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Latinos are sometimes shocked that I can understand them and can speak Spanish (I am not fluent, but I can speak complete sentances)

Its demeaning because you didnt like my answer. As someone who has worked in the non-jewish world all my life I can tell you , that you will come in contact with all sorts of people who do things you dont agree with have differnet beliefs and you will likely be in positions you will not like.

For example

A n-jewish -worker dies and the whole office goes to the Funeral

A co-worker has a Toeivah Marriage and the entire office buys them a gift and you are expected to give.

A co-worker has a mixed marriage and the entire office buys them a gift

Business Relationships with members of the opposite gender (Issues of Yichud, Travel, Shaking hands)

Business lunches and Dinners

You have to figure out how to navigate these roadblocks without making yourself look selfish and have to be a team player. Being a Team player is very important in an office especially with people you are spending half your life with.

I think a Rav might be able to figure out a way out like maybe for example the charity is to feed the poor rather than fund the local Hindu Temple.

Books arent monolithic, what applies for one book doesnt apply for another.

Too many books have been banned claiming it was Kefira when the banner didnt even read the book and sometimes select passages are lifted taken out of context and then the book is banned. (One can do this with almost anything and completly alter what the book really is, there are people who do this with the Torah and completly intentionally mis-interpret the torah)

Litvak’s did speak yiddish at one point, but it seems they went for English as most Lakewooders speak english although there is an effort to push yiddish there.

Yiddish is not nessasary, Outside of chassidic communities and some old people very few people speak it. It is not even the most common language of jews

English probably is and Hebrew is probably second.

Yiddish has become more of a hidderance than a help and too many speakers of it have very poor english skills

Refuah Shelemah.

Dont worry about eating “Shabbosdick Foods” , Worry about getting better first

There are people who will Dorm their basements in Far Rockaway

I am not so familiar with creating music, but except for the Schomberg scale, there are only a finite number of combinations on the regular scale and its impossible to create a new combination as its already been done, thats one reason why you might see sampling either deliberate or many times just coincidental

I am sure if Rav Moshe knew you have to cross the Mechitaza of the Queens/Nassau border he would totally assur living there.

Its not a place for a real Yid to live, there is oy R’L a Young Israel there and only 1 Pizza shop and only 1 Chinese place

One should not run in the middle of the BQE wearing Tallis and Tfilling holding a Tzdekah box in order to collect from the oncoming Vehicles and expect the Hashem to protect you because you are doing a Mitzvah.

One needs to do whatever it takes to protect themselves without relying on a miracle.

Carrying an Uzi and knowing how to fire it, will likely protect you from harm

There are opinions (Not the Posek the OP asked) thats its not a halachic sale because a kinyan did not occur.

It depends how much time is left on an auction, I belive if there is less than 24 hours less (Or maybe 12 Hours) you cannot. If there is more then you can usually

Pet Rock

You cannot compare NFL (Or even College Football players) to a bunch of Bochrim. Those guys are steroid induced 300 pounders trying to get you as opposed to a bunch of yeshiva guys more or less the same and the helmets are used as a weapon as well.

By the same take you can say the same for baseball, A hardball thrown at someone (especially their head or groin section) can really hurt someone

GTA was a sarcastic remark,

Personally I like Words with friends,

Actually a more interesting question would be e-books

Books are slowly becoming obsotete and while I dont think Siddurs, Gemorahs , Tanachs and a few other popular and common will stop being printing. Smaller run books very well might be and be only be able to be released on an e-book

There was a case on Long Island where a pregnant jewish woman got into a car accident and was in a coma. The doctors advised to abort the baby in order to help the woman recover. The Husband agreed, but some Pro-lifers tried to get custody of the baby and prevent the abortion. They sued in court and lost because they didnt have standing and the baby was aborted, Sadly while the woman lived she has lived in a nursing home ever since.

Tim Tebows mother was a missionary in the Phillipines I think and when she was pregnant with Tim Tebow, she got malaria or some other disase, The doctors told her to get an abortion and she refused and Tim Tebow was born health, they have gone on a crusade to ban all abortions even danger to the mother claiming there is no such thing since she was fine in the end and he was fine too.

I am not trying to defend anything, just trying to understand it and I belive if we try to understand it , we will have better results. You catch more bees with honey than vinegar.

Some people if we ban things they will stop and others they dont care what the Rabbanim say, you need to convience them otherwise

Unfortunatly you are all missing the real issue here, If the App is real or not it doesnt matter, The issue is people are not enjoying Shabbos for whatever reason

There was a great blog post by a west cost Rabbi, About rebooting shabbos

It said for many people the following is great and inspiring. Go to Shul Friday night, Eat a dinner with the same foods each weeks singings the same Zmerios and the Parsha Dvar Torah

Go to Sleep, Go to Shul in the morning and come home and make Kiddush, have a meal with Chulent Sing More Zemiroth and Dvar torahs, go to sleep and either go to a friend, Park (Or some people are just stuck in their homes, they live in areas without eruvs or their friends live too far away) Daven Mincha, Have Shalosh Seudot and the daven Maariv and maybe have a Melava Malka.

Maybe you think this is great and awesome, but what if for example you were stuck in the house and couldnt leave, your only connection with your friends was your phone. What if you did not like the traditional Shabbos foods or Zemiroth. What if your shabbos entailed the kids fighting the whole time for the right to sit next to Mommy and throwing food around and screamed the whole time.

Do your kids speak and read english. This would be a major issue in moving to the US

We all know the famous explanation of what is the difference between Noach and Abraham

Noach kept to himself and did not try to improve anyone else. Avraham went out and sought to tell people about hashem

Mocking and Humor have been practiced by jews foever, At weddings there were “Fools” who were basically clowns who routinely mocked various jews themes and even the Rabbi

They would often give “Shiurim” mocking the Rabbi and it was taken for what it was.

“Purim Torah” has also been done for a long time.

I dont know why people get so up in arms lately about these things, It was a joke and take it as such

We have a Mincha Minyan here comprised of people from differnet communites, Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island . Only Queens it seems did it the way it was intended and even they did not get many people.

Queens did not encourage people to make their own shabbos, but rather in a group event