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Some of the happiest people have been some of the (financially) poorest.
B&H has a daily bus between BP and their store in Manhattan.
MediumThinker: If you could dropbox and link to that, I’d be most grateful.
What demographics is Har Nof? Ashkenaz/Sefardic, Chareidi/Daati/Chiloni?
LOL, Dash. Good catch!
Yeshivos were already open for boys in Brooklyn today. Full day including English. Yesterday many had a short day.
Mostly agreed. Though your observations are mostly limited to the top tier of national newspapers. It isn’t as applicable to regional and small town periodicals. The liberal publications in those areas tend to be on an equal footing as their conservative counterparts.
That being said, the liberals dominate the news publishing (and broadcasting) business. There are far far fewer conservative outlets. So it is somewhat incomparable to make an overall observation.
Additionally, your example of the Wall Street Journal is a poor choice. The WSJ is actually a liberal leaning paper on it news pages (or at least it was until Murdoch bought it; it may have become slightly less so since, but it is still more liberal than conservative on the news side), though its editorial pages are famously conservative. Also, the WSJ is as well written as the NYT.
Meah Shearim.
Lower Manhattan and other large portions of Manhattan is out. Even traffic lights. Even ConEd’s headquarters lost power! (They restored that building with some backup generators.)
Duplicate thread. There is already an active discussion on this issue:
Mods, please consider closing.
You’re all right.
As a Litvak from Kiryas Yoel working in Crown Heights, I interact with Yidden from all sorts of backgrounds. It is such a pleasure seeing Litvish boys learning in Chasidish Yeshivos and Satmar Yungerleit shteiging in Litvish Kollels. Seeing Bobover and Vishnitz and Klausenbergers children all in the same camp, spending two months together. Boys from Flatbush playing beautifully with boys from Boro Park. Girls from Williamsburg and Crown Heights working together. And Satmar Bikur Cholim helping Yidden from all backgrounds.
aurora: akuperma is not speaking from any experience in an East Asian environment. He is merely describing how East Asian gentiles view Jews differently than the Europeans and Americans the Jews live among.
Which is more “authentic” between Southern and Yankee pronunciation?
HaKatan: If your theory has any merit, then what you are describing is simply different dialects or accents. Much like the differences between Yankees and Southern American (or, perhaps, American English and British English).
And neither Southern vs. Yankee (or British vs. American) can be said to be more “correct” than the other. It is simply a difference in dialect and/or accent.
Same idea with the differences in how various Yidden speak Loshon Kodesh. Simply a difference in dialect/accent. One cannot be declared more authentic than another.
Do the Southerners have it wrong or is it the Yankees that are all messed up?
HaKatan: You’re way off base. The so-called “Chasidic havara” is not an exclusively Chasidic havara (i.e. Oberlanders [who are not Chasidic] share that same havara) and the so-called Chasidic havara long predates the Baal Shem Tov (who probably never spoke with the Chasidic havara.)
And the Oberland/Chasidic havara shares the choylam (as opposed to cholem) pronunciation with many of the Ashkenazic Litvaks.
Oh, and I’m slightly less furry in real life as well.
LOL. The first time I read that line I thought you said you were less funny in real life. It was only 1/2 hour later when looking at it the second time that I noticed what you actually wrote.
If anyone can read this post directing them to the Yiddish link, they can read the instructions in the original English. 🙂
In the opinion of this author/rabbi Hamburger, what does he think is the correct pronunciation and why?
There are different legitimate havoros. Oberland (sometimes called Chasidish), Litvish, Sefardic, Teimani and other.
Despite what some people tell you (and you’ll likely see such comments here), that their way is “the only right way”, the different havaros are all correct for the person with that mesorah.
Eilu V’Eilu
a member has a lot to loose and little to gain when using his L&S in an unauthorized manner.
2scents: You repeated this a few times. Yet, in reality, there is little risk for a member to flash his L&S for 15 seconds (during no emergency) in order to pass a traffic holdup when he is late for work or is just impatient. The likelihood of anything happening, other than beating traffic, is extremely small.
A bunch of freakin ingrates we have here… This discussion is petty and babyish, all those who have issues with hatzolah so be it, dont call them when you have an emergency. If i were to tell you that NO ONE would join if they were not able to 1) park in handycap 2) go through red lights even when not on calls 3) park where they want to whenever they want to. WHAT WOULD YOU SAY THEN????
jackness: Based on your comments here it is clear you are an arrogant demanding member who is a disgrace to Hatzala and ought to be relived from duty.
Mods: How is ItcheSrulik’s attack on a big mo rav like Rabbi Pruzansky allowed here?
When the word “standby” is used, it does not mean 24/7/365. Few people in this world are always on standby.
I completely disagree. The fact that Hatzala members are on standby 24/7 should certainly fit into the law allowing them to be considered on standby 24/7.
What service does Bed-Stuy Volunteer Ambulance do?
Also, isn’t there very strict regulations in New York State on who may have lights and sirens? Even if someone bought a “membership” in some volunteer ambulance service, that itself doesn’t entitle them to have L&S – even if they have a VAS plate. So how do they have L&S?
Is Ittisa considering brandishing the area from the knee to the torso?
Yes. Marrying her would quickly end her depression.
popa: How did your daughter’s dor yeshorim check work out?
Popa:
On what authority could that security dude bar you from entering the bathroom?
I always wondered why dogs like fire hydrants.
Anyone?
Doesn’t pru u’rvu require having two boys and two girls (with some shittos saying one of each)?
You are claiming that you got a call three times this week — that you took and already turned on your l&s — that was cancelled in LESS than a minute? You didn’t say that above.
The fellows trying to beat a red light turn on their l&s just after they missed a green light — holding up everyone else in traffic — and turn if off as soon as they made the turn on red, literally a few seconds later. I’ve witnessed this very frequently over the years.
Theoretically it is possible they all just got a call, just as they missed the light, and the call got cancelled – just as soon as they went through the red. Theoretically. But I’ve seen it often enough — and I’m only one person — that theory makes the reality implausible.
So I called Dor Yeshorim to give in the numbers for my daughter.
Hatzlacha Popa!
Please keep us all posted when you have an einekel… IY”H soon!
Yes, one has every right to sit at a bar and drink a soda for 8 hours (assuming there is no clearly posted limit per customer)
Actually, no such right exists. A food establishment can ask someone to leave the premises. Even if there is no posted policy allowing them to. It is their private property and they can uninvite you.
But what they cannot legally do is have a different policy for Jews than for gentiles.
2scents: Puleaze. I’ve seen it happen quite often over a period of many year. And always for just enough time for the driver to turn on and off his lights & sirens for exactly the time it takes him to pass the traffic jam.
We both know it is not that often that a call comes in and is cancelled 45 seconds later. And the few times it does happen, how coincidental that it usually happens when the driver just so happens to be in a traffic jam rather than experiencing normal traffic.
R. Pruzansky said “50% of the graduates of Modern Orthodox high schools are no longer Shabbat or Kashrut observant”. And in light of several posters explaining that this is because many Modern Orthodox families are not Torah observant in the first place, it is worth repeating DaasYochid’s rebuttal that R. Pruzansky’s article “implies that they once were Shabbat and Kashrut observant, unlike the theories put forth by some posters here.”
In other words R. Pruzansky is saying, if you read his words carefully, that 50% of once Torah observant Modern Orthodox graduates become no longer Torah observant.
Sam: Are you implying that there is no definition of “modern orthodox”? I ask because, primarily, it is the modern orthodox themselves who self-define themselves with that classification.
Toi: The last time that we tried that, it resulted in Kristalnacht.
Keep an eye on your next bill. See if it reverts to your traditional usage or again shows an over-usage.
Also, get a second opinion from another plumber. A second set of eyes may find something the first missed.
It is neither rare nor uncommon. I’ve witnessed what “agent” described above, as well as other abuse, regularly over a period of many years. The lights and sirens (frum driver, frum neighborhood, VAS plates) go on for exactly the few seconds or so needed to beat a traffic control device (light, shoulder, street regulation, etc.) And I myself witnessed this repeatedly over time. Not to even get into the parking abuse when not on call.
Don’t think too hard… it can hurt your brain.
There is no real reason the vast majority of girls cannot go to seminary in America rather than in EY. They would get the same thing here as there.
What’s Harry the rasha got to do with Rabbi Sherer? Nothing. He cut him out of his life as soon as he went Reform. So it does not belong in his biography any more than rasha Stephen Wise belongs in it.
It’s a fad. There is no real reason why everyone or most girls should go to EY for sem.
Girls/women shouldn’t get involved with politics.
If you assign specific seats to specific individuals, what if someone doesn’t show up? Then you’ll have unrelated married opposite genders sitting next to each other.
And do you really leave no-shows seats empty?
What if an unexpected guest comes? You might not have a space to stick him/her in where he/she is not sitting next to an unrelated married opposite gender.
And, really, once the seating is mixed, even if you assign specific seats, is no one gonna sit in a seat there not assigned to? Of course it will almost always happen. And you will have men sitting to next to unrelated married women.
And socializing.
How about the fellows who get upset at your davening… because it is interrupting their conversation?
2scents: I see what “agent” described above occur regularly. The member (frum driver with VAS plates) turns on his L&S for literally just a few seconds to beat a light or traffic and turns it off immediately after he passed the traffic.
maybe we Jews should start treating the non Jews with some respect and we’ll see the same from them.
We’ve tried that for thousands of years.
The results were churbans, pograms, beatings, murders, expulsions, inquisitions, blood libels, and holocausts.