> For a lot of New York Jews, Hebrew isn't just "another language", but simply a decoder ring they use to read aloud in cultural rituals. They still have a cultural and personal Jewish identity.

Most have accepted a version of American culture and are completely ingrained with American mainstream life.

> speaking African-American culture and

African American culture emerged in the USA. Not much of their pre-slavery culture remains – they lost most (if not everything) of their pre-slavery culture.

> you fail to acknowledge any of the presented arguments

The argument you mentioned (that there are roughly almost equivalent words in English) does not hold water.

> If all you'd like is a soapbox, please just go write a blog.

You are turning nasty. I did not expect you to understand – but you could at least have respectfully disagreed.