Is the term "Jew" offensive to Jewish people?

[Daliman]

I'm thinking it only is if said/meant with contempt, but I can't really be sure. The "niggardly" thread made me think of this.

Also, I was at a company outing for my wife's work and was talking to one of her bosses,(liquor was in abundance, btw), and had mentioned winning a karaoke contest singing "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" by Leo Sayer, but I dressed like The Saturday Night Fever Bee Gee's(everyone thinks that's who it is anyways..), down to the chestal merkin and all. Anyways, I said I couldn't really dress up like Sayer as most wouldn't know what he looked like, and that a proper "jewfro" wig would be hard to come by. Now, I was relatively sure her boss wasn't jewish, nor the black man also listening in, and they thought it was pretty funny, yet my wife was horrified. I didn't say it with contempt or anything like it, and they didn't have a problem with it anyways, but I had always wondered if a jewish person WAS there, am I in the wrong?

Also, is "jewfro" bad? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

P.S. For the poll, I couldn't find a single translation dictionary for hebrew/english online. When I was looking for a Klingon to English dictionary, I found about 20 of them online..

(ok, time for Daliman to get in trouble...)

I guess that means even though the Jews control The business world and Hollywood, THey got nothing on the Klingons when it comes to the internet.... [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]