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When you fly out of Ben Gurion, all airlines use El Al security.
When you fly to Ben Gurion, you may or may not get El Al security. For example, when I flew Delta to JFK and back, we had to go through security twice at JFK – once in the normal place (before heading to the gates) and again just before walking down the jetway onto the plane. A Delta person told me “the Israelis insist that they watch everyone go through security a second time.”
tickle me pink:
what about with a turkish flight…i was thinking of going to israel and having a stopover in istanbul…is it dangerous? (keep in ind the airport has security all over the place)
I flew Turkish Air once and I thought it was fine. The service was very good. You don’t have to worry about the airport; it’s an international airport with thousands of travelers. Nobody will bother you. If you go out into the city, it may be a different story.
To answer the OP, it depends what you mean by “everyone.” If you mean those in the yeshiva world, then you probably have a higher percentage than in the dati leumi world.
I, too, would love to know how the Rav came up with this outlandish figure.
What’s the first thing I did after reading this? Looked up Lashawndra Harris on Facebook.
Pesach “cake” and “cookies” taste good until about an hour after havadala on the last night.
Rav Aviner holds it’s OK to keep and eat matzah from one year to the next.
Why would you want to cook kitniyos in your Pesach-dig pots?
Because kitniyot is not chametz, and it’s certainly permissible. In fact, our home will be KFP a week before the chag begins, and will will hot meals made with kitniyot for that week. No muss, no fuss.
Quoting Rav Aviner, shlita, regarding an Askenazi eating in a Sfardi home on Pesach:
Q: I am Ashkenazi. Is it permissible for me to spend Seder night at the house of a Sefardi who eats Kitniyot?
A: Yes, but don’t eat Kitniyot. It is permissible, however, to eat: food which touched Kitniyot, food which absorbed Kitniyot, food in which the Kitniyot are no longer recognizable and are nullified in a majority, and food cooked in Kitniyot pots and pans (Shut She’eilat Shlomo 3:141).
Why not just eat kitniyot for the week before Pesach? You can make it in your Pesach post, and eat it on your Pesach dishes.
Clocks are not changed in Arizona or Hawaii, so maybe you should move to one of those states. Be careful, though – there are parts of Arizona where the clocks do change!
Takahmamash, Ra’anana has the best of everything. Just ask Yechezkel Mizrachi.
Not true. While the best humous is in Ra’anana, the best falafel is in Modi’in.
Mobe613:
This often happens when young men (or men of any age really) go out in public places that are outside of where frum yiddin usually are . . . usually this is also accompanied by wearing clothes that are not usually worn by bnei torah at home (ie like khaki pants or a tshirt/polo shirt.)
You must not know many bnei Torah. I know many, many, many, bnei Torah who wear khaki pants and polo shirts, not only at home, but also to work and (gasp!) even to daven.
There’s a place in Ra’anana that has the best humous in the world.
Troll.
daniela:
Finally, quinoa is a dull food and I wonder how many among us find it tasty and have a desire for it year-round.
Our family does eat it year round, and I know several others who do so as well.
truthsharer:
R’ Moshe even wrote that you do not add things to kitniyos.
Really? As a kid in the 1960s, I remember my mother using peanut oil. I remember eating peanuts on Pesach as well. Try now and find KFP peanut oil; I think the OU stopped its hashgacha on it years ago. Did peanuts suddenly become kitniyot?
Applause for Haifagirl.
Rabbi Shlomo Singer is available on the BCBM site. I just looked.
Did you email them and ask why they were removed?
Yes it does make a difference and 2 maths, 2 sciences, 2 languages, 2 historys but some schools like my stupid skwl makes u take 3 maths and 3 sciences there disgusting!!
You’re obviously missing the English requirement.
An Orthoprax is an Apikores. End of discussion. His Mitzvos are worthless and he has no Chelek in Olam Haba.
I just love it when a person decides he knows what God is thinking. Oy.
Wow, look at the old thread with the names of so many posters who are not around any more. Sniff, sniff . . . 🙁
We didn’t give to one of our friends this year because she told my wife that she takes all the handmade stuff and dumps it in the garbage. Oh well.
We gave healthy this year – my wife made up salads in a little container, and packaged it with breadsticks and salad dressing.
For everyone else, we did a breakfast theme – single-serve cereal bowl, boxed milk, bottle of water, and a hamentash. We also put in a spoon to eat the cereal with.
One year I had a friend who gave me a corned beef sandwich, chips, and a bottle of beer. That was great!
Dipsy Doodles? Candy? C’mon, I don’t need you to do my grocery shopping for me? I can go to the store and get that myself, and probably pay less for it than you do.
Nope.
I know that some versions of Artscroll have it.
WIY:
What about the clueless shadchan who just met you 5 minutes ago and is convinced that they know the “perfect” girl for you? I had way too many of those. It never ceases to annoy me. Do you really think you know someone from seeing them for 5 minutes?!
I laugh at this because I met with one shadchanit, and she told me (at the first meeting) that she knew someone for me. It turns out – I married the girl!
I still have some of the delivery lists I made years ago, when my kids were young and we hadn’t yet made aliyah. Between the kid’s friends, their teachers, and the people we (my wife and I) wanted to give-there were 30 or 40 stops!
I’m glad this year we’ve cut it down to 4 – two people who run our makolet, the secretary of kupat cholim, and one elderly gentleman who I’ve become friendly with at our minyan. Makes things much easier and simpler.
Cheppe:
And, really, do you know anyone who didn’t get drunk that went to sleep on Purim day?
Sure, the Rav of the shule where I grew up holds this way. He drinks wind then takes a nap on Purim. He learned this years ago as a bachur.
So just like that, you’d accept the word of an anonymous person on the internet, who may or may not know what s/he is talking about, instead of asking a Rav and getting a real halachic opinion?
I have some leftover Quaaludes from the 1980s – anyone want some? It’s a great outlet.
What’s the next post in this series – all 9th graders who wana get married!! ?
Zahavasdad:
A bigger issue is parking in front of someones driveway (and Blocking it) because YOU are late to Minyan
Back in my days in the states, I was a watch commander for our local citizens patrol. The city officer who rode with me used to ticket cars blocking driveways near the shules; I guess since the men were late to minyan, they decided it was OK to inconvenience the homeowners. It was a true chillul Hashem, as the officer knew why they parked that way.
It’s not immoral, but it is illegal.
If you’re wearing a yarmulke/hat and parking under a “no parking” sign – why would you feel it’s not a chillul Hashem?
Snowbunny3318 –
I eat Hersheys in the states, but I literally threw out five hershey bars when I got off the plane this year in E”Y.
Why would you do such a thing?
When I was a kid/teen, my father would open my bedroom door and let the dog into the room. The dog would jump on my bed and lick my face until I sat up. Worked like a charm.
When we lived in the states, my rule was we left at 7:28 for school; if a kid wasn’t in the car then she was responsible for getting herself to school. In Israel, the rule was if a kid missed the bus then she had to tremp, as we don’t have a car.
I used to daven at a shtieble where we’d daven mincha at the proper time, followed by ma’ariv. As we were leaving afterwards, another group was coming in to daven mincha.
Yes.
How do you address the Rebetzin? “Mrs.?” “Rebetzin?”
We used to go to one shule where I used “Mrs.,” and I guess she was fine with that. (At least, she never corrected me or asked me to change.)
We also attended a different shule; when I used “Mrs.” she asked me to call her by her first name. I wasn’t comfortable doing that, and I told her, but she insisted. (The Rebetzins in both cases were younger than me.)
You can’t buy an Iphone – they’re assur. Didn’t you go to the asifa at Metlife Field?
I was considering moving to Israel, but couldn’t because of working on Sunday!
That’s your reason for not making aliyah?? Because you “can’t” work on Sunday?
Confucious:
Why did mamashtakah become takahmamash?
Because Mamashtakah had a problem with the password, and despite repeated entreaties to the mods, there was no response to fix the problem. Therefore, I switched to Takahmamash.
“Two great tastes that taste great together!”
Naaah, the people who observe all the mitzvos move to E”Y.
nfgo3:
To mamashtakah: I find your post hard to believe. Please name the rebbetzin and the name and town or neighborhood of her shul, or withdraw your questionable prank.
You’re going to argue with something that was posted two years ago?
What if he does name the rebbetzin? What would it accomplish? Would you go and take away her “teudat rebbetzin?” Would you tattle to her husband? Guess what – her husband, the shule rabbi, was there, and he saw her!
I dressed as Miss Clavelle one year, and my 2nd grader dressed as Madeline (from the Madeline book series). We were quite the hit, as I recall.