zahavasdad

In a democracy if you have a bad leader, he can be voted out or term limited out.

In a tyranny if you have a bad leader you are stuck with him until he dies or is overthrown in a coup

depends on the Kid, use your best Judgement for your own kids. Some might be ok at 10 others not until they are teenagers

Its a Mitzvah to give Rebuke

I have repeated the force feeding chulent story to quite a few people and many people have written back that they too were force fed chulent and some of them said, not only did they not learn to like the chulent, they began to hate Shabbos because of it and eventually went OTD.

There is a story I heard of a Rav ,once someone went to him and told him he HATED shabbos, the Rav asked why. The man told him back in Europe every week his family would spend the whole week preparing and finding the finiest foods for shabbos, His father would buy only the best fish in the market for shabbos and the Rav thought to himself what a beautiful way to teach about shabbos and then the man said, every shabbos his father forced him “LKavod Shabbos” to eat the fish, every week he would dread when his father would force him to eat that fish and he hated it more and more. Shabbos to him became associated with eating that Fish and he couldnt wait to get away.

I bought it in the store.

I was at a close family friend recently as they invited me for Shabbos and they served me a nice serving of Liver. Its rude not to eat what you are served so I ate it chasing it booze to minimize the taste, I have no idea how I got it down.

My grandmother was a great cook she , the typical jewish grandmother and even she could not make Ptcha taste good

I grew up being served Herring and Chopped Liver.

And they taste just as bad on Tuesday as they do on Shabbos

I never heard of Ptcha until recently, so I asked some of the older generation and they told me why, they HATED it and refused to eat it, even my father who will eat almost anything wont eat Ptcha.

I found it in the store and it did look nasty, Didnt taste that good either unless I heated it up and sopped it up with bread

Belgium is requiring core curriculum because they pay the tutions, If the government gives money they have the right to dictate what is taught for that money.

If vouchers ever been the norm in the US, expect the same.They will not pay for religious education,but might pay for secular studies

FYI Europe might actually be cheaper to live as a frum jew. They pay the tutitions there and depending on the country housing might be cheaper as well with incomes being higher.

I dont know the exact cost of living in Belgium or France which would probably be the best ones to live

I think Israel might actually be worse than NY. In NY we have tution,but the salaries are generally higher.

Jerusalem was ranked as the most expensive city in the world to live (based on Median incomes vs real estate costs) And other major Israeli cities like Tel Aviv or Haifa werent much better.

Basically an apartment in Jerusalem costs as much or more than NY AND you make a lot less money.

Power Corrupts, Absoulute Power Corrupts absolutely

Sometimes people need to lighten up,Its ok to laugh and make jokes once in a while

The whole voucher discussions is basically pointless anyway

New York, NJ and most other states have Blaine amendments to their constitutions which forbid vouchers to parochial schools (They were written against catholic schools not jewish) and because of the way they were written , it would take a entire re-writing of the New York Constituton to undo it.

If you have School Vouchers the government has the right to require certain things taught, They are not going to give vouchers to support torah education, they are going to give vouchers for secular education taught at jewish schools

I have found this thread to be very disturbing

People are focusing on one minor issue (Some here call it Major, but its really not) instead of the bigger picture. People are trying to micromanage someones life. Not everyone likes the same things accept that. Sometimes when you micromanage someone the whole house collapses.

Ive been in Germany , Austria and Spain aint no big deal. Most of the people who committed the atrocities are dead and the few that are left are old and senile.

Ill admit I did feel creeped out the first time I was in Germany and I was a bit creeped out in Vienna and Vienna is an awesome city to visit if it didnt have a past , it would have been one of my favorites

In general Thanksgiving is the worst time to travel and one of the most expensive I would not travel this weekend if you could avoid it.

Even driving is awful everyone is trying to get somewhere

I missed the $299 deal 🙁

Thats too bad. You might have enjoyed it.

I would have also recommended Prague. Its one of the most jewish places you can go and they are very welcoming to jews there.

Its on Youtube

Search for

Wallerstein Agudah 2013 and it comes up

Its also been posted on various blogs

My family has been speaking English for over 100 years (My family predates WW I in the US) . They have eaten and breathed English since around the year 1900.

Frankly the fact of the matter is the world is getting smaller , people need to comunicate with each other especially from other countries. Languages are disappearing as people need more world languages.

Very few peope speak Yiddish anymore, its a hinderance instead of a help. And if you want to tell me its the Jewish Langua Franca, Actually its Hebrew not Yiddish today. I speak Hebrew and have used it to speak to jews from other countries many of whom werent even Ashkenazic

You are not missing much, Yiddish is just a Pidgeon German. If you like to hear German Spoken, you will like to hear Yiddish spoken