At the age of 62, one can retire with social security benefits within the US, and is considered to be the age of a senior citizen by many organizations. However, the federal government has determined one who is 65 years of age or older is senior citizen. Organizations such as AARP and most businesses consider age 55 as senior citizen and you would receive the standard senior discounts. So there are various opinions, but age 55 is about the youngest considered age.
The word Shoah in Hebrew means catastrophe, abyss, disaster or destruction and is used in many contexts such as Shoah ecologit - ecological disaster or Shoah Svivatit - environmental disaster. HaShoah with the definite article refers to The Disaster or The Holocaust..
Shonda is a trashy, ghetto-sounding name. Like I posted above a few years ago, the Yiddish meaning puts me off to this name. Shonda is even worse when rendered as Shanda, which is the Hebrew word for shame, and it would indeed be a shame to be named Shonda or Shanda. -- bananarama 1/11/2011. Shonda derives as a modern spelling variation of Chanda, a Sanskrit name, and is an epithet for the great goddess, Durga. It means fiery, hot, or passionate.. I also wanted to clarify some information regarding what a previous poster wrote about the name. Shonda is not the Hebrew word for shame..