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A combination of people who only comment on things that interest them and people who troll.
Non-binary assigned apachehelicopterkin. Pronouns xplpf/xplpfself.
The belief that the current State of Israel has religious significance and isn’t just another government that happens to be good to the Jews.
I would comment, but I think Professor Quirrel summed it up quite well when he charged into the Great Hall and fainted.
Following all of אורכת צדיקים until you’ve reached the final level.
Perhaps women could count as 3/5ths of a man in regards to Congressional representation? It’s a good compromise.
Shows how short-sighted and historically ignorant you are that Grant isn’t even on the list. He’s clearly the most anti-Semitic president in US history. He expelled the Jews from Tennessee. What did Obama do for comparison? Spoke nicely about Palestinians? What did Carter do already as a president? Brokered peace with Egypt?
What do you mean “becoming”?
Rav Breuer ZT”L had a nephew who was raised by Chassidim after the war and moved to New Square where he B”H raised a wonderful family who are still very respected in Skver today. But whever there was a Skver Breuer simcha confusion would reign. Half the crowd would show up exactly when the invitation said things would start, and they would mill around in increasing irritation wondering why nobody was there.
Sadly, because money.
Only if they say kinnos on Yom HaShoah.
No.
I have heard of exactly two types of people talk about discrimination against white men: those that post in Stormfront.org and @Joseph. Make of that fact what you will.
I think we need to amend Poe’s Law. Sometimes I can’t tell if something is satire, trolling (well, it’s @Joseph, so I know it’s trolling, but many here don’t realize that), extremist views, or white supremacy.
Let me put it to you this way: Let’s say this forum was full of Open “Orthodox” Jews who look and sound like regular frum Jews, but honestly believe in things such as intermarriage, toevah marriage, and shechita as a tzar ba’alei chayim issue, there would be no end of posts of Torah Jews arguing that they are mistaken and their beliefs are not what frum Yiddishkeit is about, in fact quite the opposite. We wouldn’t hate them. We would just be upset that they were raised to believe in things that are contrary to the Torah and believe that following those things still makes them frum’eh Yidden.
That’s how the overwhelming vast majority of the frum oilom views Chabad-Lubavitch.
Say hi to all the Horowitz’s (if there’s any left living there). You probably know a few, pretty much any nussach sefard Horowitz who is a Levi can trace their lineage back to Scranton.
Correlation/Causation misconception.
Largest states with largest Jewish populations.
Yes, I suppose he was. Eretz Yisroel under the Romans would be called Palestine in revenge for Bar Kochba’s zealots only a few decades after that man supposedly lived and died.
I suppose then all music is OK, since most Jewish music is neither.
What Chassidim send their daughters to is a Bais Yaakov, it’s just not part of the Bais Yaakov organization. It runs using the system popularized by Reb. Sara Schenirer ZT”L therefore it’s a Bais Yaakov.
I agree but like all solutions it’s impracticable until the shadchanim get aboard.
At one point, there was a crisis with girls not finding guys with a plan to make a living. Our esteemed shadchanim rectified this by insisting that any guy not in full time kollel isn’t worth your time.
Originally, the crisis was thought to be guys looking for Barbie instead of Bais Yaakov. During this time period, our holy shadchanim encouraged girls to doll themselves up and send a glamour shot to the potential boy so he can drool over it.
Then it was determined that it was the age gap. Those bastions of our kedusha kept up the tradition of insisting that 19 is old enough for a girl to know what she wants in life, but a boy has to be 22.
So yes. Your idea would work. But we’re just yelling into the void over here.
Shopping for a chumra has been the Yeshivishe way for a while. Someone I know was at a matza baking chabura and the head of the chabura insisted on a Chazon Ish chumra, an Aruch HaShulchan chumra, and at least one from the Ben Ish Chai.
Bump to re-open the discussion due to recent anti-vaxx things in the news.
There is a blood test you can take to see if you need it, but I’ve been told that the test will come up negative (meaning you need to re-vaccinate) for 90% of adults between the ages of 30 and 60. I’ve also been told by a doctor that a negative result doesn’t necessarily mean that the person isn’t immune, just that their measles antibodies is less than a certain percentage.
Derech agav, there’s a video going around of the crowd outside Bill DeBlasio’s announcement for a fine for un-immunized children. One repeats “Show me a double-blind study” several times which is the exact same thing one of the users in the thread below kept saying. I wonder if it’s the same person or this is a standard anti-vaxx soundbite.
Do not rely on something being a “top place” as being a good fit for your son. Speak with his rebbeim and rebbeim from both Yeshivos. Also speak with current talmidim at both places.
You mean like Rav Hutner ZT”L?
Those without nicotine are “relatively” safe, but still highly untested. Those with nicotine are only marginally less likely to give a person cancer or emphysema.
Do you want to see the remains of a Mikdash or a living Mikdash?
Fellas, please don’t respond to @Joseph. As CR veterans know, he’s just a troll who states the most oiber-krum fake “Yeshivish” shittos to get a rise out of everyone and start an argument.
@Health Lakewoord Cheder, obviously, or whatever the official name of their Mesivta is called. I don’t know any other Lakewood Mesivta older than 15 years that goes by that name.
@DaasYochid Rav Moshe ZT”L seems to be referring to unaltered songs or recordings by an עכו׳ם. He’s certainly not assuring the music itself, but the song and lyrics which are sung for the purpose of Avoda Zora. And if you read the rest of the teshuva, it sounds like he was against pretty much all Jewish pop music, as a lot of Rabbonim were and still are.
And @YeshivishRockstar, how did you even find this song? It took me a full ten minutes of searching on YouTube to find a single remix, and that’s with the name of the song, singer, and band! I couldn’t even find an original recording or a mention on Google of the lyrics.
It’s not a new trend. Lakewood mesivtas that aren’t the Cheder only started popping up in the last 15 years or so. The first ones to start emulated the Cheder and followed vague apocryphal out-of-context sayings of Rav Aharon Kotler ZT”L so they didn’t have English. Every subsequent mesivta to open up was too afraid of being “der modernische platz” that no one would dare send their kids to, so they didn’t open English departments either.
Everyone wants their son to be a gadol in limud and sit in klei kodesh for life. But if you understand that the world isn’t perfect and your child may need to actually have a parnossa for himself, and still not be ostracized from the community, you’ve got to send to an out of L’Wood mesivta, like Brooklyn, Cleveland, or Philly.
“Yidden” by MBD was originally a Eurovision winning song about how Ghengis Khan was a prusta menuvel.
Chabadskers sing the French national anthem as a tisch niggun.
Some historians say that there are Birchas Kohanim niggunim that come from monks chanting.
Not sure what the issue is with this song in particular.
Ironically, “Am Hanivchar” isn’t from Chazal. The phrase probably originates from 19th century anti-Semites.
Thank you bigots and anti-Semites of the world over for reminding us that we are in galus.
You are both misreading the data. Hundreds of thousands die from the flu because millions contracted it. Only a few hundred contracted the measles in comparison. This isn’t “hysteria”. Peoples lives are in danger because people like you think its OK if some people choose to allow their children to acquire dangerous diseases. Look at what happened in Eretz Yisroel last week, R”L. Nearly 30 newborns were in potential danger of death because a mother with measles gave birth in the maternity ward!
If you are honest with yourselves, you would look at the data comparing hospitilization and injury rates for people already diagnosed with measles or flu. (Hint: the data shows that measles is far far worse)
@Joseph Your trolling schtick to get people angry may have been funny once, but now you’re just being dangerous. Telling people that measles “aren’t so bad” is validating the horrendous activities of the so-called anti-vaxxer crowd. Please think about what your doing.
While you are all right, to a degree, about the crime statistics, it’s still not something that should dissuade a person from Baltimore. I don’t believe that there’s been any carjackings in the frum areas in the last two years, and break-ins have B”H also seen a downturn. I don’t recall hearing of any for at least a year. Crime is still bad overall, but Baltimore City and Baltimore County are huge so don’t judge the frum areas based on overall statistics.
@Joseph You’re reading the statistics wrong. I’m not sure if you’re doing this in-character, or you’re honestly unclear about the situation. Irregardless, there are probably people who believe as you do with misleading statistics.
For a person that has measles, they are far more likely to end up in the hospital than a person with the cold or flu. And the less people that vaccinate, the more likely someone from a family that does vaccinate will get the disease. That’s why anti-vaxxers and their apologists (“I personally vaccinate, but I understand bla bla bla…”) are a danger to us all.
All the crime statistics you are all citing are about Baltimore City. The frum community lives for the most part in Baltimore County right outside the border of the city. Sure there’s crime, mostly break-ins and the occasional car-jacking, but crime in the frum Baltimore County neighborhoods is far less significant than it is in Brooklyn.
I didn’t say no one in Baltimore went to prison, I just said I don’t know anyone who did. But I know plenty of people from Monsey, Brooklyn, and Lakewood who did. Joke. It was a joke on how Baltimore must be “out of town” because the frum oilom for the most part respects US law.
@akuperma Yes, Baltimore is for the most part a single frum community with one Vaad and one major hechsher, which is amazing. But Chabad has always operated independently as its own thing as Chabad is wont to do in frum communities. The Chassidishe community/cheder is kind of artificial. The entire thing is a multi-Chassidus kollel supported by one guy and they also operate in seclusion with little interaction with the major frum community.
@Joseph Then that’s not arranged. They always have a choice, even if they’re pressured into making it.
@tralala1 People don’t care about how you’re dressed or where you go for vacation as much as they do in New York. People wearing last-years style and going to their in-laws in St. Louis for Yom Tov is not something that even elicits a passing comment.
There are no Chassidish schools. Just one playgroup and it’s only for members of the Chassidish kollel. The closest thing you’ll find to a “mainstream” school is Torah Institute for boys and BY for girls. Both have a larger variety of backgrounds than you may expect in NY (like, kids with TV and also kids who’s parents learn in kollel for life), and they are excellent schools.
Beazer is a Maryland goyish developer that built a huge development next to the frum community. It was the In place for a while, but it’s kind of Out these days. A Beazer house will still run you 600k for four bedrooms and an unfinished basement, and they are almost impossible to get. Summit Park is very In and just as close.
They don’t last until the kids grow up. The menchies get lost, the cards get bent, and the board gets ripped in half. And Chaimele hid the Princess Ice Cream card and now no one can find it.
Assur according to the Gemara. The couple has to have a choice and they must meet beforehand.
The Satmar Rebbe Reb Yoel ZT”L put a stop to the practice many moons ago, but many Chassidim unfortunately refused to listen to his psak.
You want to know how it got this way? Because mothers and shadchanim let it. You think a 22 year old Yeshiva Bachur knows enough about girls to know what a pretty girl looks like? No, it’s the mothers who insist on pictures so that their yingele doesn’t get someone they consider a meiskeit or zaftig. This wrongly encourages the boys and soon they refuse to go out with a girl unless she can compare to a supermodel. And the shadchanim encouraged this practice so partial blame goes to them.
@Joseph, I’ve never wanted to use nivul peh on a troll as much as I do to you. I don’t know why you still get to me, everyone here knows you’re faking it. There’s actually far less crime in Baltimore than NYC, Lakewood, or Monsey. I can’t name a single Baltimorean who went to prison, but I can name many from NYC, Lakewood, and Monsey.
@tralala1 if you’re asking if something is “suitable for in-town” you’re probably going to be disappointed no matter what the situation is as you’re clearly already judgmental and/or sheltered.Those were the biggest and most well-known, but I am of the opinion that it was a combination of all the European gedolim in post-WWII American that built the foundations of modern Yiddishkeit. Rav Yaakov Kamenetsky ZT”L, Rav YY Ruderman ZT”L, Rav SF Mendelovitch ZT”L, and Rav Breuer ZT”L were also hugely influential and we would not have American Yiddishkeit as we know it without them.
I second @Gamanit. The Brother HL line are excellent printers.
OpenDNS which covers my whole WiFi including phones and PCs.
I disagree.
Goyim have always had anti-Semites in their ranks and have always covered for them. Whether it’s the Democratic Party, the Republican Party, the Green Party, or the Royal Family of Saudi Arabia, there are anti-Semites and people make excuses for them.