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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's with the Simon ben Kosevah business?[/quote] To summarize: P1: Jews don't name kids Mary because of Pogroms! P2: That's absurd! ** (becomes even more absurd) [/quote] Many Jews don't name their children Mary or Jesus because they are classically Christian names. One explanation for this is that naming is a key kind of assimilation. Anything that suggests such assimilation is fraught, given the long history of Jews being forced to assimilate to Christianity. I don't see a single absurd thing about that reasoning. Certainly you could disagree and say the apparent assimilation means nothing to you. But the reasoning about why SOME Jews would bristle at it makes perfect sense. [/quote]
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