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There is a difference between punishment and HARSH Punishment
Punishment would be to ban him from graduation, HARSH punishment is to expell him.
For those who think he should be punished, Why isnt banning him from graduation good enough punishment (That is a fairly harash punishment in itself and should deter further offenders, Make a point, yet IMO not damage the boy) after all his still a TEENAGER
The punishment should fit the crime. Assumimg the Kid DID talk to a girl and even went out on a date and was WARNED about doing it.
The menhahel was still wrong. Teenagers do make mistakes and they should be punsihed for them. but to kick him out is a little extreme.
to compare going on a date to bringing in a cross is not even close.
Boys have school many nights until 9pm and Sunday until 3 or 4 pm.
Kids need some time off. I know of Boys who have a Chavursa during RECESS at School.
Recess is not meant for a short Chavursa, Its meant for a BREAK.
If you want to say Bittul Torah, fine, but then everything not learning is Bittul Torah. Is Eating and Sleeping Bittul Torah.
Rav Nissim Alpert once had a tooth extracted because he did not want to “waste” the time in the dentist chair to fix it.
Family time is NEVER counter-productive.
A parent can never spend too-much time with the kids.
OP – You said you would TRY to compensate. Something will come up, it always does. Spend family time NOW. you do not get it back
How much time do the boys spend learning per week?
How much time does the Family spend together (Not on Shabbos ) per week?
My family members who attend Charedi yeshivas took the RCTS and laughed about what a bittul torah it was
Why should the MO yeshiva take the boy.
MO schools are made for MO people not people the more right wing yeshivas dont want or expellese.
Besides an A Student at A right wing yeshiva would likely flunk at a MO yeshiva. Right wing schools tend to have poor secular studies while at MO schools the secular studies are important too. They take regular regents usually at MO schools not RCT exams.
The lesson is FAMILY time is important. It is NOT wrong to teach kids how important it is to spend time together.
There is a legal concept called “Fair Use”. This has gone to the Supreme Court and they ruled for “Fair Use”
You are allowed to take a copyrighted song and make new lyrics.
You can google the court case Fisher v. Dees as an expample. But there are many others as well
There is only one torah way. You are not allowed to veer left OR RIGHT.
Its hard to translate yiddish
Babel Fish does not translate yiddish
Can anyone name ONE POSEK who agreed with the newspaper decsion.
I know Rav Mordechai Willig did NOT agree with the newspaper and felt it was a perversion of Halacha what they did
Its also the SECULAR LAW to pay on time and the fines are heavy if you dont
You can buy copies of it on eBay
To play poker properly, One must BLUFF. that is try to trick your opponents.
The skill in Poker is how well you can lie and trick (It is not CHEATING)
Does it matter where the stuff came from
The Standard Jew Food today is Pizza and Chinese, You judge a jewish neighborhood by the number of Pizza Shops and Chinese takeouts. I dont think they were eating Pizza and Chinese in the Shtel.
The Standard Chasidic garb is actually Polish Aristicracy dress.
The Melody to Maoz Tsur is Germanic Church music.
Yiddish is a germanic language. More like German than Hebrew.
Does it matter what the source is, what matters is what it is used today
Rav Kook was a charedi jew and a Zionist and one of the greatest leaders we have ever had
The fine for posting an illegal flyer in NYC is $300 PER flyer
it is considered Vandalism by NYC Law
One needs to be careful what one posts or does.
ESPECIALLY in Todays internet society. Stuff can go viral very quickly.
If they are unsure , hire someone who knows. Learn proper etiquette. Learn proper english.
They didnt get it from the Jpost, they got it from a different well known blogger
They were not allowed to alter the picture. It was the rules of using the photos
It was a huge Chilul Hashem
Most of the Trig year was actually Algebra II
Algebra is certainly quite important
I love the name Munkacs
I never understood why some do not celebrate this holiday
For thousands of years EY was a dream. Many great Rabbanim yearned to go.
Today all is takes is $1500 for an plane ticket and you are there in 12 hours
Trigonometry and Geometry are nonsense?
How about when your wife wants to tile the Bathroom and you need to know how many tiles to buy.
Chemistry is Nonsense?
How about if you Have Heartburn and you need relief?
(Heartburn is caused by ACID) and you neutralize ACID by using a base (Baking Soda)
When you are changing his diaper, Make sure you work faster than a girl.
April 15 is tax day
This year I had an issue with my taxes, While I used the computer Software it was giving an oddball result.
I had to manually go through my taxes and figure out what the Math was that caused this result. I also had to read the tax Book the figure out what the math was
Is doing your taxes Bitual Torah?
You need to know english and math to do the tax return. While its not hard, it does require decent education to figure it out
The restaurant in the Holocaust Museum is Kosher
the Yankees and Giants are under the Vaad of Queens
The Mets are under the O-K (Last season it was under the Vaad of Queens)
Kinda unusual
Yes,
You can ask any employee and they will tell you where it is
There are 6 shuls in las Vegas and its one of the faster growing jewish communities
8 Kosher Restaurants
1 Mikvah
A REAL Degree takes a minimum 2.5 years, but usually 4-5 years
Grant Thorton is a prestigious firm.
I would not show up there unshaven.
The Parents of Queen Elizabeth George VI and Elizabeth (Her mother)
Stayed in London during the Battle of Britain (London) along with Churchill and likely saved England.
They did not escape to the country side as they could have
Edward VIII (the king who abdicated) was a Nazi Sympathizer and had Hitler been able to conquer England, he would have been put back on the thrown.
He was removed from kingship because of this (Not because of Wallis Warfield Simpson – that was just an excuse)
I should have been clearer
There are situations where you are forced to go, and there are others where you are expected to attend.
Expected to attend is not the same as force, but it doesnt mean you can get out of it so easily
The Chief Rabbi of England is a government position and his salary and authority are paid for by the taxpayers of England.
He is likely obligated to go.
For those who dont understand reading poetry.
This is a book called “I never saw another Butterfly” it is a collection of poems written by children in Tereisinstadt, describing their life in that Ghetto.
And frankly the best observance of Yom Hashoa Ive ever seen was a dramatic reading of diaries from children in the Ghetto’s (Not Anne Frank) some were even with unknown authors.
One entry was from a girl in Lodz (author unknown) who stole food from her father because she was hungry and her reaction when she found out her father wasnt mad at her.
Another entry was from a boy in Vilna, writing about Ponary (The killing field for the Jews of Vilna) and everyone was scared to go to Ponary (He went there eventually as well) and his own thoughts about Ponary
No. Actually a lot of my friends told me
There was a fire in the store, The Sprinkers went off and all the stock was destroyed.
They will not open for a few weeks now
One can do Teshuva for Chometz
There is no teshuva for Radiation
Zip Code 11204 has 74,880 people
Instead of debating, you can go to Census.gov and get census information by Zip code or go to Wikipedia and get census information.
Not everyone in a particular area is Jewish or frum even in Borough park. I dont think any area has more than 50-75% frum (75% would be Borough Park or Monsey)
Williamsburgh it would be about 50% (maybe even lower) lots of hippies and latinos live there
The 2010 Census for
Monsey is 18,412 (Zip Code 10952)
Borough park 85,987 (Zip Code 11219)
Kiryat Joel 23,414
Williamnsburgh 85,00 Zip Code 11211
And that includes everyone , not just frum jews
I read non-fiction (especially History and Biography)
I am no writer and my writing skills are poor, but I can tell you the jewish books are terrible.
There are rules to writing English. Grammar , paragraph delopement, Story development etc . You might not like the rules when you are writing, but when you are reading a book, its important for these rules to be followed or else the book becomes unreadable.
It seems these jewish books dont follow those rules.
The Jewish book companies need to hire more proofreaders and copy editors to make sure these rules are kept
The generally accepted defintion of frum (Or Orthodox) is
Shomer Shabbos and Keeps Kosher
There is a reality
Dead men tell no tales and its very difficult to tell the story of the holocaust from most jews because they were killed.
Obviously the most famous holocaust tale is Anne Frank, but that took place before the camps.
Even the story of the Warsaw Ghetto, There were very few survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto (Less than 1000), They put their archives in Milk Cans for retrieval. They found 2 of the cans, but the third was never found.
There are 12 known pictures of Treblinka and One Photographic log of Auschwitz (Some Nazi took photos of one transport and thats the only one that survived)
Not true
Many late model used cars are either Off Lease units or former rentals (Hertz Avis etc sell their older cars all the time)
I wont drive a clunker, but most cars can easily last 10-15 years without much hassle.
After 5 years the cost of owning becomes cheaper and cheaper.
I had my last car for 12.5 years and have my current one for 9 years. And the current one has never really been in the shop for repairs, just some body work , brakes and a timing belt that had to be replaced after 100,000 miles (That maintaince hurt a bit)