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TheQuestion Is
What To Name The Baby?

Our

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• might accept his wife's family name as ble, not the third L. Oh, yeah, it IS
nd so, we welcome this
the third L, because there are two pre-
his. And I've become acclimated to the
child into our Jewish com-
vious Ls in Fellman. You know, on
proliferation of hyphenated choices
munity, as we bestow upon
second thought, can I just fax in this
(though, frankly, I'm eager to see if,
her names in honor of the
order?"
when Wendy Faigelson-
memories of her great grand-
Some people change their names
Shapiro marries Jeremy
parents, Sadie and Max. The
professionally,
creating an effective
Stuttman-Hornstein, they'll
Hebrew name Shoshanah
image
for
what
they do. I recently
name their child Eliezer
Malkah bat Leah v'Shimon.
learned that one of the nicest kids
Faigelson-Shapiro-Stuttman-
"And the English name ...
from my days as a congregational
Hornstein).
um ... Tiffany ... Brianna
rabbi has emerged as the best blues
But here's a totally new
keyboard artist in Chicago, playing
Spiegelberger."
twist, the cutting edge of
That baby-naming was a
with
the Junior Wells' band as "John-
naming, an innovation that
career highlight I frequently
ny
'Fingers'
Iguana."
came to me via an e-mail
I'm
looking
forward to officiating
describe during my stand-up
from an old college friend
comedy routines, except on
at
his
wedding
in a few months.
announcing
the
birth
of
his
RABB I BOB
Especially
since
his parents assured
one occasion when, just
first
grandchild:
Peter
ALP ER
me
that
the
name
on
the ketubah will
before the show, the chair-
Jonathan
FellmanLipschutz.
Speci al to
man of the event introduced
read
"Brian
Berkowitz."
The Jew ish News (Yes,It's FellmanLipschutz.
me to his daughter: Brittany.
No space. No hyphen. Just
First names have reflected
two names, squashed together with a
evolving Jewish self-images and priori-
capital letter smack dab in the mid-
ties for generations, wonderfully epito-
dle.)
mized by the chapter title "How Kim-
A name like FellmanLipschutz may
berly and Chad Begat Adam and
be a slight inconvenience for a small
(A little taste of Yiddish.)
Tamar" in one of Albert Vorspan's
child; my concern centers on what
books.
will happen when this kid with the
Er hot dos lehen fun
Last names have also seen a trans-
quintessentially trendy moniker
Got un dos essen fun mentshen.
formation, especially during the past
becomes old enough to purchase items
two decades. When my wife and I
by telephone.
He owes his life to
were married 29 years ago, she had no
"Yes, I'd like to order that tattoo set
God and his living to men.
problem accepting my surname as
you advertised on MTV. My name?
hers. Of course, having stood at the
FellmanLipschutz. No, it's one word.
back of the line throughout her youth
No, there's no hyphen.
due to a last name beginning with Z,
"Well, the L in the third syllable is
she was more than pleased to become
capitalized. No, that's the third sylla-
an Alper. Her sister married a guy
whose name began with B.
Lately, however, we've experienced a
creative shift regarding family names,
largely as a result of the heightening of
women's consciousness. Now it may
have gone just a tad too far.
"Annual meetings are to organizations what the High Holidays are to
I can understand how a very liber-
the community. They are a time of reflection, a time of
ated man, in a reversal of tradition,
anticipation."

• 29th birthday of JARC.

• Birth of JARC's new services

to children and their
families.

• Mazel toy on the success of

JARC's on-going Endowment
Campaign, Caring for a
Lifetime.

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— Executive Director David Gad-Half, in his report during the
Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Detroit's annual meeting,
held at Congregation Beth Shalom.

Rabbi Bob Alper is a stand up
comic and author.

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Best Man's Phil Wohl

We proudly present the
sequel to the Academy
Award-winning film, Best Boy.

BEST MAN: Best Boy
and All of Us
Twenty Years Later

With special. guest

Ira Wohl

Producer and Director

at the

JARC Annual Meeting and
Election of Officers

Monday, June 22, 1998
7:00 p.m.

Adat Shalom Synagogue

Note: change of location

There is no charge.

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for persons with developmental disabilities

28366 Franklin Road

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6/19

1998

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