Marxist

By voting out Netanyahu who has not got along well with American presidents recently.

Who said that illegal immigrants are more accepting of socialist policies? A lot of them come from countries that were essentially destroyed by socialist policies and are looking for refuge here.

@ujm

You are correct. So for the rally to be a success their presence was not needed. Indeed, they had 290,000 people there without the Chareidi oilam, much larger than the siyum hashas.

I don’t understand why people care so much that the Yeshivish/Chareidi oilam isn’t participating. It’s not like that they are a large percentage of American Jewry today.

@AvirahdeArah

I have heard from chashuve people that Trump’s middos raos have a bad effect on society and they didn’t just blow it off like you do. Your hashkafas are off.

@Uncle Ben

I never heard that claimed about Erdogan. I think that some Islamists claim that about Ataturk.

With regard to claim of the IRGC commander about the Saudis, I see that the Jerusalem Post had an article about it. He seemed to be trying to connect the Saudis to the Jews who fought the early Muslims in Arabia.

Lebanon has no interest in joining this war. It’s Hezbollah. Syria has always been aligned with the Iranian regime. As much as Turkey has been praising Hamas, it was reported that Turkey asked Iran not to escalate the conflict. Russia is way too focused on its war in Ukraine to get involved. Really no leader in the Middle East wants this to escalate besides Iran.

“thanks for extend quotes from the book as well as your commentary.”

You should be thanking the Frumteens moderator.

I think the point is that we are still less than a month away from the worst pogrom since the Holocaust. There’s a time and place for frum criticism of the State but basic human empathy warrants that we keep these ideas to ourselves for at least some time.

Hear, hear!

I love how AviradeArah has such a need to give his two cents that he wants to start a whole new thread on divorce. If you don’t want to offend children of divorced parents then don’t post anything at all. Most of us are not desperate to hear what you have to say.

I know a frum quant.

Modern Orthodox have more a drug problem than the Yeshivishe velt.

One of the issues with kollelim that I have seen is that eventually guys in kollel want to move on and become a Rebbe, shol umashiv etc due to parnassah but also due to the fact that at a certain age people begin to get more of a sipuk teaching and giving over Torah than just learning all day.

The problem then is that the Rebbe job market is ridiculously flooded and yungleit often have trouble finding a job in chinuch. They now have been out of high school for say 10+ years and have no skillset to get high paying secular jobs. For them to start college at that age is hard especially with kids. The transition out of kollel is rough.

Nowadays, to get a really higher paying professional job it is not enough to have only gone to undergraduate school. Generally speaking, you need medical school, an MBA, law school or whatever to really get those higher paying 200K+ salary jobs.

When I saw “Affairs” I thought you meant adultery for a second.

Does P equal NP? Please provide a rigorous proof for your answer.

Neville- You are forgetting Patur Aval Assur. That guy was an unbelievable baki. It’s a shame that in a lot of old threads the hebrew letters have turned into question marks because he had a tremendous amount of rare and great sources to back up his points. Now to see it you need the wayback machine.

“especially those exposed to television shows where the characters call their parents by their first names.”

I don’t think that that is actually a common thing at all. Name one tv show where that happens.

The reasons given here for anti-Semitism and the Holocaust are usually the non-falsifiable claims that if Jews became more secular and involved in the outside world then it leads to more anti-Semitism and persecution. Of course, this claim is never rigorously tested or subject to any critical scrutiny. What about Sefardim who were becoming more secular due to the Alliance but were not subject to the Holocaust? Were Jews becoming more secular during Tach vTat? What about the vast majority of American Jewry who was pretty secular since they came over from Europe yet lived and continue to live in relative peace?

The whole claim is just cherry-picking examples that work well with the preconceived notion that punishment follows more secularism. It’s not a strong rigorous claim.

What Karl Marx have approved of the Soviet Union?

Someone once told me that computer science PhD students can potentially command salaries of 3 quarters of a million.

“Growing up MO and becoming a flip-out obviously gave you zero insight into the charedi world”

This is unfortunately true for a lot of flip-outs in my experience.

I’m a bit confused as to what you are getting at. The article “On the Jewish Question” is not some obscure work of Marx. It’s the starting point for anybody wanting to better understand Marx’s relationship with Judaism. It’s also not the earliest writing of Marx either. You make it sound like this is the starting point for all of Marx’s later thought which it isn’t. There are earlier works of Marx. Why not start with “Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right” or the “Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts”?

You make a claim that Marx’s “hatred” of businessmen stemmed from his hatred of Judaism. Can you provide evidence for that claim? I don’t see it in “On the Jewish Question”. It’s interesting that you basically want to sum up Marx’s philosophy by just petty hatred of business people and not actually get into the weeds of the influences on Marx. There were primarily three, as Lenin said:

“Marx was the genius who continued and consummated the three main ideological currents of the 19th century, as represented by the three most advanced countries of mankind: classical German philosophy, classical English political economy, and French socialism combined with French revolutionary doctrines in general.”

Reading one work of Marx and then deciding that this is how he developed his ideas is silly. Maybe pull out a decent biography of Marx and get a better understanding of his life, influences and ideas.

@TheFakeMaven

Emancipation of Jews is rooted in Enlightenment thought. This does not mean that it is anti-Semitic in nature. It is the argument for equal political rights for Jews and and the removal of restrictions from them. Some did justify the need for emancipation because Jews were backward and they needed to be brought into civil society to progress. However, the actual concept is not anti-Semitic.

It would be like if today there were government restrictions on what occupations Jews could enter. People fighting to remove them would not be considered anti-Semitic. So too, fighting restrictions on Jews during the 18th and 19th century is not anti-Semitic.

“For example, could anything be worse than having children work in sweatshops? Alas, yes. In 1993, child workers in Bangladesh were found to be producing clothing for Wal-Mart, and Senator Tom Harkin proposed legislation banning imports from countries employing underage workers. The direct result was that Bangladeshi textile factories stopped employing children. But did the children go back to school? Did they return to happy homes? Not according to Oxfam, which found that the displaced child workers ended up in even worse jobs, or on the streets — and that a significant number were forced into prostitution.”
-Paul Krugman, New York Times April 22, 2001