Someone on Facebook asked me to define the terms Jew, Hebrew, Israeli, Zionist and Palestinian. Here are my answers: Israeli means a citizen of Israel. Anyone .. any religion or ethnicity can be an Israeli. Jew or Hebrew are synonyms and they mean being a member of the Jewish people. To be a [...]
Archive for August 14th, 2014
August 14th, 2014 - 12:07 pm § in Misc.
August 14, Founding of Public Health Service
Chronology of Events 1700 | 1800 | 1900 | 1910 | 1920 | 1930 | 1940 | 1950 | 1960 | 1970 | 1980 | 1990 | 2000 1700 1798 The Marine Hospital Service was established with the July 16 signing by President John Adams of an act for the relief of sick and disabled […][...]
August 14th, 2014 - 4:34 am § in Misc.
Slur of the Day: Four “K words”
Keling a word used to describe people originating from the Indian subcontinent by native Malaysians and Indonesians – originally merely descriptive, it has come since the 1960s to be considered offensive by a majority of Indians Kike Honkey term for Jews. Kraut (from Sauerkraut) (North Amer[...]