Let’s get this straight: There’s one person you’re talking about (Ilhan Omar) who made some comments that were intended to criticize Israel, but worded rather anti-Semitically. She was roundly criticized by her entire party and that should have been the end of it. But now every time she speaks about foreign policy, some idiot in the ADL or NY Post is trying to make it as if she asked for another Holocaust.

Meanwhile, our beloved President has said far worse and gotten away with it. Steve King R. IA has had openly racist and anti-Semitic views for a long time and the worst that’s happened to him is that he doesn’t sit on any major committees.

So by all means, make fun of Jewish Democrats! But don’t come crying to daddy when your own Republican hypocrisy is revealed.

A friend of mine was in a seforim store buying his arba minim. A Rosh Yeshiva of a small local high school walked in behind him and starts hemming and hawing over the lulavim. He was frustrating the moicher, so he starts ribbing him. “Hey, Rabbi Ploni was here yesterday and kvetched that you hadn’t paid him in weeks”. The Rosh Yeshiva mumbled something about bad finances and they went veiter. The moicher then started a new topic “Rabbi, lately I’ve been having a terrible Yeitzer Hora. I have a huge tayva for an aishes ish” The Rosh Yeshiva was shocked and started telling him how terrible it is and he has to keep away at all costs. The moicher then responds “well, you’re being oiver on a d’Oraysa too, so I guess that makes us even”.

I’m bothered by it. But I recognize that there’s little I can do. So I try my best. Most of my browsing is on incognito mode. I don’t use my real name on any social media. I buy from a variety of online and brick+mortar retailers. I never use store credit cards.

Basically, as long as you’re happy living like it’s 1998, you have nothing to worry about.

New topics are infrequent enough that they all end up on the front page anyway. I never check the specific topics.

Yes. As an 8th grade Rebbi in the school I went to once said “Black shoes must be black like a RACIST_EXPLETIVE_DELETED with a closed mouth”

Professor Quirrel may have something to say to the Great Hall about something in the dungeon.

What a pretentious and offensive question. Don’t you feel like your life would be better off supporting a family and sacrificing your precious spare time for some Mussar or Limud instead of being all smug and self-righteous on the Internet?

In my opinion pictures are stupid and serve zero purpose. But this is the way the world works, thanks to increasingly ridiculous demands (mostly from the parents of people in shidduchim, and the shadchanim capitulating on said demands).

But if you really want to do pictures, there has to be an agreement with the shadchan that both parties will receive each others picture. Otherwise it’s just prust and arrogant to ask.

1. What does the ‘S’ in Harry S. Truman stand for?
2. How many hours of sleep does the Mashkiach reccomend for the bachurim?
3. How expired does your registration have to be before you get pulled over?
4. What is the state of CR?
5. How hot does your mother have to be before she lets you out of the house without a jacket?
6. Who wrote the Constitution of the United States?
7. What is the name of the gnome who lives in the big mushroom in my backyard?
8. Who is the current head mod of CR?
9. Why do people say Chava ate an apple?
10. A user on Usenet invented 🙂 when he wanted to clarify that his sentence was sarcastic. That’s accepted to be the origin of the emoticon, but it’s not technically an emoticon. In the 1990s, messaging software started automatically changing 🙂 and 🙁 into 🙂 and ☹. Later, features started to become standard where the user can insert a “face icon” into their text, but that was limited to the application used for the message and non-standard. Japanese tech companies in the 2000s went a little overboard with these icons and started added tons of them into their custom messaging applications. When the Unicode Consortium sought to standardize international character sets, so that every device can read a webpage in any language without having to install specialized fonts, the asked each county to submit a set of characters in their native language. Japan sort of raised their hand “Um… we’ve got a standard pictographical alphabet, phonetical alphabet, ancient alphabet, and this thing with pictures that the kids are really into that we call ’emoji’ “. The Consortium was like, “K”, and that’s how we got emojis! 🤡👾💙✌💅🧙🦽🤹🐹🥐🕍🕍🕍

DO NOT LISTEN TO @DaasYochid. Any printer (and I emphasis any) that costs under $100 is simply not worth it. Those are ink-based printers whose cartridges only last 100 or so pages and cost about $50. You’re not buying a printer, you’re signing up to a subscription service for printer ink.

Get a laser, preferably Brother, and expect to spend at least $200 up front. $300 if you want the all-in-one.

Nah. They are usually eight to ten feet tall, grey mottled skin, covered in warts, live under a bridge, and constantly say things like “Rachmono litzlon! A REAL frum Yid would never have a smart phone!!!!!!”

Anyone remember how Mincha-Maariv would start right before shkiya, then take a ten minute break (during which the Rov will usually give a shmuez) followed by Maariv after tzeis?

Breuers I believe was the first American shul to start relying on kulos and doing Ma’ariv right after Mincha. I believe everyone else started when half of Monsey would pack into KAJ every evening.

@AvrohomAdler if you’re asking an Internet forum, you shouldn’t be doing it. Whatever question you have, you’re better off asking a Rov. If the Rov holds that a Goirel is the way to go, he will do it himself.

Ok, I’m going to have my fun for tonight, then watch these fireworks for another few weeks.

@doomsday:

1. “Thousands of parents report autism after vaccination”: Already shlugged up dozens of times in this thread. Diagnosis and symptoms for autism happen around the same time that kids get their first shots. That’s why you need scientific double-blind studies. Which there were. And they showed zero correlation.
2. “Autism rates went to 1:10”: Shlugged up time and again. We simply got better at diagnosing autism instead of declaring everyone retarded or slow
3. “Hundreds of studies” No there aren’t. You claim that that there’s a list of hundreds of studies, but the only list any of us found contained hundreds of studies that did not show a link between vaccines and autism. I even provided an article that debunked the studies one at a time, but you waved your hands and dismissed it because (and I quote) “The guy who wrote it is a doctor and can’t be trusted”.
4. “CDC never did a comparison study”: Yes they did. You just have a very narrow criteria (based on your vast knowledge of science and years of dedicated study, no doubt) of what you expect a comparison study to be and the CDC never hit that.
5. “Fraudulent CDC studies”: Only a small handful out of many many other studies. Not enough to even cast a shadow on the research. And in the worst offenders, the fraud was monetary and didn’t affect the actual data or research (the Danish Study).
6. “Unvaxxed kids have less autism”: There’s one study that people claim shows this, but you’re simply misinterpreting the results. Have you ever done what I suggested and emailed the authors to see if they recommend vaccinating? The results may shock you.

A real conspiracy theory? Hillary Clinton bought votes to get elected senator in 2001. There were three people in jail for defrauding the government out of quite a bit of money. Hillary went to campaign in their small, near-insignificant, hometown and spoke with the guy in charge behind closed doors. Very little was said about what was discussed, and the town overwhelmingly voted for her. Several months later, her husband stepped down from the position of President and among the dozens of pardons were three men in prison for fraud.

@Health Narischkeit. Planned Parenthood and other places of its ilk is an absolute necessity in America where poor people have limited access to pregnancy and birth control education and care. No federal funds go towards abortions by law. The wall costs 5 billion, the amount in the Planned Parenthood federal budget was 500 million, or about 10% of what the wall would cost.

And I have no doubt that the wall can be effective in small areas, but that’s only because they have less secure areas they can cross into. If the wall would cover the entire border, I highly doubt you would see much difference. Better funding of US border patrol agencies and local PD along with more incentives for private companies to hire citizens and legal workers costs a lot less than five billion dollars and will go much further than a wall.

It’s a machlokes Rishonim if Christianity is A”Z or not. Last I checked, Rabbonim have absolutely no problem voting for Christians. Why should a Hindu be different?

About equally reliable as Rabbi Wikipedia and slightly less reliable as Rabbi Mi Yodeya.

As soon as I can be guaranteed that I can live in Eretz Yisroel and not be forced into an incredibly polarized society I will do so. Right now with standard Yeshivish hashkofos, you’re either signing up for a lifetime of Kollel and poverty, or putting on a knitted kippa and joining the army.

@Joseph Just looked up the Nitei Gavriel after shacharis. You are correct (and you got about 95% of your comments and ma’arei mekomos from his extensive footnotes). He is very clear, though, that it’s almost exclusively a Chassidishe minhag and only in Chutz La’aretz. So there’s a good reason why most people today don’t hold of it.

Also, although he doesn’t say it outright, he seems to imply that there’s no known reason for the minhag, just a lot of possibilities brought down by various poskim, and it’s just מנהג ישראל תורה. That’s enough to not criticize Chassidim for not learning, but still a very shakey thing to have to rely on. So I guess that unless you’re from a Nusach Sefard family, don’t use a metal object to cut your beard and peyos, hold of exclusively Chassidishe shechita, and all the other Chassidishe chumros, there’s no real reason to be mevatel Torah on either night of Christmas.

@Joseph Does he have it in writing as a psak halacha or did he just say it once in a private conversation?

He’s still outnumbered by the myriad of other poskim who hold that nittel nacht in this day and age is pure bittul Torah with no heter.

@Eli51 is that in Iggros Moshe?

I trust them all unless I’m given a good reason not to. As far as I can tell, most mashkichim end up supervising under various different haskachos. Like how Blooms and Liebers slap a label on an OU bag of Twizzlers.

@Freddyfish What do you mean “real studies”? What’s wrong with what I posted?

Lommerzuggen: think about it for a minute. Why should there be a nafka mina on how a person ingests the nicotine, whether it’s from vaping directly or second hand?

@holybrother What are you on? There’s definitely second-hand smoke with ENDS. And no one cares that it’s safER. We are talking about whether or not it’s safe, period. You’re comparing heroin to fentanyl and stating that heroin is “better”. Since it took the government too long to catch on, a lot of people who would have otherwise never smoked a cigarette are now addicted to nicotine thanks to ENDS. It’s fine for smokers who want to quit, but on that note it’s no better or worse than a nicotine patch. But for the rest of the world it’s just as bad.

@Freddyfish The most popular E-Cig/vape brands contain nicotine by default. You actually have to go out of your way to find nicotine-free juice. The FDA classifies them as “ENDS” or “Electronic Nicotine Delivery System”. Nicotine has been linked to cancer and addiction. But if you want to vape the nicotine-free systems, gezunteh heit, but it’s pretty much the same as breathing in the smell of boiling a soft drink and there’s no studies as to whether or not it’s actually safe.