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What is the seminary spreadsheet? I think I remember reading about a spreadsheet with the names of girls going to the various seminaries that you can only get through email. Is that what you are referring to? How do you add your name and/or get hold of it? My daughter is IY”H going to seminary next year in Eretz Yisroel, and she is very nervous because she doesn’t know anyone else going to the same seminary. If she could see this spreadsheet, maybe she would recognize one of the names from camp or somewhere else.
interjection – thank you for that bit of chizuk at the end of your post.
I actually did reorder the tracks with one tape, but it was very time consuming. I would think that it would keep the order of the tracks the tape is played in. Why would it mix them up?
I bought an ion tape to digital converter about 2 years ago, but I have never been able to get it to work properly – the tracks come out all out of order. This is especially a problem for story tapes. Do you have any idea what I can do to get it right?
live right – I was not trying to put down those who struggle with tznius. It’s just that teenage girls are subject to a lot of peer pressure regarding how they dress, and I want to make sure that the seviva my daughter will be in for 10 months is one where the peer pressure will be towards dressing on a higher level of tznius, not one where she will be made to feel like the “frummy” (which should really be a source of pride, but usually isn’t to teenage girls) for wearing “duty length” skirts and such.
This sounds very much like what we are looking for for our daughter. We are definitely looking for a very BY type seminary. We don’t want to have to worry that there are girls there who will be listening to non-Jewish music, have internet access, have problems with tznius, etc. At the same time, our daughter is not very academically inclined, so we are not looking to send her to a seminary where she will need to constantly be studying, preparing, etc. The learning should be more in the form of hashkafic discussions, practical lessons, and experiencing kedusha of Eretz Yisroel and the mesirus nefesh of those who live and learn there. I heard about a new seminary called Kesser Chaya that is in its 2nd year. Does anyone know anything about the seminary – the academics, varmkeit, etc., as well as the type of girls who go there?
anuran, if I put a lock-code or password does it just block internet access, so they can still use it as a phone?
I am looking to replace my Palm PDA (wihch is not working so well anymore)and plain old cellphone with a smartphone (so that I only need one device instead of 2), but I do not want internet access. The reps in the Sprint store told me that I must have a data plan for the Blackberry to work.
jphone: I checked my cellphone and it does have a calendar function, but it is nothing like the calendar on my palm. That’s the kind of calendar I want (need?).
youngbutnotstupid: Do you mean to say that there are pictures of girls dancing on the Dance Dance Revolution games? I thought it just had lighted arrows flashing in time to the music. I was just worried about the music – I didn’t even consider pictures!
striving: where can I download the stepmania program from?
d a: Thanks for the tips. I’ll look into the Treo & Centro.
not from ny: I just want to have the function of a PDA & cellphone in one unit. Isn’t that what a smartphone is? I don’t use my PDA for internet – just for keeping lists and schedules, contacts, notes, etc.
My kids have been begging me for years to get the Dance Dance Revolution for fun & exercise, but they all have goyish music (with the lyrics!). I heard somewhere that a version came out without words at least. Does anyone know anything about this? I would still want to check out how goyish the music sounds, but at least it stands a chance without the lyrics. I really wish someone would come out with a Jewish music version.
I am looking into replacing my separate Palm PDA and cellphone with a smartphone (either Palm Pre or Blackberry). However, I do not want internet access on my phone. I was told by Sprint that I cannot totally block data services on the BB because it needs internet access to work. Does anyone know if there is anyway to at least block someone who is using the phone from accessing the web (e.g. block the web browser)with a password needed to unblock it? This way I can let my kids use my phone if necessary.
And what if the girl has two (or more) brothers, one of whom is a shtark learner (with good middos also, of course)and one who is not (even one who may not be “at risk” or “OTD”). Does one carry more weight in the decision process than the other?
NY Mom: Thanks for the welcome. I’ve actually been a lurker for a looong time (about a year). I really enjoy reading different points of view on various subjects, but rarely feel strongly enough about any to comment myself. This one I couldn’t resist, since it caused a lot of problems for 2 of my daughters. I believe that it can make a huge difference to many students (both boys and girls) as to whether or not they take an interest in Limudei Kodesh. I believe both my daughters who had trouble with Yiddish lost out on a lot of hashkafah that is taught through Chumash, because they often just tuned out since it was so hard for them to understand.
I agree that there is a certain ta’am to Yiddish, and I always wished that I could speak and understand it better than I do. (Ich farshtay a bisel, uber nisht zeir gut.) But I have trouble with the schools (in which most students do not come from Yiddish speaking homes) insisting on teitching in Yiddish. I live in a community where ALL the girls schools teitch Chumash in Yiddish through 5th grade, so it’s not like I had a choice where to send my girls. Some of my girls were are not very good at languages, and this really hampered their ability to understand what was being taught, and was a big shtuch to their self-confidence. To be honest, they actually teitch into Yiddish and then English, but for someone who has trouble with languages this can be very disconcerting and is hard to follow along (even if they are not held responsible for the Yiddish).
When I questioned the school’s policy, I was told that this is how Rav ….. held – Rav ….. was niftar over 45 years ago (when Yiddish was still spoken in most homes)! Does anyone bother to ask if this still applies?!
Ironically, when my oldest boy started yeshiva, there were one or two boys yeshivas in the community that teitched straight into English, and my husband insisted on sending him to one of those, based on Rav Yaakov ztz”l’s opinion that talmidim should be taught in the language they are most comfortable in. (I was actually worried that for boys it is necessary to learn Yiddish, but B”H my son is now in Bais Medrash in a very prominent yeshivah, and his love of learning was not compromised by having to struggle to understand what was being taught.)
I think it is a very nice idea to teach Yiddish, but it should be taught as a separate subject, so that if a student has trouble with it, it does not interfere with their comprehension of Chumash or Gemara.