We kinda do punish on hearsay.

Oh NOES! THE SLIPPERY SLOPE IS HAPPENING YOU GUYS!

Angie wanted the administration to (a) let her switch dorms (b) give effective counseling. Instead, she was told to stay put, she wasn't allowed to switch or do anything, and her counseling consisted of people discouraging her from pressing charges and to just transfer out of school.

Nope! If you read the story, she didn't want to work with him. She wanted to change dorms and she wanted to press charges. She was denied the first two, discouraged from the last.

From your posts:

So, you're a proponent of killing all the olds?

There was a TV remake:

Then TV movie!

I think The Mist wasn't bad, especially because they improved on the ending. And who could forget Misery?

Jewish burial is actually supposed to be very natural, like without the wood box. Shrouded and buried, done. However, state laws don't allow for it. I've actually seen it done once, where a Jewish man was buried in a Tallis alone, but I have no idea how they got away with it.

I didn't mean to imply that you're unhappy with your lifestyle. I'm sure that's not the case. I do mean to imply that oftentimes, we tend to assume that other people are judging us for our lifestyle (as you have mentioned now, twice, assuming that both myself and other orthodox Jews have some preconceived notion…

Very interesting post. Thank you.

So. . .this is the third remake?

I'm sorry, where was the legitimate question? Was it from the OP who phrased an entire religion and culture as an SAT analogy question?

No, we don't believe that any "non Orthodox Jew is not truly a Jew". Perhaps that's your own insecurity talking, but no Orthodox Rabbi I've ever met will decide you're not actually Jewish for not keeping all the laws. They might disagree with your lifestyle or your choices or your behavior (as it appears, you feel…

Ha. I used to attend one of those hotels for a function that occurred over the Sabbath. The truth is, most Rabbis don't really like the whole "shabbos elevator" thing, which is actually supposed to be a feature that hotels should purchase, whereas the elevator automatically stops on every floor. But they allow it…

Doesn't matter. You shouldn't take a plane or ride in a car or a bus on the Sabbath, even operated on by other people. The only exception to this rule is, say, if you or someone else is in danger. Doctors can drive to the hospital and I called a cab to take me to the hospital on the Sabbath when I was in labor.

I am surprised by this, speaking as an ultra-orthodox Jew.

No, but thanks for asking.

I'm . . . confused. Orthodox Jews don't believe in riding buses on the Sabbath. How would you pay? You can't carry money around. So this guy sounds like he was already changing the rules to suit himself, not because it was part of Orthodox tenet.