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January 28, 2022 12:37 pm at 12:37 pm in reply to: YWN CR Poasters. Do you believe that the Tianamen Square Massacre happened? #2055733ujmParticipant
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.
ujmParticipantAAQ: 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?
ujmParticipantIt’s always bad news when a Jew is running the show in politics.
ujmParticipantUkraine 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.
January 27, 2022 11:23 am at 11:23 am in reply to: YWN CR Poasters. Do you believe that the Tianamen Square Massacre happened? #2055447ujmParticipanthuju: 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.
ujmParticipantSwitch back to Saf. (As an aside, you shouldn’t have switched in the first place.)
Most people don’t keep Shabbos, either.
ujmParticipant“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.
ujmParticipantOddly, 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.
ujmParticipantBecause any ehrliche Yid’s filter blocks Discord.
ujmParticipanthuju: busses is a valid variant spelling of buses. In fact, until the 1960s, busses was the default spelling in the dictionary.
January 26, 2022 1:09 pm at 1:09 pm in reply to: YWN CR Poasters. Do you believe that the Tianamen Square Massacre happened? #2054962ujmParticipantRegardless of Tianamen, the New York Times, Washington Post and Reuters are unreliable and disreputable sources.
ujmParticipantCheck Yelp.
ujmParticipantRW: Where have you ever heard that they stop people who already got off the bus and are on the public street?
ujmParticipant33, what about 42 (not to mention 99)?
January 26, 2022 1:55 am at 1:55 am in reply to: YWN CR Poasters. Do you believe that the Tianamen Square Massacre happened? #2054773ujmParticipantAmerica shouldn’t be the world’s policeman.
ujmParticipantBouncing_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?
ujmParticipantJust add a little glue to any fabric Talis.
Much more effective.
ujmParticipantThe Uyghur’s aren’t being killed.
Totally crazy comparison.
ujmParticipantIt 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.
ujmParticipantThe 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.
ujmParticipantCharlieHall: There’s a lot more than three countries in Africa.
Perhaps you visited those without cannibalism.
ujmParticipantEJM: You should be more worried about the constant killings in Africa.
ujmParticipantFor 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.
ujmParticipantAvram:
1. My offer to count them was in jest, too. Though, making a point, at the same time.
2. I didn’t think *you* are apprehensive about this topic. But I know many others are. I once came out of a shiur where the Rov discussed the importance of women dressing tzniusdik, and there was this guy outside ranting that it’s none of the rabbis business and he has no right to talk about the subject. (The same thing I’ve been pointing out happening here.)
3. I disagree with your assessment that such discussion is inappropriate or a breach of the issue itself. Apparently, we’ll have to agree to disagree.
4. I’m not following your differentiation of stating the appropriate way of dressing (which you’re okay with) versus the inappropriate way of dressing. A poster or drasha saying “areas x, y and z must be covered” (or a dress must be loose) is much different than if it said “areas x, y and z must not be uncovered” (or a dress must not be tight)?
ujmParticipant“That was your sole or main takeaway from my post?”
Wolf: That was my sole objection.
ujmParticipantWolf: He is Mr. Please don’t improperly use a title for him.
January 24, 2022 2:09 pm at 2:09 pm in reply to: post of the night: Have you ever been in a din torah before #2054162ujmParticipant“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.
January 24, 2022 1:54 am at 1:54 am in reply to: What Steps Will the Charedi World Take to Try to Prevent Abuse #2054011ujmParticipantNo, 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.
January 23, 2022 9:40 pm at 9:40 pm in reply to: guys its normal for girls to go to seminary #2053967ujmParticipantThe 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?
January 23, 2022 7:43 pm at 7:43 pm in reply to: What Steps Will the Charedi World Take to Try to Prevent Abuse #2053813ujmParticipantUser176: 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.
ujmParticipantCS: And what’s your point?
January 23, 2022 2:21 pm at 2:21 pm in reply to: What Steps Will the Charedi World Take to Try to Prevent Abuse #2053740ujmParticipantReb Eliezer, are you suggesting that we should start off with the presumption that an accused is guilty until and unless he proves himself innocent?!
January 23, 2022 8:23 am at 8:23 am in reply to: What Steps Will the Charedi World Take to Try to Prevent Abuse #2053625ujmParticipantUser176: 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.
ujmParticipanttakah: 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.)
ujmParticipantAAQ: 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.
ujmParticipantAvira, 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.
ujmParticipantAvira, why do you think a majority of Reform members are Jewish?
Ironically, the head “rabbi” of the Central Synagogue in Manhattan in a gentile.
ujmParticipantWolf: In your estimation, how much more are you earning today given the Master’s you possess, than had you only had a Bachelor’s.
ujmParticipantEJM: 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.
ujmParticipantEJM:
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?
ujmParticipantSyag, 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.
January 21, 2022 1:16 pm at 1:16 pm in reply to: What Steps Will the Charedi World Take to Try to Prevent Abuse #2053247ujmParticipantHere’s a question no one’s answered, many have purposely refused to answer, others skirted answering and some dug their head in the sand and claimed is never or almost never applicable:
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.
ujmParticipantAvram: A small minority of them. Additionally, I’ve started very many more threads on Zionism (among many more topics) than this; should I supply that number as well?
Why is it that this particular topic makes people nervous? When discussing Zionism, Loshon Hora, Kashrus, Kollel, or Shidduchim you never have anywhere the number of complaints against even daring to have the hava mina of even talking about the subject. I submit that this is directly because the difficulty many have (both female and well as male head of households who carry the sacred obligation of enforcing them) in complying with the laws on the issue of tznius. And that’s all the more reason to discuss it.
“In my experience, men in the real world do not sit and schmooze together about this.”
I can’t speak about your experience, but in the densely populated centers of Judaism, such as in Eretz Yisroel, New York and elsewhere, this topic is very much and often raised by Rabbonim in droshos to both men and women, as well as reminders placed on posted notices in the communities and is certainly often discussed among the Klal and Yeshivaleit as a topic of Halacha and Limud Torah.
I don’t recall you objecting to discussions here of other halachic topics. Even if it applied primarily to one gender or the other. This particular topic is at least as much the responsibility of fathers and husbands as it is of female members of the family.
ujmParticipantHaLeiVi: The real ones the mods don’t allow.
ujmParticipantJust get it in its original form, at its original location, in the heart of Jewish America, on 13th Avenue.
ujmParticipantAnyone successful in getting an order confirmation for the free government Covid tests?
Not getting past the last step.
January 18, 2022 11:26 pm at 11:26 pm in reply to: people who become therapists usually just want haak #2052386ujmParticipantLie down on the couch and tell me everything that’s really bothering you.
January 18, 2022 11:26 pm at 11:26 pm in reply to: Are the Reform and Conservative Still Jewish? #2052385ujmParticipantNo. A majority of the non-Orthodox movements members are Goyim.
ujmParticipantCovidTests.gov
ujmParticipantWould you like a drink with your order?
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