Pygmania

Angiepymytu is lurking on a three-year-old forum topic called "Most Uncommon Frum Names" , on a website called Yeshiva World News. Not sure what more there is to say here... A600KiloBear Inactive, per member request BS"D But are the Bahiyas named Batya for kodesh the way an American Batya might be known as Beth on paper, or has Bahiya become a kodesh name the way the French names have in Morocco? Annette is Chana, but there are granddaughters of Annettes who was born at the time the Alliance started in Morocco is called Annette and only Annette even if her parents are very haredi. Especially in EY, people do not even know that the name was French but think it is an authentic Moroccan Jewish first name - which I guess it is once the name is given in memory of someone. My friend's mother by now probably has (great)grandchildren named Annette for their (great)grandmother as per Sefardi custom. If you saw Rabbanit Annette shopping in Boro Park, the only wa...

You, Alecksandor Gregory   Comiskey , are in interesting, if not good, company.   Andrew , a  crusader  for "healing" the homosexuals Brendan , Bishop Emeritus of the Diocese of Ferns, who was forced by John Paul II to resign on false allegations of sexual abuse and was ordered to rehabilitation for alcoholism.   Patrick , a well-known wine critic, Rhône Ranger and former sommelier. Charlie , nicknamed " Commy " and also "The Old Roman". We may know him as the namesake of Comiskey Park, but his debut was as  pitcher  for the good old St. Louis Brown Stockings in their 1882 season. Charlie went on to own the White Sox during the notorious 1919 World Series scandal. Allegedly, his swindling team members were motivated to gamble  in part by a shared contempt for their owner's  miserliness ; Comiskey even made the players pay to launder their own uniforms. That's awkward. What's also awkward are the names of the people involved...

Perhaps unique to Iceland is the fast growing Ásatrúarfélag, a legally recognized revival of the pre-Christian Nordic religion of the original settlers. According to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Reykjavík, there were only approximately 30 Jews in Iceland as of 2001. [32] The First Lady of Iceland Dorrit Moussaieff is an Israeli-born Bukharian Jew.

http://psych.stanford.edu/~lera/papers/sci-am-2011.pdf Haven't read this article, but thought it might be interesting. Pymthoughts?