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Philosopher, you’re a bit over five years late in your welcome. Indeed, sparkledout hasn’t even shown back up in this neck of the cyber-woods in over five years.

Getting back on topic, can anyone share what sort of topics are found on the site discussed in the title here?

Commonsense1, my apologies, I mis-remembered. The other fellow I was thinking of uses the screen name “commonsaychel”; so I don’t think there’s a conflict with your name.

Women have no business being police officers.

It does not work. Cuba has been under US sanctions for the last almost 70 years in order to attempt to get rid of the Castro regime. Total failure. The same with North Korea. And virtually all other examples.

Can Beis Din execute Edim Zomemin as soon as they receive testimony that they were, in fact, Edim Zomemin, without even giving the alleged/accused Edim Zomemin the opportunity to rebut the testimony against them?

I remember in camp one of the popular theme songs was “Alef!, Ches!, Daled!, Vov, Suf!, we’ve got Achdus and that’s more than enough!!”

The US has no national interest in spending significant American blood to defend Taiwan. Taiwan and Beijing both agree they are part of the same nation. They only disagree who should govern it. This isn’t America’s fight. Just like we’re not going to send American troops to defend the Ukraine from Russia, we shouldn’t pretend we’re going to go to war with a nuclear armed China to defend Taiwan.

I don’t keep up with the antisemites. But all the attacks on Soros I’ve seen have been well deserved and not antisemitic.

I’ve seen the left and media describing non-antisemitic attacks on Soros as antisemitic. It is one of the left’s tactics. They do the same things by falsely accusing their political opponents of racism.

I can’t speak of any other SNs, but all I know is that this one was never used by Joe.

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“And if those two rabbis had accurately reflected the Torah perspective, I wouldn’t be either.”

Charlie: Just to reiterate, if the Torah supports slavery, then you don’t support the Torah.

Copy.

AAQ: So if I’m keeping good count, you’ve got OO, Lev Tahor, Shuvu Bonim, Brisk, Peleg Yerushalmi, Neteurei Karta, Satmar, Lubavitch and Ponoveze included in the achdus but Conservative affiliated people are out.

AAQ: Jewry presumably includes OO (which was founded by a YU rabbi and it identifies itself as part of MO), Lev Tahor, Shuvu Bonim, Brisk, Peleg Yerushalmi, Neteurei Karta, Satmar, Lubavitch, Ponoveze and even Conservative Judaism.

Are you similarly upset those Yidden were not included in the achdus of the event you’re discussing?

Reb Eliezer: Open Orthodox claim they’re Orthodox and uphold the mesorah. Other groups also claim to be Orthodox and follow a mesorah. Who should judge which Orthodox-claiming groups are really Orthodox and correctly observing the mesorah versus which are Orthodox claiming but really anything but, and thus excluded from your call for achdus?

Reb Eliezer, is Open Orthodox enough Orthodox? If not, when is it enough?

Achdus with whom? Conservative? Reform? Open Orthodox?

No one knew there would be trespassing. The official plan was to head to the Capital for a legal protest outside on public grounds.

P.S. The moon landing doesn’t count.

Completely agree with the OP, Zaphod Beeblebrox. The claim that the moon landing really happened has been so thoroughly discredited that it is a bore to keep hearing about the conspiracy theory that a man actually went to the moon.

“George Washington is probably rolling in his grave at the total lack of slaves and the fact that Jews can be part of the government.”

George Washington was an Oheiv Yisroel.

Changes of nature that occurred during Yaakov Avinu’s lifetime aren’t documented by contemporary historian’s accounts. Another example is that there was kishuf (“magic”) by Pharoh’s time (which is after Yaakov Avinu’s time) and there was magic still in the world in much later times of world history, yet professional historians are in denial over these (and many other) facts.

It’s literal. It was “medically accurate” before the time of Yaakov Avinu.

HaLeiVi, now you’re singing a different time, one I agree with you on. No one implied or suggested, that I know of, that anyone not hold the door open for everyone/anyone and, rather, let the door “slam shut” (as you described it) in the next person’s face. Of course hold the door for everyone. The issue only is when one makes gender-based distinctions on whether to hold the door or on which gender should hold it for the other.

We can be honest, the door holding discussions invariably revolve around the issue of gender. Whether it is being discussed in the context of shidduch dates or more generally. Rarely is it being discussed in the sense that everyone should be holding the door open for anyone in front or in back of them, regardless of their and the other party’s gender.

If you failed to see that fact then you’ve been running around with your eyes and ears closed.

Syag, why would you find an insertion of a Chazal into the conversation as “odd”?

“If you cannot differentiate between ideals that we clearly do not hold by and sensitivities that formed over time”

It is just as clear that we (i.e. Yidden) do not hold by that a man should hold a door open for a woman moreso than a woman should hold open a door for a man, as it is clear that we do not hold by vegetarianism.

You cannot makeup for yourself what “ideals that we clearly do not hold” and what “we” do. There’s nothing to differentiate vegetarianism from the other so-called “ideal” that you imagine.

b_t: Take a 200 mile cross-state trip to Bentonville and I’ll hook you up with my executive contacts at America’s largest employer and retailer so you can be Walmart’s preferred kosher chicken supplier.

Reb Eliezer, Chasan Sofer and Vien aren’t Chasidish.

HaLeiVi: He can wear kosher tzitzis, too, since he isn’t obligated in it and therefore it is carrying for him.