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While the UN is blatantly anti-Israel and hypocritical, roughly two-thirds of the resolutions adopted by the U.N. Security Council in 2020 dealt with Yemen, Libya, Somalia, Cyprus etc. and NOT with Israel
I can’t post the URL link but simply google “Resolutions Adopted by the United Nations Secuity Council in 2020” and you will see the list of those resolutions by date and subject. There are several indirect resolutions targeted at EY but those were issued under the title of “The Situation in the Middle East”.

Welcome to the 21st century in American machashefa jurisprudence.

In the 1980s, a Federal District Court in Virginia ( Dettmer v Landon) recognized “witchcraft” as a valid and legitimate religious exercise and this was upheld by the Fourth Circuit., determining that people who practice witchcraft as a religion are entitled to the same Constitutional protections as those who follow other belief systems. At least half the states (including those intolerant dudes in Massachusetts) have offered explicit legal recognition for Wicken or Pagan practices under state constitutional guarantees for free exercise.
Bottom Line: Until moishiach arrives and reverses Dettmer, et. al.
don’t be surprised to see variations of machashefa show up in your local jurisdictions

“Sanhedrin has the right to carry out executions even on offenses that don’t normally carry capital punishment”

The last time I checked, posting hateful or threatening messages on some media websites was not something chayav misah but as you correctly noted, perhaps Sanhedrin will decide to employ extra-judicial sanctions to cleanse the internet of olam haboh from such online garbage.

The average wage in EY (roughly $3500/month) is not materially different from those in the U.S. ($3700/month) but subsidies for housing and food vary substantially. In the U.S., frum families have more inertia and are reluctant to move far away from family and frum mosdos and infratstructure to so called OOT locations. Both the U.S. and EY suffer from severe shortages of affordable housing, especially for larger families. Multiple factors make direct comparisons difficult. The data itself is questionable given the U.S. and EY use different metrics to measure those in the work force (the demoninator in the computation of average wages and how data for those working part-time and/or those who have dropped out of the work force are normalized).

Two clowns, only one (Adams) perhaps slighly less dysfunctional than the other. Its mind-numbing that with 20 million residents, these are the abysmal choices given NY voters.

DY: I told you so! Double standard. Next thing you know, someone will say its OK for chassidim to move back the odometer on a used minivan sold to a misnaged. Nothing is sacred anymore.

But of course some of regulars will paskin that its “OK” if the relevant products are made/sold by goyim and the readership of the review will be primarily “eno yehudi”.
A lie is a lie and deception is deception.

RE. Thanks. Will review the article.
Apparently, the KofK announced yesterday that, “the product has had a change in its kashrus standard” and that effective October 26, 2021 “Due to various considerations, Terra Chips is no longer certified Bishul Yisroel”.
Is this going to become a trend? I read recently (I think on YWN) that several Rabbonim had also raised questions regarding the “bishul yehudi’ workarounds used in most kosher restaurants.

Syag: We know there are a few misguided and borderline misogynistic trolls who somehow get their thrills by finding some “new” outrage regarding women’s dress, women learning XYZ, women’s role in the home, pseudo-feminism reflected in hashkafah etc. etc. Some even find humor in jokes about “beating” their wives, etc. Sadly, that mindset is too pervasive in society as a whole, and not specific to our communities.The Mods do a reasonably good job of filtering that garbage and cannot really require posters to act like “adults” allowing for the fact that recently many are not. There is a reasonably wide range of hashkafah reflected here in the CR, notwithstanding the efforts of self-styled tzinius police to throttle anything that conflict with their “tzinius outrage of the week” narrative.

Great news. We should all stay well and hopefully be rid of this magefah sooner rather than later.

AAQ: Well said. All other factors equal, which is rarely the case, we obviously would go with the Jewish physician. In today’s world, we unfortunately have to arbitrage between a physician’s expertise and whether he/she accepts your insurance and real world stuff like that.

What’s the commercial custom for a computer technician or for a plumber

Minhag hamokom as well as the size of the business. You can probably “negotiate” with a solo practitioner to assist in setting up your home wifi network or replacing screen on your iphone (perhaps by bundling several other repairs) but if you call the Geek Squad from Best Buy, there is a fixed price and no negotiating.

“Klal Yisroel doesn’t follow feminist trends”

UJM: Come on, at least show some originality in your trolls……..if my daughter was marrying into your family, I’d probably just refer to you as P.O. Box -1. Your continuing effort to affirm your creds as the CR’s resident misogynist require occasional flashes of creative content.

Yaakov Doe: So its assur to insult a goyeshe doctor by asking him to cut the price on your colonoscopy or asking a goyeshe plumber to discount the replacement of your hot water heater but somehow OK to do so when the service provider is a Yid? Where do chazal bring down the inyan of insulting yidden but not goyim?

Use another term but “reading the room” means situational awareness. Both halacha and common sense dictate listening to what the aveilim and others already engaged in conversation are saying before you speak. In some cases there may not be much being said and to break the silence you have to offer your words of nechama with great care and sensitivity to how those words are received.

Without regards to the names of any particular CR posters, in any of these circumstances, once you arrive “read the room”, get a feel for the mood, the people there at that time, the substance and tone of the ongoing conversation and use COMMON SENSE. Spend a few minutes listening to the conversation before ASKING QUESTIONS or trying to direct the conversation in another direction. As one poster above noted, most important, lead with positive memories of the niftar, and if possible, recall some special anecdote about your personal interaction with him/her that will provide nechama to the aveilim.

Ninty percent of the time, you will know when its ok and when not. Generally, such haggling is ok when you are dealing with the sale of high margin goods/services where the seller has sufficiient headroom to offer a discount and still make a profit. In some venues, bargaining is expected and the initial price quoted is deliberately excessive with the intent of eliciting a counteroffer. At the other extreme are low margin products in local food markets where the margins are extremely low (a few percent in grocery markets) so there really is no room to haggle except in special situations (defects, overly-ripe, near the pull date etc). where its perfectly ok to ask if the merchant will take a lower price. Likewise, as someone noted, its unfair to ask an employee of a service provider who comes out to fix your freezer or HVAC for a discount from the price you were quoted since most of the time they have fixed prices per job established by their company. Its ok to ask if they offer discounts for seniors, military veterans or some other affinity group but otherwise, we don’t bargain over the price to fix the A/C on a 100 degree day. Do your price shopping on line or when you call potential service providers, not after they arrive.

I don’t think listening to modernishe Jewish singers is a major contributing factor in the causation of defection from Torah….

Quite to the contrary. So called “moderinishe” jewish music probably has kept some frum kids from going OTD. In my generation, Carlebach’s concerts were considered borderline apikorsus. There is a spectrum of what might today be considered “modernishe” music from the MBDs Avram Frieds , Shumulel Lemmersetc, towards the Lipa Shmeltzers and Matisyahus to some rappers whose stuff is really hard to take for more than a few minutes. However, forcing today’s kids to listen or classical chazzanus might be considered the equivalent of forcing goiyeshe teens to listen to Barry Manilow and Frank Sinatra. (Some may even recall when the Baltimore police installed speakers at locations known for drug-dealing and played 24×7 Manilow and Wayne Newton to discourage dealers from congregating)

Baltimore mayven is correct regarding Maryland statute. For an individual who is 15 YO, marriage IS permitted but only with parental consent AND a physician’s certification regarding pregnancy.

Its not “censorship”….its correctly referred to as “asymetric moderation”. Be careful of AsyMOD299, i hear he’s ruthless.

Syag: Whose being “funny”…..that was a really serious comment. The YWN coffee room is actually one of the best political websites around where there are really smart people (yourself included on most occasions) with whom one can engage in civil debate. You too often see non-existant ghosts and impute motivation that isn’t there. I don’t think anyone in the CR “immerses themselves” in the garbage on other sites and thats one of the reasons we are here. Nor is anyone trashing your “prudishness”.

We definitely need another social media site with no moderation. Trump’s former chief spokesperson, Jason Miller, started such a site called “Gettr” several months ago but had a falling out with the Trumpkopf who wanted nearly total $$ control for lending his name. Gettr has become a total cesspool for porno and racist and anti-semitic commentary given its no moderation policies.
If you were smart, you would have bought stock in the new publicly traded venture when the market opened this morning after shachris. You would have increased your investment by 350% by mincha and another 50 percent by maariv (in after-hours trading) as of 7:15 PM

Why would it work for the beavers but not for the Litvish? Borselino by Attica (model no. 238) is a 100 percent beaver felt hat which should keep its shape even in the rain.

There is an emerging consensus that some of these anti-viral drugs should be administered on a prophylactic basis to a small subset of the immune compromised (aka those on chemo etc.) since they either are not able to be vaccinated OR any vaccination is unlikely to yield sufficient antibody response to provide meaningful protection against covid. Will probably have to be limited to the most immune compromised since hospitals are still ill-equipped to handle widespread infusions of APPROVED drugs like Regeneron etc.

Actually, it was WW II, where in 1940 and early 1941, Italian planes bombed British forces primarily in Haifa but also in Tel Aviv and and several strikes in Jaffa. There were also a few bombings by German forces in that time frame but at a much smaller scale.