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65. I know what kosher means.

But you do not know the meaning of "kosher" here in the streets of my home town of Brooklyn, NY.
The strict dictionary meaning may be one thing, but here in Brooklyn, it may mean that if something is "kosher" it is legitimate by everyone. We all use the term, regardless of our religious beliefs. At least in my area of Brooklyn, Borough Park/Bensonhurst area. It's a very mixed area, and we use each other's cultural terms to mean a bit more than the dictionary meaning.

Actually, if you look up the word "kosher," and look into the entomology of the word, the root comes from the word "kasher" which means fit, pure or lawful.

So you see, your attack on me for being anti-semitic is quite unfounded. I was raised a Jew by osmosis. I lived in the areas of Brooklyn that were either Jewish/Italian, or otherwise more mixed. Often times, when they ask my race, I simply put down "Human," and for ethnicity, I put down, "Heinz 57 Varieties." That's because I believe that we are all only one race, and the cultures that I have lived in over my lifetime have been many. I take aspects of my life from each and every one of them. It would do us good to understand many different cultures, and live in them for even a short time.