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so right, it’s all about respect.
“Awesome?” I have a shovel for you. When can you be here?
I have a related question for the Coffee Room:
In your shul, when someone is called for an aliya, how does the gabbai call him up? Is there a difference in what title the gabbai uses if he is married or single?
Specifically, does your shul use Ha’bachur for single people and Reb for married people? Or Reb for all adult men or no title for everyone?
Health, I don’t give advice while shopping nor does any attorney I know. The reason is quite simple–the attorney-client privilege is lost if the conversation is not private. Nevertheless, your so-called “friendly conversation” requires my professional advice and I am liable for malpractice even if I do it for free.
A true friendly conversation does not involved one party giving the other free work.
“A lawyer’s time is his stock in trade.” –Lincoln.
AinOhdMilvado, if heaven forbid, you find yourself arrested, call an accountant.
What does your architect say?
What does your attorney say?
You can ask a criminal lawyer you know, but be careful, some will charge their fee just for a shmuz, even though you’re a friend. Ask beforehand, if you can just ask him a quick question for free.
“Shmuz?” Actually, that’s a consultation.
RuffRuff, Thank you.
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My driveway is legal. So is my neighbor’s.
You park here, you take the risk of not finding your car when you get back.
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RuffRuff said,
First of all, any new apartment building should be required to supply parking for its tenants.
Actually, any new apartment with eight (8) or more apartments already is required to have off-street parking. Ask yourself why there is new construction that does not conform to the law.
A ticket and tow solves most of these problems. Very low-to-nonexistent repeat offender rate.
Popa, Please do that in front of my driveway. I’ll be waiting. You won’t like the results.
A driveway is not illegal until the Department of Buildings says it is.
Last Friday, someone blocked my driveway at 2:00 P.M. with, I suppose, a true emergency. (Yeah, right.) He was still there at 8:00 P.M. the next day (30 hours of illegal parking) when I called for the tow truck.
Maybe he also decided that he was blessed with the ability of a)determining which driveways are “illegal” and b) the right to execute his own judgment on the property owners.
Shame on you!
TMB, I see you are stuck. Unfortunately for you, you have been cornered. There is nothing halachically impermissible with watching the Traffic and Weather Channel. You so much as admit that because you resort to the intellectually dishonest claim that you don’t think anyone would watch only that channel.
I am sure that without a problem, we can find other channels that even an individual with a rather “tzudrayt” view of Judaism would find acceptable.
Again, this reflects on everything else you post here.
CSPAN, anyone?
TMB, I didn’t say I have TV at all, but just for your edification, please note the following:
1. Cable boxes are equipped with programmable “lockouts” whereby any channel may be blocked from service.
2. Metro Traffic and Weather, Channel 61 on Cablevision, has no commercials. The sole advertising is a small ad in the lower right hand corner such as a Ford logo with the name of a dealer.
3. Metro Traffic and Weather also has no personnel visible on the screen. The only human “contact” there is provided by off screen-voices which say such “pritzus” statements such as “Sixty minute inbound wait at the Lincoln Tunnel” and “Wind chill makes it feel like 20 degrees.”
Oy, what will we do?!
TMB, where is the “gun violence, cursing, untznius women” on the Traffic and Weather Channel?
Wolf, thank you!
Metro, you’ve confirmed your spot as the Second Son. Also, your latest missive is at a seventh grade level (cf. “loose” v. “lose”).
Henceforth, there will be no further TV watching by Coffee Room participants unless permission is received from the Coffee Room Bet Din.
In your application for a heter, please indicate which channels and programs you wish to watch and why.
The CRBD currently has under consideration a request to watch Cablevision Channel 61 (traffic and weather).
ESQ.
metrodriver, I don’t know. Are you related to the second son of the Haggadah for saying something gratuitously nasty?
I am not responsible for your bad grammar which I tried to correct in a playful and gentle manner. If you would prefer something else, bring it on.
No one has the right to demand information from the membership.
What next, “do you keep kosher?”
blueprints, I’m sorry; in what language is you message written?
metrodriver, isn’t Greek Goyim a rather unusual name for a retail establishment?
eclipse, ask the moderators to delete this thread and then re-post it with the title “Can you recommend a Canadian immigration lawyer?” Better yet, specify which city in Canada. If you’re in Montreal, a referral in Toronto can’t help you.
Now this is funny:
whilst others were patiently
Whilst? That’s not American English. LOL.
eclipse, Please be specific. Are you looking for a lawyer who practices US law or Canadian law?
Who is shopping there on Shabbos?
There are many different diets and many different ways to lose weight. While it has been correctly stated here that you have to consume less calories than you burn, it is also true that you need both information and willpower.
First, check with your doctor. What is your ideal weight? What is your acceptable weight? What is your BMI (Body Mass Index)?
Baruch Hashem, b’li ayin harah, my BMI this morning was 23.1. This has been a five year journey for me and I will be happy when it drops below 23. (Actually hit 23.0 last week.)
Someone came over to me in shul one Shabbos a few months ago and asked, “How come you’re not eating anything; it’s your kiddush?”
“No,” I replied with a smile, “it’s your kiddush. It’s just my yahrzeit.”
Hatzlacha to everyone!
Dr. 80,
It’s a bit difficult to figure out the totality of your advice so I’ll just focus on one paragraph:
for the majority of the common chronic problems such as diabetes, hypertension, coronary artery disease, it is worse than useless (except for advanced stages where it is necessary to control complications)
What? You want to run that by me again?
Your patient is a white male, age 55, 5 foot 10, 245 pounds. He presents with glucose of 220, HB A1C of 7.8. Diagnosis of Type II Diabetes.
What’s your treatment plan, doc, especially since you appear to say conventional medicine is not the way to go?
aries2756 said,
. . .do you have any idea how many kids grew up hating their parents and rebbeim for hitting them? And lets go a step further, do you know how many never got over it and haven’t forgiven them? I don’t have the statistics on this but there are many.
I went to Yeshiva Toras Emes. I don’t remember what grade this was but we were surely under 10 years old. The principal, an alleged rabbi, called a classmate of mine to the front of the room and smacked him in the face with such force we all could see the red marks from his fingers glowing on the kid’s face.
I don’t know about my classmate but I know I haven’t forgiven him.
This is child abuse, plain and simple. People who do this should be in the same prisons as pedophiles.
Another observation for the community on this website: At various times (e.g. 1:19 and 2:59) we hear Georgie’s cell phone go off. I recognized the music in her ringtone. It’s Scott Joplin’s “The Entertainer.” This was the theme of the Paul Newman–Robert Redford movie “The Sting,” a film about [drum roll] con artists!
Georgie should perhaps choose something less revealing, I don’t know, maybe Lady GaGa’s “Poker Face.” LOL.
apushatayid, if you state your position, I can let you know if I agree or not.
When a moderator takes part in a discussion and then refuses to allow comments in for the sole reason that he disagrees with the opinion, that is, in my opinion, wrong.
“valid expression of chinuch”
More like an expression of child abuse.
Only if one is matir a despicable and disgusting practice.
TMB,
You’ve offered nothing to back up your nastiness of Reuven Blau.
What a disgrace!
wiy,
You said publicly to Wolf:
My point regarding 1 is that you were so sure you had the story straight and you are so confident in your Torah knowledge and understanding of Torah and yet in a second I turned it upside down on you and showed you that what you thought you knew for so many years was actually incorrect.
Unfortunately, I don’t have a Hebrew keyboard, but I presume you know the following from Pirkei Avos:
“Ha’malbin p’nei chaveiro b’rabim, af al pi she’yeish bo Torah u’ma’asim tovim, ain lo chelek l’Olam Habam.”
“He who embarasses his neighbor in public, even though he may have Torah and good deeds to his credit, has no share in the World to Come.”
I’ll be waiting to see your public apology to Wolf as well as the deletion of your messages.
TMB, since you are accusing another Jew of libel, please tell us all where the false statements are in the Post article.
If you like making calls, the iPhone on the AT&T network is terrible according to every review I’ve read and everyone to whom I have spoken.
On the other hand, the Wall Street Journal recently reported that Verizon is expected to get its version of the iphone in Q1 2011 which is what I am waiting for.
PBA, to respond to your question, since the rabbi apointed himself a grand jury to investigate the matter, he should have spoken to all the parties involved if he was looking to find out everything that really happened.
And to the two posters who have used the term, I find it very inappropriate to say “shiksa” in this context unless you are a graduate of the Mendy and Heidi School of Chilul Hashem. Why not simply say, “cleaning lady,” “maid” or “housekeeper,” without being offensive?
I have a question for Rabbi Hoffman, if there is a Rabbi Hoffman and if he is the one to whom the quote is attributed. (You never know who is actually posting.)
Why didn’t you talk to the laundry owners?
It’s amazing how this amateur investigation, supposedly conclusive, doesn’t include all the parties. Why, because you don’t bother to ask the gentiles?
Would this “investigation” be sufficient anywhere including any beth din?
For the other amateur legal scholars here, “dan l’kaf z’chus” is more closely analagous to “give the benefit of the doubt,” NOT “innocent until proven guilty.”
The standard of proof in a civil action is not and has never been “beyond a reasonable doubt” which is used in criminal cases. The standard in civil cases is “by a preponderance of the evidence.” which essentially means more likely than not.
The couple here were the plaintiffs and they failed to meet that standard. That’s why they lost.
apushatayid, I disagree. Your view is that everyone should keep quiet. Sadly, that is the shame of our community. When a frum Jew is caught red-handed doing something wrong there should be 500 posts here proclaiming “Chilul Hashem!”
Instead, there is post after post of excuses.
These people hurt everyone who looks like them and actually follows what they should have followed, the Torah.
They are a disgrace.
Rabbi V, thank you for posting the link to Part I of your appearance on The People’s Court. I watched it along with Part II,
In light of the criticism in some other messages, would you please tell everyone here if you feel that Ms. Milian treated you fairly. Also, did you detect even a hint of discrimination against you?
Please note that while Milian as well as Harvey Levin used the phrase “bar complaint,” that is a term from other states. Here in New York, it is the court system that is in charge of attorney discipline.
If you wish to make a complaint about an attorney, and I cannot say whether or not you should or if your complaint has merit, here are the official instructions from the Grievance Committee:
http://www.nycourts.gov/courts/ad2/attorneymatters_ComplaintAboutaLawyer.shtml
Grievance Committee for the Second, Eleventh, and Thirteenth Judicial Districts
Renaissance Plaza
335 Adams Street, Suite 2400
Brooklyn, NY 11201-3745
(718) 923-6300
Trying my best, actually, real amusement is you quoting Rivera. Even if he were correct (more about that in a moment), his opinion is binding on no one since it is not an appellate decision. (Do I need to explain this?)
It’s true that The People’s Court is not itself authorized to administer oaths. One wonders, however, if they do not take the precaution of having a notary public administer them just as is done in every single other arbitration. Accordingly, Rivera’s decision says nothing applicable here.
Your suggestion that if nothing could be done against Ms. Milian “if she lied” means that she is a liar, is outrageous. For your information, every single sitting judge in the United States enjoys judicial immunity which extends to things a lot worse than lying.
Shame on you.
OP, Strauss on 13th Avenue and 52nd in Borough Park has some good quality sugar-free stuff. (Sorbitol is the sweetener.) Perhaps you should give them a call.
I hope your uncle is able to enjoy this Chanukah and many more in good health.
TheChevra, thank you for the amusement. We are all happy you know how to use Google. Unfortunately, having a fact at hand and applying it correctly are often different.
(By the way, since you are nitpicking, I am not a “barrister;” this is not the United Kingdom.)
Title 18 of the United States Code is the federal criminal code. The section you quoted is applicable only to federal cases and has nothing to do with this matter.
It may have missed your attention, but the blue flag on Ms. Milian’s left was the flag of the State of New York. If you make a false statement after being sworn during an arbitration hearing in New York (as this was), you indeed commit perjury.
As I said earlier, there is not the time and space to review all the tipshus posted here. Why are you adding to it?
I have a more productive use of your time–argue medicine with your doctor. LOL!
I thank my brother in the bar cantoresq for posting this link.
Regrettably, this is not the first case of “frum perjury” I have seen. Just the first one on national television.
It never ceases to amaze me how the usual crew of folks who possibly graduated high school profess untold sums of knowledge of the laws of the United States. Not quite.
There is insufficient space on the Coffee Room to review every piece of tipshus posted in this thread.
Learning a bit of English might help as well. The OP in this thread is written on a third grade level, and that’s being kind.
Johnnie Walker Blue Label.
La via del tren subterraneo es muy peligrosa.
helpful, so, a Jewish child molester is “higher” than Mother Theresa?
Not only are you delusional, what you express is not Jewish.