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<blockquote data-quote="svengandhi" data-source="post: 415926" data-attributes="member: 3493"><p>Hi, Esther -</p><p></p><p>My H's fiance before he and I got together was named Regina. I told him he has high aspirations of royalty. I haven't been called Malka Esther on a regular basis since 1972 but I always preferred it to my sister's Hebrew name, Chaya Leah.</p><p></p><p>The funny thing is I have never been to Israel. My daughter applied to Birthright but didn't get accepted because SO MANY kids are asking to go. She wants to do a summer in Ireland next year and hopes that she can build in a Birthright trip. If she can't then, I have told her to wait till she graduates and go with the older crowd. </p><p></p><p>I was named after my paternal grandmother's favorite brother. I was supposed to have a really horrible name but then my grandma said she had a dream in which her brother said he wanted a name, so I got named after him. I love my English first name. My middle name is after my maternal great-grandma. My sister got the really horrible name (it's worse in English than in Hebrew).</p><p></p><p>I will say that it's really hard picking names for multiple children when you don't have that many dead people in your family. Our rabbi once suggested that I name one of the kids Menachem (this was shortly after Begun's assassination) and I just looked at him and said "Menachem O'Reilly? I don't think so!" O'Reilly's not really my last name, but it is really very Irish.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="svengandhi, post: 415926, member: 3493"] Hi, Esther - My H's fiance before he and I got together was named Regina. I told him he has high aspirations of royalty. I haven't been called Malka Esther on a regular basis since 1972 but I always preferred it to my sister's Hebrew name, Chaya Leah. The funny thing is I have never been to Israel. My daughter applied to Birthright but didn't get accepted because SO MANY kids are asking to go. She wants to do a summer in Ireland next year and hopes that she can build in a Birthright trip. If she can't then, I have told her to wait till she graduates and go with the older crowd. I was named after my paternal grandmother's favorite brother. I was supposed to have a really horrible name but then my grandma said she had a dream in which her brother said he wanted a name, so I got named after him. I love my English first name. My middle name is after my maternal great-grandma. My sister got the really horrible name (it's worse in English than in Hebrew). I will say that it's really hard picking names for multiple children when you don't have that many dead people in your family. Our rabbi once suggested that I name one of the kids Menachem (this was shortly after Begun's assassination) and I just looked at him and said "Menachem O'Reilly? I don't think so!" O'Reilly's not really my last name, but it is really very Irish. [/QUOTE]
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