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  • in reply to: Should the President be Immune from Prosecution #2270399
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    there’s a big difference between a president doing what he thinks is within scope of his job responsibilities and that which is not.

    he should not be able to get off murdering someone in the oval office

    he should be able to contest an election that he believes to be unfair

    J6 was not an “insurrection”, and if you think it was, you have been misled by the media.

    in reply to: President Zaphod: Hail to Myself #2258743
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    Mostly Harmless, takka?

    in reply to: Shaatnez testing Brooks Brothers Suits #2254012
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    It is absolutely necessary for the Shatnez lobby to explain what they’re looking for and what test they run to determine shatnez.

    Arguments like this, from a “Rav”, demonstrate why this is a problem that needs to be addressed:
    “I’m a Rav, and in my opinion, suits should be checked for shatnez.
    30+ years ago I used to wear BB suits. Always got them checked and never found shatnez. Still think you should check it.”

    Different checkers obtain different results. Your mileage should NEVER vary.

    in reply to: Shaatnez testing Brooks Brothers Suits #2251798
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    Please explain why the process of testing for shatnaz is kept secret from the public. If it’s not a secret, please provide a description of the process or a link to one.

    in reply to: Is it assur to wish a goy a “Happy New Year”? #2250517
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    It is not a religiously significant day to any goy. Why make trouble for yourself?

    in reply to: Shalach Manos – Is Bourbon a food? #2169414
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    Reb Zeira was unavailable for comment.

    in reply to: Who You Enable by Voting Democrat #2142392
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    Armed populations don’t voluntarily allow themselves to be put
    In train boxcars.

    in reply to: Humor in Torah #2106507
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    great pun: עַל-כֵּן קָרָא שְׁמָהּ, בָּבֶל, כִּי-שָׁם בָּלַל …, שְׂפַת כָּל-הָאָרֶץ

    in reply to: The Violent Dems are at it #2084410
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    18 USC 1507, i believe

    ridiculous to believe it was anything other than the obvious – a leftist-activist clerk attempting to cause riots and intimidation of sitting justices.

    in reply to: Should YWN, stop copy and pasting Reuters and AP? #2060297
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    Yes. Jews should distance from the Fake News Industry

    in reply to: Electric Cars are they in your future? #2044537
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    There isn’t enough energy generation for all of the planned electric vehicles. Anyone who tells you that there is, or that solar or wind can help, or mentions major battery storage under current technology, doesn’t understand anything at all about it. That’s the entire story.

    in reply to: hoshanos ineptness #2010006
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    No lulavim on shabbas, so no circling on shabbas. Therefore, no need to put the Torah in the center on Shabbas. Since no walking, and holding no lulavim, people can hold siddurim so no RECITING RESPONSIVELY on shabbas.

    in reply to: U.S. Supreme Court opinion supports freedom of religion #1923913
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    What is really scary is that four Supreme Court justices do not seem to know that there is a First Amendment to the Constitution. (Or that BLM / Antifa was allowed to gather with no restrictions)

    in reply to: Will Biden Throw Israel Under the Bus? #1919125
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    Of course. Just like he did during his 8 years as VP. (Pallets of money to Iran; you think that went for fruit and veggies for the kids?)

    in reply to: hard time in shiduchim. #1905225
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    Be a man. Do it yourself, do your own thing.

    Have you made something of yourself to be attractive to others as a prospect, or is this always about what you want rather than what you can give.

    in reply to: Leftest are reshoem? #1899620
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    No, clearly not all Leftists are rishoyim. The rest are just walking around with a diagnosable mental disorder.

    in reply to: Shalom Bayis Pamphlet in Aramaic #1898113
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    A Get is also written in aramaic. So what.

    in reply to: Are the Chinese to blame for the covid-19 disease? #1890680
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    Trump is to blame because Orange Man Bad. Or something.

    #Trump2020

    in reply to: Do Chareidim still hold of Covid-19 #1890681
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    The real issue is whether covid holds of them. As opposed to some nonsensical argument in a text, this isn’t a matter of opinion. Either people catch it and get sick or they don’t. I’m not sure where you look up epidemiology in shaas.

    in reply to: Biden’s Childcare Plan #1887382
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    Big government programs are awesome. I, for one, happen to love the Post Office as well as the massive Public Education system. Both are doing wonders for us as a country.

    Time to renew my driver’s license. Where’s the end of the line…?

    in reply to: Tuition: Are We Paying Enough? #1886810
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    Are most teachers underpaid?

    Think about how easy it is to replace an average teacher. A fifth grade rebbi who is so-so. There are yeshivos filled with boys, newly married maybe or with a kid ot two, who could use a few bucks for the family, and earn some personal pride by holding a real job that is Torah-based. Loads of guys in yeshiva, no?

    So if it’s easy to find…

    in reply to: Jeffrey Epstein – part 2 #1879076
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    Safest place for her is… probably inside the White House.

    in reply to: Losing track of time #1878427
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    Yeah. Time, day, date. Everything has the feel of a three-day Yom tov except that we can drive and touch light switches.

    What were we talking about, again?

    in reply to: Frum non profit organizations disclosing financials. #1878426
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    Sunlight is an amazing disinfectant. Whether it says that anywhere in the seforim hakedoshim or not I am not sure, but it is definitely true.

    in reply to: Inner Cities #1868232
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    Many of our US companies are now Woke, and donating to BLM. Time for some heimishe brands… of everything…

    in reply to: African-American Role Models #1868216
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    Dr Ben Carson

    in reply to: George Floyd #1866739
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    The cops were arrested and one has already been charged.

    Everything else that is happening is inexcusable. Once a “peaceful protest” turned into looting, and the organizers started having more “peaceful protests” on other nights, they are to BLAME for what is happening. And the media is stoking the flames.

    Why are so many democrats protecting the LOOTERS? Why ??

    in reply to: Civil Disobedience #1865792
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    Pinchas didn’t post blog entries, he just did what was right. #brisShalom

    in reply to: Our Stupid President Trump #1861920
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    Trump stopped all travel from China. The media excoriated him for being a racist.
    Testing doesn’t change the therapeutics, and we had a lockdown to flatten the curve. Trump listened to the “science experts” for right or wrong.

    There is a political divide in this country that is unbridgeable. If you look at the Obama/Biden and see “not a smidgen of corruption” and only listen to CNN about Trump, there is simply no talking to any of you about the truth in anything at all.

    in reply to: Who are current jewish names to daven for- covid #1860038
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    How exactly does it help to daven for a list of ‘random names’? Is it a numbers game to overwhelm the heavens?

    in reply to: Poll: is general Flynn innocent? #1858587
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    Crooked cops. It’s Soviet-style. If they did this to him, can you imagine what they could do to you?

    in reply to: Free Facemasks in NYC #1855689
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    For those types of masks it says in Nidda 45: מכאן כנותן אצבע בעין

    in reply to: Set up a system to give the Chosson & Kallah a present. #1855686
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    Uh, perhaps something like that already exists. Welcome to the 21st century.

    in reply to: A Possible Explanation #1853728
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    Wait, so I’m still here (at the moment; we don’t know of course what tomorrow may bring). Does that mean I should have a serious conversation with my father? I’m lost as to what I’m supposed to learn from this, or what I can do about it. Should I change my shiduch resume and now I can’t marry just anyone? Or is it the other way around, if I don’t make it, then I’m not pure…? Help.

    in reply to: Why are our day schools different? #1853241
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    I’m sorry but I find this proposition to be ludicrous. My brother-in-law is a rabi in a local school and he absolutely needs his job. it doesn’t matter that he’s basically a little over paid based on his skill-set, that doesn’t have any college Baruch Hashem and is years and years of yeshiva are certainly worth something. Not being biased but it’s a pretty low great day teaches and probably pretty easy to swap him out for someone else. but at the same time he has a family to rest and it would be completely unfair for schools to go around and just take out people who may not be the most qualified and who are paid a little more than they should be just because they’re trying to optimize how they spend their dollars.

    The proposition is really just unfair to the people who need those jobs.

    in reply to: Things we managed to live without #1852632
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    @catchyourself –

    The frum people who work in the following industries are delighted that Rabbonim speak out against what they do for parnassa, that Rabbonim write against what they do for parnassa, and constantly denigrate people who take the opportunity to enjoy the things that they do for parnassa:

    1. Frum people who own catering halls or are caterers, providers of accouterments (flowers, music, etc.) (Simchas, Weddings/ Bar Mitzvas / Vorts)
    2. Frum people who are travel agents or own restaurants, catering centers, or transportation (Peasch programs)
    3. Ditto (Chol Hamoed trips)
    4. Frum owners of restaurants, caterers, grocery stores with carry-out and delivery services (Eating out the week before Peasch)
    5. Frum people who provide cleaning services (Cleaning help before pesach)
    8. Frum people who sell clothing, high or low end, top or low shelf, or anything in between – and we know there are plenty of them from high-end stores to basement outfits (New high end clothing)
    9. Even though most were already in Israel and now come home – frum people who run yeshivos EVERYWHERE (Bucherim and Sem girls going to Israel)
    10. Frum travel, hotels, transportation, catering, etc. (Meron on Lagbomer)

    All of these people, above, are very glad that you don’t care about how they earn a legal, ethical, moral, responsible living and are glad that we can live WITHOUT THEM OR THEIR SERVICES to us. Because we’re just so much holier (than thou) WITHOUT THEM.

    Yes, I’m starting to understand your point of view.

    in reply to: Things we managed to live without #1852420
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    Oh, yes. We’re just living in Gan Eden now. As the world economy collapses around us, bread lines get longer, oil goes negative, unemployment spikes, death surrounds us. Sure, and just six weeks ago the United States under President Trump was leading all-time human levels for prosperity. Yeah, this is Gan Eden. Pity that we’re so shallow that we need a “wake-up call” like this because we cannot just behave like normal people, maintain lives of value, materialism in balance, spirituality appropriate, without a massive lurch toward totalitarianism. Thanks for that lesson.

    in reply to: Mayor Deblasio’s Fiasco #1852417
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    His request is wholly unAmerican. And if you want to say that there’s some public good, you’re just plain wrong – he’d be turning Jews in CAPOS.

    in reply to: Shaving/haircut this Friday #1852130
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    Maybe it doesn’t matter, because there are 100 different “minhagim” that “go each way till Sunday.” Maybe you can make an individual decision because it affects no one else, and isn’t really anyone else’s business. Just be respectful of the premise. And if someone looks at you funny in shul and measures your beard length perhaps it says more about them (and their “lo nahgu kavod zeh bzeh”) than it says anything about you.

    in reply to: Isn’t this amazing #1852129
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    Maybe he/she/it means the number of people who died during the recitation of the leyning of “parshas (sic) Tzav”, because for those of us who think we realize that rates for things have to do with numbers-per-unit time, and not “parshas anything”. And this would seem to imply, given that people do die all of the time, that corona is causing fewer people to die than normal. But it’s impossible to tell because the writer seems unimpressed with baseline numbers, statistics, historical records, analysis, or probably rational thought.

    unommin
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    @Haimy, do you come with English translation for the rest of us who live here on planet earth in the year 2020? We have some real problems to deal with, and could use some rational thinking and useful productive behavior. Unless you are a philosopher sitting on a stone or an Oracle sitting on a mountain, you are welcome to come down here and help us. Because a lot of people are dying, and many more are very sick, and oodles are being hurt by the economy and families are being negatively affected now and likely into the near future.

    Join us. Help us with some practical contributions.

    in reply to: why is this happening #1851141
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    Corona is happening because we have not rid the world of the scourge of COMMUNISM. This came from China, and was allowed to spread because of China’s inaction and disinformation. It continues to spread in the USA because people who are $upported by China (in the news) take anti-positions against the administration rather than trying to seek and communicate the truth. And Jews, far too many Jews, think like Leftists, act as dupes and Useful Idiots for the Left, listen to the mainstream media, don’t understand what sakkana really is, and continue to act like droids in a complex world. Time for us to grow up.

    in reply to: Help! Husband OTD #1844586
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    You think that the rabbi is where you should go for a husband who may be going OTD? You didn’t say the problem, but it could be that the rabbi is the last person you want. Especially his. The rabbi may be part of the problem.

    in reply to: Kissing A Boo-Boo #1826275
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    Kissing a boo boo is directly derived from the mitzveh of metzitza b’peh. It’s so obvious that I do not understand why people don’t see it. But moreso, if one questions the value of it, they are defacto questioning our mesorah because this is handed down and is one of the healing properties of chazal as part of the mitzvah of milah.

    in reply to: Bachurim marrying early #1826029
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    Since the boys aren’t ready (maturity nor means of supporting a family) at 20… or 25…
    And their families are going to be supporting them for the foreseeable future anyways, since they are all wards of the state, as it were, and their working parents (or maybe grandparents) are footing all bills and making all important decisions.
    We really should be taking a different approach, and marrying them off at 14 or 15. We need to create an army for klal yisroel, let people fulfill the right mitzvos as soon as is practical for them to do so.

    in reply to: $5,000.000 donated to Trump by Orthodox Jews, can we afford it? #1801524
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    Given the political and policy positions of those running against President Trump, the real question is whether we can afford NOT to support him as best we can.

    unommin
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    All we need to check is if there’s a search committee forming in order to staff his gatekeepers. A Gadol needs to have staff. That staff ensures that he gets all of the information he needs, from whatever the appropriate sources, in order to make the best possible decisions, and then disseminate those decisions to the widest appropriate audience.

    If we see that they’re staffing up gatekeeper for Rav Kanievsky, then we’ll know that he’s in a qualified gadol program.

    in reply to: Specialized Rabbis #1741461
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    The question stinks from heresy. A Gadol who knows shaas and poskim is, by definition, an expert in matters both worldly and heavenly. That Gadol can tell you about taaroovos or economics or medicine. To imply otherwise either means the first rabbi lacks true-torah-knowledge, or smacks of heresy and lack of emunas chachamim.

    in reply to: “Eretz” Yisroel = Frummer? #1741248
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    The secular term isn’t Israel, it’s Aretz (say: ahh-retz). Now you can fit in more comfortably with Club Zionism.

    unommin
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    It is absolutely ossur and completely antithetical to frum values for a woman to drink to intoxication, certainly intentionally. Any man who advocates for such things should be questioned for his learning and values, any rov who publicly considers this with legitimacy should be shunned and rabbinically defrocked. Shame, shame. Go learn the absolute basics of tzniyus, kavod habriyos, and respect for protection of women. Shame, shame.

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