart a path forward on this complex public policy issue.
The religious parties have had almost a decade to come up with some alternative proposal for public service by frum boys/girls as an alternative to the military draft. There have been several “final” agreements negotiated under multiple governments which were initially accepted and then rejected or blown up because of the lack of consensus on one side or the other. The current law is much worse than prior agreements they could have accepted.
@TSB.
No. מובן מאליו‘Why no names of hospitals?…”
1. YWN doesn’t want to get sued by posting potentially defamatory allegatons.
2. Anecdotal allegations about medical malpractice, unsupported by rigorous investigation and supporting documentations is really of very little value and potentially dangerous if it results in others relying on that hospital and in need of critical medical care, forego that care after reading about such unsubstantiated allegations.
3. There are government and private website providing hospital ratings using carefully vetted data, their own inspections of those facilities by experts and information on substantiated malpractice claims.
4. Otherwise, its a great idea.“Its up to you and whether you believe the principles you were raised on…”
RebPhil: Agreed. Thats why some of us, as a matter of PRINCIPLE, could never vote for such a vile, racist and narcissistic psychopath.
Reb E might confirm if a “salty” Ungarishe chulent (or “cholent”) is culinary apikorsus
AAQ: In a number of STATES, the Governor and Lt Gov/AG run on separate lines so we frequently have the AG refusing to defend the Governor’s legal position on a new law or executive order the AG of the other party deems “unconstitutional”. We also have the relatively new practice of state legislatures hiring outside counsel to defend previously enacted laws where the incoming governor or AG won’t defend. However, the Lt. Governor in most states is relatively powerless except under weird circumstances.
For example, in Idaho, there are two right-wing Republican crazies serving as Governor/Lt. Gov. When the Gov (the more “moderate” of the two) went out of town, the acting Governor (aka the Lt. Gov) issued emergency executive orders revoking the real Governor’s executive orders on stuff like masks, etc). When the real governor returned home, he “reversed the reversals”. After two or three rounds of this circus, he simply stopped telling the Ltl Governor when he was heading to the airport.Use a higher quality, lower fat meat or substitute dark meat turkey or one of the new beef substitutes; try using less salt, experiment with lentils in lieu of the standard beans and try sneaking in some dark green leafy vegetables. Also, keep the pot on the edge of the blech if it tends towards “hot” to avoid drying out by shabbos lunchtimel
B’h, we’ve been healthy but in the course of a brief outpatient ortho procedure I was beyond impressed with the personal care being provided by the nursing and resident staff to the patients I came in contact with. I did not have to go through the ER or ICUs but still had a fairly extensive access to the hospital facilities.
We constantly read about this stuff and see it almost nightly on the evening news but watching the mesiras nefesh of these public health heroes first-hand,was something else. It makes me incredibly angry that some teachers and government employees are still refusing to go back to work in person because of a long list of fears, risk factors etc (some legit) while some nursing and maintenance staff at hospitals making less have been out there in person EVERY DAY from the very beginning of Covid 2 years ago.Well, if you listen to the crazy pillow guy, Trump is still the President so Biden doesn’t even count.
Better factoid….did you know that originally, the President and VP candidates ran separately
and the presidential candidate who received the most electoral votes won the presidency; the runner-up became the vice president. In 1796, this meant that the president and the vice president (Adams and Jefferson) were from different parties and had quite different political views to say the least. The adoption of 12th Amendment presumably solved this problem by allowing each party to nominate their “team” for president and vice president.”
Sadly, as the Trumpkopf discovered, the constitution does NOT guarantee that the VP must be a “team player” with respect to certifying their “reelection”I would have assumed that most voters would have the common sense to wait and see who are the candidates for a particular office at a particular point in time and what policies and positions they advocate. However, that sounds quite old-fashioned in the contemporary polarized world of American politics.
AAQ: I suspect the majority of 2020 Trump voters will stay with him in the 2024 primaries, absent some truly unforeseeable revelations (and even then, most Trumpkopfs will just dismiss it as either another Russia hoax or “Trump being Tump”). I wish I could see a Dem that could both force Biden out of another run in 2024 and defeat Trump but that too seems unlikely given the growing Democratic propensity to form circular firing squads. Thus, I’m probably going to show up on Eastern Parkway waving a yellow flag demanding that Moishiach come so we don’t have to go through another Presidential election cycle. .
Zaphod….lets assume the Mods have the tools and sophistication to at some point screen out mass spamming….I’ve just tuned out the garbage for now.
Reb Yosef”. VZ’L (thats his VIRTUAL neshama, since I assume his physical being has moved on to troll elsewhere) was at least a GOOD troll, with fresh and clever lines and from whom we learned much while tuning out his misogynistic and borderline racist content)
Some other interesting factoids in recent polls of likely voters….even among those who “strongly support” or “admire’ the 45 President, the majority hope he doesn’t run again in 2024 for two basic reasons. First, simple concern that his behavior/actions/personality will “trump” (excuse the pun) his policies. Second, there are now “Trump light” options that can achieve those policies and outcoimes without all the drama and baggage. On the other side are the die-hard Trumpkops/MAGAs who believe that our political system has been forever transformed so the only way to achieve change is with a candidate who exudes all that drama and baggage .
KGN: Have you ever heard of “sashimi”….sort of like a cheeseburger where you’ve asked them to hold the cheese, bun, special sauce, tomato and onion.
If you want to stay with the maki style sushiroll, ask your local Itame to prepare a Ungarishe Roll with really fresh pike or carp rolled in Nori (dried seaweed) and topped with a simple sugar syrup. B’taavon!!Syag: Not sure what statistics you are referencing….I don’t believe ANY of these polls given the bias of pollsters, self-selection of respondents, failure to include “wireless” users in certain polling pools, and a gazillion other factors. Just funny to find any poll showing results so contrary to all the current polls with Biden’s popularity in the tank….
The people (not all frum) have spoken:
In a poll released this AM by Marquette Univ Surveys (which was one of the few that acurately predicted the strong Trump 2016 showing), 43 percent of adults nationwide said they would support Biden if the 2024 presidential election were held today versus only 33 percent who would vote for Trump in a one-on-one match-up.
Sixteen percent said they would choose a different candidate, while 6 percent said they would not vote. In a hypothetical 1:1 race against DeSantis, however, Biden polls slightly better: 41 percent of adults nationwide said they would throw their support behind Biden, while 33 percent would support DeSantis.What is your definition of “decently yeshivish”?
I’m not aware of any indecent yeshivos in America catering to 4-5 year old prodigies who are also “doing” a bissel college on the side.Also, perhaps check with anyone you know in the Shuvu cult and find out what brand of Tallis their now imprisoned leader wore 24×7 while being chased across 4 continents by Israeli prosecutors. I don’t think I ever saw his tallis slip off.
“Egypt is in North Africa…”
Ask most Egyptians if they are a “North African” country and you will get a very vigorous pushback locating themselves in the “Middle East”. Indeed, they would be more comfortable if you just said they lived in a suburb of Eilat versus having any real connection with most of the African continent.On the social interaction issues of concern to you, it will vary tremendously between local chabad groups and individual shalichim.
The so-called “Kemo” tallis is really tightly woven lightweight wool (not sure if Egyptian or North African) but from what I’ve heard, actually stays on like velcro. Some order a size larger to avoid having any tallis slip off…
Do you believe Moshe Rabeinu was around for k’riyas yam suf or was this whole story just another illustration of “Fake News” to make Pharoh look bad??
“Mod 29 said that complaints change the status to irritating”
I have only the greatest respect for the Mods (especially the ehrliche yid with an esrim v’tesa surname which in gematria equates to “delete”. I trust that Mod 29 and his/her colleagues do NOT wish to become part of the cancel culture and are willing to indulge new posters up to a point. Several of us believe that point was breached a while ago and these recent vacuous posts have transcended irritating and obnoxious .
This recent flood of childish and generally incoherent posts is both disruptive and not especially “entertaining”. However, its up to the Mods to decide what is acceptable under the CR editorial guidelines, so the opinions of some of us “oldtimers” are not especially relevant other than our collective decision to ignore.
It will be tough to maintain costly rail networks for peak day service when huge crowds may flood the system while average daily travel wanes. Also, there are huge unfunded pension obligations for mass transit workers which are generally tied to general revenues but in some cases are funded by transit agency revenues.
Does “displacement” equate to virtual “neutralization” as the say in EY??
AAQ: Many parents are not yet comfortable with their yinglach going off on their own overseas while in their early teens. This would include seminary in EY or any other “year abroad”
If the 20th century urban planning model of building roads and fixed-rail mass transit systems as “hub-and-spoke” networks to shlep workers from the suburbs to “downtown” has materially changed, than we will have trillions of dollars worth of obsolete infrastructure whose financing costs will still have to be paid without sufficient revenues to cover debt service.
Otherwise, no problem and we all live happily ever after on Zoom calls.“I’m a big fan of mussar, but sometimes it’s a bit too much…”
Agreed. I always felt guilty running off to the Kiddush Club on shabbos בְּחֻקֹּתַי while the baal koreh was reading the Tocheichah (which I generally couldn’t hear anyway). I’ve also given up on my original aspirations to become the official baal musar for members of the Club.
…making Shabbos special with special food set aside only for Shabbos..”
Nothing “special” about chulent for shabbos, at least the way many prepare it using beans and cheaper cuts of fatty meat (with lots of salt). Also, the “special for shabbos” label is a joke given that just about every frum neighborhood now has some joint that hosts special Chulent Night on thursdays. I’m all for those who choose to start shabbos early but Thursday night is a non-starter even under the most expansive definition of “plag hamincha”
Whatever works for YOU is the right answer. Some bochurim have the skills, motivation and self-discipline to supplement their yeshiva’s curriculum with on-line classes and self-instruction while others will need the structure and support of a traditional classroom with skilled teachers to obtain the necessary secular skills in language, math and science to proceed on to college and grad school . Its never a one-size-fits-all formula when it comes to learning and education.
Not to worry….the regular Mods flew off on their regular Tu B’shvat winter vacations this week at some undisclosed tropical island with no internet access. ….Normal moderation and screening of “new topics” will hopefully be restored on their return.
I think we had this “name the acronym” once before
EJMR is the Economic Jobs Market Rumors social media forum, a sort of Linked-in for economists seeking jobs in the economics market. Its primarily focused on teaching jobs for academics but spans the entire economics/statistics and finance disciplines. While its a year-round online venue, its activities peak in December and early January prior to the annual January meetings of the American Economics Association where a large percentage of the economics hiring process occurs.
Having provided a totally useless factoid, I’m sure our CR poster going by that acronym has something else in mind.
Yes…and a large percentage of CR participants are not within the 3 mile Doordash or Grubhub delivery zones off 13th Avenue. Thats why UJM’s gracious offer shows real mesiras nefesh.
UJM neglected to mention that he will personally deliver to unfortunate CR participants who foolishly made a decision to live OOT and will waive the usual delivery charge for those making a donation to his favorite tzadakah
Frozen Pizza=overpriced cardboard with hashgacha. Its so easy to make fresh pizza at home (even if you use fresh pita bread in lieu of rolling your own dough), unclear why anyone (other than a bochur in a dorm room at some distance from a real pizza restaurant) would even consider ingesting the frozen stuff.
Whats a “haak”?
Haak: A small to medium-sized bird of prey (genus Accipiter) found primarily in the Boston and surrounding New England areas
ujm: It wouldn’t be tziniusdik.
CH: I can’t think of a “silly” insult….would a plain old insult suffice?
People who post silly comments are desperately seeking attention.
The vast percentage of those work for years to get the required education and training to become either a physical therapist or mental health therapist (not sure which you are referencing) and then obtain the required certification, genuinely want to help people. Sorry if you’ve had a bad experience.
“For most of our history, Yidden got along quite fine without going away on vacations”
Tell that to the many chashuvah rabbonim who fly to Switzerland, Florida and other “vacation desitnations” at certain times of year.
The is nothing left to discuss…HEwhose name has been cancelled was banned for life so only those suffering from TDS would even have any incentive to obsess about what HE might have tweeted. Thusfar, we have no evidence that HE has been posting here in the CR under some assumed name that sounds like an acronym for a big yiddeshe mosdos.
” I believe this is actually happening under the radar, with people using small NJ colleges to pass at lowest requirement level…
AAQ: I hope your right. However/wherever its happening, its a net positive to have a greater percentage or frum youth obtaining some level of college education while continuing with their limudei kodesh.