The milk made by the REMILK company is supposedly pareve and vegan friendly. I would like to see some rabbis and kashrut experts familiar with the process weigh (pun intended) in on this. I dont know what daiy proteins are and how they affect things, but this lab made milk is developed from dairy proteins so as an ignoramus I wonder how it is paeve if it is made from actual dairy proteins.

the milk reportedly tastes identical to real milk but it contains 75% less sugar while it has the exact (or almost exact) same texture and taste and properties as real milk. 

I am not the biggest of milk drinkers out there but if the concensus is really that this lab milk is pareve I can see it revolutionizing the kosher scene as meat can now be cooked in milk that is identical to milk that cant be used. Until now it has been exciting to try kosher cheeseburgers and the like but the pareve cheese out there is not really the same, as good as it might be melted over a burger. Cooking meat in actual milk that is supposedly the same looks like it could change so much about what we eat

this is just weird

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Tehran dams are drying up with one completely empty and another sitting at less than 8%. Mashad is down to about 3% water capacity. There seems to be no rain on the horizon in the immediate future. News reports say that the government is considering evacuating Tehran because of the water shortage if they cant conserve enough right away.

I dont want to gloat. The people are suffering due to the government's focusing almost exclusively over the years on Israel and spending billions and billions on a nuclear program, and continuing to now, instead of on working to solve their more immediate and acute problems. 

The Iranian government should put aside its nuclear ambitions and use its money to make the lives of their people better, solve the water problem, solve other problems that plague their society. 

The idea of such a boycott would be to cause damage to the markets and bring the government to its knees needing to save the economy from collapse.

The anonymous sources in the Haredi community have been threatening such movements for a long time already. I dont know if they have the power they think they have or if they think they have more power than they do, but a boycott like that could definitely do at least some damage.

That being said, I see some problems with this..

If they boycott all the big companies, what are they going to eat? they need to continue eating just like everyone else does.

And, if they think they buy enough that stopping the purchases would have a major effect, what is their alternative? they still have to spend money on food so they will spend it via other companies? This might hurt specific companies like Tnuva, Osem and Strauss, but how will it hurt the economy if they are still spending the same money just on other products?

How much of an affect can they have on the big companies? If you go into Haredi stores, a lot of what is sold is off brand products and not products from the more expensive bigger companies. Obviously this is not 100% as Tnuva and Tara dairy products are sold in Haredi stores as are Osem cereals and bamba and pasta etc, but a lot of of the products are from smaller companies anyway. I dont know numbers and how to compare what they buy from the large companies vs what everyone else buys from them and what they buy from smaller companies, but it might be a consideration.

Is it ok to hurt companies that have nothing to do with the draft issue in any way to hurt the government? It is not like Tnuva or Osem can turn around and say ok forget it, we wont draft the Haredim. It is not up to them and they have nothing to do with this.

I am not even sure what bringing the government to its knees on this issue looks like in this scenario. Strauss, for example, starts to suffer from lack of sales. The government sees the quarterly earnings report of Strauss and Tnuva dropping badly and the related stocks start dipping badly. What does the government do - go to the Haredi leadership and say we wont draft your boys just dont crash the markets? I just dont see this playing out like that. Do you see it as a realistic maneuver?

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what do you think of this? Is he a crackpot? Isnt that what people thought about the original Noah?

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Soldiers head back to the bases from Jerusalem via the train station while Haredim from around the country head into Jerusalem via the same train station for today's rally/protest

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