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A frum jew in politics causes alot of halachic issues. The snow plow is a good example. What if the mayor is required to sign off on the Snow Plows going out to clean the road for a Shabbos snow storm.
What if some event happens on Shabbos like C’V a shooting and it requires the mayors attendence at some press confernce
I like Joseph he is funny and adds some spice
I think he meant the following
When a chasidic jew wants to join a minyan with other Modern Orthodox Jews it causes conflict because if I do not wear a black hat , I will not be accepted into certain minyans, this is wrong
additionally davening is always the best option of them all.
You dont just daven for the job, you apply for the job and then daven.
No amount of davening is going to get me a job as a Doctor or astrophysicist
OK if you dont want to believe fine, but many people have seen yeshous just by learning from this sefer everyday, besides for the fact that he promises a couple things for anyone who learns it, anyway what does it hurt, give it a shot, you have nothing to lose!
I know lots of people who wrote resumes and filled out job applications and they got jobs
Where have you heard the Domestic beers need a Hechsheer?
I dont think Budweiser or Michelob has one and Ive seen them at Rebbes Tishes (and I mean real Yeshivish ones, not a YCT one)
I can tolerate Gefiltle Fish if drenched in Horseraddish. Herring is just inedible and I wont even touch it. They rarely even serve it as kidduishes in my shul because nobody eats it
The best segulahs for parnassah is to write resumes, cover letters and fill out job applications. You will get alot more job offers that way than learning a sefer
I am sure many jews who like classical music listen to Wagner even if they say they dont. Ride of the Valkyeries is one of the most famous classical music pieces and proably the second most recongizable after bethovan fifth
I admit it, I want to live among frum Jews. Guilty. If it were up to me, every family on my block would be an orthodox Jew.
So why then is it wrong for people to not want to live next to frum jews.
Its not anti-semitism as the people most against the Eruv are also jews.
Usually non-jews dont care
People in the hamptons are against all kinds of people .
If you arent rich and good looking they probably dont want you there
Saying you cant have an Eruv is not the same as saying you cant live there
Im not talking about the rich people in the Hamptons, I dont know. Im talking about middle America, New England, upstate NY: most of the ones I have met are the nicest people, family values, pro-Israel. Righteous gentiles.
Presbyterians are one of the largest WASP groups in the US and support BDS and alternative lifestlyes
They are very different from Evangenlicals who are also wasps
If there was a place with a historic church (I know of churches from the revolutionary war for example) and that area became more frum and the frum people wanted to remove the church.
Would it be anti-semitism for those who oppose the removal of this church
There are only about 7 different notes (I am not a music expert) so the amount of combinations is finite and small. Nobody can “invent” music anymore. Whatever music you’ve heard someone already thought of it
I like calm, beautiful music and fast excited music depending on my mood. Both have their place.
You missed my point, Music is like anything else, nobody can tell you what to like or not to like, its all personal taste. Like what you like and enjoy it
Music is very personal tastes, what one person thinks is noise, others like and what one person might thinks as calm and nice, others think as boring and puts one to sleep
In civic life you have to give to get. You cant expect others to pay for something you need unless you are willing to give them something they want. Being their neighbor is not enough.
Even if something like the sewer line partially benefits them, It mostly benefits KJ and if the other people dont want to pay for it, that is their perogotive.
Compare the Sewer line to the East Ramapo school district. Orange county refuses to pay for the sewer line and they are anti-semitic even if they partially benefit, however in East Ramapo you refuse to pay even though you partially benefit (Special ed for example) and those who want you to pay are anti-semetic. You cant have it both ways.
You need to give to get in a community.
I dont know rules in KJ, but Im thinking the no women driving is more of an informal rule among the people who live there. If there was a traffic stop of a woman driving that would be illegal.
Back to the Sewer issue. expanding the Sewer IS a big deal especially if new pipes have to be built and new sewage plants have to be built to handle the added sewage. You are talking about tens of millions of dollars. And besides nobody wants to live near a Sewage plant. It is not Anti-Semetic if people decide they dont want their tax dollars spent on this. Just like you think its fair not to spend your tax dollars on Football and band at East Ramapo High School
It would be illegal under State and Federal law and unconstitutional. I don’t even understand why you’re asking.
I dont think it would be illegal to make a law forbidding stores from opening on Saturday (Blue laws are legal..Bergen County, NJ forbids stores opening on Sunday, unless they are closed on Saturday)
What if KJ passed a law that women must keep they arms covered at all times (There is a sign there now, but its not enforced)
When you live next to a shul, people think they can drive and park in front of your house and block your driveway because “THEY ARE LATE TO MINYAN” and you should understand and let them do it.
If you dont want the shul for this reason, Are you an Anti-Semite?
I live across the street from a part time shul and people do do this and parking is impossible weekday mornings because everyone drives to shul even when they live 2 blocks away.
Why is it wrong to support a 40 x 100 lot (Or even larger plots of land) with a detached house with a manicured pristine lawn with a late model car in the driveway.
People move to the Suburbs for that reason, they dont want to live to close to their neighbors, they want a certain lifestyle . Its not Anti-semitism to support that. That is what the Suburbs are , and if you dont like it, dont live there.
There have been cases of communites in rockland asking other jews (“Not as Frum jews”) not to move there.
And would you want a Jew who isnt as religious as you maybe the woman dresses in pants , hair oncovered moving next to you.
And if an African American wants to move to KJ and is prevented from purchasing a house
What would you call that?
Why not spend Seminary time in Gateshead
Shabbos ends too late in the summer for the restaurants in the Hamptons to open up.
The people who go to the hamptons can afford the housing there, they are not poor people
there is no valid reason to ban people, however they can make rules to make it difficult like laws limiting number of occupied dwelling per lot like limiting apartment buildings and attached houses, those would not be seen as anti-semetic as long as its passed in the entire county
In the westhampton case, those stores need to make their entire yearly income in about 12 weeks and a good chunk of that on Friday , Saturday and Sunday and Since shopping on friday and Saturdays nights is out, it is not good for those businesses. its also not good for business if you own say a restaurant and orthodox people will not patronize it.
In Kiryat Joel’s case there are concerns about things like sewers which are maintained by the county and have capacity issues.
Lesschumras,
more spelling!
LOL
You’re asking as if it’s theoretical, but in fact, frum Jews for the most part have always tried to avoid military service, because it’s next to impossible to keep the Torah there.
that is true and in past generations the Draft was used more as a tax and/or punishment for jews. However this is not the case in Israel. Jewish soldiers are not being used to fight a war for the Anti-Semetic Czar
may nobody be in such a position where you have to make such a decision
Conservative and Reform are not dying because of condemnation by Rabbanim, they are dying because of demographic trends after the 1960’s, Alot of anti-semitism died after that and people just became uninterested in attending services. (Given a choice between Saturday Little League games and/or Ballet lesson and going to shul, people picked the former). It wasnt people driving to shul that caused them to fail, it was people driving to the Mall instead that did.
And some people who are ‘Frum” lack middos NISCHTKeferlach
The reason we do not wear Tfilling all day is because one Friday a man was travelling and shabbos was coming and he saw a man wearing Teffillin and figured he was an honest jew and gave him his money
After Shabbos the man went back to the Tefillin man asking for his money , The Teffillin man denied ever getting the money and the original man went to the Rav telling him what happend (Sorry I forgot which rov this was) and the Rav figured out the man who was wearing teffillin was a theif and did have the money
they then ruled that people should not wear Teffillin all day
Most people who are OTD are otherwise decent human beings. Not keeping Shabbos is not an indicator that one would be a murderer, Thief etc
Generally speaking once one “slips” off the derech, it’s a slippery slope and hard to control the fall
Where do you have proof that once someone slips and does ONE Averiah, that they will do the other 612 Averirahs.
Blogging is somewhat dead as bloggers have moved more towards FB
You had to self-promote yourself
You havent stated your interests so its hard to guess
As a US Taxpayer, Id rather my taxpapyer money go to Israel than other places
Its no Hakarat HaTov as much as spending my money as I wish
Wien (Pronounced Vien) is the German/Yiddish word for Vienna
While its true Reform did not make inroads in Hungry, the Neo’s made big inroads there. The Dohaney Synangogue in Budapest is the second largest synangouge in the world.
We should divide France into 2 countries and make Paris an international city and divide it up. They Effiel Tower needs to be returned to the Waqf
Even with roomates Brooklyn is still expensive, maybe $700 a month and most apartments are smaller than what you would be used to.
You do not get space anywhere in NYC unless you have ALOT of money.
and Bed Stuy is up and coming, It has alot of Brownstones there which people want and was cheaper than Brooklyn Heights or Prospect park and therefore is becoming gentrified (Meaning Afican Americans are pushed out and whites move in)
In any debate , the real deabte is for the hearts and minds of people on the fence. That is one of the main reasons I am against the harsh rebuke. People on the outside see the harsh words and begin to sympathize with the other side as being the victim (I am seeing this already)
By making statements that arent true, and when people investigate and find out it isnt true, its not helping your cause
I hope you are prepared for Brooklyn Prices, $2000 and up per month depending on how many bedrooms
Most famous Shuls are treated more as tourist sites than holy places
I was at the Alteneushul in Prague and it is a tourist site an a non jewish man who could speak and read hebrew gave you information about it
The US is much larger than Israel, while the murder rate of Camden , NJ might be higher than Israel. The murder rate of Borough Park is quite low
Its funny when people start saying how the Satmar Rov/Brisker Rov is the Halacha and we should follow it, but when we bring up equal gedolim all of a sudden Ellu V Ellu is mentioned