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Activity for Monica Cellio
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Can a terminally-ill patient give up his ventilator to save another? Last week I took a class on priorities in triage -- one ventilator, two people who will die without it, who gets it? We reviewed sources in talmud and later commentaries, some of which I remember from a class on self-driving cars and how they should be programmed in the case of impending accidents. ... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276906 |
@AA oh, I misremembered; that first one was mine and I thought it had been closed. Maybe I'm remembering a discussion about closing it. Thanks for the links. If Mi Yodeya is as permissive as what I've described here then great; I had thought there was more resistance. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276906 |
@AA I think my first three would have been closed on Mi Yodeya, and I'm unsure about the rest. I vaguely recall asking one like my first one that *was* closed. I think all my negative examples would also be off-topic on Mi Yodeya. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #276906 |
@msh210 I added some negative examples (could probably use more/better ones). (more) |
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| Edit | Post #276906 |
Post edited: added some negative examples |
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| Edit | Post #276906 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: Are questions purely about Jews and Jewish History in-scope? > What was life like for Jews in [region] during [time period/historical event]? These should be on-topic so long as Judaism is a core part of the question. Some examples: - Were Jews living in al-Andalus able to pray publicly and safely? (Was it legal and was it reckless?) - How did (some... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276899 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: Are questions purely about Jews and Jewish History in-scope? I'm going to separate out some of my thoughts into multiple answers for the sake of clarity in voting. Questions about people should be in scope if their Judaism is core to the question: - "Who was the first Chassidishe Rebbe to settle in America?" -- marginal; "...to establish a Jewish communi... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276897 |
The license would require it from a third-party translator. If the author decides to post it in both languages the license wouldn't require linking, but it's good practice and something we could set as a site policy. That's actually the easier issue; the harder one, I think, will be conveying that th... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276897 |
We'd need to make it clear that the two categories are not merely translations of the same content, as a naive browser might assume otherwise. (And should somebody be motivated to translate a question to the "other" language, we'd want them to be linked together.) (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276858 |
We don't have a large body of existing tags here like Mi Yodeya has, so we're going to need to create new ones. (And then when we import questions later we'll need to reconcile differences -- another reason to do imports in smaller batches.) (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276800 |
@magicker72 sounds like a new question to me. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276782 |
@manassehkatz better to add date-range support to search, and then anybody can use it to populate this list *or for other purposes*. (On other sites I've sometimes wanted to constrain a search by time.) (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276839 |
@manassehkatz thanks for the data points. I hope someone will be able to bring sources for the various positions in an answer. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276839 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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What is the status of a-capella music during the three weeks? I've heard (but don't remember where) that the music that is prohibited during the three weeks is one or both of: music with instruments, recorded music. I've heard conflicting things about a capella music. What is the status of a capella music? Does it matter if it is live or recorded? Does it... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276800 |
@rosends my question is more about whether you can use the trop *in* shul in this context. I've edited to clarify, thanks. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276800 |
Post edited: clarified that the public aspect is a factor, versus chanting in private study |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276794 |
Post edited: just deleted a post and noticed it affected this too |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276800 |
@manassehkatz I assume we can do this privately, but, as you said and I tried to get at (maybe not clearly enough), doing it in public as part of a service might be different. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276429 |
@DonielF looks like! Please let us know if you encounter any issues with this. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276800 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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If a Zoom minyan reads torah (without blessings, as study), should the reader still chant? Due to the pandemic some communities are having weekday services on Zoom. (There seem to be leniencies that support this. That is not what this question is about.) We can't read from the torah scroll except in the presence of a minyan, and the communities I know about who are meeting on Zoom are h... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276422 |
@DonielF I think we need to address the question in @msh210's answer: are we building a glossary or a dictionary? Once we know what the goal is we can decide how best to implement it. That question might need to be raised more prominently. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #276794 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: "Last Activity" Last activity tracks changes to (or creation of) posts -- asking a question, adding an answer, editing, or deleting. I'm not sure about closing and reopening questions, which are also events affecting posts. It doesn't track comments or votes. On SE there is a bot that also randomly bumps some... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276782 |
@manassekatz I don't think meta-tags like challenge-1 on main-site questions are a good idea. Q&A is for posterity; challenges are interesting for a short time. I think it's better to build an index to record the challenge. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276779 |
Post edited: suggestion from AA in a comment |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276779 |
@AA that's a good idea, especially about not bumping. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276779 |
@Dani I don't think we need a category or even one post per request -- a single list that everyone edits would be ideal, or, worst case, one list per requester. I want to make this easy on the developer who's going to say "give me the next 50" or whatever. I think we can do this on meta. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276779 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: What content do we want to import from Mi Yodeya? Regardless of what general criteria we come up with for importing data, we should accept requests for specific questions to import. I re-asked a couple of my unanswered questions here, because we didn't have data import, but that's not ideal (and will create duplicates if we ever do import the origi... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276775 |
This is beautiful. Thank you for your servitude, both past and future! (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276742 |
@Harel13 I think people are defaulting to "like Mi Yodeya" because it's a baseline many here share. But that doesn't mean that's static; it means things haven't been worked out yet. There are several meta threads (in addition to this one) on various aspects of this question. Please help shape the o... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276764 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: How will Judaism Codidact be better than Mi Yodeya? As Isaac said, let's not think in terms of "better", as if there can be only one strong online community for rich knowledge-sharing and Q&A. Mi Yodeya is an important community and we should not seek to diminish it. We should assume that many people will participate on both. If this site helps to ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #276761 |
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| Edit | Post #276761 |
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| Edit | Post #276761 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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Welcome to our new pro-tem moderators! Welcome to our pro-tem moderators, Isaac Moses and DonielF. Isaac joined the team two weeks ago and I was negligent in not announcing it at the time, and DonielF has joined today. Thank you both for taking on these extra caretaking duties alongside the work you are already doing to help this new co... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276718 |
When I saw "female kohen" in the title I thought you meant a *bat kohen*, but it looks like you're asking about wives. Or are you asking about both? (I don't know if Mrs. Kohen is "a (female) kohen".) (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276699 |
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— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276699 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: Proposal: Weekly Topic Challenge I like the idea of returning to our weekly topic challenges! Instead of collecting new suggestions each week, which would mean either lots of repetition or suggestions getting dropped, I suggest reusing a single post to collect suggestions for a while, and each week the person running the challeng... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276651 |
@robev thanks, edited. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276651 |
Post edited: explained "kallah" (requested in comment) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276655 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: Custom Community Name? To answer the technical questions, a site's name is reflected in: - the logo - the URL(s) - the short description in the list of communities Changing the logo is a matter of replacing one graphic with another; it'll take longer for someone to make it than to deploy it. For URLs, I would sugg... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276652 |
There was also some [discussion of names](https://meta.codidact.com/questions/276280#answer-276301) on the proposal that led to the creation of this community. (Other answers there address it too; I'm linking to the one with actual suggestions.) (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |