Omri - I sincerely apologise if I offended you or anyone else on this site with my comment as it was not intended to offend. I truly believe that 'the J word' is not deragotory, please advise me if it is. I am under the impression that it is a perfectly usable and acceptable non-offensive pronoun, the same as American, Australian, Aussie or Jewish is.
I know wikipedia is not the definitive text on all matters but I did check this link out before I posted:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jew
I am not a racially motivated or bigotted individual. I myself have over 25 staff working for me and I have the most racially diverse department in my whole company and at least 80% of those staff were employed by me.
after reading some of the posts it appears I have been rude and offended you and most likely many other site members and this was most certainly not my intention. if any member would like to report me to the mods or thehotpepper and this results in my being banned then so be it. in fact, I will send a link to this thread to thehotpepper and have him decide my fate.
Omri, and others, please accept my sincere apologies.
Mark