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But not to worry…..the real evangelicals believe that for their “moishiach” to come, there needs to be some type of all-out war/Armageddon between Israel and its enemies so moving the Embassy, annexing land, and making any kind of solution with the Palestinians an impossibility is all part their master plan for a goiyeshe olam habah where yidden are cannon fodder for their desired outcome. When they say we are the “chosen people”, stop and inquire, “chosen” for what???
Last night and this morning, I’ve googled the search term “Jewish Music” under the video search category and each time there was a different “unsponsored” listing. The top example of the genre a few minutes ago was Benny Friedman singing the Peter Paul and Mary version “Don’t let the Lights go Out”. I rest my case.
No one has blamed Trump for the virus or suggested that the large percentage of deaths could have been avoided had he acted differently. We are not an authoritarian country whose political system would have tolerated a complete China-type lockdown. However, even Trump’s own advisors acknowledge that a stronger initial response at the NATIONAL level in terms of closures of high-risk activities, immediate invocation of the DPA to coordinate production and distribution of PPE, setting an example by having the President and his team wear masks and practice social distancing etc. would have reduce the numbers of those infected and the death rate. Instead, the non-stop “happy talk” of “the virus will just disappear” etc. and boasting about not wearing a mask and mocking those who did, organizing indoor and outdoor rallies contrary to his own Task Force advice and pushing to “reopen” even when CDC guidelines on reopening have not been met has further polarized Americans and caused more deaths. Its not just Trump. Cuomo’s stupid guidelines on moving covid victims back to nursing homes from hospitals and other governors who tried to imitate the Trumpkopf also share the blame. The country could have done much better than it has.
If a frum yid hums “oy yoy yoy” to a melody he composes in his mind, that is “Jewish music”. Obviously, there is no singular definition since virtually all of the top “Jewish Singers” have willingly adopted goiyeshe nigunim in their “Jewish music” just as goyim have taken the words of torah and adopted it into X’ian music.
Freaking out over the reality that winning a house seat for the Trumpkopf republicans makes them comfortable with this crazy racist who brands Soros a nazi and buys in the crazy Q theories that have already resulted in violent behavior by its followers. The Dems have their lefties and many have spoken out against some f the Squads’ anti EY positions but the Rs have been totally silent. I guess Steve king’s expulsion for his racist views is now an historical anomaly and this racist Georgia women finds supports from tweets by the Racist-inChief .
If the Brisker boys were as smart as would be implied by some of the comments above, they would “auction” themselves off for a shiduch in a true competitive market format with a “meiskeit” opt out provision. Likewise, the girls would have the right for an inspection of the bochur (like a home inspection) prior to the funds being wired to the bochur’s family. Shadchanim could only claim a percentage fee arranged in advance.
Sammy: I checked my electric, gas, water, cable , landscaping and trash collection bills. NONE of them charge any service fee or adder for paying bills electronically. In fact, several offer a discount for signing up for regular epayments tied directly to your bank (which I won’t do). So there is NO additional cost and if you are being charged, you are being ripped off. A very few smaller businesses may charge a service fee for credit card use so I keep an old fashioned checking account for those vendors which I rarely encounter. Some vendors no longer take cash despite certain “progressive” jurisdictions passing legislation requiring them to do so on behalf of the “unbanked” portion of the population. The more hip/millennial oriented service providers only offer digital (paper free) payment options so you cannot even initiate service w/o giving them a credit card.
Most everyone I know now pays their bills online since it is cheaper, faster and more reliable and provides an easy record of payments made for up to 5-6 years. Likewise, cash is going to become a relic soon since no one wants to touch paper money or even have to sign a credit card receipt for health reasons. One of the positive outcome from the CV19 pandemic is to accelerate the trend to shift entirely form paper to digital transactions.
More important is to understand the detailed protocols BMG will follow if one of the bochurim shows signs of infection. Do they have rapid test capability? Are there daily temperature checks? Have they set aside one of the dorms for quarantining out of town yungerleit who test positive? These are the questions I would want to understand.
Hope you son stays safe and healthyCommonsaychel: I stand corrected. Chazal bring down that the general rule is one kapital per 1,000 ft of free fall.
Asimpleyid: Thanks for the clarification….I don’t recall any “alma mater” from my own years at summer camp. Thanks to Charlie Hall, I do very clearly recall the melody and lyrics of High Above Cayuga’s waters from my many years in Ithaca although we generally hummed everything after the first stanza.
asimpleyid: He is looking for an “Alma Mater” nigun, not background music for an Alzheimer’s fundraiser or a Shoa Survivors Reunion
“What will become of all the memories
Are they to scatter with the dust and the breeze
Yet one thought gives me comfort
Its all that i have left
Oh i know that god in heaven
Wont forget”Sam: Sorry to disagree but appearances DO matter when davening or engaging in any mitzvah. Its not how much you spend but doing the best you can within you means. Hidur mitzvah does not mean spending hundreds of dollars on an esrog if that means you don’t feed your family for yom tov but it also doesn’t mean showing up in shul with arba minim hoping the Ebeshter doesn’t notice you’ve been frugal and substituted a lemon for an esrog. While 90+ percent of yidden show up in shul dressed respectfully, I’m still amazed at the few who don’t seem able to put on a clean and well fitting pair of pants, jacket and hat that is in accordance with their hashkafah.
Som1: Do you really believe that shouting in ALL CAPS lends any greater credibility to your responses? The Trumpkopf has done everything he can to undercut his own Task Force and advisors. He mocks the experts and claims to “know better” than anyone else. He puts lives at risk by discouraging masks and social distancing which are the only current options for lowering the risk of infection. No, he is not to blame for 150, 000 American deaths from Covid19 but he certainly is accountable for some portion of that grim total by making viewing the world from his narcissistic, myopic political lens.
First of all, given your intentions, I would be saying a kapital tehillim rather than viduy. Second, notwithstanding the “finger lakes” designaiton, it is really at the northern end of the lakes halfway between Syracuse and Rochester, both of which have several orthodox shuls with daily minyanim. There is no shul in Weedsport.
Sam: If you approach the Ebeshter with your supplications wearing the cheapest hat you can find (versus the best you can afford) , don’t be surprised if he shows the same frugality in how he responds to your teffilos.
Not sure what you are looking for……a rousing “fight song” sung at competitive athletic or intellectual events (e.g. a Mir-Brisk talmud quiz like a fum “Its Academic”) or a slow, melancholy melody sung at the end of a class reunion…..Big difference
“Vaccines aren’t dangerous at all. You could pump babies with them with no side effects”
Your statement is NOT correct so I’d be careful with repeating it outside the questioning framework of the CR. Certain vaccines CAN trigger very violent and life-threatening reactions in younger children. I understand your general point that vaccines ordinarily would not be very harmful to most of those inoculated, even if they lack efficacy for their intended target but DON’T make absolute statements.If your kids have been in Northern Virginia/D.C. suburbs for the past several months, than they will find a considerably lower level of caution being exercised in Lakewood than at home. If you are from the Virginia Beach/Newport News area, probably the same level of masks, social distancing etc. In any event, hopefully they will stay safe and well and yuse good judgement no matter what others may be doing.
Syag: I offered a demo video to Comedy Central (the network carrying southpark) of a new reality show focusing on the daily lives of a bunch of frum yidden posting on social media but apparently there was little interest in producing my version of The Caffeine Club.
I’ll keep you updated.If they are transparent with the vaccine components, protocols, and testing results, the origins of the vaccine are irrelevant. We seem to be rushing our own vaccines and hopefully the FDA will have the backbone to stand up to pressure from the Trumpkopf to approve anything before election day. Overall, I’d be reluctant to take the beta version of ANY vaccine, whether Russian, American or whatever.
The most significant benefit flowing to an American bochur able to spend 3 or 4 years shteiging at the Hareidi Harvard (aka Brisk) is that when he comes home to Brooklyn or Lakewood, the shadchanim are lined up at the airport arrival area to introduce him to the daughters of their wealthiest clients who come with a lifetime of financial support and they don’t have to worry about the “w” word.
At some point, there will be ads for a “Coronaproof Shtender” which will include a plexiglass shieild on 3 sides, ultraviolet lighting and a mister spraying Lysol at preset intervals. A must-have for all bochurim returning to shteig after bein hazmanim. Also on the must have list will be the new facemasks developed in EY with materials that purportedly make them much more effective than conventional N85 masks.
” the gezeira on yeshivos to be worse than the gezeira of Corona itself, with many bochurim going to work….”
A truly mindless analogy. The rules governing who is allowed in to EY and under what terms are the best effort by public health officials to manage the risks of bringing in outside infections on top of an already high communal infection spread. They are trying their best under conditions of great uncertainty and are still learning about the virus and what guidelines work. Yes, it is inconveniencing some American bochurim who might have planned to attend yeshivos in EY. But for nO mesorah to say the that having some bochurim earn some money in the interim to help support themselves and finance the tuition when they can return is worse than being infected with the virus? Either a bad joke or someone who truly is detached from reality.
Commonsaychel: Did you fly to LV and drive up or drive all the way to avoid flying. I’m still reluctant to get on an airplane before vaccines although I may have to bite the bullet for a work trip next month. Agreed that SW Utah area is incredible area for hiking and sightseeing and generally less crowded than some of the other national and state parks.
Do you have a drone over the compound taking pictures of the damage like the insurance company ads on TV?
All the reasons enumerated by the Wolf PLUS the ability to take a break from seemingly non-stop work/zoom calls to refresh my brain cells here in the CR and engage in civil discourse with some really intelligent, witty and self-effacing who I would likely never otherwise encounter.
Which leads to the question of IF and WHEN a mask can be “untzniusdik”??
Grab your sharpie and a weather map and redirect the storm Brooklyn to Alabama.
The No. 1 Reason not to vote Republican:
The Trumpkopf…..also reason nos. 2-10.
Along the lines of Zahavasdad comments, also consider Ithaca (a bit longer drive) for a shabbos and perhaps a day or two longer. You have the option of the on-campus Young Israel House at Cornell (I’m dating myself since I think its been called Jewish Living Center at Cornell for a while) or the Chabad center just off campus. The Finger Lakes are an incredibly beautiful area which I’ve discovered many New Yorkers have not really seen.
Question for any location is whether you will be comfortable with indoor dining at ANY location where you aren’t guaranteed social distancing. If this is a concern, than check before yuu leave.“Who cares what he {Fauci} says?!?….These Government Health agencies survive – when there is Disease & No Easy Treatment!”
So true…..We should be much more willing to rely on experts such as the Trumpokopf and his gang of “medical experts” he finds on Fox and Breitbart and most importantly, the world class medical experts here in the CR than our own government’s medical health experts.. The latter are all part of the “deep state” and want as many Americans as possible to die from Covid so as to defeat the Trumpkopf. Our kiddush club has decided to add a splash of chlorox to the first round of l’chayim scotch in honor of the Trumpkopf’s contributions to medical science and defeating the Invisible Enemy.
P.S. TDS has been shown to be an inevitable outcome of reading the Trumpkopf’s tweets on Covid treatment.Neither Ttrump, R’ Zelenko etc. have cited a single randomized, placebo controlled trial has shown efficacy in Covid treatment by HCQ (with or w/o zinc). Indeed, the few such studies of HCQ have shown the opposite. The authors of the Ford Health system study that is repeatedly cited in relation to HCQ efficacy have acknowledged that their study was not a randomized, placebo controlled trial but also that a relatively large percentage of trial participants were being treated with steroidal medications.
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Unless the Raleigh has done a massive rennovation over the past year, I’d steer clear. From what I’ve heard from friends who planned to stay their last summer, outside the lobby and a few new “bungalow” type townhouse additions, the place reeks of the 1950s/60s literally and figuratively. Smells in the hallways, dirty linens and carpeting, ancient plumbing, bugs etc. If you must go, check to be sure you are reserving an “upgraded room” and ask specifically what that includes.
Also, consider the Oppenheimer Regis in Fleishmen’s New York. Also frum crowd with chasideshe shechita and shul on site. They’ve upgraded the facility across the board . Still not a 5 star hotel but a step above the RaleighAt this point, not more can be said about the broad applications of HCQ. The vast majority of refereed journals and medical experts reject its efficacy as a treatment or for prophylactic use. Any physician can still prescribe to their patients if they so decide. There is plenty available, most of which will probably sit in government warehouses and go out of date, courtesty of Peter Navaro. We wish Dr. Zelenko a refuah shelamah and lets move on.
Trump buddy Herman Cain, (aka Mr. 999) was niftar today from Covid he likely contracted at an unmasked and socially undistanced Trump campaign event. He was also a big HCQ supporter. Sad to lose anyone to this affliction but perhaps this might get the attention of at least a few of the skeptics.
Sammy: Your bitachon is admirable but people may literally be putting their lives at risk if they take your simplistic posts literally. Trusting in hashem and doing all we can to follow the guidance of our medical and public health experts (not the HQ quacks) are not mutually exclusive and will result in the best outcomes for the tzibur.
Coffee Addict; Umein, v’umein, especially when the Trumpkopf seems to engage in non-stop rants that have no basis in science or fact and leave his advisors to constantly begin by saying, “what the President meant to say was that….”. Sadly, there is a large percentage of the American tzibur who still take his Tweets and reality show “news conferences” seriously and thus are confused when confronted with factual and objective assessments based on the best understanding of this virus at a point in time. I’m 100 percent certain that a year from now, some aspects of what we now believe is “torah Moshe M’Sinai” from a public health perspective will have been updated. In the interim, the best we can do is work with what scientists believe are the best protocols.
Since frum yidden disproportionately benefit from real estate tax breaks and loopholes, just assume the Biden plans is just another form of latent antisemitism propagated by the Dems. Alternatively, you might check the facts and discover we have a child care crises in our country for low and middle income working families and that his plan is well intended and necessary and the issue is how much federal funding is appropriate.
Have you spoken to the Chabad shaliach in SJ? I was stranded in SJ over shabbos about 18 months ago ( with an airline mechanical issue) and met a wonderful young rav whose name I forget who was originally from Argentina and Western Canada. My presumption is that since each Chabad program is self-funded , they would need to raise money to update and maintain the facility which would be a huge challenge for a shaliach who I presume is already struggling financially. I’d be interested if you have spoken with that Rav or whoever is the current Shaliach whether it would be remotely financially feasible.
Amil: Given your location in the Pac NW where the annual rainfall may approximate an Amazon rain forest (no pun to the nearby Amazon campus) have you considered installing a rainwater collection system that would fill the pool in a manner that would satisfy hilchos mikvah and CR posters from the metro area could come by an toivel if the Governor were to shut down public mikvahs?
In nature, animals that deviate from the accepted “lvush” tend to get “eaten” more frequently by those higher up the food chaing than those that blend in to the herd, so perhaps you have a point. A red corvette is more likely to be ticketed for speeding, even if the driver is simply keeping up with all the other traffic.
Thanks Toi….so in your world, it can’t be “good” unless its “bad” for your health. There are many very tasteful alternatives to high fat, salty and starch filled foods that seem to be rejected more on the basis that our grandparents didn’t eat them in the alte heim so we shouldn’t either.
Toi Why would you want a bochur in EY to eat saturated fat when there are so many healthier alternatives??