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No. Her family was owned by a Goldberg family. Upon emancipation they took their master’s surname.
Reb Eliezer, even if the two most qualified candidates were equal to each other, it is absolutely wrong to use race or other such factors as a tie breaker. Race and such should have absolutely no bearing whatsoever in making the selection.
Would you be okay if the white guy was selected over an equally qualified black candidate simply because he’s white?
The reality is when they specifically select a minority or woman or other such criteria to the detriment and exclusion of white guys, they’re selecting a clearly less qualified minority candidate.
The Ukraine is an artificial country created by the communists. Prior to the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, it was never an independent country. It was always, essentially, part of the same country as Russia. It was effectively first created as a separate legal entity after the Russian revolution in 1917 when the communists created for their own political purposes.
Furthermore, Crimea has been part of Russia for hundreds of years from the time of Catherine. It was only transferred on paper, since it made virtually no legal difference, from Russia to Ukraine in the 1970s by the Ukrainian dictator of the USSR, Krushekov.
And in 2014 Obama and Hillary supported and assisted the violent coup d’etat against the democratically elected President of Ukraine, replacing him with an anti-Russian government.
America and NATO have no interest in protecting the Ukrainian government.
Simcha: Yes. Reagan was absolutely wrong on that. If the nine Supreme Court justices, selected due to their being the most qualified candidates, were all White Anglo-Saxon Protestant men, then G-d bless all those male WASP justices. And long may they serve.
Bean counting has no place in selecting the most qualified candidates.
That was R Wein’s own commentary on history; not simply his reporting history. Avira’s correct question was how smerel’ citation of R Wein’s commentary is relevant to this discussion.
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Never leave a patient alone in the hospital.
I always knew that after much hard work of making convincing and historically and factually accurate comments, that I would finally be able to count huju as one of my legends of followers who agree with my posts.
The Democrats support gross immorality, abortion, toeiva and terrible social policies to a far greater extent than their political opponents.
Grover Cleveland was both the 22nd and the 24th president. He is counted twice since his two terms were non-consecutive.
Just like Donald Trump can be both the 45th and the 47th president.
huju: You’re not the only person who keeps his head in a bubble and laughs when only listening to sources that conforms with your worldview while shutting yourself out from the truths that hurt your sensibilities that inform about news happenings and viewpoints that your left-wing upbringing cannot stomach.
P.S. The Economist (which I’ve been reading since the early/mid-90’s) is liberal. And the Wall Street Journal news pages (not considering its editorial page) is certainly not conservative and, in fact, leans against conservatism. This has been the case both when Dow Jones was owned by the Bancroft family as well as since it has been bought by News Corp, which under its Bancroft contractual sale terms is permanently firewalled from influencing the news pages.
AAQ: Is that also why TSA agents do a patdown and hand search on little old ladies at the airport while letting the Arab guys go through unmolested?
It’s always bad news when a Jew is running the show in politics.
Ukraine is a highly antisemitic country. They’re infamous for the Cossacks that murdered Yidden. Tach V’Tat. And during the Holocaust they helped the Nazis annihilate Jews.
Even today they revere and honor those antisemites who murdered thousands of Jews, with statues, holidays, parades and celebrations.
huju: I don’t know that there are three reliable news sources. The ones you cited are all far left ideologues infamous for lying and twisting. Examples of other outlets that are comparatively more reliable, even if they suffer their own biases to a notably lesser extent than your examples are The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Times.
Switch back to Saf. (As an aside, you shouldn’t have switched in the first place.)
Most people don’t keep Shabbos, either.
“How many guys would notice something like that.”
Wearing a Talis 7 days a week, 354 days a (Jewish) year, you’d surely notice it on yourself, if not on the dozens of other Talis-donning men (and Yekkishe/Sefardishe bochorim) you’re with every single morning.
Oddly, in all the years I’ve rarely seen someone’s Talis fall off in Shul.
It’s been working the good ole fashioned way for thousands of years. No need to reinvent the wheel.
Because any ehrliche Yid’s filter blocks Discord.
huju: busses is a valid variant spelling of buses. In fact, until the 1960s, busses was the default spelling in the dictionary.
Regardless of Tianamen, the New York Times, Washington Post and Reuters are unreliable and disreputable sources.
Check Yelp.
RW: Where have you ever heard that they stop people who already got off the bus and are on the public street?
33, what about 42 (not to mention 99)?
America shouldn’t be the world’s policeman.
Bouncing_Yak:
Why aren’t you out there publicly protesting against the African cannibals that murder and eat their fellow Africans?
And protesting against the African tribes (Hutus, Tutsis, Zulus, Amharas, Igbos, etc. etc.) that are at constant unending unceasing warfare against other African tribes, killing each other mercilessly and capturing, enslaving and selling opposing tribesmen and tribeswomen.
You only care about the Chinese perpetrators but not so much about the African perpetrators?
Just add a little glue to any fabric Talis.
Much more effective.
The Uyghur’s aren’t being killed.
Totally crazy comparison.
It is ridiculous. Likely a fad. Certainly meaningless.
It’s like when meme traders move the market on a certain stock for a period of time before it falls back to earth.
There’s no inherent value here.
The trick is to know how to say what you’re trying to convey in a sufficiently subtle manner that’s proven to past muster, whereas had the same message been worded slightly differently it would end up in the recycle bin.
CharlieHall: There’s a lot more than three countries in Africa.
Perhaps you visited those without cannibalism.
EJM: You should be more worried about the constant killings in Africa.
For the same reason we don’t talk about the African cannibals killing (and eating) each other or the other African tribes at constant war and genocide mass murdering each other.
What’s going on in African is far far worse than anything in China.
“That was your sole or main takeaway from my post?”
Wolf: That was my sole objection.
Wolf: He is Mr. Please don’t improperly use a title for him.
“Would you follow through if it was not?”
Are you kidding? That’s like asking would you eat a cheeseburger if you liked it. You don’t have a choice in the matter. You must follow Halacha. No cheeseburgers and yes obeying a Din Torah.
No, you certainly did not answer the question. You made up your own straw question to answer in order to avoid answering what was asked. I asked absolutely nothing about abusers. What I asked about was false claims of abuse. That’s all; nothing more.
“When dealing with accusers, they must be educated about the effects of their accusations.”
And similarly you merely say that when dealing with abusers, they must be educated about the effects of their abuse?
“I would like to hear your suggested answer to your question.”
My suggestion is to simply follow the Torah. The Torah tells us how to evaluate and judge the validity and invalidity of claims based upon the Torah’s and Halacha’s specified standards of evidence.
The disparity in ruchinus between young men and women is getting bigger and bigger. But given that you havent left the tristate area in a decade you probably dont know that.
EJM: Your above comment strongly implies that young women outside the tri-state area are doing worse in ruchniyus than young women in the tri-state area.
Why do you believe that?
User176: Like I said at the outset, you are skirting/refusing to answer and claiming it is virtually never applicable. That is called digging your head in the sand. You are creating a strawman to respond to rather than directly answering the very specific question that I asked. I did not ask how to prevent false allegations in the first place. I asked what to do about false accusations when they in fact do actually occur.
Your answer about giving Shiurim on Loshon Hora and MS”R to address false accusations is like if someone asked what should we do about abusers and you answered that to fix the problem of when someone abused someone that Rabbonim should give Shiurim that abuse is assur.
That’s the exact equivalent of your response. Giving Shiurim on L”H and MS”R is gevaldik and necessary. So is giving Shiurim not to abuse. But my question is what should be done to protect those who are already here and now falsely accused of abuse? To protect them from the false accusation and not penalize or embarrass in any way an innocently accused.
CS: And what’s your point?
Reb Eliezer, are you suggesting that we should start off with the presumption that an accused is guilty until and unless he proves himself innocent?!
User176: Can you repeat whatever message you were trying to say in plain English? I can’t make heads or tails out of you disjointed comment.
To restate my question:
What should be done to protect those falsely accused of abuse? And to insure they’re not hung out to dry and effectively murdered in public embarrassment and approbation even before any official conclusion of the allegation.
That’s all I’m asking. The rest of the commentary you can leave for another time. Please answer the question that was asked.
takah: Do you have evidence that most Reform (and to a slightly lesser degree Conservative) members *are* Jewish?
Certainly, you’ll admit that they conduct false conversions, count patrilineal descent (with no Jewish mother) as being “Jewish”, and the non-Orthodox have a close to 80% intermarriage rate. And these factors have been the case for many decades to centuries (depending on which factor we’re discussing.)
AAQ: Most CEOs and very many business owners (in addition to lawyers, as you noted) are tied down to engaging in their employment or business for an inordinate number of hours every day or week.
Most Uber drivers, on the other hand, have great flexibility in the number of hours and, perhaps more importantly, which hours they work.
Avira, their current intermarriage rate is close to 80%. The younger generations are much less likely to be Jewish than the older generations. Even 30ish years ago their intermarriage rate was considerably higher than what you’re basing your math on.
Additionally, they’ve been performing false conversions for well over 100 years already. I do believe they perform such “conversions” at a much larger figure than you’re counting. 1,000 in 2013 sounds like HUC alone, not counting the far greater numbers by individual Reform clergymen across the country.
The 20% reporting to Pew a non-Jewish mother would only count those surveyed that are aware their mother is a gentile and willing to say so. Most are unaware.
Avira, why do you think a majority of Reform members are Jewish?
Ironically, the head “rabbi” of the Central Synagogue in Manhattan in a gentile.
Wolf: In your estimation, how much more are you earning today given the Master’s you possess, than had you only had a Bachelor’s.
EJM: I’m really sorry but I must decline you membership in Mensa. Even though this wasn’t even a close call, we do wish you the very best in life.
EJM:
1. What is the highest level of education that you’ve completed?
2. What is your primary function in life currently that occupies more of your time than anything else?
3. What is your most important goal in life that you’re seeking to accomplish?
4. Which person outside your family that is or was alive in your lifetime do you look up to the most and wish to emulate?
5. What is your IQ?
Syag, I agree almost in full with Besalel. The only exception I take to his above comment is his disagreement with HaGaon HaRav Avigdor Miller zt’l. Frankly, I can’t even contemplate how anyone could take Besalel’s position over Rav Miller zt’l.