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ZD,
Why does the time have to come from your learning schedule? Why not limit your internet and commenting time to schedule your shmira training?
Or ask a Rov? You know?
I do not know the information that Judge Frier has before deciding on bail, however one can wonder if perhaps she was more lenient to try to show that her Chasisdoc background will not be factor. So she decided to give an even lower bail amount, throwing common sense to the wind
Couple of items I’ve noticed and seen happen.
1) restaurants will the tip amount to the bill and base it the price including the tax. Which it shouldn’t.
2) The tip will be added to the bill and then they will add a line asking for a tip and will end up doubling the tip.
The 6.83 that CT talks about is a little ridiculous. A waiter in a nice restaurant serving several tables can ultimately make more than $75 an hour and quite possibly a lot more.
I just saw a Baal Simcha give out $200 tips to each waiter. And this was at a Simcha where the waiters are paid 15-18 an hour.
I will say that in my experience and own observations. The first two complaints are categorically untrue. I’ve seen many honorees at many school dinners who were far from wealthy. And I seen many dedicated menhalim working with children who had behavioral issues and other issues who were not from wealthy families. At the expense of the school.
I do not follow which politicians are endorsed by whom so I will not comment on that.
ZD,
Your summation reflects only your biased take on the topic.Most people who associate some form of kedusha to Yiddish is because it was a language specific for Jews, and is used as לא שינו את לשונם. It is not לשון קודש though.
Why people talk about “der alte heim” is not because they think life was glorious, rather because of their מסורה and minhagim that often go back centuries. Which is the prime basis of yiddishkeit, as demonstrated in the first mishna in אבות.
Now If you think that Mesorah is defined as being stuck in the ghetto, that is your loss.
Which Israeli posek?
Who is being “forced” to eat the bigs?
DY,
The speed limit on most of the GSP, till Lakewood area anyway, is 65MPH. And most of the traffic is at least at 70.
The law in NJ is that the left lane is for passing. It is not meant for staying there the whole time.
Bulbul is correct in that traveling in the left lane at a rate that is slapped than traffic as a whole is wrong, unsafe and annoying, which creates dangerous situations.
Certainly
Slomin,
I never said I know what he did, only what has been alleged. And even what was alleged was nowhere near Weinstein’s actions.
Nor did I say anywhere that his positives erase the aveiros he did.
And you can not compare someone who became frum because of a deed by a freier person to the active Kirov that R Shloime did. And it is not like the OO, because he pushed the people he wAs mekarev to levels of Frumkeit well beyond what he practiced.
I will say that to me it seems that R Shloime was a good person who was nichshal, even though it seems he put himself into such positions that made it easier. As opposed to Weinstein who used his position to force women to do things. I have never heard anyone say that R Shloime was not a ma’amin, which would make him and his niggunim different from those of Debbie Friedman and those of her ilk. And that would seem to be the position of R Moshe, who said that there is no issue signing Carlebach songs.
Lma’aseh R Ahron Kotler used to sit and listen to some of his songs and weep. And he knew that R Shloime was starting at that point.
Most places that I’ve been, song Carlebach because of the songs themselves and the words they are associated to, not because it is Carlebach. Even most so called Carlebach minyanim use his songs because of the style and not to honor R Shloime. Maybe you hang in different circles.
There were a number of questionable things that R Shloimah did. However to compare him to Harvey Weinstein is completely ridiculous. 1st, it shows that you are too involved in the nonsense of the Forward which would like everyone to assume that frum people are vile misogynists. You are falling for the Forward’s ploy.
Comparing him Weinstein makes very, very light of what Weinstein has done.
On the other hand, I know of much chesed that R Shloimah did and I know people who became frum directly as a result of R Shloimah’s efforts and there are now 4 generations of shomrei Torah, sitting and learning in yeshivos and kollelim just from this one couple he made frum. And that is not the only couple.
ZD,
The story is not true and it is silly to even post it.
Hellth,
“LOL!!! So who do you expect to give objective evaluations?”
Literally hundreds of thousands of people before you. You keep proving again and again that you are incapable.
But you are welcome to avoid using them. But so many of us know many, many cases where people’s lives were saved by professional, competent Hatzolah members who performed with the utmost professionalism, respect and confidentiality.
I am sure we all hope that your blinding hate towards Hatzolah does not cause you to do, or not do something that will harm you or your loved ones.
Hellth,
You made a comment about “Volly” programs. United Rescue is a volunteer organization, as is United Hatzolah.
And the model is similar to regular Hatzolah in that there are embedded responders.
And I still am far from convinced of your ability to conduct objective evaluations. Nothing you have written suggests that you can.
JEMS currently has an article on its website that is very laudatory of United Rescue in NJ. This is volunteer organization and it is based on the Hatzolah model.
Interesting.
Health keeps harping that Hatzolah doesn’t have standards with who they accept. However he himself disproves that by the fact the Health was rejected.
Oh the irony.
No I am not on Hatzolah, however they have saved the lives of family members of mine with tremendous dedication and professionalism.
No wonder I do not take the word of someone so obsessed that one could almost actually see him foaming at the mouth in his posts.
This is going to sound somewhat in the Spirit of Vnohapoch Hu, but I agree with ZD on this.
AviK,
Iacisrmma is correct about the lashon. “Eis” means while, as in while davening is occurring. Zman mean the calendar time, so that would mean the time of day for davening.
The reference you provided supports Iacisrmma.
LC,
Only you would consider the cases comparable.
1) With the OU, it has to do with claimed membership and giving credence to. The are allowing such a synagogue membership in their organization. Chareidi gedolim do not claim affiliation with the few lunatic radicals. Huge difference, but make no difference to you.
2) The uproar about OO membership in the OU is not just suddenly and about this one item. This is a long standing matter of contention amongst OU leadership for a long time.
3) It is a blatant, bald face lie by you to say that commenters smeared all MO. The most vocal commenters are people who consider themselves MO.
Yossii,
1. And yet there are people who purposely are mechalel Shabbos. That is why people protest. (And what you aver is not true, anyway)
2. This is not true.
And who is being “embarrassed”? That is completely not the issue. They are being harassed , not embarrassed. We are talking about someone wearing a uniform publicly, how is he being embarrassed?
The issue is that these soldiers are being harassed and there is no reason for that and attacking someone is ossur, but it is not embarrassing.
I should have stated this earlier.
Unprovoked (yes, there are times there are provocations) , it is very wrong to throw rocks at or otherwise harass soldiers, and Jewish soldiers all the more so.
However, I must strongly protest the title of the thread “like chillul Shabbos”. I do not think you can even remotely compare the two and the response that is required.
The same with the protest and outcry, (as minimal as it actually was – a couple of articles published L”A) that is appropriate when there is a so called Orthodox group announcing that an aveirah chamurah, one that carries the oinesh of sekilah, is appropriate, and a life choice to be celebrated. Those who make such claims are apikorsim, and those complaining about protests of those statements clearly lack certain “sensitivity” to Torah commandments.
ZD,
1) He wasn’t saying it didn’t occur, just that it is so infrequent that he, who lives in Israel has not witnessed it.
2) A rouge rabbi? Now I know you must be shilling for the OO. The announcementS (yes more than one, I actually saw them) were in the official news letter for the headquarters of the OO, HIR. That would be like the Vatican publishing a memo and you saying it was just the word of rogue priest. Your saying that this is a “rogue Rabbi” is proof that you are deliberately denying the actual issue. (I am not expanding further because that is not the topic here)
3) The “chareidi people”? Do they have horns and pimply, hooked noses?
And the chareidim are opposed to forced army service for many reasons, including that it is huge hindrance to basic shemiras hamitzvos. And in many, many instance, intentionally so. The overwhelming majority of chareidim are supportive of members of the army and explicitly so. We all know about how members of the IDF would visiti that Chareidi Gedolim for brochos, which they regularly give.ZD,
That assumes that the amount of income you make is such that NYC income tax plus the real estate tax is less than the real estate tax paid in suburbs.
I would guess for many in the suburbs that may not be the case.
I think one can refer to the essay by HoRav Aharon Lopiansky to understand why MO is not Judaism lite compared to Chareidi. Which is what it seems that many here are assuming.
ZD,
There are numerous eruvin in Lakewood. No one is contesting that. However, there is not one eruv (or even connecting eruvin) covering the whole Lakewood. I do not believe that there is any Eruv that crosses Route 9.
Route 9 is the same Route 9 as in Howell or Freehold. It is the same continuos thoroughfare, regardless of it is narrower or wider in different places.
It is narishe to call giving candy to children who show up at your door celebrating Halloween.
That is just a matter of spreading goodwill, or protecting yourself from being egged.
Celebrating would be going out trick or treating, dressing up, or putting out the decorations.
I was somewhere this year Yom Tov and saw houses that had mezuzos and pumpkins by the door. That I did not understand.
To number 1, often headstones are used as part of research for families. Such as determining if someone is a Cohen or Levi.
Accordingly, in my humble opinion, I would think the appropriate inscription should be what your late Mother-in-Law’s actual name was.
As far as query 2, I personally do not appreciate double headstone, certainly not ones erected while one of the people were alive, so I will recuse myself from responding.
Davening is not in Hebrew, it is לשון קודש. Most people who learned a Yeshiva or Beis Yaakov know more than enough to understand the words. In addition many also teach peirush of davening. I know that mine and my children’s did.
There are many readily available siddurim with translations in manor languages for those who do not understand לשון הקודש well enough.
More important than just understanding the words is meaning what one davens.
Not understanding the words is often not the real reason why those who talk by davening do so. Most often it is Attitude. The same attitude which may be the reason why they do not know what they are saying. Even when they should know what the word mean.
Leave it to GH to show ignorance of the Halacha of ברוב עם הדרת מלך.
Joseph,
I believe this was already mentioned, but it bears repeating. In many states the law is you drive on the right and pass on the left. The left lane is not for straight driving.
So driving in the left lane, at the limit or otherwise is against the law and you can rightly get a ticket.
Worst Advice: Post your shidduch questions on a public forum:
“They are Charedim.”
I am not sure what to make of this comment. Are not all Jews commanded to keep Shabbos? It makes no difference if they are “Chareidim” Not Chareidim, Modern Orthodox, conservative, reform, totally not religious or even Open Orthodox, Shabbos applies to all.
ZD,
There is a safek according to one shitah about Alask and that has to with whether the dateline veers around land or cuts straight through. The same is not for Hawaii because the dateline would not cut through a land mass.
You can vacation in Alaska without being there over Shabbos (or safek, safek Shabbos), it is easy enough in these days of international travel.
I think the real issue would be that signs are in Inuit and are understandable b those who speak Yiddish, would be difficult for those who do not line Yiddish.
“Alaska and Hawaii have the same issue, There is a Halachic Debate where the International Date line is. According to the secular world, the International date line is approximately 180 Degrees from London. Which is considered the start of Time, However Halacha says Jerusalem is 0 degrees not London, so that moves the International date line”
This is a poor explanation, because it does not reflect the views of most poskim. Not even as a certainty the psak of the one shita that says the date line is 180 degrees from Yerushalyaim.
The article and map referenced by iacisrmma is very informative.
I’ve had jam once.
AT a restaurant, a burger they had for Channukah. Was actually surprisingly good. It may have had an apple slice as well.
LC,
It is not Joseph’s word against a therapist. It is word against Haimy’s a new poster to the site.
1) It appears to be a solid program educationally based on graduates who I’ve observed
2) There are different locations, one in Montclair and one in Lakewood. And there is a track for man and and another for women.
The ages seem to range, most of the men seem to be from “Yeshiva” and even some chassidish backgrounds.
3) the benefit is they have good teachers and a concentrated program. The MS is about 13 months if I recall. You do have to have son undergraduate degree, but they help you work that out.
4) I’ve not heard that it comes out more expensive than Touro. Touro takes much longer and is not cheap by any means. You may get Scholarships at Touro.
5) There is a very robust job placement department which has been very effective. There are graduates in many of the well known and major accounting forms including all of the Big 4 firms.
To answer Joseph FDU is a NJ university and the accounting program referred to is a program run through the University but was arranged in conjunction with the Agudah’s PCS program.
Until he retired, many of the classes were taught by the head of FDU’s accounting program, who is a highly regarded accounting educator who still does many CPA review courses and I believe he gives CPE as well.
וּמִֽזַּרְעֲךָ֥ לֹא־תִתֵּ֖ן לְהַעֲבִ֣יר לַמֹּ֑לֶךְ וְלֹ֧א תְחַלֵּ֛ל אֶת־שֵׁ֥ם
“What I havent seen mentioned here before is ER currently has one of the lowest school tax rates in the county. ”
Huh? That is not supported by anyone’s tax bill.
“private school students are getting over 55 million in benefits. ”
It wouldn’t be able to be overlooked if that were the case.
But it isn’t true. Where do you see that anywhere?
“The laws of New York State apply the same in Monsey or Borough Park”
Wrong, again. The law specifically states that there are different rules for districts over a certain size. Which, applies to NYC and possibly Buffalo.
I don’t think Einstein is part of YU anymore.
I also believe that Joseph was referring to the assembly by R Blau which roundly denounced by the Roshei Yeshiva of REITS including R Twerski who minced no words.
I wonder how many of the so called experts here, such as LC, ZD or anyone else has even bothered to look at the budget.
ZD was insistent that special education costs are much higher in ERCSD than anywhere else in the state.
WRONG. Attached to the budget is a copy of the statistics comparing the district to the state (this is report prepared by the NYSED). The average cost is $4,000 LOWER per student in the district than in state as a whole and in comparison to similar districts (NYS’ designation, not mine.)
The average cost per public school child is $2,000 HIGHER than the average in the state.Total spent on special Education to private schools and out of district schools is approximately 7.99 million out of a total of $65 million spent for Special Education. About 12%. Hmmm. (When the private school population seems to outnumber the public school population by 3.5 – 1)
And that (7.99 M) is less than the amount spent on extracurricular non-mandated services specifically for the public schools. Such as art, music clubs and sports teams( Beyond mandated PE).DaMoshe,
“Joseph, a lack of additional funding only hurts the public school kids and not the private schools kids because of the corruption of the school board in East Ramapo.”
Perhaps you should speak to R Bender before slandering the Frum Board members.
This charge has been alleged, investigated, litigated and monitored. Guess, what there were no findings of corruption by the school board. On the other hand, there has been considerable corruption by the so called activists which was described earlier.
“If you live in Williamsburg and you kids go to school in Borough Park, The city does not pay for school busing, It is more than 2 miles away
How come you are not talking about the safety of those students, and other than the b110 bus its not so easy to get from Williamsburg to Borough Park via Public transport , which is what NYC students do for the most part.
I know people who live in Far Rockaway and go to School in Brooklyn and the city does not pay busing, you are on your own.”
So what are you trying to say?
East Ramapo definitely pay for students who are transported out of the district.
And you can’t compare NYC top anywhere else in the states. The laws and regulations are different.
ZD,
Where did you see anywhere that ERCSD is looking for a “bail out”. There are separate items seeking a fairness in the formula. That is not a bail out. That is getting what should be rightfully paid to the district from state education dollars.
And following your “logic” why would the rest of state only want to pay for extra luxuries of the public school children and not for the safety of all children?
You are so adamant
“The East Ramapo school district has been a huge chillul Hashem for years.”
If you consider anti semites and YCY rabble rousers being upset, perhaps. But not if you were intellectually honest.
There is a reason why the court threw out all the charges by the so called activists saying there was no basis at all for their complaints.
These lawsuits were brought with the hope of personally harassing board members and attempting to cause them significant personal costs and losses.
LC,
You are wrong. There would have to be a change to the law to take away transportation. Yet again you show that you comment about that which you know not.
ZD,
I don’t think that is true. But, your comment is misleading, because you do not say how it is calculated.
Is it based on public school enrollment?
Chew on that.
“They would hire them as a need, not as a requirement. And it would be cheaper than sending them to Kiryat Joel.”
So you are saying it would be cheaper to hire all the necessary staff to provide the services to a single child in ERCSD rather than send that child to a district where there is an infrastructure and services in place?
The simple answer is that you are wrong. You comment is similar to the unabashed haters on LOHUD, do you winder why? DO you wonder why this has never been found to be an issue with the monitor? Because it is balderdash.
LC
“Nisht, it is available but not mandated unless you live more than two miles away. This primarily affects private schools as parents don’t necessarily select schools based upon proximity”.You are wrong. We had this discussion well over a year ago . You were wrong them and remain so now. There was a vote more than a decade ago, well before there was anything approaching a majority of Jews on the school board ,where it was decided that busing will be provided to all students regardless of how far they live from the school. That may not be the state mandate, but it is now required, by law, in the district. And as such, cannot be cut.
LC,
Busing in ERCSD is available for all students by law, regardless of the distance. 2 miles does not apply to the district. This was discussed ad nauseum in the past.