zahavasdad

If you have to ask your Rav about Life Insurance, you are a fool and if the Rav says anything except BUY it, then get another rav

people who go to the Anti-Kiruv organization already have visions of leaving

Rav Avigdor Miller, zt”l, was adamant about not voting for pro-toeva candidates, which would de facto mean that we cannot vote for Democrats

For the record both candidates basically agree on this issue

There is a reason the Rebbe always told you not to ask a Kasher of a Maaser

Just a note, While Far Rockaway is in the borough of Queens, when you say Queens as in the jewish community , you mean Kew Gardens Hills and the surrounding areas like Hillcrest and Forest Hills. Far Rockaway is considered essentially part of the 5 towns.

Rabbi Hoffman has nothing to do with those areas of Queens.

In the US its not possible to force people to contribute and there are unfortunatly Political concerns. the more modern would expect more secular to be taught and more zionistic and the more charedi would expect less zionistic and more torah to be taught.

I dont think you will get more modern people to contribute to Satmar schools, nor would you get Satmar to contribute to more modern schools

benignuman

Dont you know that if you decide to learn Nach instead of Gemorah, you are OTD

There is no such thing as a “Perfect frum boy”. Anyone you meet will have flaws

Joseph is correct, they are a US based seller and the stuff comes from a US warehouse, The owners could be in Israel, but the Nexis is likely NY

Most people do not perform such acts, however people do not speak out even when they know its happening

If you knew your friend was using Wal-Mart as a “Toy Gemach” would you tell them its wrong, would you say nothing or would you say “They are a bunch of anti-semetic goyim and it doesnt matter”

If you do the latter , you are almost as guilty as the perpetrators

DY

I dont know who broke this story, I never heard of this website before this broke.

I also sell wholesale to other websites so I speak to buyers and we discuss returns, They tell me how important it is to avoid getting returns because they cost money. Good companies track returns, If they see one product gets too many returns they wont sell the item, If they see too many returns from oddball communities its a problem (Frankly Ive rarely seen Monsey or lakewood in my sales)

I still say rather than bash the sellers, Maybe we need to look at ourselves and see what are we doing wrong, It is Elul, sometimes places to seek tshuva are hard to find and others stare us right in the face

LU

You have hit one a major issue in the frum community today, Unfortunatly there IS corruption. and whenever it happens the Press jumps on it and people deny it.

We need to accept there is corruption and then do whatever it takes to eliminate it. We all see things that are corrupt. People see the hippocracy and corrutions by some and then begin to question everything and then go OTD. I dont need to repeat such things as people abusing Section 8 , paying off the books or other such things

We need to admit there is corruption and do whatever it takes to eliminate it.

One story in the paper about corruption will undo Years worth of Kiddish Hashem and then it becomes the narrative and its hard to undo the damage

As a side note, I dont think this policy really is enforceable. if someone from those communities returns an item, they would be forced by the credit card companies or Paypal to take it back

If they were worried about it being treated as a gemach, all they needed to do was make a policy that they only take back items in new condition with the tags on.

The fact that there are more conditions than that indicates that they are trying to cut down on all returns, including wrong sizes, changes of mind, and the item not looking as expected.

I have mentioned before that I sell online for parnassah. While I never heard of this company before and do not have such polices. Unfortunatly DY your plan doesnt work

In a regular Bricks and Mortor store, when someone returns something and it looks used or the tags are removed, you just refuse the return , However online its much more difficult as you are in possesion of the item and the buyer could file a chargeback via paypal or his credit card and even deny the tags were removed and there isnt much you can do. At least the item is in your posssesion and you wont lose more.

Ive been there were an unauthorized return was made and after discussing it with other online sellers, They agreed it was better to keep the item and give the refund otherwise not only could you be out the item, you could be out the money and the credit card companies and paypal generally are pro-buyer, not pro-seller

Ive spent Shabbos in lakewood and there are cars there .

I was there one shabbos last summer and right behind one of the shuls a family was having a Pool party with music.

This is not a knock on Lakewood, but the point is anywhere you go there isnt going to be total frumketie (Excpet maybe New Square or Kiryat Joel where few non chassidim live if any)

I dont know how the story broke, My personal guess is someone saw the policy and thought it was anti-semetic not knowing the company was frum and it went viral. It was a bit unusual policy and eventually it was picked up by the mainstream media.

Meanwhile people were debating and orignally condeming this company until they realized it was a frum company.

We have debated things that arent exactly against halacha, and might not even be against the law, but dont pass the smell test. This policy is probsbly the result of such things.

People were probably buying their clothes for a simcha and then returning the clothes after the simcha, thinking it was OK

Soncino press has the only english translation of the Zohar

I am in agreement with DY

Unless you know what you are doing (and I mean you KNOW, not that you think you know) This is not an area you really want to get into, There is alot of risk in many areas

Also you need to prepare yourself for alot of rejection and failure. Just because you are enthusiatic doesnt mean other people are so enthusiastic.

Also you would need to deal with questions you might be uncomfortable answering. People with Jewish fathers will want to participate. People will ask you questions regarding women and religion (And dont want to hear the answer that “women have different roles”)

This was about asian women who have converted, not just a convert. The Bamboo cradle was a book by an asian woman who converted

1) Take your glasses off when you walk outside

I dont wear glasses or contacts, but people I know who do need them to SEE. taking them off can pose a danger for many people as they wont see hazzard and they can get hurt

The real Geverim in israel actually many times live in the US, because the tax laws are lower in the US. Mickey Arisol whose family owns Bank Hapoalim and owns the Miami Heat Basketball team and Carnival Cruise lines actually lives in Florida not Israel. His family was so weathy they got the israeli government to lower the taxes just for them as they threatend not to go back to israel and pay anything unless they were lowered

Your landlord does not usually care how much torah you know, He wants his rent. The grocery store also does not care how much torah you know, he needs to get paid

Regards of what you have been told. The groceries cost the store owner money and he cant give them out for free and the Apartment owned by the landlord also costs him money.

Con Ed also could care less about how much torah you know, They want the electric bill paid otherwise they will turn off the lights

Its not the only one where Israel gives more than the US. the US is a very stingy country when it comes to government handouts

You think they stay up at night figuring out ways to harm chareidim? They have many other things to think about, some of which are important, like how to earn a living, how to afford an apartment, or how to be safe in a crazy region, how their children are doing or how they are going to pay to fix the air conditioner that just broke; some of which are not important but entertaining or amusing, like who won kochav nolad, how to get to the beach tomorrow, or what that new restaurant is like. They care about responsibilities and privileges that affect Chareidim and they feel should be equitable, and they care about their individual rights being respected and infringed, but beyond that they frankly think about you way less than you imagine. And the vast majority of secular Jews are simply not ideological.

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