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AddReply(520303,"Shower anybody? also correction in time","Liad","Jerusalem","11/23/09","Dr. Bob also mentioned in one of his articles about chlorine:\n \"Consider these facts about the danger of chlorine exposure -- and remember chlorine is just ONE of the chemicals in your water right now:\nOn average, you consume between 1-2 gallons of water a day, but on average you expose yourself to 25 gallons of water when you shower. The U.S. Council of Environmental Quality reports that cancer risks for people who drink chlorinated water are 93% higher than people who don’t.\nEven if your skin repels 75% of all chemicals and toxins in the water, that still leaves 25% of chemicals that make their way through your semi-permeable skin and into your body. That means one 15-minute shower is the equivalent of drinking 8 glasses of polluted water.\nBut, it gets worse…When you take a hot shower, toxic chemicals are liberated from the water and released as gasses, including chloroform (50% more released) and trichloroethylene (TCE) (80% more released) -- both known carcinogens. \" \nI had read some time ago that your skin can hold up to 6 pounds of creams, lotions, makeup, etc thus making your skin sag over time and looking old even before your time.\n\nGiven that the skin is permeable, it would behove any mother to becareful changing her baby\'s diapers and to stay righteously Heterosexual. Can you imagine what happens to your skin/body after swimming in a pool for an hour?\nVelvel (SK).  I stopped using 18 different names just before my mother died which was about 18 months ago.  Hey brother, come back to the fold of Jews wanting to be righteous for we will accept you even if you don\'t have a shower head filtering out chlorine and are ADHD.:-)");
AddReply(520297,"Do I detect ADHD in these talkbacks?","Liad","Jerusalem","11/23/09","Attention-Deficit (not paying attention to the subject of this blog) Hyperactivity Disorder (quick to blame).\n\nIt appears that the ADHD in this blog is created by GSD (Galut Spiritual Dementia)\nVelvel (SK), you are probably right about the time but to me it seems like years.  Whatever the time, at least I confessed to it and stopped it whereas you continue it … like putting yourself in the closet (Velvel) and yet exposing yourself to support homosexuality (SK)…both of whom use the same sentence structure, the same thoughts and feelings, the same expressions and both are attacking the same person....me.\n\nGetting back to the subject of this blog, Dr. Bob states: “The lack of the proper fats for brain chemistry, excessive sugars and food sensitivities that create biochemical imbalances, environmental toxins, vitamin deficiencies and improper spinal alignments are all contributing to the growing epidemic of hyperactivity children.”  \nThis sounds reasonable; yet, judging the source of these comments I would like to say no matter how careful we are in creating the “proper” biochemical balance in our body, that balance will always be upset (unbalanced) if we do not likewise maintain the ”proper” spiritual balance.  The word “balance” is not the right term to use here when talking about the spirit for I do not mean to be equally evil on the one hand and equally good on the other hand.  It’s not like being diligent to study Torah during the day and practice homosexuality at night.  In other words for Greater Spiritual Development … the only one (GSD-1)…there is no adherence to evil at any level nor at any time.  It is only at this time will our body/spirit be in  \"balance \" for the good.\n");
AddReply(520126,"It\'s been less than a year, Liad. ?Thou shalt not bear false witness","Velvel","silver spring","11/22/09","G-d is watching.   Don\'t be stupid and make extra sins for yourself by posting lies here.\n\nIt\'s been less than a  \"couple of years \" that you were posting under 30 different screen names and even in one post within the past months, less than a year ago, you listed them all and admitted they were all you.");
AddReply(520107,"In answer and for the last time Sk, to your talkbacks... ","Liad","Jerusalem","11/22/09","As of about a couple of years already, I only have one alias with email and of which I use more conservatively than I use my own name for it is used more to gain information and learning wherein I would not be able to do otherwise.  I would be happy to let you know that name and email address if you renounce your homosexuality and do chuvah");
AddReply(520042,"So Liad, why then did you create 20-30 nics?","sk","USA","11/22/09","When you write as Liad, you are just mildly obnoxious.  When you write under other names you are really nasty.  Why the deception?  After all, surely you have Hashem in your corner.\n\nDidn\'t Hashem instruct us to perpetrate lashon hora using deceptive tactics?  Oh wait.  I forgot that it\'s not Hashem but Allah who gives such instructions.");
AddReply(519867,"Sk, #81, I don’t have to try and create a “groundswell of opposition” ","Liad","Jerusalem","11/22/09","to you, mike, velvel et al, for you all are doing a great job of that yourselves.  Regardless of your  “groundswell of opposition” which you all have created, you all still have not given up reading these blogs which also are in opposition to you; so, there still seems to be some hope that you all will truly come back to the Truth.  \nOnce in awhile I go to Tzvi’s blog to post and very rarely do I post on this blog because Tamar does such a thorough job of covering the subject.  \n\nIf you want to point the finger at someone who is attacking you constantly, point it to HaShem.");
AddReply(519832,"Liad, I see you are back to using your  \"real \" name.","sk","USA","11/22/09","Didn\'t you have twenty or thirty nics before, using them to deceive others into believing that there was some kind of groundswell of opposition to me (and MIke, Velvel, etc.)?  Most recently, you resurrected one to attack me on another blog.");
AddReply(519748,"Liad","Meira Bat Yehuda","Jerusalem","11/21/09","I\'m not down, Liad. I rarely am. We\'ve been going thru a very difficult period in general. It\'s being resolved but will take a couple more weeks.  Thanks");
AddReply(519719,"Meira, don\'t let SK, Velvel, et al get you down.","Liad","Jerusalem","11/21/09","They were made for conflict. If they agreed with you, you might consider that there might be something wrong.  I am amazed that the IDF upper echelon as well as high government advisors routinely consult with Ovadia and with other chief Rabbis for guidance.\n\nTamar, this is one of your greatest articles in your blog.  My family and I are greatly appreciative of your work.");
AddReply(518813,"SK ? 3","Meira Bat Yehuda","Jerusalem","11/19/09","SK, in #71 you state that rabbis have no knowledge of military matters or of the outside world. I would say that is somewhat true of those  \"educated \" in the pure air of the yeshiva.\n\n \"A famous story retells how Rabbi Attiya was instrumental in keeping the young Ovadia in the Torah world. At one point, the diligent young scholar suddenly stopped coming to yeshiva for several days. Rabbi Attiya paid a visit to his home and was shocked by the poverty he saw there. Ovadia\'s father explained that he ran a small grocery and needed the boy to work for him. Rabbi Attiya attempted to convince the father of the importance of Torah learning, to no avail. The next morning, when the father entered his store, he found Rabbi Attiya standing there, wearing a work apron. The rosh yeshiva explained that he had come to the store early that morning when Ovadia was opening up. He had told the youth that he had found a substitute worker who would work without pay, and sent him back to yeshiva.  \"You said that you needed someone to help and could not afford to pay. I am that someone. Your son\'s learning is more important than my time! \"  \"\n\nThis is pretty much typical of Mizrachi experience even if apocryphal. The families were poor but somehow found the way to send a gifted son to learn. However, the children stayed at home and KNEW what life was about.  They did not create a monastic environment to shield the boys from reality as did the Eastern European communities for whatever reason.\n\nI believe I posted  my comments before I listened to R. Bar Tzadok speak about academism. I leant away from it anyway but hearing a rabbi teach against it was refreshing and reassuring that I wasn\'t going into some sort of apostasy.\n\nIt is this monastic attitude that turns me away from anything redolent of Mittel Europa. It\'s not that they are lesser Jews or bad people, I just prefer a more practical approach to life.  I guess RamBam was impurely educated and Thank G-d for it. It wasn\'t too much later that the yeshiva became the only  \"approved \" way to learn. \nWe try to adhere to the teachings of the Rishonim and the earlier Achronim.\n\n");
AddReply(518716,"SK","Meira Bat Yehuda","Jerusalem","11/19/09","I don\'t understand your third paragraph. I\'ll try again later. \n\nIf I fall down a cliff in Hevron and am unconscious with blood everywhere, it will mean I\'ve been stoned or shot so I probably won\'t need a doctor at that point.  I prefer a minyan to recite Tehillim in that instance.  Should I be conscious and able to staunch the flow of blood, what can a doctor do for me? Can\'t give me antibiotics  \"just in case, \" I\'m allergic. Can\'t take codein or morphine for the pain, again allergic so I guess I have to chew some nails and tough it out. \n\nOh Stop! Now you\'ve got me sounding like Hanina!   LOL\n\nI\'ve fallen off my share of walls, horses and assorted other places I probably shouldn\'t have been but I never broke anything or been unconscious.  If that\'s what Hashem intends for me, that\'s what will happen. He\'ll also figure out how to deal with it. \n\nOk , I get it about state funded rabbis.I don\'t venerate any man but we\'re supposed to follow a rabbi we choose.  My DH and I are muddling thru that process as we become more observant. Haven\'t found one yet.  The closest is Rabbi Bar Tzadok and he doesn\'t posken questions of halacha.  We\'re learning a lot about the process of being Jewish outside the academism of the past 500 years, however.  In accordance with his teaching, we believe what is keeping it propped up is a divine plan. How we fit into that is also being worked out.  We know that geula isn\'t cute little angels sitting on puffy clouds playing harps while the rest of us down here gambol around in mindless bliss as some old guy with a long white beard smiles down on us benignly.\nWe know geula comes with a price.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n");
AddReply(518638,"Meira","sk","USA","11/19/09","Meira, you are making things more complex than they need to be.  The point of my analogy between rabbis and doctors was to emphasize that the medical expertise of one is much less than the medical expertise of the other.  The same goes for the Halachic knowledge between the two.  I am not willing to argue with you on this matter.  If you fall off a hill in Hevron and become unconscious with blood everywhere, we both know that your first stop will be to a doctor.\n\n \"You may not think you have a problem with authority figures but I beg to differ. Your characterization of ALL rabbis as unlearned and/or corrupt is hostile. \"\n\nPlease show me where I said that  \"ALL rabbis [are] unlearned and/or corrupt. \"  What I said was that today\'s rabbis, are, at best, learned in Halachic matters, not in war-making, and that this is by design ( \"pure education \").  The Rambam had impure education, obviously, because he was (as you know) a doctor as well.  Furthermore, because MOST rabbis in Israel are funded by the government, they have a built-in CONFLICT OF INTEREST when they make judgments regarding anything the government does.  Further, the politicos fully intend to create this conflict of interest.  Now, I don\'t have to prove the existence of a quid pro quo (e.g., $ha$ votes in exchange for yeshiva shekels) to show how disastrous the current system is;  I just need to point to the conflict of interest.\n\nIf we want more dead Jews, we should continue to venerate certain \'state-supported\' rabbis.  If we want fewer dead Jews, we should show contempt, not veneration.\n\nI daresay that the Jews of Israel have not had a single year of good government yet.  If you want that to change, focus on what\'s keeping it propped up.");
AddReply(518628,"To the Ed. RE: 73","sk","USA","11/19/09","Please try to avoid messing up my paragraphs.  For example, I start off that TB with a quotation, which, in the original, I set off from my response.  But in this edited version, everything runs together.  It might have something to do with your editing program.");
AddReply(518538,"SK","Meira Bat Yehuda","Jerusalem","11/18/09"," You misunderstood on the abortion question. More often than not, non-religious doctors, Jewish or not, will counsel termination. Rabbis do NOT tend to defer to the doctors. That\'s where you are wrong.  They base their decisions in each case on the patient\'s history and current status. That is the determinant. The  \"theology \" if you will, is in place. It is permissible in Judaism  \"if. \"  Christians have been leaning towards life of the mother for years and they are the ones who rely on the doctor\'s opinions as to when that point is reached. Not so Orthodox Jews and their rabbis.  A rabbi will consult the patient record but will also consider the social situation of the family and other factors. He will look at the woman\'s mental state to be sure there is no possibility of  \"convenience \" being a factor.  In Judaism it is not a  \"medical procedure. \"  It is the death of a human being but it is also a legal procedure to determine which human being gets to live and if the evidence is compelling enough to decisively take one life to spare the other or even more so to let one live rather than causing two to die.\n\nIn many cultures, doctors did indeed wash their hands in between patients.  They most certainly did have some intuition about communication of disease. Why else would they burn everything a plague victim owned when he died?  In Florence there were special squads of removalists, many who were plague survivors themselves who did this work.  The doctors who treated plague victims wore special masks partly to identify that they had been with a patient but also to afford some protection.\nIt may not have been understood  \"scientifically \" and that\'s my point. Just as the Chinese described  \"meridians\' in the body. It\'s not scientific jargon but it defines a system that exists and can be treated when out of sorts.  Most great discoveries start with intuition.   \n\nWhen I was still a teenager and found out that penicillin came from mold that is on bread and in bleu cheese, I asked my Mom, (the doctor), if that meant someone who was allergic to the drug would have a reaction to the cheese. She laughed and said no, the drug had been synthesized in the lab but now I have read in many places that people with known penicillin drug allergy should avoid raw molds. You see, SK, intuition told me there was a connection. Most of us have had these experiences but the god of science has demanded we put them aside as foolish or fantasy. He is a harsh and cruel master. He is often wrong because he opposes the G-d of Creation.  \n\nYou may not think you have a problem with authority figures but I beg to differ. Your characterization of ALL rabbis as unlearned and/or corrupt is hostile. It has nothing to do with Rav Ovadia\'s politics and should be seen as separate. If he is  \"pulling an Oslo2 \" as you say, certainly he has nothing to say to me any further but that is a problem I am trying to work thru. We are in dark days for sure but they\'re all foretold.  One thing that has not been specifically stated but just my opinion is that we are in a period similar to the Book of Judges where every person did what seemed right in his own eyes.  Some of us will get it right from the get go like Devorah haNeviah and Gideon, others will fail badly but come to the truth like Samson. Others will fail utterly.  But after the Judges, a prophet came and ultimately anointed a king over us. This is what we wait for to happen once more.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n");
AddReply(518341,"Meira","sk","USA","11/18/09"," \"SK, rabbis ARE supposed to be learned in medical matters. How can a rabbi advise a woman that an abortion may be permissible in her case with no understanding? . . . I\'ll let you all in on a little secret, however. Medicine, to be practiced correctly, takes a great bit of art and intuition and very little science. \"Regarding your view of the proper practice of medicine,  evidence-based medicine happens to be one of my areas of expertise.  I disagree with you when you suggest that  \"very little science \" is required.  All the intuition in the world didn\'t stop doctors from going patient-to-patient without washing their hands until the germ theory of disease was widely understood.  Rabbis are NOT learned in medical matters, Meira, unless one dumbs down what counts as  \"learned. \"  It is unfortunate that rabbis give advice on such matters.\n\nIn an area like abortion counseling, the underlying medicine is simple and not in dispute.  So I guess it would be possible for a rabbi just to defer to the doctors regarding risks and to rule based on medical judgment.  But military policy is not simple, and it is deeply political as well.  Furthermore, leading rabbis have a conflict of interest, as certain rulings will lead to $$ and others not.\n\nFinally, I have no difficulty with authority figures.  I have a difficulty with frauds who claim Torah sanction for policies that kill Jews.  $ha$ is pulling an Oslo 2 as I write.  Let\'s not pretend that ROY [Rabbi Ovadia Yosef. Ed.] is in the dark about this.");
AddReply(518183,"Larry and SK","Meira Bat Yehuda","Jerusalem","11/18/09","Well, that\'s the mystery called woman, Larry. LOL  But actually, I\'ve been relating to Rav Ovadia strictly on the spiritual level while trying to figure my way back to my Jewish roots and what resonates with me there. Maybe it\'s time to start looking into the political record or making sure that I separate the rabbi from the politician.  I really don\'t believe it matters what politicians do but I do care that my rabbis are men of integrity and character, worthy of the honor.  \n\nSK, rabbis ARE supposed to be learned in medical matters. How can a rabbi advise a woman that an abortion may be permissible in her case with no understanding?  I use this question because it is never acceptable across the board. It is permitted with great sadness only in really clear cases, according to the medical experts, that it\'s is better to save the mother than lose both.  I\'m not going to discuss my personal opinion here, it\'s irrelevant.  The same thing with organ transplants. How can we take a rabbinical opinion with any credibility if the rabbi has no knowledge of these things.  I\'ll let you all in on a little secret, however. Medicine, to be practiced correctly, takes a great bit of art and intuition and very little science. What science there is of value can be learned quite quickly and easily. You don\'t even have to be a member of MENSA  to do it. I learned this growing up surrounded by doctors and pharmacists. \n\nWell. I can\'t speak for Tamar. Her parents are with her here and from what I glean, she has a not very different relationship with them than I had with mine. \nA Christian  \"friend \" once gave me a book about our relationship with G-d. Something like  \"The Father Hand of G-d. \"   The author\'s premise was that our relationship with G-d would reflect our relationship with our Earthly fathers.  If that was close and loving and filled with respect, we would have an easier time relating to G-d and presumably his spokesmen,  than if we had a problematic relationship. I found that to be an interesting and valid concept.  The  \"solution \" to the problematic relationships is irrelevant to Jews. \nI suggest that if you have a difficult time with authority figures, you might want to ponder this idea and how you can use it to detoxify your relationships/memories. \nIt\'s easy to throw out quotes from the Shulcan Aruch saying, \'you must do this or that, it\'s in the Law. \".  Considering one\'s actions then changing them takes real work. \n\nOne final word, I am an aural/oral learner. I can\'t sort ideas out just by reading. I need to discuss and dialogue to be able to learn.  It\'s not unheard of but it is less common in Western cultures where, if I were much younger I\'d probably be labelled as learning disabled or something like that. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n");
AddReply(517897,"Meira on the issue of respect for rabbis.","sk","USA","11/17/09","Meira, as you may recall, I challenged Tamar\'s claim that rabbis (including other peoples\' rabbis) are equivalent to one\'s own parents in terms of the respect owed them.  Tamar never engaged my arguments seriously.\n\nROY has joined top Ashkenazi  \"rabbis \" in using their koshering ability for political ends.  None of these people are competent in military matters.  Indeed, as they have had  \"pure education, \" they are not competent in any secular policy matters--they have no idea how the outer world works, even lacking outside job experience.  You think they do not know the areas in which they are ignorant?  So when we see a koshering of Oslo, we cannot believe that the rabbis believe they are competent in the area.  What conclusions would you draw when they nevertheless offer opinions and lobby based on them?\nConsider:  what would you think if ROY suddenly started giving medical advice?  This would be utterly irresponsible, I am sure you agree.  What if, in exchange, he got lots of yeshiva funding?  Would you then start speculating that he understood the medical issues involved but thought that his recommended procedures would save lives?  Or would you say that he was poskeming for shekels?  And if he did so, would you think well of the man and suggest he deserved respect?\n\nIf you want to make Israel a more decent place, you must first clean up the  \"standards committee, \" and they consist of men in funny hats.");
AddReply(517715,"Meira","Larry","TA","11/17/09","I did not intentionally pun the Rav\'s initials. I picked that one up by osmosis and never paid attention to the pun. I feel like it\'s really difficult to make a point with you. On the one hand you come across as very close to Mike/SK in viewpoint; on the other you are pretty strong in defense of the Ovadia Yosef record in Israeli politics. While I respect deference to the rav and recognize he is learned, this also gives him a responsibility to make decisions in line with his beliefs. It does make a difference, including in how Israel-oriented Diaspora Jews see the country. This sort of down-and-dirty interest group politics does justify cynicism and lessen enthusiasm of people for joining the fray. And a heckuva fray it can be.");
AddReply(517697,"Larry and Dacon","Meira Bat Yehuda","Jerusalem","11/17/09","Larry, He\'s still the fromer Chief Seph. rabbi and should be addressed as such. Simply referring to him as OY is disrespectful even tho it makes a clever pun.  \nDacon, your issue is with the editors. I typed  \"ROY \"  If we can use  \"HKBH \" for the Almighty, we can use an acronym for a man, even a Gadol. However, I cannot explain the editors\' turning the  \"OY  \" into lower case.  That was simply incorrect and I have posted a heads up to them. ");
AddReply(517666,"Meira, again...","Larry","TA","11/17/09","Nah, I think he was just being a good politician and making sure his constituents got stipends, funding and religious education. OY did not care about Judea and Samaria, nor do his successors - assuming he has stepped somewhat into the shadows. He\'s a politician primarily, a rabbi secondarily - at least when it comes to Oslo and all that was related. I\'m not all about doing the \'right thing\', but I think in the case of Oslo it was clear it would be a disaster. I read an interview with Shimon Peres in the late spring of \'93 when I lived in Ramat Aviv, and it was pretty clear what would happen - these people were determined to go all the way. And Shas helped them, willingly.");
AddReply(517601,"It\'s disrespectful to refer to our Chief Rabbis as \'Roy\'","","...Dacon9","11/17/09","");
AddReply(517302,"Larry","Meira Bat Yehuda","Jerusalem","11/16/09","I know it wasn\'t ethnic and mneither was my last answer. I was simply preempting comments people might be tempted to make about my slavishly following ROY because I am Sephardic.  We haven\'t settled in with one specific local rav so we do our best. Fortunately life is fairly uncomplicated so I don\'t have a lot of questions about hechshers and bugs and things like that. LOL WE rely a lot on Rabbi Mansour in NY. He writes Daily Halacha and goes to a variety of sources and recommends a certain course to follow but there\'s some leeway within his opinions.  Today\'s essay was on napping during the day. He gave a variety of opinions including some Ashkenazi paskenim, is that the right word?  Basically now I have a framework in which to feel confident that if I take a long nap on Shabbat I won\'t be cut off but if I don\'t it\'s ok too even tho Arizal said it\'s part of Oneg Shabbat to sleep for quite a while on Shabbat afternoon.  This is just an example. \nI think it is dangerous to second guess any decision because we don\'t know for sure the outcome of going the opposite way.  Suppose, G-d forbid,  no Oslo has resulted in an all out war? You can\'t prove a negative so there\'s no way to know \nfor sure if Oslo, while being responsible for many lives lost might have resulted in even more deaths had it been rejected.  I think this was ROY\'s point. He knew that lives would be lost, he recommended the course he thought would minimize it. I think he realized we were at war. I\'m not sure others did.  They were looking at peace. ROY recognized terrorism for the war it is. He probably based his opinion on a wartime perspective to minimize damage. I\'m only guessing but it\'s something worth considering.  The West has tended to see *terrorism* as something unique. A separate entity. It\'s not. It is war and the rules of war should be applied every day until the enemy is defeated. If ROY was wrong, he was wrong. We cannot presume to know anyone\'s motives but nonetheless, the road to hell and all that...  \nAs Rav Bar Tzadok says,  \"doing the right thing in the wrong way always leads to a wrong result. \" \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n");
AddReply(517259,"Meira","Larry","TA","11/16/09","I don\'t believe that my critique of Shas is ethnically based. I don\'t think I\'m free of prejudice, certainly, but I think I\'m reacting mostly to Shas\' record, which is quite long on this subject. I am also taking into account all the good people, mostly very religious, who are taken in by various religious politicians. As for judging the Rav Ovadia Yosef, I am not capable of evaluating his overall worth or contribution to Jews, Israel, the world, etc. I am really only saying that he may have been able to stop Oslo, and at least some of the people, Jews and Arabs, who lost their lives since 1993 would have been with us today.");
AddReply(517211,"Complaints yours not mine.","Joseph A. Cleary","Sand Springs,","11/16/09","You complained when Yishia and Malkah and the little one in tow left for the states. Your work load was doubled and at times even tripled. Get used to it, it\'s going to get worse. As I\'ve got to write in Tamary.\nBe Well.\nShalom, Shalom, Yosef of Ok.");
AddReply(517101,"Editors","Meira Bat Yehuda","Jerusalem","11/15/09"," \"ROY \" was short for Rav Ovadia Yosef, not the proper name  \"Roy \" \nthanks");
AddReply(516900,"Larry","Meira Bat Yehuda","Jerusalem","11/15/09","I guess I am learning a lot about the character or lack thereof of specific politicians.  I\'m not sure how rabbis,men who are human with human failings, got so much infallibility thrust on them by their followers. That is something closer to roman catholicism than what I understand Judaism to be. \n\nI can still separate when Roy paskens on crock pots and when he says something stupid, self serving misguided about the country.  I also am learning that not ALL Sephardi rabbis follow him so I don\'t completely either.  That doesn\'t mean he is lacking knowledge in specific areas and that his response isn\'t accurate regarding those matters.  We may never know how he could permit Oslo to happen or what his current beliefs are regarding it. This is what happens when politicians politic. he amy not be repentant, but we shouldn\'t judge him until we know for sure.  He is very old and he amy not be able to deal with what he sees as the ramifications of coming out in reversal of himself.");
AddReply(516861,"Very Interesting Indeed","Larry","TA","11/15/09","I think most of what we eat and imbibe from the important is indeed pretty toxic-filled. I\'ve gone vegetarian again, stay mostly away from alcohol, and generally walk about four miles a day, something I began back in California several months ago when I volunteered as a park ranger.\n\nIn terms of the religious/political comments, I find myself interested in but cautious about the various intra-Orthodox (sp?) arguments. My background being mostly secular, I tend to view the actions and politics of most of these rabbis with a skeptical eye, as I view the secular world. I agree with SK that OY need not be venerated simply because the Rav has a large body of knowledge. We can\'t assume that because he knows a great deal of Torah, Talmud, etc., that his political actions are somehow secretly koshered, or mysteriously positive. No, Meira, I think SK is right about this. OY is a man and a politician. He is a pol as much as a rabbi. And Shas is indeed the major \'minor\' party that is culpable for the continuance of Oslo. If it is worthwhile to learn more Torah, and I am sure it is, it will not change my view of Shas\' damage to the nation.");
AddReply(516325,"Harriet","Meira Bat Yehuda","Jerusalem","11/13/09","I used to use Dr. Bronner\'s liquid soap for everything, body and hair.  Recently however, I learned that they, along with Whole Foods Market sin the US, support Free trade initiatives with the Falsistinians. They buy their olive oil from them. \nHer ein Israel I found a bar soap from India that is not Free trade. It\'s wonderful soap made of an ayeurvedic mix of herbs and spices. They have a pure Sandalwood one too. It\'s a bit expensive so for simple hand washing we use the cheap DETERGENTS everyone thinks are soap. The stuff you are referring to. The Indian stuff is nice and I can get a good lather for my hair with very little of it. It doesn\'t have the chemicals of detergents and the herbs are beneficial to the skin.  Mine is extremely sensitive. It\'s a little pricey but not off the wall. \nI read on Dr. Mercola that we shouldn\'t wash our bodies, except the  \"critical areas \" with much soap at all and not every day. I find since not using the chemicals, I don\'t have any odor. It\'s not that I got used to it. I have a very sensitive nose. My body chemistry has reached an optimum level where eating healthy and not dousing myself with chems. that alter the natural, I find I just don\'t smell. I use crystal rocks deodorants to avoid some of the worst chems we use. Eat fresh, healthy food, drink plenty of water. and don\'t be afraid to sweat. it purges the toxins from your body and when you wash off, you feel fantastic.\n\nDr Mercola has lots in his archives about the sodium laurel sulfate products and others you need to avoid. ");
AddReply(516297,"To Sam Flanagan","Isr.Nat. News","","11/12/09","The purpose of this forum is for you to be able to express your opinion.  Just referring to another website is not acceptable.");
AddReply(516275,"join the club","Harriet","Netherlands","11/12/09","Tamar you joined the club! It seems more and more people are aware of this and are much more interested in what they really eat. I have tried to avoid processed food over the last years and I really think it is a must for our health but it is also a way to get responsible for the bodies that we have been given. Why not smoke and eat all this rubbish? We have to stand up against the foodindustry and ourselves. Besides that,if you examine beautyproducts that we use , you\'ll be stunned as well. Go and try to get a shampoo or soap without SLS(Sodium Laureth Sulfate). That\'s hard to find while SLS is poisonous.We use it daily and it is unhealthy for our skins to absorb. As long as nobody stands up people in general are not aware of it. Good choice for your show!");
AddReply(516004,"This is from a talkback - very disturbing:","","","11/12/09"," \"Theres an old thread on ATS which talks about a movie called Children of Men. \n\nI watched the film recently and noticed that the plot was about the demise of the human race which started with a flu pandemic and the vaccine caused women to become infertile. \n\nThe movie was made in 2006 and set in the future but it mentioned that all this started in 2008. \n\nIt made me wonder if somebody knew in advance what was coming and made the movie around it. \" \n");
AddReply(516000,"Reports of miscarriages in the US","","","11/12/09","after H1N1 vaccine (within days). And stilbirths.\nhttp://preventdisease.com/news/09/110709_H1N1_vaccine_miscarriage_reports.shtml");
AddReply(515376,"To: Isr. Nat. News","","","11/11/09","Some websites have a lot more useful information than most opinions.\n\n(Maybe, but we are interested in YOUR opinion. [Ed.])");
AddReply(515016,"To ?(no name)","Isr.Nat.News","","11/10/09","The purpose of this forum is to allow you to express your own opinion, not just to refer to other websites.");
AddReply(514549,"Dee","Meira Bat Yehuda","Jerusalem","11/09/09","I just remembered a couple of years ago Dr. Mercola was discussing raw milk and where to get it. You can google him. I don\'t think the Editors want us posting links.  There\'s some sort of organization that lists farmers by State who will sell it to you.\nHIs archives are extensive so it may take some time.");
AddReply(514395,"I talked to Yishai on the telephone.","Joseph A. Cleary","Sand Springs,","11/09/09","He and I talked about things he talked to me like I was a wizard, that\'s the last thing in my mind that I\'d ever be.\nI shall always be a servant of Hashem not the other.\nBe Well.\nShalom, Shalom, Yosef of Ok.");
AddReply(514206,"flu scam","david ","tel aviv ","11/08/09","http://www.theflucase.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1611%3Adoctors-protest-israels-decision-to-give-toxic-focetria-and-pandemrix-jabs-to-people&catid=1%3Alatest-news&Itemid=64&lang=en\n>\n> and read the whole site and watch the interviews.\n>\n> If you cannot understand how can this be possible, then read the book \'\'To eliminate the opiate\'  by\n> rabbie Marvin Alterman, supreme judge of the American Rabbinical Tribunal,\n> published in 1976. If you want to understand the ideology of these guys, you\n> may find illustration in the site of Donmeh West who are part of them.");
AddReply(513769,"SK and Velvel","Meira Bat Yehuda","Jerusalem","11/08/09","SK, Well, I certainly don\'t want to do what you say, I guess I still have lots to learn but I\'m feeling a bit like Diogenes these days.\nI don\'t excoriate Tamar. But I don\'t pretend to be on the front lines while thinking yakking will win the fight. If I did, it wouldn\'t always be  \"woe is me, the POTUS turned out to be an Israel hater. \"  I don\'t see a lot of Pro Israel propaganda coming form Samaria. It\'s more anti US stufff. Promoting NBN isn\'t the sort of propaganda you mean.  However, if we are about to have the great prophetic battle for Jerusalem, it IS I who am on the front, not Tamar. I was up on the roof last week and it\'s a great strategic site.  Of course having no weapons and no training to use them, I\'m not sure what I can do when the war comes to me but I guess I\'ll find out. \n\nVelvel, I guess it\'s not a yeshiva per se yet but he has a place that he gives shiurim on a weekly basis. Beit HaMiqdash might be the better word.  Both men and women can go and learn. I didn\'t go the one time my husband did. But Rabbi does teach and it\'s open to anyone who wants to learn. ");
AddReply(513694,"Meira - what do you mean?","Velvel","silver spring","11/07/09","What yeshiva do you mean?  Rabbi Bar Hayim doesn\'t really have a yeshiva.  Not that I\'m aware of anyway.  ");
AddReply(513572,"Meira (38), I certainly intended to be disrespectful to Yosef.","sk","USA","11/06/09","However, I do not want to imply that the Ashkenazi elite (e.g. Elya$hiv) are any better.\n\nSpin as much as you want, Shades ($ha$) and the Lithuanian moneybags ($UTJ) have facilitated the giving of Jewish land to Amalek (I say that Islam is the religion of Amalek).\n\nNow, I am woefully ignorant of Halacha, but I know when I see sleazy politicking and pork barrel.  You have previous excoriated Tamar for not taking action.  Well, part of  \"action \" is the appropriate use of propaganda, and the best propaganda is based in truth.  If you will not tell the truth about select rabbis, you simply protect perfidy and put a stumbling block before their blind followers.\n\nR\' Kahane was different from these guys--which is why I read his work. ");
AddReply(513479,"#46 Meira - I absolutely agree with you. It\'s a long-term plan","Michelle","Vancouver","11/06/09","You\'re quite correct in your analysis.\n\nMuslims are good and patient planners.  They have a plan for taking over Israel.\n\nAnd they have a plan for taking over the rest of the world.  One immigrant or assylum seeker at the time.  One new baby at the time.  One accomplished new hire or elected official at western institutions at the time.\n\nJews are brilliant in multiple ways, but not good planners.  \n\nJust one example:  look how things have turned out since 1967:  Israel lost territory, its good reputation, its allies.  No plan at all on what to do with the recovered land.\n\nIn the meantime, the PLO established itself in Israel and flourished, turning their blood-thirsty terrorists into folk heroes everywhere!  \n\nOur sense of logic and morality tells us that this is impossible, but then it happened!\n\nAnd it does not end there.  More Muslim terrorists are targeting the West and, what do we do?  Do we protect ourselves and stop Muslim immigration?  No, what a thought!  We invite even more of them to live among us!  We allow them to infiltrate all our armed forces, government, educational, medical, media institutions and more... We accommodate their  \"quaint \" customs and laws in the name of  \"social cohesion \".\n\nAnd in the US they have the warm collaboration of the president because, contrary to all logic and sense of self-preservation, the electorate chose a Muslim (or closet Muslim) for President just a few years after 9-11 and so many other Muslim attacks against American targets.\n\nThe issue of Muslim infiltration - even inside top government offices - has just started to come out in the media now.  The next US president will have his or her hands full trying to undo this damage.  If allowed to do so.\n");
AddReply(513393,"Michelle","Meira Bat Yehuda","Jerusalem","11/06/09","What you say about Rabbi Rambo is much needed and appreciated.\nI need to take exception however, to your use of the word  \"rampage. \"\nIt makes this sound like a spur of the moment act by someone who just snapped. \nThat\'s not what happened regardless of how the media spin it. \nThis was well planned, probably for years. Understand there will be more of these attacks unless we understand that patience is at the heart of jihad. While them may seem like rampaging mobs, that is far from the truth. It\'s all part of taqiyya.  The leaders are planning and organizing for years ahead. if appropriate  at the right moment, they roil the mobs and make it seem spontaneous. Other tactics involve, as we now know, sleeper cells.  All the training in the world won\'t save you if you don\'t understand the motivational forces behind your enemy\'s actions.  The shock here isn\'t taht he blwe away 12 people. The shock is that he infiltrated the Army Americans counted on to protect them and others against his ilk. What a psychological victory. What propaganda for their side, seeing pictures of soldiers weeping over what they were trained but ultimately powerless to prevent. This is how the enemy operates and does so very successfully. \n\nNow everyone is getting hysterical about protecting  \"our fighting men and women. \" Ok, but that\'s not where the next attack will be.  It will be G-d forbid, a theater, a school, a mall an airport. Anyplace hordes of people feel safe. That\'s the crafty mind of the Moslem.  Did you know the word  \"craft \" has its origins in witchcraft?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n");
AddReply(513388,"Velvel","Meira Bat Yehuda","Jerusalem","11/06/09","Well, I AM a woman of Italian/North African(probable)heritage so emotion is permitted to a degree. I\'ve been thru a few unpleasantnesses in my life so some slack is appreciated. 8-)  I know you weren\'t slamming Rav Ovadia.\nWe have spoken with Rav Bar Hayim. His yeshiva is a bit inaccessible for us. All I can say is that DACON\'s rant is what he faces constantly and that sometimes discretion is the better part of valor. \nAs for DACON, he IS from Brooklyn after all. Not exactly the most laid back of the boroughs in a far from laid back city.  But I agree, when he has something worth while to say, it gets lost in the delivery. ");
AddReply(513361,"Another Muslim on a rampage - Listen to Rabbi Rambo on Tovia\'s show","Michelle","Vancouver","11/06/09","In the wake of the Fort Hood massacre perpetrated by one (or more?) Muslim, Diaspora Jews MUST prepare themselves for any eventuality.\n\nThis latest tragedy happened only days after someone tried to kill two Jews in an American synagogue.\n\nTovia Singer had an unusual guest on his October 30th show:  \"Peace Partner\'s Orchestrated Temple Mount Violence \"\n\nhttp://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/1546\n\nAfter an interesting political analysis by Aaaron Klein, Tovia interviewed Rabbi Gary Moskowitz, Black Belt, policeman, and strong promoter of Jewish self-defense skills, particularly how to shoot and disarm a terrorist. \n\nHere are some links for  \"Rabbi Rambo  \", as one publication calls him.\n\nVideo - demonstration on how to shoot and disarm terrorist inside a synagogue:\n\nhttp://www.tabletmag.com/news-and-politics/15161/rabbi-rambo/\n\nAn article about Rabbi Moskowitz:\n\nhttp://masterstuartrosenberg.com/tag/gary-moskowitz/\n\nHow to reach Rabbi Moskowitz:\n\nhttp://mailman.io.com/pipermail/freemanlist2/2009-September/004568.html \n\n");
AddReply(513248,"To #37","Charley Horse","","11/06/09","(Smile - blush - wink)\n\nI\'d ask you out for a date....but I don\'t think you would appreciate the cost of my plane ticket, or expense money to feed me (wink, wink, wink)\n\nand when I returned....WHAT WOULD  I SAY TO MY WIFE?!!!!\n\nP.S. greatly enjoyed your comments");
AddReply(513241,"Dee, us","Meira Bat Yehuda","Jerusalem","11/06/09","We used to get raw milk in FL in the health food stores. It\'s legal to sell it if it\'s labeled  \" for pet use only, not for human consumption. \"  ROFL  A lot of states do still allow production for personal use so sometimes you can get a local farmer to sell you their  \"overage \" but only to give your cats and dogs, you understand. ");
AddReply(513227,"# 39","yvonne","cary","11/06/09","Try making yoghurt, that will put the enzymes right back in. For stomach problems I also recommend making tea with ginger. There is a reason why milk is pasteurized. Google Pasteur, and find out. There are very good yoghurt cultures available, in powder from, such as greek, and bulgarian. But you can also make your own using a few tablespoons of yoghurt (active culture, see the container). The yoghurt can be drained and made into liptauer.");
AddReply(513202,"Meira, you are reactionary with emotion, rather than consideration","Velvel","silver spring","11/05/09"," \"Velvel, I have seen more commentary on Rav Ovadia\'s genius, even from those who disagree with him than I\'ve seen outright detractive statements. Many of these comments show genuine concern if perhaps his age is catching up with him. \"\n\nLike I said, no one suspects anything of Rav Ovadia other than that he is a genius.   Like I said, Ashkenazim have great respect for him (or at least they should).  I am making a distinction here between listening to someone\'s point of view for intellectual/theoretical sake, to analyze his words and see truth and wisdom in it, as oppose to listening to his point of view for a PRACTICAL HALACHIC PSAK, which typically, ashkenazi haredim do NOT do.   They may do the former, as they should, but the latter - halachic psak, they do not feel obligated to his words.   That is just plain fact.   No amount of desire or wishful thinking will change that.   That does not say anything negative on Rav Ovadia.  In fact, it reflects negatively on ashkenazim that they ignore his psak on principle based on the fact that  \"he\'s sephardi, we\'re ashkenazi \"   \"he quotes sephardi sources (mostly) and we quote ashkenazi sources (mostly) \" - as if it doesn\'t apply to them even if it is true.  Nothing more than silliness.  \n\nSo to clarify, I was not in anyway speaking against Rav Ovadia (chas veshalom).\n\nAs for the rest of what you wrote there, I do find your post interesting.  Thank you for sharing that.   \n\nAnd yes, with regards to Rav David Bar Hayim, I agree he is on the right track with his Torah, but even if someone disagrees with his conclusions (or some of them), it is no excuse to start bashing him as a person or to slander and call names.   That is what Dacon has done, which I take serious issue with.   The fact that he keeps bringing up the same rabbi to bash more and more only compounds his initial averah.  But to me it seems symptomatic of Dacon\'s general approach which is that his own \'brilliant rabbis\' are perfect in  \"perfect \" brooklyn (lol), and everyone else is an imitator jew.   This is very childish.");
AddReply(513185,"GREAT SUBJECT...Pasturized cheese & milk kills all digestive enzymes!!","Dee","us","11/05/09","This subject is SO vital...for health, and the information here a treasure !!\nA friend\'s family in Canada, three generations of dairy farmers, and it is a 200,000. fine if they are caught drinking or selling their own milk if it\nis not pasturized. I have not gone thru all the material, yet, but it would be nice to have sources where we can get raw milk. Thank you. ALL BE WELL !! Our COWS, and animal too. ");
AddReply(513181,"SK and Velvel","Meira Bat Yehuda","Jerusalem","11/05/09","First of all SK, He is a major rav and referring to him as  \"Shades \" when he wears them for an eye conditions is disrespectful. \nHe has not wholesale advocated giving the country to Amalekites. His opinion was that if it could bring true peace with some of the Arabs who are Ishmael and NOT Amalek, it would be permitted. \nVelvel, I have seen more commentary on Rav Ovadia\'s genius, even from those who disagree with him than I\'ve seen outright detractive statements. Many of these comments show genuine concern if perhaps his age is catching up with him.\n\nI understand about the Syrian Community edict. I know a woman who was put into an Ashkenazi foster family as a kid and raised Ashk.  When she reunited with her Syrian family they tried to get her to divorce her Ashk. husband and marry a cousin.  She did not. I totally disagree with these rabbis and if I were Syrian it would be a very big problem for me. I do understand their thinking. They have a very high percentages of Cohanim, something like 25% verifiable, so they want to make sure there are enough kosher girls for brides. They are stringent on the Torah requirements for this.  I would have to research to see what the Israeli chief rabbis, said about this issue.  \nAs for Rabbi Bar Chaim, he is brilliant and on the right track but until he breaks free of the Yeshiva world, he won\'t be able to do everything he would like in establishing a Minhag Israeli. Figure out the rest. \n\nNO there isn\'t a halacha about changing minhag, I don\'t believe, but some rabbis advise going thru a formal declaration because of the forceful way Sephardim were told they HAD to be Ashk to be real Jews.  They want to demonstrate that there is no coercion involved.  My husband was born Ashk. His family are Reformim from Germany. They weren\'t very observant os he felt he never had a minhag. When we chose to be Orthodox he found a Sephardi  \"shul. \" The advice my husband got from several sources was to make it  \"official \" so there\'d be no question as to his sincerity and intention. \n\nSephardim DO indeed listen to general teaching from Ashk Ravs. We tend to focus more on the Rishonim and earlier Achronim but if Rav Eliashev has a general opinion we will listen. We are not Yeshivish however, so this is why Ashkenazim tend not to listen to our Ravs. For specific questions, we of course go to our own Ravs for an opinion. If you listen to Rabbi Bar Tzadok who is Sephardi and follows Sephardi custom in his private life you will hear him quote the Baal Shem Tov, The Vilna Gaon and others.  This teaching has helped me sort out when to listen to what. A lot of my earlier talkbacks on being Sephardia had to do with not really knowing the questions to ask. I was trying to find my roots but I didn\'t even know where to look.    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n");
AddReply(513170,"today I am just laughing..","yvonne","cary","11/05/09","and not contributing anything new. This blog is going off into orbit without my help. Charley Horse, keep writin\' and writin\'. After reading the titile of the blog and scrolling down the pictures of cows and chickens I kept wondering where all that was leading. But you have made it all clear to us. The chickens and the book, even the lactating soybeans... it is all for profit!");
AddReply(513157,"Tamar, I was jest wundarin...","Charley Horse","","11/05/09"," \"These chickens are injected with antibiotics to keep them from getting sick from the dismal conditions.  Then, after laying enough eggs, these chickens are slaughtered for your table. \"\n\n....does the above quote mean they\'re \'milking\' those chikens for all they\'re worth?");
AddReply(513152,"I don\'t know , Tamar, but it\'s...","Charley Horse","Mount Concave-ia","11/05/09","funny how everthin\'s going topsey-turvey (e.g.) our cows are cooped up like chickens, our chickens are fed bull...ony; our kids are school fed drugs, Democratic govts give freedoms (not to mention funds, guns and munitions) to their enemies while restricting their constituents ...  and if that\'s not enough, orbiting human debri now poses a greater safety problem for launched rockets....than take-off from earth!\n\nQuestion: are lactating soy beans REALLY that un-healthy?\n\n");
AddReply(513103,"Really Meira, what do you base yourself on.","Velvel","silver spring","11/05/09","This sounds like spewed ignorance and nothing else.   I did not say Ashkenazim do not RESPECT Rav Ovadia Yosef Shlita.   Of course they do.  And they can be interested in what he says in a theoretical or intellectual sense, but NOT generally in a practical sense.  What I said was that they do not generally listen to his psak - as a practical guideline of what to do.   And no, they do not.    The Ashkenazi haredim have their own poskim that they listen to.  Whether you like it or not, that is a fact of life.   And the same way, Sephardic Shas haredim do not go to Rav Elyashiv or any other Ashkenazic gadol for psak when Rav Ovadia has paskened for them in their minds.   What you are saying is merely wishful thinking.\n\nAs to your statement about  \"adopting minhagim \" wholecloth (ie, switching from a sephardi to an ashkenazi), there are no halachic imperatives or principles in what you say.\n\nAseh licha Rav.\n\nA Jew makes for himself a rav, and if that rav considers himself open to the sources without regard to ethnic bias or background as a \'shiebud\' (lien) on his learning said sources, that Rav paskens according to Torah and sechel as a rav should.   And the Jew follows his rav\'s psak, even if not on every issue the rav goes strictly Sephard or strictly Ashkenazi.    And in truth, neither do Ashkenazim.   They occasionally cite the Rambam or try to justify a practice based on him, or when they like what he says, they promote his hashkafa in a given area.   It is not as clear cut as you make it out to be, nor is there a halachic imperative that it must be.  Minhag goes by the makom.    That is what is in gemara.   Not  \"I have white skin, you have arab skin \" shtuyot.  Not in gemara.    The deep irony here is that the sources you and Dacon claim allegiance to do not back up your assertions.    But Dacon has pulled the smoke and mirrors here.   This is not about Rav Bar Hayim Shlita or anyone else.  Dacon has attacked and slandered that talmid chacham on this site too many times already.    This is about Dacon\'s adherence to a ruling that contravenes all of Torah and all of gemara.");
AddReply(513054," \"Rav Ovadia because he is considered the greatest living Posken. \"","sk","USA","11/05/09","Meira, are you sure of this?  If so, what does this say about those who rank  \"Shades \" Yosef so highly?\n\nI mean, he advocates giving the Land to Bnei Amalek, fergodsake.");
AddReply(512913,"Rav Ovadia, velvel","Meira Bat Yehuda","Jerusalem","11/05/09","Velvel,  Ashkenazim, with the exception maybe of some of the more out there charedim, DO listen to Rav Ovadia because he is considered the greatest living Posken. His scholarship transcends the Ashk/Seph divide. Furthermore, an Ashk. can CHOOSE to change his entire minhag but he cannot pick and choose and do some things Ashk and some things Seph.  He also cna\'t switch back and forth. It\'s a one time deal. Strictly speaking, nothing is required but for clarity some rabbis do require the changer to make it formal in front of a minyan. Of course it works the other way round. A Seph. may become Ashk. although why I\'d give up rice and cornbread during Pesach while wearing an itchy wig, I can\'t imagine. LOL\nTHAT WAS A JOKE PEOPLE!");
AddReply(512896,"Dacon9 #20 Exhibition 2:  See how Dacon distorts halacha w/ hypocrisy","Velvel","silver spring","11/05/09","Here we have Dacon slandering a talmid chacham over kitniyot issue, yet this talmud chacham is basing himself in sources of the Torah, chazal, the gemara, and all the gaonim, rishonim, and aharonim and their understanding of said sources.   Meanwhile, Dacon cites a story from King David as if that is enough for halachic methodology.   Does Dacon not realize that we do not pasken halacha from neviim?   Surely he must know this.  So this is called a distortion.  Dishonesty.\n\nThen he cites another non-halachic reasoning.    Dacon believes that since missionaries exist, the commandment to love the convert is therefore annulled.    Is this Talmudic logic?  Far from it.   This is based on nothing.   And anecdotal to boot.    Yes, Yad L\'Achim does fine work trying to combat missionaries.   And these type of people have always existed.   Missionaries, early xtians, roman coercion, muslim fanaticism... They have always tried to steal the Jewish soul.   That never caused God to rewrite the Torah or annul the gemaras about relating to the convert.\n\nLastly, Dacon cites the  \"chief rabbinate \" of Israel agreeing to this so-called decree, as if that is a proof of principle that the  \"decree \" is valid.   Meanwhile, does Dacon hold by the Israeli rabbinate\'s kashrut?   Does Dacon really believe the Israeli chief rabbinate is a kosher outlet of Jewish rabbinics?   He will use that same excuse to explain why a Jew should not serve in the army or interact with the state of Israel, stay in Brooklyn instead, he will call this body  \"corrupt \" and \'not really daas Torah,\' and  \"not frum enough \" compared to his  \"brilliant \" rabbis who in his mind are unmatched.    But when it suits his purposes, he cites their agreement to his  \"decree \" against converts.\n\n\n \"where even the sephardic chief rabbi stated that ashkanaz cannot break tradition to change to sephardic ways by eating kiniyot. \"\n\nIf he is the  \"Sephardic chief Rabbi \" then by that logic (your logic in subscribing to such terminology) he has nothing to say to Ashkenazim.   And in practical reality, that is true, ashkenazim (who also subscribe to such logic) do not look to Rav Ovadia Shlita for a psak.   No matter how brilliant he is.\n");
AddReply(512755,"THE FOLLOWING FROM THE USA JEWISH MILITARY","","....DACON9","11/05/09","I hope you dacon9 and your blog will serve as an information center to encourage the American Jewish community to reach out to Jews stationed on bases with no Jewish chaplains. (There?s a severe shortage of Jewish chaplains in all branches of the U.S. military.)\n:I am a Proud USN Chief Petty Officer who just happens to be a VERY PROUD Jewish Sailor and Chief. I have served our Great Country for 20 years and 6 months\n\n:In the 20 yrs and 6 months of being in serves to our Country I have traveled to 74 different countries, deployed on ship for 6 months four times, have been deployed as a dirty sailor on 5 Seabee World Field Exercises, and have been in every conflict since the first gulf war.\n\n:Its lonely if you are a sad sack and cry why me. You are suppose to be smarter the the average joe so open your mind. If there are not services Then you make it your respeonsiblity to make for yourself, find the resorces that are in the area, become a Jewish Lay Leader and teach those around you the beauty of a Jewish life, The real meaning of being Jewish so that what the non-Jew, and Gentile have heard can be dispelled\n\n:Military protocols can be harsh and hit reality hard to some not prepared for it:\n\nthis is something I would like to resource out\n____________\nAnd all of my Ship mates and Captains .WE SALUTE YOU. for your support in helping us keep this Country and nation and other Nations throught the globe and it\'s peaceful citizens safe\n\n a battle ship based out of Long Beach.\nThe USS New Jersey BB-62\n\nOn behalf of the United States Navy\nI will start on material and send those in for clearance\nthen to your blog Which would greatly help civilians understand how we support them, and this great Country and Globally\n I would like to expand on some of these issues\nIt includes all braches of service\n We are a unique community in the military \n Jewish civilians don\'t realise what Jews who are listed on branches of military have to endure\nit is an important issue and am so glad to see your blog\'s receptiveness to report this.\nThis is tremendous support\n I cannot thank you enough for the jot on your blog  JewsWithViews.\n\nIF ANY READER WOULD LIKE TO SEND A MESSAGE OF SUPPORT AND APPRECIATION TO THE USA JEWISH MILITARY ,\nPLEASE SEND TO MY EMAIL:jewswithviews@gmail\nor the BLOG www.jewswithviews.com\n\nI DIDNT GET A CHANCE TO TELL YOU ABOUT THE GREAT HOSPITALITY OF THE CHABAD SHUL IN MIAMI AND THE SEPHARDIC ROOM WITHIN THE COMPLEX.\nBUT THE MILITARY RESPECT GOES TO THE FRONT OF THE LINE\n\nREMEMBER THE IDF \nJONATHAN HALEVY LT GIVANTI BRIGADE WHO IS SPEAKING THROUGHOUT  AMERICA WITH THANKS FOR USA SUPPORT.");
AddReply(512741,"YVONNE I WRITE ABOUT ADHD TO JUDAISM. YOU DUMMY","","....DACON9","11/05/09","");
AddReply(512708,"Tamar\'s reply to #24","Meira Bat Yehuda","Jerusalem","11/05/09","Aha! So the truth will out as it always does.  This isn\'t about \'CURING \" ADHD in 18 days, \n\n \"It may be true that there are some who cannot get off Ritalin in 18 days, but if his book title says it can be done, he has something to base that on, in that many can, because some kids get hyper and use ritalin because of their sugar/ white flour/hydrogenated fats & additives diet today. \"\n\nGetting off Ritalin is entirely different from  \"being cured. \" \n\n NEWS FLASH!!!!!! You can get off Ritalin in ONE day.  The drug companies recommend a step down, why? So they can milk the pt. for as long as possible. My husband did it. Cold Turkey.  Ritalin is verrrrrrrrrrrrrry expensive and most insurance will only cover it for a limited period because it is so addictive. But as with most drugs, eh pharma companies have every one cowed. \n\nGetting off the Ritalin is only the first step to being  \"cured \" and probably that never happens. It\'s just a matter of better management.  It might also be something else like Asperger\'s.  Whatever it is, it needs lifelong support and understanding because when it affects the adult child in his workplace, what do you do? Tell him he\'s a waste and failure and let him go to the streets, destroy his marriage and if he has kids, rip him away from them?\n\nThere are no magic bullets. We need to figure out why there is so much more of this than there was 100 years ago and STOP IT before it begins.  it\'s present at birth and only gets worse thru misunderstanding of the child\'s needs, by asking him to  \"be like all the others \" when he\'s not.  BTW, Einstein probably had Asperger\'s.");
AddReply(512705,"Yvonne and Dawn","Meira Bat Yehuda","Jerusalem","11/05/09","I wouldn\'t call Dawn a typical Israeli. She lives in her Anglo ghetto and thinks like an American. Heaven forbid, you should disagree with her guru/idol, Tamar. You broke the first commandment of Americanism:  \"thou shalt make celebrity idols out of anyone in the public eye. \"  You must be stupid and uninformed because you didn\'t study a specialty called Medicine. Hah! If these laymen knew how little Doctors are taught about nutrition and the healthful maintenance of this organism, they\'d turn in their kupat cholim cards faster than you can say Dr. Oz.  Allopathic medicine is based on CURING diseases not PREVENTION. Many of these conditions are caused by factors that are new in the environment. I\'ve been wondering in recent days if perhaps routine sonograms of a fetus in utero aren\'t to blame for the big upswing in the neurologic deficits we\'re seeing, i.e ADHD, Aspergers, other learning disabilities. Perhaps vaccines are to blame also. Asperger\'s was only tentatively identified in the 1940\'s and only just accepted as a diagnosis in 1994.  Way too late for people my age to benefit from and possibly the cause of why so many of us have been  \"underachievers \" despite high i.q.\'s.\nYvonne, we are a dying breed. GenX sees themselves as all knowing and if we older folks knew anything at one time, we\'ve forgotten it all, don\'t you know that? [sarcasm]  The difference between them and us is we would never  have spoken to our elders the way they do us.  There is no respect. Despite all the so-called knowledge in the world, it has become increasingly crass and degenerate.\nThat\'s why I said Dawn isn\'t an Israeli, not in her soul anyway. Very few Israelis would speak in that manner to a woman of your years and experience.  \n\nDawn, what qualifies you to judge Yvonne\'s competence? Are you 75 years old with a PhD in anything? Do you have a medical degree of one in Dietetics and Nutrition? Are you a nurse practitioner and if you are any of the above are you really capable of being objective about alternate therapies?  Who made you the censor? Why do you even think it\'s ok to be one? \n\nYou are rude and inappropriate and you disgrace the Jewish people in front of the Gentiles by treating an older sister that way.  I am really sick of how the people on these blogs think it\'s ok to just run roughshod over other people\'s characters and reputations not to mention feelings. \nIn case you missed it THIS IS AN OPEN FORUM WHERE IDEAS ARE TO BE DISCUSSED FREELY!!!!!! \n\nAll you spoiled brats need to get lives and start feeling better about yourselves. If you have low self-esteem, you probably deserve it. It means you have some conscience because you know your behavior is unacceptable. Start being nice to others and you\'ll feel a lot better about yourselves.  Disagree but in an adult manner and with respect for those who have gone before and maybe just learned something along the way. \n\nAnd before you say respect is  \"earned? \"  I\'ll agree. I\'ve earned it by surviving this long and acquiring an education in LIFE not just in books. ");
AddReply(512618,"# 23, Judith...","yvonne","cary","11/04/09","Did you snap, really? Oh, Judith, I am so sorry. Now, about me, I saw this title: *Stop ADHD in 18 days* and I was so intrigued. I have family members with the problem, and we have been searching for a solution to the complex problem of ADHD and associated syndromes for decades, and there it was: It can be stopped in 18 days, flat!! I can not begin to tell you how exhausting and all encompassing it is to live with persons who have ADHD, not to speak about the exhaustion of people who actually have it!  Dyslexia, sleep disorders, behavior disorders, drug addiction, and all that may be associated with ADHD. Not a frivolous subject, therefore. It is lucky that you do not have to deal with it, obviously. You snap when you see a person\'s NAME! Your problem is easy to avoid. Do not click on comment with names of people you can not stand. But, if you do, say something coherent, how is that for an idea?\n\nTamar responds:\nShalom Yvonne, \nIt may be true that there are some who cannot get off ritalin in 18 days, but if his book title says it can be done, he has something to base that on, in that many can, because some kids get hyper and use ritalin because of their sugar/ white flour/hydrogenated fats & additives  diet today.  There is a link to read the book for free online, in the blog as well as here:    \n\nhttp://books.google.com/books?id=IeI7YnnM2JAC&pg=PA17&lpg=PA17&dq=ritalin 18 days&source=bl&ots=ntvZsJCXI_&sig=N-lMIrPZA00n8ZCd20ovhJiVIsw&hl=en&ei=Eh3vSoneFoKUjAfTuL2qDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=ritalin%2018%20days&f=false  \n\n Why not read the book before you comment that it is just not true?\nThanks and all the best,\ntamar");
AddReply(512606,"Dacon 9","yvonne","Cary","11/04/09","I have no beef with your comments. However, the title of Tamar\'s blog here is *How to cure ADHD in 18 days*. ADHD can not be cured in 18 days, unfortunately. All the recommended methods, here, and numerous more, have been tried already. Autism can also not be cured in 18 days. Neither can blindness. At least, so far, no cures have been found by human beings which work. You write about something altogether different, and you are so very correct in what you state. It is, however, not related to this thread.");
AddReply(512548,"dawn","yvonne","cary","11/04/09","Yet another Israeli with a short fuse! I agree with Tamar that food has become an urgent issue. I have an ex husband, children and grandchildren with ADHD, and have also taught (high school) and dealt with children with learning disabilities in the classroom. In addition I have led a few youth groups. At age 75 I have accumulated some experience and expertise. Unhealthy foods affect everyone. But ADHD and other behavioral and learning disabilities, such as Autism, are not cured with food, nor is the cause of those problems one definable one, or has it been pinpointed. The symptoms and severity of the problems are not identical in each patient either. I mentioned where research was done. I could have mentioned parentgroups and other support groups. I will leave it up to interested persons to find all that out for themselves. As a mother I found out early how I could help my oldest child and I found an eye specialist who dealt with dyslexia. We worked together on that one issue. Persons with disabilities are individuals, and there is not one simple single issue, and one simple single cure. In fact, a cure may be elusive or nonexistent. Methods to overcome the disbility, to some extent, may be available. With ADHD there are parent organizations which pass on information and work together, and there has been extensive University Research. People learn differently, and every teacher whith a degree in teaching knows that. It is part of the curriculum. Children with learning disabilities need educational support of specialists.");
AddReply(512472,"thank you dawn!","judith","usa","11/04/09","soooo true!  snap!");
AddReply(512351,"Dacon9","sk","USA","11/04/09"," \"obviously SK,\nI articulated my point enough to get a response from you, no matter how ignorant your response may be. \"\n\nOne need not articulate a point well to get a response.  A mosquito also gets a response from me, and it articulates no point at all.\n");
AddReply(512304,"TO THE NON JEWS","","....DACON9","11/04/09","THE \'ONE GD OF ISRAEL\'\nDOES not ask that  you convert to judaism to be loved by  \"HIM \"\n\nAll  \"HE \" asks is 7 things from you.\nthe main is  \"DO NOT HAVE ANY OTHER GODS BEFORE \'\'HIM\'\'\n\nThrough out jewish scripture we say and pray to \'ONE GD\'\nAND NO OTHERS\'\nno sons no others !\n\nIf you follow those 7 laws you will be called a RIGHTOUS GOY\nRIGHTOUS FROM OTHER NATIONS\nthen you will have a share of the next world THE GD OF ISRAEL OFFERS.\n\nRECOMMENED READING:\n1) path of the rightous gentile\n2) 7 colors of the rainbow\n\nonce you the non jew converts then breaks the laws that are not easy to follow...you will suffer the consequences a a JEW.\n\nAs a rightous gentile you can shop on saturday where a Jew cannot\nYou can eat some foods that a Jew cannot.\nYou cannot go backwards.\n\nI recommend a first easy step....read those 2 books approx $19.00 each\nlearn what  the 7 laws are about and by the way...\nthey are basic laws for all humanity..Jews and non Jews.\nOnce you get used to that status, after a while you can go further in your studies of \nWHAT GD WANTS FROM US.\n\nI HAVE SPOKEN TO MANY NON jEWS ABOUT THIS\nand many feel a certain release, a certain freedom of finally feeling as a rightous gentile, a freedom of finally resting in GDs HANDS,FINALLY UNDERSTANDING the real  frontier of the heavens and earth.\n\nGood Luck in Your quest\nDACON9\nEMAIL: jewswithviews@gmail.com \n\n");
AddReply(512264,"YOU IGNORAMUSES","",".....DACON9","11/04/09","INSTEAD OF INTERNALIZING THE POINTS\nYOU  CRITIZE MY EARLY MORNING HALF SLEEPING GRAMMAR.\nISRAEL AND JUDAISM AS A WHOLE IS IN A CRISIS PERIOD BECAUSE OF YOUR BASIC STUPIDY.\narticle from Arutz Sheva this day:\nhttp://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/134224\n\n“Thanks to public apathy,” says Yad L’Achim Chairman Rabbi Shalom Dov Lifshitz, “the missionaries continue to act as they please, including breaking the law with abandon.”\n\neven King Solomon realized his error in trying to unite the nations through marrige. My point of Rabbi Lipshitz uncovering the xtians pretending to convert but still doing their missionary activities now in the orthodox shuls meant nothing to you sk and velevel and others.\n\nYOU PEOPLE MAY BE THE DESTROYERS OF JUDAISM,\n UNTIL MASHIACH INTERVENES.\n\nI dont know but common sense dictates that YOU ARE BRAINLESS IDIOTS FOR NOT EVEN LOOKING AT YOUR ASSIMILATION RATES AND INTERMARRIGE RATES\nAND APATHY PATHETIC LIBERAL LEFT PEACENOW WACKOS...\n\nWHAT A PITY \n\nHOW\'S MY SPELLING NOW YOU DUMMIES.\n\nAND HOWS YOUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS JUDAISM OBERVANCE?\n\nYOU SHOULD WORRY ABOUT MY LAST QUESTION AND NOT MY GRAMMER\nobviously SK,\n I articulated my point enough to get a response from you, no matter how ignorant your response may be.\n\nvelvel...you dismissed everything 200 rabbis said who are certainly more knowledgeable then you including the rabbis in Israel.You never asked me for their sources, which I had sent to Tamar Yonah. \n\nas far as the bitter and wacko fringes,you have your \'kitniyot\' rabbi that breaks tradition allowing you to eat kitniyot during pesach, where even the sephardic chief rabbi stated that ashkanaz cannot break tradition to change to sephardic ways by eating kiniyot.\n\nDo you raise donkeys as a profession? some people pick up the ways of what they associate with.\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n");
AddReply(512203,"#17 Tamar - Film about food industry - And the case of the oceans","Michelle","Vancouver","11/04/09","I just started watching this film and I\'m rushing to tell you that I really appreciate it that you\'re sharing it with us.  \n\nI\'m a vegetarian and I think it\'s not only good for the body but for the soul as well.  I can look at animals in the eye now.\n\nThe New Republic recently published an article about how we\'re destroying ocean life.  It\'s worth reading.\n\nAquacalypse Now - The End of Fish\nBy Daniel Pauly\n\nExcerpts:\n\nOur oceans have been the victims of a giant Ponzi scheme, waged with Bernie Madoff–like callousness by the world’s fisheries. \n\nBeginning in the 1950s, as their operations became increasingly industrialized--with onboard refrigeration, acoustic fish-finders, and, later, GPS--they first depleted stocks of cod, hake, flounder, sole, and halibut in the Northern Hemisphere. \n\nAs those stocks disappeared, the fleets moved southward, to the coasts of developing nations and, ultimately, all the way to the shores of Antarctica, searching for icefishes and rockcods, and, more recently, for small, shrimplike krill. \n\nAs the bounty of coastal waters dropped, fisheries moved further offshore, to deeper waters. \n\nThe scheme was carried out by nothing less than a fishing-industrial complex--an alliance of corporate fishing fleets, lobbyists, parliamentary representatives, and fisheries economists. \n\nBy hiding behind the romantic image of the small-scale, independent fisherman, they secured political influence and government subsidies far in excess of what would be expected, given their minuscule contribution to the GDP of advanced economies--in the United States, even less than that of the hair salon industry.\n\nOne study, published in the prestigious journal Science, forecast that, by 2048, all commercial fish stocks will have “collapsed,” meaning that they will be generating 10 percent or less of their peak catches. \n\nUnfortunately, it is not just the future of the fishing industry that is at stake, but also the continued health of the world’s largest ecosystem.\n\nThe removal of top predators from marine ecosystems has effects that cascade down, leading to the increase of jellyfish and other gelatinous zooplankton and to the gradual erosion of the food web within which fish populations are embedded. \n\nThis is what happened off the coast of southwestern Africa, where an upwelling ecosystem similar to that off California, previously dominated by fish such as hake and sardines, has become overrun by millions of tons of jellyfish.\n\nJellyfish population outbursts are also becoming more frequent in the northern Gulf of Mexico, where the fertilizer-laden runoff from the Mississippi River fuels uncontrolled algae blooms. \n\nThe dead algae then fall to a sea bottom from which shrimp trawling has raked all animals capable of feeding on them, and so they rot, causing Massachusetts-sized “dead zones.” \n\nSimilar phenomena--which only jellyfish seem to enjoy--are occurring throughout the world, from the Baltic Sea to the Chesapeake Bay, and from the Black Sea in southeastern Europe to the Bohai Sea in northeastern China. \n\nOur oceans, having nourished us since the beginning of the human species some 150,000 years ago, are now turning against us, becoming angry opponents.\n\n(And then the author goes on to suggest possible solutions...)\n\nhttp://www.tnr.com/article/environment-energy/aquacalypse-now\n\n ");
AddReply(512181,"to #2 yvonne) - take a breath","dawn ","bet shemesh","11/04/09","since when did you become an expert on anything?  \n\n\"As for ADD, or ADHD being cured in 18 days, Dr. Bob needs to talk to me \"... \n\"Dr. Bob is behind the curve here. \"... \n\"Dr. Bob is too simplistic \"... \n\"So, Tamar...do your research first. \" \n\nyvonne, you really need to relax, take a deep breath, and reconsider what you write before you accuse people of not being qualified, etc. you have lost your credibility a long time ago. do us ALL a favor, and take a break from these Talkbacks.");
AddReply(512171,"A MUST see video - for FREE","Tamar Yonah","Israel","11/04/09","Someone sent me via email a suggestion to watch a very informative movie.  I did.  It was very well done and you should watch it as well.  \n\nWhen you have a chance to sit with a nice cup of something warm, and preferably with your spouse as well (which I was lucky enough to do), watch this movie:  FOOD INC. \n\nLink:  http://vidreel.com/video/NTc2OTQ4/   \n\nor\n\nhttp://www.watch-movies-online.tv/movies/food_inc/\n\nThe movie loads pretty fast and is excellent quality and sharp color.\n\nLet me know what you think, because to me, not only are the animals slaves, but the people who work there are (almost) as well.  And G-d bless that woman chicken farmer who had more guts and bravery than all the men put together.");
AddReply(512160,"Dacon9 (10): ?what  \"brilliance \"?","sk","USA","11/04/09"," \"I really didnt want to spend my brilliance here anymore.\nBUT.... \"\n\n  -Dacon9\n\nDude, if you are so brilliant, why are you seemingly unable to articulate your points in standard English?");
AddReply(512098,"Exhibition 1: ?Observe how DACON spins but cannot talk his way out","Velvel","silver spring","11/04/09","Dacon, no amount of verbose rambling and mental acrobatics can explain away the simple fact of a deoraita violation of the Torah\'s explicit commands.  You can write a novel and it won\'t excuse these violations.\n\nYou mentioned about a  \"bitter rabbi \" who advises against Ashkenaz custom?  Who would that be?   Perhaps you are projecting.  You (if you are a rabbi, I don\'t know) are one who advises against not just ashkenaz, but sephard, romaniot, italian, and every custom known under the sun because you are arguing for a violation against the custom of the TORAH and all mishna and all gemara.   That no one disagreed with until what?  50 years ago?  Whether it was 20 or 200 or 2000 or 2 million, no one can annul the Torah.   Sorry, but the truth sometimes hurts.");
AddReply(511968,"be careful not to play doctor with your child","hanina","","11/03/09","there are countless people telling us to avoid doctors, omit all medications, avoid dairy products, stop vaccinating and buy their services.\nThe brain responds to trauma with hyperactivity and a number of different disorders.\nThe new trend is oxygen therapy.");
AddReply(511871,"Interesting speaker","louise","j-m","11/03/09","I gave up eating sugar almost 17 years ago and can tell you when I walk down the street no one points at me and says,  \"That woman hasn\'t eaten sugar in 17 years. \"....in other words i look like everyone else.\n\nI also eat only whole grains.  I love me and take care of me   No way do I eat like I did most of my life.  I like the saying that if anyone did to my body what I used to do, they would be in jail.\n\nI found that it is harder thinking about giving something up than finally doing it.  If one truly wants to be healthy  \"giving up \" these choopars (perks) is a small price to pay.\n\n");
AddReply(511849,"David","Meira Bat Yehuda","Jerusalem","11/03/09","Chickens are not pets. When they start not producing, you have to be willing to turn them into Shabbat dinner. Who\'s going to do that?  The eggs are yucky until you scrub them I mean YUCKY, but if you let them free range in the veggie garden they fertilize it and eat the bugs.  \nBTW eggs straight from the chicken have to be salted like meat. ");
AddReply(511844,"David","Meira Bat Yehuda","Jerusalem","11/03/09","Wouldn\'t the pygmys be smaller? LOL\nGoats are great and Tamar\'s hubby wouldn\'t have to mow the grass any more. But they\'d have to watch the other crops.  There\'s no stopping those little eating machines. \nSo, no more mowing plus you get milk and fertilizer. It\'s a win-win.\n\nTamar says:  What grass lawn?  We let ours die this year because of the water situation.  However, after this rain storm, already I see green popping back!");
AddReply(511839,"VELVEL ,I TRIED NOT TO COMMENT, BUT","","....DACON9","11/03/09","I really didnt want to spend my brilliance here anymore.\nBUT\nyou bring up a matter that is significant and timely.\n\nThere have been times in our long history that  conversions have been halted.\nstarting today going backwards\nread this arutz sheva and see some protesting easy \'LAWS OF RETURN\' without allegiance to ISRAEL.I believe in the vision of Moshe rabbeinu  and King Davd...\na land of TORAH..\nyou didnt think that HSHEM WOULD EXTEND his MERCY ON his people TO RAISE PIGS ON his land that it taught that is forbidden.\nYOu didnt think that MOSHE OR DAVEED would conquer lands for  us to dwell in GDs HOLY LAND FOR prostituion and corruption.\nSO let us go foward on the premise that ISRAEL SHOULD BE A LAND ACCORDING TO HALACHA AS MOSHE BROUGHT TO THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL.\nKing David stopped conversions for a while according to the local problem\nEzra the scribe stopped conversions according to the local problem\nand \nour illustrious sephardic rabbis fortold of ASSIMILATION,MATERIAL BLINDNESS, GLITTERING HOLLYWOOD MADANONS AND BRITTANYS AND MADE THE EDIC TO PRESERVE THE LAWS OF THE NATION AND CONTINUANCE OF OUR PEOPLE TO LIVE ACCORDING TO GD AS WE ARE CHOSEN TO TO BY \'GD\' HIMSELF.\n\nOVER 200 SYRIAN RABBIS SIGNED THIS EDIC THAT ISRAEL CHIEF RABBIS AGREED TO ABIDE BY.\n*YOU ONLY DENEGRATE US*\nWE, THE SEPHARDIC COMMUNITIES B\'H HAVE THE LEAST AMOUNT OF ASSIMILATION ,INTERMARRIGE,DRUGS AND OTHER FORMS OF FILTH BECAUSE WE LIVE NEAR A MIKVAH A SHUL A RABBI  A YESHIVA AND IF WE MOVE, WE IMMEDIATLY ESTABLISH ALL OF THE ABOVE.\n\nTHIS SYRIAN COMMMUNITY IS REVERED BY *ALL JEWISH COMMUNITIES ALL OVER  THE WORLD. except you and your ilk.\n\nWE DONT LABEL NOR ALLOW REFORMED CONSERVATIVE ENLIGHTENED PEOPLE TO LIVE WITHIN OUR INVISIBLE BUT STRONG BOUNDERIES.\n\nWE DONT ALLOW ONE PARTNER NOT JEWISH TO ENTER INTO OUR LIVES.\n\nWE HAVE SCRIPTURE THAT OUR RABBIS SHOWED TO THE OBJECTIONABLE PEOPLE.\n\nWE GROW WE LIVE ACCORDING TO TORAH\n\nyet so so many conversions are quickie conversions\nconverts for convenience\nconversions for marrige\nconversions expecting a jewish inhertance.\n\nSO MANY OF YOUR CONVERSIONS ARE STILL GOYEEM IN THEIR HEARTS AND EVENTUALLY REVERT BACK TO THEIR CHURCH.\n\nTHE LAWS OF A TRUE CONVERT ARE DIFFICULT\nthey MUST LIVE IN A jewish community.\nTHAT IS A SURPRISED BURDEN ON CONVERTS.\nThey cannot accompany their parents to church on sunday \nthen go back to a JEWISH COMMUNITY.\n\nRecently in Israel Rabbi Lipshitz discovered 60 lying filthy orthodox converts quietly attempting to convert JEWS to ccept their idols and mangods.\n\nYOUR ARGUMENT IS THAT YOU CONVERT OE NONJEW YOU HAVE CREATED A WORLD\nHERE ISA CASE WHERE YOU POTENTIALLY MAY HAVE DESTROYED A COMMUNITY OF JEWS...\n\nAs you have seen me state\nMAKE YOUR EFFORTS TAKING jews lost in your churches and buddist temples and bhais dirt.\nBRING BACK YOUR OWN BORN NATURAL LOST JEWS\n\nMashiach will do  the rest.\nimprove yourself.\n *YOU LEARN MORE TORAH,\nIF YOU DID LEARN TORAH,\nYOU WOULD NOT HAVE POSTED YOUR IGNORANT REMARKS.\n\nWHEN YOU DO WHAT YOUR POTENTIAL, YOUR FULL POTENTIAL IS.....\nTHEN BUDDY,,,THEN YOU CAN SPEAK OUT PREACHING  TO SOME OF  THE WISEST AND GREATEST RABBIS OF THIS GENERATION\n\nAS WELL ALL COMMUNITY LEADERS.\n\nGO TO YOUR SHUL AND LEARN FROM A PROPER ORTHODOX TORAH RABBI, not a wacko bitter off the wall so called rabbis that teaches to go against your own ashkanaz minhag\nwho also have the greatest rabbis on GENERATIONS.\nGO VELVEL\nLEARN AND TELL PEOPLE TO LEARN TRAH ACCORDING TO THEIR COSTUM\n\n\n\n\n");
AddReply(511825,"milk","david","beitar","11/03/09","If you are worried but still want dairy get a pygmy goat.  They are good pets for children if bread from the right lines.  I cant tell the difference cold but my wife can tell the difference.  You just need a small patch of ground, and a goat house to keep them happy, part of their diet can be leftovers too.");
AddReply(511754,"#5","Meira Bat Yehuda","Jerusalem","11/03/09","That\'s correct. Back in the 40\'s and early 50\'s Borden\'s ran the Walker Gorden Dairies in NJ. These were certified cows and the milk was raw.  When my Mom had  a patient that couldn\'t tolerate regular milk, she\'d tell them to use only WG. Unfortunately, the State caved to some lobby and required pasteurization. End of Walker Gordon. \nTamar and her Yehsa neighbors all need to buy a cow (Jersey is the best small breed for high production) and or a couple of goats for their own milk supply. They\'re wasting the land G-d gave them. I love flowers and some are edible but I prefer to eat. If I\'d been blessed with a  \"settlement \" home, I would most definitely be growing veggies and critters. I don\'t like the prospect of raising chickens but I realize their values and would do so.  And if any of those pretty little villages have stupid covenants banning such activity, they need to get rid of them. Organic prices are high here. Pretty much unattainable to the average person. ");
AddReply(511728,"junk food","david","beitar","11/03/09","Tamar\nToo true, angels bread and the junk candy they give out at cheder makes my oldest scab on the arms and all of the kids get hyper and chutzpah from it, not sure why the rebbes do that.  We grind whole wheat and bake our own baked goods now, and the kids are much better, we save money, and since the wheat is in big sacks we have food when the money runs out at the end of the month.  We want pet egg chickens for the kids, but need to move first so we can have a patch of karka (land) for them to peck on.\ndavid in beitar");
AddReply(511664,"It\'s Torah to take care of ones body","Pinchas","Milwaukee","11/03/09","I recommend books by Dr. Norman W. Walker, D. Sc. on health and nutrition.  He has been researching for almost 70 years.   \"Milk is intended by Nature to grow the bone structure of the particular animal from which it comes.  Thus the chemical constituents of mother\'s milk are intended to nourish the child for a certain length of time so that its bone structure will develop for whose weight will be 125 to 175 lbs.  Cow\'s milk contains 300% casein than does mother\'s milk which is intended to grow the calf to three quarters of a ton.  Casein in cow\'s milk is not digested and assimilated constructively in the human body.  It clogs up our system with mucus. \"  The best thing is to go RAW food only.  You get all you need from RAW food.  Do it for your nefesh (soul).  Go get and read Dr. Walker\'s books.  You will learn a lot about your body.  Check out the benefits from apple cider vinegar too!");
AddReply(511657,"The Untold Story of Milk","Eliezer","","11/03/09","Read, The Untold Story of Milk by Ron Schmidt...\nhttp://www.newtrendspublishing.com/USOMilk/index.html\n\nPasteurized & homogenized dairy products are poison to human health. At one time Mayo Clinic prescribed a  \"Raw Milk Therapy, \" but this was discontinued after 1935 when pasteurization, which destroys all lactase enzymes, was introduced. Ron Schmidt presents a very comprehensive history of the corruption of milk & explains why raw certified milk, is the only truly healthy alternative.");
AddReply(511648,"healthy food","neshama","ny","11/03/09","Think \'natural\'. I agree on everything. However, it\'s true about soy milk, but rice milk is not that bad if you need something like this when cooking. With the ability of online purchasing, one can order all kinds of organic ingredients and make your own clean cakes, organic chicken, organic veggies. Make everything from scratch. Why even bread machines (or do it by hand) can help make healthy bread from all natural ingreds w/o those nasty additives. I\'m happy to give ideas to anyone who needs them.");
AddReply(511595,"Organic foods today a must","","","11/03/09","If one can get organic foods (it is slightly more expensive) that\'s really a tremendous help.  Not only are there no preservatives, additives, nor are they being sprayed with pesticides, but one of the most important factors -they are not genetically modified or altered. Most of the fruits and vegetables (worldwide) today  are injected with the DNA\'s of insects, animals. Just frightening and no one knows the long-term consequences of this alteration.  The flour we buy and all the baked goods are baked with genetically altered flour.  When one can, they should only buy organics.  We are living in an era where practically everything has been tampered with and I do really believe that that is why there is so many, many problems today that did not exist even 25 years ago in such abundance.  Worst of all, is that so many children (G-D bless them) with illnesses today and am sure one of the main reasons (besides some others) is because of the food.  Obesity is in epidemic proportion today.  This is due to the artificial foods out there (I call them empty calories) where people eat and gain from practically nothing.  Of course, the junk food that especially kids eat.  All this contributes to these problems.  An educated consumer is definitely the answer!");
AddReply(511587,"Important issue, Tamar...","yvonne","cary","11/03/09","Yes, we do need to speak about our food supply. It is important. You might have to give up on your coffee. For some it is allergenic! If you stop taking dairy products, you should take vitamin D supplements, and soy products, such as Tofu, are also good, sardines, etc. Cutting down on meat is important. So, try Indonesian and Indian spices added to your regular recipes. I think the lentil soup one of our ancestors lost his fortunes for, was a red lentil soup with mustard seed, veggies, added, etc. A curry, or an Indonesian sajour, can be made vegetarian, without the usual meat additions, but add Tofu, or other soy products instead. Using coconut milk instead of milk in some foods, such as sajours, may turn us off, because it is like milk added to meat products. But it is not milk, but a vegetarian product, and therefore can be used with meat dishes.Baking your own bread is not at all difficult, and with the freezer, and refrigerator, you do not have to go through the whole process each and every day. Dough for bread, without eggs added, and dough for biscuits, remains good in he frig for about four days. Instead of commercial yeast, make your own starter, it is just water and flour, maybe a potatto added. You will be eating much cheaper, much better, and will enjoy mixing spices and being creative. All that is required is organization! As for ADD, or ADHD being cured in 18 days, Dr. Bob needs to talk to me! He is right that Ritalin, and the other meds are addictive and often lead to drug addiction, but ADHD and ADD are not one syndrome, there is a whole set of syndromes with those conditions. It may include dyslexia, sleep disorders, and all sorts of other problems. The hyperactivity is for life, so are many of the other symptoms. Dyslexia requires training of the eyes, a.o. with prisms. Computers phased  especially for the student may help alleviate reading problems.Dr. Bob is too simplistic.  Changing food intake helps everyone, but does not specifically solve ADD/ADHD problems. Dr. Bob is behind the curve here. All that stuff has been published before, has been tried, has been discussed and hotly debated. Every child with learning disabilities such as ADD/ADHD is different, no two are alike, not even in the same family. Extensive studies have been done on this, a.o. @ Harvard, UNC Chapel Hill, and more. Then there are the parents, like me, who dealt with it. So, Tamar, if you are going to discuss this subject: Good for YOU!! But do your research first. Diets do not prevent, nor cure ADD/ADHD, and certainly not in 18 days!");
AddReply(511571,"bread","Meira Bat Yehuda","Jerusalem ","11/02/09","Tamar, there is no real reason to eat bread, especially the packaged stuff, in today\'s World.  We have a wide assortment of foods available and plenty of better sources of carbohydrates.  Save bread for Shabbat and make your own challah without all the E\'s.  I almost never eat the stuff and because we\'re only two people I don\'t even make challah because one batch (about 2 Kg. of flour) would last more than one Shabbat.  We\'re not allowed to plan ahead for future Shabbats so that doesn\'t work. I refuse to eat the commercial junk and a lot of it doesn\'t fulfill the Sephardic definition of  \"challah \" anyway. We manage just fine without bread in our diet. In fact I\'d say we\'re both healthier.  We\'re definitely thinner. \n\nA lot of what Dr. Bob says is just good old common sense and making healthy eating your priority.  However, there is no magic formula and finding a quick fix like an 18 day plan for anything is not going to work for long because it doesn\'t encourage lifelong changes.\n\nRice milk and G-d forbid soy are among the worst things you can use. Try goats milk from an organic source and be sure there are no male goats on the farm. That\'s where the smell comes from. \nSoy messes up your hormones big time.  it\'s really not a healty food in quantity. Rice is just another grain and if wheat bothers you, chances are the others will too.\n\nYou should also check out Dr. Mercola at *mercola.com* for some good balanced information.");

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