Interesting Articles...

[ExGingi]

https://www.businessinsider.com/real-estate-agents-lawsuits-buy-sell-homes-forever-housing-market-2023-6?amp

[Definitions]

https://nowiknow.com/a-tree-grows-in-brooklyn/

[UKinNYS]

interesting bit abt getting flat amount of miles per year
https://liveandletsfly.com/tom-stuker/

Old story but new article:
https://nypost.com/2023/06/26/united-airlines-flier-tom-stuker-hits-23-million-miles-of-travel-after-buying-lifetime-pass-1990/?utm_campaign=iphone_nyp&utm_source=WhatsApp

[imayid2]

https://www.theepochtimes.com/orthodox-jew-violently-assaulted-for-voicing-his-views-on-traditional-morality_5347919.html

[mevinyavin]

Justice Jackson’s statistic about Black
infant mortality demands scrutiny

[aygart]

Justice Jackson’s statistic about Black
infant mortality demands scrutiny

I don't expect her to scrutinize an article supporting her grievances

[zh cohen]

Justice Jackson’s statistic about Black
infant mortality demands scrutiny

I saw somewhere that the people who submitted the brief (which she quoted from) retracted that statistic and acknowledged that they made a mistake in their claims regarding the data.

[ExGingi]

https://www.qcnews.com/lifestyle/travel/father-says-son-was-detained-at-airport-before-having-to-purchase-a-new-ticket/

[Randomex]

Sad stuff all around:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/nj-jews-reel-after-kosher-baker-rejects-synagogues-order-for-rainbow-pride-treats/

[EliJelly]

Sad stuff all around:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/nj-jews-reel-after-kosher-baker-rejects-synagogues-order-for-rainbow-pride-treats/

Why these wacko Rebetzins of Reform/Conservative temples are davka looking to buy pride themed arrangements at kosher establishments is beyond me. What in their warped jelly tells them that gay marriage and shabbos driving is okay, lobster on Sunday too, but that cake gotta be kosher

[Lurker]

Why these wacko Rebetzins of Reform/Conservative temples are davka looking to buy pride themed arrangements at kosher establishments is beyond me. What in their warped jelly tells them that gay marriage and shabbos driving is okay, lobster on Sunday too, but that cake gotta be kosher

What do you mean? This is their mivtzoim. Giving other yidden the opportunity to fulfill v'ahavta es haqueer.

[imayid2]

Why these wacko Rebetzins of Reform/Conservative temples are davka looking to buy pride themed arrangements at kosher establishments is beyond me. What in their warped jelly tells them that gay marriage and shabbos driving is okay, lobster on Sunday too, but that cake gotta be kosher

Lol

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/373899

Thus we encounter a comparatively small New Jersey bake shop. They are kosher, observe and honor the Sabbath, take challah from the dough (a commandment in which a portion of dough for bread-baking was given as an offering to the priests and today is burned in the absence of the Temple) carefully limit their ingredients to only those permitted under kosher law. They are deeply ethical. They sell challah for the Shabbat, bread loaves the rest of the week, and cookies and cakes. For years predating LG(B)T(QIA)+ tyranny, they even have baked rainbow-sprinkle cookies, something I never understood because all sprinkles taste the same to me regardless of their color. But my wife, Ellen of blessed memory, would never eat sugar cookies without rainbow sprinkles. Either that — or kichel.
And so, some LG(B)T(QIA+) extremists at a “conservative movement” temple chose to celebrate “Pride Month” [sic] by ordering a rainbow cake from that Orthodox Jewish kosher baker. It was not for the purpose of celebrating Parashat No’ach (the Torah account after The Great Flood). The baker quietly explained that he will not bake a rainbow cake. He did not give a reason, but his refusal to give a reason left clear that he will not be intimidated into violating his religious conscience. In Judaism, LG(B)T(QIA+) activity is forbidden. Why? Because it defies the Word of G-d and the evidence of Nature. Nature presumes the male-female union. So does every hardware, appliance, and tech supplies store. And Torah values are unequivocal: Vayikra (Leviticus) 18:22 and 20:13. Chulin 92a-b. Nidah 13b. Sukkah 29a. Nedarim 51a. Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Hilkhot Issurei Bi’ah 21:1, 2, 4, 8. Shulchan Arukh, Even Ha-Ezer 24.

Soon, the broader LG(B)T(QIA+) Tyrant Enterprise sprang into action. Non-Jewish LG(B)T(QIA+) tyrants started posting bad reviews on social media about this kosher bakery they never had patronized. They not only called it pejorative terms but lied about the food quality and service. The LG(B)T(QIA+) Mafia is despicable. Imagine if pro-family people, sick and tired of LG(B)T(QIA+) fascism, were to post hateful reviews of every establishment owned by a homosexual or lesbian.

A small coterie of knee-jerk Jewish Leftists pressured one or two non-kosher temples and their women rabbis and an anti-Orthodox Leftist at a local “Jewish” Federation to announce that they will boycott the kosher bakery. Right? These treyfe fressers (consumers of non-kosher foods and patrons of non-kosher food establishments) announce they are boycotting a kosher bakery?
(I will pause a moment here for my readers and my editor and me to catch our collective breaths from laughing so hard.)
(. . . Still laughing . . .) ( . . . Yeah, and I am announcing a pork boycott at all Orthodox yeshivas . . .)
People who patronize and frequent kosher food establishments do not want LG(B)T(QIA+) anything. We don’t want their “Pride Parades.” We don’t want their rainbows. We don’t want to hear their emotional Masada blackmail about how, if we don’t bake them a rainbow cake, then LG(B)T(QIA)+ teens will commit suicide. Without saying so, when we walk into a kosher restaurant or kosher pizza store or kosher butcher, or even “just” a small little kosher bakery, we actually enjoy exiting the decayed and corroded secular culture for just a brief hiatus, if only to buy a cookie.

Thanks to the heroes who brought their fight to the United States Supreme Court, resulting in the great 303 Creative victory, a small kosher bakery now has a chance to keep baking challahs, bagels, rugelach, kichel — and, yes, even sprinkle cookies — in an environment that is kosher. And the LG(B)T(QIA+) Mafia and their “reform Judaism” and “conservative Judaism” temples and “Jewish” Federations, at which 30-50 percent of the “Jews” are not even Jews, are free to patronize the non-kosher providers they prefer.

[imayid2]

Sad stuff all around:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/nj-jews-reel-after-kosher-baker-rejects-synagogues-order-for-rainbow-pride-treats/

https://forums.dansdeals.com/index.php?topic=133668.msg2727567#msg2727567

[Yehuda57]

Why these wacko Rebetzins of Reform/Conservative temples are davka looking to buy pride themed arrangements at kosher establishments is beyond me. What in their warped jelly tells them that gay marriage and shabbos driving is okay, lobster on Sunday too, but that cake gotta be kosher

I know of an orthodox rabbi who invited a conservative rabbi for a Shabbos meal, and he responded, "But Rabbi, you know I don't live in walking distance?"
"But you're conservative, you can drive."
The conservative rabbi looked at him incredulously and said, "I'm shomer Shabbos!"

Yes, picking and choosing halachos is obviously all kinds of wrong, but if an individual makes the decision to keep certain mitzvos, even if they are not keeping others, they shouldn't be "trashed" for it, but the mitzvos they are doing should be praised. Plenty of conservative synagogues keep strictly kosher, that should be encouraged.

[EliJelly]

I know of an orthodox rabbi who invited a conservative rabbi for a Shabbos meal, and he responded, "But Rabbi, you know I don't live in walking distance?"
"But you're conservative, you can drive."
The conservative rabbi looked at him incredulously and said, "I'm shomer Shabbos!"

The orthodox rabbi can use a primer in basic shabbos laws. That's just awfully wrong.

Yes, picking and choosing halachos is obviously all kinds of wrong, but if an individual makes the decision to keep certain mitzvos, even if they are not keeping others, they shouldn't be "trashed" for it, but the mitzvos they are doing should be praised. Plenty of conservative synagogues keep strictly kosher, that should be encouraged.

Whatever mitzva they wanna keep should be encouraged. My issue obviously is when they go on a crusade against innocent local kosher eateries and harassing them in the process of keeping their -once a week, in shul only- cherry picked mitzva. Pride and pork go hand in hand, pride and kosher doesn't, and they know it.

[Ver hut gazugt]

The orthodox rabbi can use a primer in basic shabbos laws. That's just awfully wrong.

Whatever mitzva they wanna keep should be encouraged, my issue obviously is when they go on a crusade against innocent local eateries and harassing them in the process of keeping their cherry picked mitzva. Pride and pork go hand in hand, pride and kosher doesn't, and they know it.

even if the reform rabbi was not shomer shabbos it would still be a problem.

[EliJelly]

even if the reform rabbi was not shomer shabbos it would still be a problem.

of course

[Yehuda57]

The orthodox rabbi can use a primer in basic shabbos laws. That's just awfully wrong.

True. All kinds of issues with such an invitation.

Whatever mitzva they wanna keep should be encouraged, my issue obviously is when they go on a crusade against innocent local kosher eateries and harassing them in the process of keeping their -once in a week, in shul only- cherry picked mitzva. Pride and pork go hand in hand, pride and kosher doesn't, and they know it.

Again, your comment was essentially that they should not go to a kosher bakery for their food. I disagree. That doesn't mean the bakery should make pride cakes, but we shouldn't encourage conservative synagogues to buy from non kosher bakeries.

This reminds me of a case I heard: a rov made a policy that only married women can use the mikvah. An unmarried woman tried to make an appointment, and the mikvah lady said, "Sorry, our rav says the policy is only married ladies." The woman responds, "But the same rav told me I need to go to mikvah!" The mikvah lady calls the rav and he says, "You are correct. I did tell you not to let unmarried people use it, and she is no exception. She is also correct, I did tell her she is obligated to go to the mikvah."

[yuneeq]

I know of an orthodox rabbi who invited a conservative rabbi for a Shabbos meal, and he responded, "But Rabbi, you know I don't live in walking distance?"
"But you're conservative, you can drive."
The conservative rabbi looked at him incredulously and said, "I'm shomer Shabbos!"

Yes, picking and choosing halachos is obviously all kinds of wrong, but if an individual makes the decision to keep certain mitzvos, even if they are not keeping others, they shouldn't be "trashed" for it, but the mitzvos they are doing should be praised. Plenty of conservative synagogues keep strictly kosher, that should be encouraged.

Tovel vesheretz beyado is different

[Yehuda57]

Tovel vesheretz beyado is different

Which of the scenarios in the thread is analogous to that?