Interesting Articles...

[Yonah]

https://medium.com/@yonahwolf/teaneck-parents-group-annoyed-with-trends-finds-creative-new-way-to-help-pay-for-tuition-and-a79e6d6a7242

[grodnoking]

https://medium.com/@yonahwolf/teaneck-parents-group-annoyed-with-trends-finds-creative-new-way-to-help-pay-for-tuition-and-a79e6d6a7242

Listed under satire, but I'm reading some underlying anger in there.

[Yonah]

Listed under satire, but I'm reading some underlying anger in there.

Underlying anger in which way? Towards high tuition, or towards the FTP generation?

[aygart]

Listed under satire, but I'm reading some underlying anger in there.

Like the vast majority of satire.

[grodnoking]

Underlying anger in which way? Towards high tuition, or towards the FTP generation?

I feel like its against his kids for not being what he wamted them to be, but being blamed on the schools.

[Yonah]

I feel like its against his kids for not being what he wamted them to be, but being blamed on the schools.

As the author or this piece (I literally wrote it 14 years ago), and only having small kids at the time, the intent was to poke fun at the FTP generation. The parents in the story are an amalgam of some of my parents' friends and relatives who sent their kids to Modern Orthodox Yeshivas, with the expectation that it fit in with their families more hashkafically and educational philosophy (i.e. we expect our child to go to 4 year college and/or grad school after graduating HS).

These particular parents, who grew up in a similar environment, had a hard time dealing with their kids moving to the right. Among my parents' friends, they referred to these kids as the FTP generation (Frumer than parents).

The site that published this shutdown recently, so I thought I'd resurrect it.

FWIW - I wrote a follow-up which I hope to put up shortly - (still searching for the final source) - where the same dad runs classes for parents who's kids are frumer than them to learn how to blend in in places where their kids have moved.

 

[aygart]

As the author or this piece (I literally wrote it 14 years ago), and only having small kids at the time, the intent was to poke fun at the FTP generation. The parents in the story are an amalgam of some of my parents' friends and relatives who sent their kids to Modern Orthodox Yeshivas, with the expectation that it fit in with their families more hashkafically and educational philosophy (i.e. we expect our child to go to 4 year college and/or grad school after graduating HS).

These particular parents, who grew up in a similar environment, had a hard time dealing with their kids moving to the right. Among my parents' friends, they referred to these kids as the FTP generation (Frumer than parents).

The site that published this shutdown recently, so I thought I'd resurrect it.

FWIW - I wrote a follow-up which I hope to put up shortly - (still searching for the final source) - where the same dad runs classes for parents who's kids are frumer than them to learn how to blend in in places where their kids have moved.

 

אמר אביי אין כדאמרי אינשי שותא דינוקא בשוקא או דאבוה או דאימיה ומשום אבוה ואימיה

שותא דינוקא בשוקא דאבוה או דאימיה - משל הדיוט הוא מה שהתינוק מדבר בשוק מאביו או מאמו שמע אף (זה) אם לא שמעה מאביה שהיה מבזה את העבודה לא אמרה כן שותא דיבור כמו לא תיפוק לכו שותא (ב"ב דף לט.) ובקדושין (דף ע.) שותא דמר לא ידענא:

[Yonah]

אמר אביי אין כדאמרי אינשי שותא דינוקא בשוקא או דאבוה או דאימיה ומשום אבוה ואימיה

שותא דינוקא בשוקא דאבוה או דאימיה - משל הדיוט הוא מה שהתינוק מדבר בשוק מאביו או מאמו שמע אף (זה) אם לא שמעה מאביה שהיה מבזה את העבודה לא אמרה כן שותא דיבור כמו לא תיפוק לכו שותא (ב"ב דף לט.) ובקדושין (דף ע.) שותא דמר לא ידענא:

... or their neighbors

[aygart]

... or their neighbors

Not so simple.

[username]

As the author or this piece (I literally wrote it 14 years ago)...

If you post your own article in this thread, please put in a disclaimer.

[username]

Not so simple.

Why not?

[aygart]

Why not?

אוי לרשע ואוי לשכינו - בתורת כהנים תניא וחלצו את האבנים נגע באבן שבמקצוע שניהן חולצין ואע"פ שהנגע לא נראה אלא בביתו של זה מחמת שהיתה עינו צרה בכליו חבירו לקה בשבילו מכאן אמרו אוי לרשע אוי לשכינו וממילא טוב לצדיק טוב לשכינו דמדה טובה מרובה:
It is not clear at all that it means that Miriam bas Bilga had learned the concept from her neighbors.

[Yonah]

If you post your own article in this thread, please put in a disclaimer.

My mistake, I thought I did in the OP, but realize I did not.

[username]

... or their neighbors

Not so simple.

אוי לרשע ואוי לשכינו - בתורת כהנים תניא וחלצו את האבנים נגע באבן שבמקצוע שניהן חולצין ואע"פ שהנגע לא נראה אלא בביתו של זה מחמת שהיתה עינו צרה בכליו חבירו לקה בשבילו מכאן אמרו אוי לרשע אוי לשכינו וממילא טוב לצדיק טוב לשכינו דמדה טובה מרובה:
It is not clear at all that it means that Miriam bas Bilga had learned the concept from her neighbors.

I was not saying the MBB heard it from neighbors.  I was just commenting the it seems simple that in 2019, we can pin it on others besides the parents.
Good Shabbos.

[aygart]

I was not saying the MBB heard it from neighbors.  I was just commenting the it seems simple that in 2019, we can pin it on others besides the parents.
Good Shabbos.

1. it was a reply to @Yonah when I wrote it was not so simple.
2. Why do you think that 2019 is so different in that regard?

[username]

Thats what I heard from RSK.

[Dan]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-life-of-a-rabbi-with-als-11567723713

[TimT]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-life-of-a-rabbi-with-als-11567723713

What a remarkable man. I hope to meet him this week.

[Yonah]

1. it was a reply to @Yonah when I wrote it was not so simple.
2. Why do you think that 2019 is so different in that regard?

Being that I am an am haaretz. I probably didn't fully understand @aygart's original post too well. I assumed, that since I had revealed that I was the author, he was suggesting that my anti-charedi bit was coming from things I heard from my parents. That's why I responded from 'or their neighbors'

[aygart]

Being that I am an am haaretz. I probably didn't fully understand @aygart's original post too well. I assumed, that since I had revealed that I was the author, he was suggesting that my anti-charedi bit was coming from things I heard from my parents. That's why I responded from 'or their neighbors'

Don't underestimate yourself.