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Friday, February 13, 1987 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

WESTIN
HOTELS &RESORTS

the most popular
names selected by Jewish
families for their newborn
children in 1985-86, accord-
ing to a random survey
conducted by the Women's
League for Conservative
Judaism.
In response to questions
posed to the Women's
League 28 Branch Presi-
dents in the United States
and Canada, the Presidents
said that "Rebecca,"
"Jonathan," and "Daniel"
came in second as Hebrew
choices, with "Jessica" and
"Michael" selected for
English names.
The survey results were
gathered by Women's
League's Reading and
Editorial Committee, which
produced "Welcome To The
World," the organization's
new Jewish baby record
book. The data was based
on new babies named in
Conservative synagogue
ceremonies in the United
States and Canada during
1985-86.
"Biblical names proved to
be the most frequent ones
selected, whether for the
child's Hebrew or English
name," noted Selma Wein-
traub, Women's League
President. Mrs. Weintraub
indicated that Jewish
custom requires that
children be given both a
Hebrew and an English
name. "Our survey shows
that an increasing number
of parents are using a
Hebrew name for both the
English and Hebrew
designation," she said.
Mrs. Weintraub attributed
this greater use of Hebrew
names to the strong tradi-
tional feeling among
American Jews, to kinship
with the State of Israel,
and to a general sense of
closeness within the Jewish
family.
She stressed that, in
most cases, Ashkenazi
Jewish families still try to
name a newborn after a
deceased relative or to use
a derivative of that
relative's first name. "This
is done to perpetuate the
memory of the generation
which has passed in the
generation of the future,"
Mrs. Weintraub explained.
According to custom,
Ashkenazi Jews name
children after a deceased
relative, while Sephardic
Jews use the names of the
living.
The four-color Jewish
baby record book,
"Welcome To The World,"
was illustrated by Glenn
Wolff and designed by Art
Director Carol Isaak.
The volume, produced
this year by Women's

League, sells for $12.95,
with quantity discounts
available. The book may be
purchased at Conservative
Synagogue Judaica Shops
or by ordering from
Women's League for Con-
servative Judaism, 48 East
74 Street, New York, N.Y.
10021. ■

Mikvah

Continued from Page 68

posia. Here was the second
wave of the women's move-
ment (the first having end-
ed with the passage of
women's suffrage in 1920)
in which women were band-
ing together to demand
political, economic and
social equality. I believed
intensely in this movement
and still do. Ironically, it
led me to the synagogue
and home.
What I loved most about
the women's movement in
those days was the coming
together of women — the
talking and laughing and
fighting, the studying and
the learning, the sorting
through of issues and con-
flicts and, most of all, the
very female process we
went through to get things
done.
I learned to make choices
so they reflected the
essence of who I am and
how I want to live. I
discovered that the events I
treasured above all others
in my life were Jewish and
female —going to shul, for
instance, and having babies.
And I learned that the
prayer I had been reciting
since age six was not simp-
ly a matter of covering all
bases.
The women's spirituality
segment of the feminist
movement, with its celebra-
tion of the female life cycle,
has appealed to me from
the start. However, my
Jewish soul is not im-
pressed with goddess wor-
ship or witches' covens.
I am a feminist, but first,
I am a Jew. Thus, I tap my
own roots. I look to Jewish
sources to explain and ex-
pand the Jewish woman's
experience. I look at
Judaism as an art form
which orders my world and
find great comfort in the
flickering of candles, in
kashrut and in the touch of
naturally flowing water. I
am nourished by the knowl-
edge that in observing
these laws the feelings of
death I experienced while
visiting the Mikvah at
seventeen will not return —
because now I understand
that I have within me the
power to preserve. ■