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  • in reply to: Speakerless #2154051
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    There is no Speaker, currently.

    in reply to: When should bochurim start dating? #2154029
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    Dofi: Do you consider Chazal and Pirkei Avos to be childish trolls? Or do you consider them to be a bunch of grumpy old men whose ideas are outdated?

    in reply to: YWN News Standards #2153967
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    Ad revenue, clickbait and laziness.

    in reply to: When should bochurim start dating? #2153958
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    Name any real posek who ever said it’s okay to choose to not be married by age 24 for a Torah learner, or that it’s okay to choose to not be married by age 20 for a non-learner. Or that you don’t have to make every possible effort to be married before those ages.

    in reply to: When should bochurim start dating? #2153940
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    Apologies. The poll is regarding the age to start dating, not necessarily being married by. So the comment should be that the results are over 20% of the Yidden hold a bochor should start dating by time he’s 19 years old. And a majority hold that they should start dating no later than by 21 years old.

    in reply to: When should bochurim start dating? #2153943
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    Also, it is very important to remember that Chazal say to be married by (not to just start dating by) age 18. And actual obligatory Halacha is that you are required to be married by age 20. The only possible exception, and only if you’re learning Torah full time, some shittos will allow you to wait up to a mandatory maximum age of 24 to be married by.

    in reply to: AED grant for shuls #2153944
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    How much do they cost?

    in reply to: When should bochurim start dating? #2153834
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    So far the results are over 20% of the Yidden hold a bochor should be married before he’s 20 years old. And a majority hold that they should be married no later than 21 years old.

    in reply to: Differences between newspapers and Jewish news sites #2153728
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    The newspapers do not have Daas Torah. If you think otherwise kindly name exactly which rabbi is their alleged Daas Torah.

    But I certainly agree with you that the websites are 100s of times worse.

    in reply to: Differences between newspapers and Jewish news sites #2153727
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    The newspapers do not have Daas Torah. If you think otherwise kindly name exactly which rabbi is their alleged Daas Torah.

    But I certainly agree with you that the websites are 100s of times worse.

    in reply to: When should bochurim start dating? #2153424
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    You are halachicly obligated to get married by age 20 according to the Shulchan Aruch. Or, according to some shittos, by 24 if (AND ONLY IF) you are learning Torah full time.

    in reply to: Telshe Cleavland or Chicago #2153368
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    Do the Vilna Gaon’s gorel to decide whether to divorce your friend or whether to divorce your wife.

    in reply to: When should bochurim start dating? #2153367
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    Shemona Esre L’Chupa. That’s what Chazal say. It’s always smart to follow Chazal.

    Shemona Esre means married by that age. Not starting to date. So I’d say start dating no later than age 17.

    in reply to: Differences between newspapers and Jewish news sites #2153055
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    You should have an image blocker extension on your web browser. It isn’t hard to install.

    in reply to: Board or bored #2153054
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    Where’s Haifagirl when we need her?

    in reply to: Kol Nidre & New Years #2153029
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    My Christian neighbor.

    in reply to: George Santos – NY District 3 #2152940
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    Gadol: I take it that you’re not a student of American political history.

    in reply to: Quick Quote From Yankel Feferkorn #2152659
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    I gave Mendel rides when he hitched.

    in reply to: Thanks For The Venting Space #2152359
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    Can you believe it? George W. Bush was President of the United States when the above discussion transpired.

    Now the thread is mangled, with the OP 90% truncated due to failed CR “upgrades” over the years. But fear not tecno-warriors; you can still find the full original OP in the Wayback Machine.

    in reply to: Quick Quote From Yankel Feferkorn #2152266
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    Yankel lived in Brooklyn at least since sometime in the 1980s.

    in reply to: Threading the Needle on Social Issues in the New Coalition #2152098
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    akuperma: I think you’re overstating things. The Israeli Left, I don’t think, is more anti-religious per se, than the Israeli right. And the Israeli Chareidi public, despite whatever personal opinions they might Harbor regarding Arabs or the general political scene, at the end of the day they still take their cues from their Rabbonim and vote accordingly, as instructed.

    in reply to: Threading the Needle on Social Issues in the New Coalition #2152105
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    Additionally, despite any misgivings, the Israeli Left would be more than glad to give the Chareidim the same things the Chareidim would otherwise get with a Likud coalition, in return for putting the Left into power after so many years of being in the opposition.

    in reply to: Quick Quote From Yankel Feferkorn #2152106
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    He was niftar a few years ago. He was very sad about the fact that he couldn’t get married.

    in reply to: Quick Quote From Yankel Feferkorn #2152027
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    Gadol: Are you sure you didn’t go by the name sammygol in one of the previous of your nine lives?

    in reply to: Quick Quote From Yankel Feferkorn #2151976
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    He was often in Chaim Berlin. You could also find him at many Simchos recording the event on tape.

    in reply to: Threading the Needle on Social Issues in the New Coalition #2151917
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    akuperma: The reverse side of your point is that the Chareidi religious parties can enter a coalition with the Left, and leave Likud out in the cold.

    in reply to: Joseph vs squeak Nittul Nacht Chess #2151910
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    Dr. Pepper, I’ve been communicating with squeak using these two addresses since 2009 (though his last substantial reply was around the time Trump came down the escalator). Going from memory, I think, but aren’t certain, that one of the two is the same as what’s in the encrypted message.

    in reply to: Joseph vs squeak Nittul Nacht Chess #2151907
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    Reb Eliezer, it depends whether you’re Orthodox or not. (I assume you’re Orthodox.)

    in reply to: Mods? Mods? #2151616
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    CY: Sorry, I just noticed your post directed to me. I don’t recall when I first noticed your new thread, but the timestamps generally reflect the time the mod approved it for a regular post; I recall, though, that OPs/new threads have some weird behavior and the timestamp on the OP itself is different than the timestamp on the main page for the thread (until it gets additional posts on the thread.)

    As far as it being objectionable, absolutely not; there’s nothing objectionable about it whatsoever.

    in reply to: Joseph vs squeak Nittul Nacht Chess #2151618
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    Dr. Pepper, I’ve had the practice of emailing him a few times a year, before each Yom Tov, over the last decade. (And cc:ing it to his alt email, in case he didn’t check the other.)

    in reply to: George Santos – NY District 3 #2151617
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    Bill Clinton set the record for a lying politician. He was disbarred while in office, in addition to having been impeached for perjury.

    in reply to: Quick Quote from Rabbi Yehuda Cahn #2151592
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    Quick quote from Rabbi Dr. Benzion Twerski:

    Every frum Yid benefits from the things that askanim do. From intervening with governmental matters, legal issues, dealing with yeshivos, getting streets blocked for various events, and others too numerous to mention, we all derive much benefit from what they do. Nearly all, or perhaps absolutely all, function selflessly. Hatzoloh, Shomrim, and Chaverim are totally volunteer staffed.

    Rabbi Dr. Benzion Twerski is a renowned and much sought-after mental health professional who holds a Ph.D. in psychology from University of Pittsburgh. He lives and practices in Brooklyn.

    in reply to: Joseph vs squeak Nittul Nacht Chess #2151426
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    Gadol: There’s at least one famous picture of one of the gedolim playing chess on nittul nacht.

    in reply to: Help! #2151428
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    Send him to DailyKos, where Dr. Charlie Hall will fix him good.

    in reply to: Joseph vs squeak Nittul Nacht Chess #2151374
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    When your opponent forfeits the game, you win by default.

    in reply to: Who has the power to bring subtitles back? #2151324
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    Me.

    in reply to: Joseph vs squeak Nittul Nacht Chess #2151274
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    Checkmate.

    in reply to: Should all Yidden know Hebrew? #2150668
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    “They even wouldn’t mention Yom Ha’atzmaut.”

    They wouldn’t mention Christmas either.

    in reply to: Quick quote from Rabbi Yisroel Reisman #2147888
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    “It would be better” isn’t “speaking out” against.

    in reply to: Chasidus Without Context #2147791
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    DaMoshe: Your ideas from where you’ve “studied the arguments between the early chassidim and the misnagdim” that you’re expressing here come from the secular academics who hate Torah Judaism and invented falsehoods on all this.

    in reply to: 2 States #2147767
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    MDD, why would anyone take seriously your “disagreements” with Rav Chaim, considering that you “do not accept everything Reb Chaim said”.

    And what’s wrong to compare the Zionists to the Nazis, considering that the Zionists teamed up with the Nazis during the Holocaust to accomplish their mutual goals.

    in reply to: Dealing with confusing relationships #2147765
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    Pirkei Avos has the answer to this question.

    in reply to: Troll Thread #2147404
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    It means the fellow who is yelling troll violently disagrees with the comments of the poster he’s calling a troll.

    in reply to: SHIDUCHIM. #2147299
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    Yseribus: Agreed 100%.

    in reply to: Mods? Mods? #2147253
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    CY: Try again. Perhaps tone down anything perceivably objectionable.

    in reply to: Mods? Mods? #2147086
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    catch yourself: what was the subject of it?

    in reply to: Anti-semitism: Republicans vs Democrats #2146939
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    The Right supports protecting religious rights, bris mila, schechita, building shuls in residential neighborhoods, kapporos, wearing religious clothing in public, marrying our children at young ages, having many children, protecting us from minority violent criminals, educating our children in Yeshivos according to Torah standards rather than government standards, etc.

    Whereas, it is the Left than opposes Jews on the above issues.

    in reply to: SHIDUCHIM. #2146910
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    SQUARE: The Chareidi Olam has a much much less Shidduch Crisis than the non-Chareidi Olam. And within the Chareidi Olam, Chasidim, who have even greater stringencies on the inter-gender issues that you’re ranting about, have an even smaller Shidduch Crisis than other Chareidim who are less strict about it.

    in reply to: Most Important Issue of 2022 #2146855
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    Yo, is this a Christian thread?

    repaired

    in reply to: SHIDUCHIM. #2146731
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    That old canard again?

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