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  • in reply to: 1914/1939 2.0 #2115932
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    ubiq: Nobody opposed resistance or running away after the reality of Auschwitz was known. If you’re referring to the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, such resistance was clearly futile and its futility was very foreseeable in advance. Getting Jews killed on the spot by resisting is worse than risking possible death in the future by not resisting. Running away from Aushwitz certainly no one opposed. And resisting as an individual, i.e. fighting an officer trying to arrest you to bring you to Aushwitz, no one opposed either.

    in reply to: Liz Cheney for President #2115931
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    C”V! How could you be choshed bksheirim? I still have my trusty childhood copy of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, copyrighted in 1900.

    in reply to: The coffee room is ussor and I’m trying to make sure people chap #2115930
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    Reb Eliezer, Chasan Sofer is Oberlander, not Chasidish.

    in reply to: I personally view ben gvirs rise concerning #2115918
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    Gvir is a typical zionist. Just like Kahane, Goldstein and Shurin.

    in reply to: Ancient religions to Judaism #2115916
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    The Chazon Ish drew a surgical diagram to give the doctors to follow.

    in reply to: Liz Cheney for President #2115846
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    Ding Dong! The Witch is dead. Which old Witch? The Wicked Witch!
    Ding Dong! The Wicked Witch is dead.
    Wake up – sleepy head, rub your eyes, get out of bed.
    Wake up, the Wicked Witch is dead. She’s gone where the goblins go,
    Below – below – below. Yo-ho, let’s open up and sing and ring the bells out.
    Ding Dong’ the merry-oh, sing it high, sing it low.
    Let them know
    The Wicked Witch is dead!

    in reply to: The coffee room is ussor and I’m trying to make sure people chap #2115845
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    By the way, when the coffee room was new in 2008, 2009, 2010, it was way worse. You had teenagers, young adults and middle aged fellows from both genders having very lively discussions and chatting and joking around on all subjects. And the posts back then were often being approved and posted within seconds or minutes of being submitted. Some threads were growing by a page (fifty posts) every hour or so (sometimes even quicker). Check out some of the very old threads (at least some of the ones that didn’t get mangled in the various CR software upgrades over the years.)

    in reply to: misuse of lights and sirens #2115844
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    Who does the installation of the L&S on these cars?

    in reply to: Julius & Ethel Rosenberg & Donald Trump #2115843
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    Reb Eliezer, that doesn’t make sense. Nikita Khrushchev died long after the executions. His posthumously published memoir could not have contributed to their being executed.

    Boris Brokhovich just wanted to feel like a big shot that he helped develop Russia’s nukes rather than admit Rosenberg helped Russia develop it.

    in reply to: The coffee room is ussor and I’m trying to make sure people chap #2115834
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    Well, in this case I didn’t reprimand anyone. I do, essentially, agree with Moish. Which means you can say I’m (like everyone else here) wrong to be here. But I’d rather honestly admit that I’m doing something wrong than to pretend or claim that the wrongful activity is okay.

    Isn’t it better to admit that one’s eating Hebrew National is something that I should stop rather than telling people Hebrew National is okay to eat?

    in reply to: I personally view ben gvirs rise concerning #2115829
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    The right wing/religious will likely split the votes into parties that fail to pass the threshold, thereby being wasted. Just like they did in the last few elections.

    in reply to: I personally view ben gvirs rise concerning #2115830
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    Menachem, Kahane only got in when the threshold was much lower. (Two seats, if I recall.)

    in reply to: Liz Cheney for President #2115809
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    Veep Richard Cheney was correct. A strong presidency is a strong America.

    in reply to: Mesorah and Levush #2115803
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    Kehilos having the power of coercion is a positive and proper arrangement and how things were done throughout Jewish history, until relatively recently.

    Kehilos still Halachicly exist today, even if they lack the secular coercive power.

    in reply to: Are you ever wrong #2115685
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    It’s happened. I acknowledge those rare occasions.

    in reply to: Mesorah and Levush #2115683
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    Kuvult, it’s a Halacha to follow that minhagim of the community you’re in, while you’re there.

    in reply to: Mesorah and Levush #2115682
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    Kuvult, it’s a Halacha to follow that minhagim of the community you’re in, while you’re there.

    in reply to: Julius & Ethel Rosenberg & Donald Trump #2115681
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    Jack, if a parent murders someone should they be spared on the basis that their children will be orphans otherwise?

    It’s a bit like the kid who killed his parents and asked the judge for mercy since he’s an orphan.

    in reply to: The coffee room is ussor and I’m trying to make sure people chap #2115679
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    While commonsaychel will surely be yelling troll from the rooftops soon enough, the OPs intention is lsheim shamayim. And he’s not wrong, per se, either.

    in reply to: Mesorah and Levush #2115642
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    Reb Eliezer, where can a heibel worn be purchased?

    in reply to: Mesorah and Levush #2115628
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    Reb Eliezer, do you wear a heibel worn?

    Oib nisht, farvus nisht?

    in reply to: Liz Cheney for President #2115591
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    Today’s the big day democracy will speak when the voters, in their great electoral wisdom, will give Lying Lizzie the boot by firing her and booting her from office. A win for democracy and a win for America.

    The icing on the cake will be the return of Sarah Palin. If for nothing else than to be the Left’s new boogeywoman.

    in reply to: Julius & Ethel Rosenberg & Donald Trump #2115582
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    If I recall, while Ethel was convicted for more than she was actually guilty of, she nevertheless was guilty of doing work for her husband’s nuclear spying that was on behalf of the Russians.

    in reply to: Ancient religions to Judaism #2115523
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    Syag, may I respectfully ask why is a layman unqualified to express his thought that Rabbi Dr. Twerski was mistaken in a certain halachic thought? (I’m not arguing with your point about if the person arguing misunderstood him in the first place. Just your point about needing to be qualified to disagree halachicly/hashkaficly with someone in his position.) I don’t think he was recognized as a rabbinic authority.

    in reply to: “Frum” female singers on YouTube #2115522
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    Avira, were you able yet to look into the thought that “not all erva is the same” and find any written Halachic support for the argument that there’s a Halachic difference between singing erva, swim clothing erva and short sleeves erva?

    in reply to: Brooklyn Sephardi Shuls Non-SY #2115492
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    Have you met any SYs with the last names Teitelbaum, Katzenelenbogen or Deutsch?

    They give aliyas to geirim who happen to come to their minyanim. They just don’t sell memberships to non-SYs.

    in reply to: Ancient religions to Judaism #2115493
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    I don’t understand this argument. Rabbi Dr. Twerski was a psychiatrist and a Talmid Chochom but not a Rov or a Posek.

    in reply to: Mesorah and Levush #2115414
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    LOT112: Did your father have a Minhag not to wear a kittel ever, including by the Seder and on Yom Kippur? If so, and that’s a valid Minhag, then you certainly shouldn’t start wearing a kittel because you think it is cool to; you should absolutely continue your father’s minhagim.

    in reply to: Brooklyn Sephardi Shuls Non-SY #2115412
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    A Ashkenazi cannot become a member either. Nor can a Persian, Yekke, or Chosid become a member.

    in reply to: Mesorah and Levush #2115410
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    Avira, and should they be working, especially outside the home? We should start a new thread to discuss.

    in reply to: Mesorah and Levush #2115288
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    Another violation of mesorah that should be of concern is regarding girls who are from families where the women don’t drive, yet they decided they will drive a car. B”H this isn’t a widespread problem yet, but we need to nip it in its bud.

    in reply to: Mesorah and Levush #2115284
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    lakewhut & #1:

    Are you also perturbed over the point that commonsaychel made? In other words, does it also bother you that about 66% of the Yeshivish/Litvish oilem come from Hungarian/Polish/Chasidish stock, and you believe that those 2 out 3 “”Litvish”/Yeshivish people should return to their Chasidish roots?

    in reply to: Mesorah and Levush #2115237
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    Atara is a Minhag thing? It’s simply something to make your tali’s nicer.

    Is how many stripes your talis has going to be thought of as a Minhag, and we’ll compare your number to your father’s?

    in reply to: Julius & Ethel Rosenberg & Donald Trump #2115193
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    Donald Trump also killed Elvis. And Kennedy.

    in reply to: Ancient religions to Judaism #2115191
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    Avira, what was Ralbag’s error?

    in reply to: Mesorah and Levush #2115188
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    Kapotas was always a Litvish thing, not Chasidish.

    The Minhag in Chaim Berlin, which isn’t Chasidish, is to wear a gartel. This isn’t new, it’s always been the case there. Other non-Chasidish kehilos might have similar minhagim.

    I never saw American Litvish wear a shtreimal. No idea where you got that thought. Yerushalmi Litvish always have worn shtreimals.

    in reply to: Brooklyn Sephardi Shuls Non-SY #2115187
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    Shul membership and burial is only available for SY community members. Any non-member isn’t qualified. It isn’t that geirim are banned but rather any non-member of the community.

    in reply to: Ancient religions to Judaism #2115066
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    AAQ, what religious element does Alcoholics Anonymous have?

    in reply to: A I Stone versus Tyrwhitt or Brooks Brothers #2114923
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    Avira, where do you go now?

    in reply to: Ancient religions to Judaism #2114892
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    RW, again, there’s no evidence that they have been doing it since before Matan Torah.

    in reply to: Roshei Hayeshiva #2114765
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    #1: “UJM there are bochurim in the closet in yeshivas. I heard stories that I won’t get into. So if you don’t think that there are bochurim struggling with this Yetzer Hara in the Daled Koslos of the best yeshivas, you just don’t have your finger on the pulse of where society is. Not everyone in YU agrees that there should be this club.

    Legally today, if someone sued a Beis Midrash program that is an AARTS program or getting government funds that they don’t grant people certain rights, they would also be sued.”

    There are also bochorim that break Shabbos, there are bochorim that steal and there are bochorim that eat in a non-kosher restaurant when traveling away from Jewish population centers. Do you know of any Yeshiva with a Mechallel Shabbos Club, a Treif Tasting Club or a Thieves Club? How on earth can you justify or excuse any so-called “Yeshiva” tolerating for even one second (let alone funding!!) any club celebrating terrible sins?!?

    “Not everyone in YU agrees that there should be this club.”!!? Are you blazing kidding us?! “Oh, some people in YU think we shouldn’t celebrate terrible sins even if others in YU (including students and the administration) do think we should celebrate and tolerate it.” That’s what you just said.

    If a law is passed that universities must teach the New Testament, will YU start giving Shiurim on Yushke Pundrik?
    Will they start having mandatory courses on Matthew, Mark and Luke, in accordance with the law?! “Bochorim, you must make sure you pass the next bechina on John the Baptist, Pontius Pilate and Paul of Tarsus if you hope to get a degree or smicha from Yeshiva University. Otherwise we could lose our government funding or even get sued.”

    in reply to: Brooklyn Sephardi Shuls Non-SY #2114766
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    The SY geirim takana is only applicable in the SY community. NOT in any other Sephardic communities.

    in reply to: Ancient religions to Judaism #2114761
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    “-isnt that before Torah was written?”

    No, the Torah was written before Maaisa Bereishis. It was given to us at Har Sinai in 1313 BCE.

    Additionally, those documents do NOT mention any of the things similar to Judaism.

    in reply to: Ancient religions to Judaism #2114755
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    Dovid: Pleading ignorance that yoga is Avoda Zora doesn’t excuse continuing to practice it.

    in reply to: Roshei Hayeshiva #2114738
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    AAQ: Who wrote 40 years ago that Lakewood is litvishe teachers with Hungarian students?

    in reply to: A I Stone versus Tyrwhitt or Brooks Brothers #2114603
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    Ask Dan.

    in reply to: Roshei Hayeshiva #2114602
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    CS: Which Litvish Roshei Yeshivos take kvitlach? Extremely few, if any.

    The Chazon Ish, who was no Chasidish Rebbe and isn’t from our Dor, gave medical advice and drew a diagram where to perform surgery.

    in reply to: Ancient religions to Judaism #2114601
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    Dovid: Yoga is pure Avoda Zora.

    in reply to: Ancient religions to Judaism #2114599
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    RW: “-There aren’t?”

    No, there is not.

    in reply to: Roshei Hayeshiva #2114536
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    Isn’t Rav Shmuel Dishon the Mashgiach (not R”Y) in Stolin?

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