Oops, sorry about the Foster reference. I knew that.

The problem with "rich as ony Jew' as I see it is that "Jew" has been (and still is) used as a cultural stereotype to describe someone who is too interested in making money -- my grandmother used it in that sense -- and I was mortally embarrassed by her. In her vocabulary it meant be a person who showed an unseemly interest in money.

Thing is, someplace back there the Church made it illegal for Christians to -- what was it? charge interest in lending money? handle money transactions? and by default the job fell to the non-Christians. Who then got maligned for doing it.

It's way past time we got over it.

Blessings.
Barbara