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akuperma
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Jews, not just in the US, never use the personal name “Jesus” even in countries where it is a common male personal name. Instead we use the name “Yehoshua” or “Joshua”. We NEVER Anglicize the names as “Jesus” (which is an Anglicization of a Latin version of the Greek version or the Aramaic version of Yehoshua – which got murdered linguistically along the way). Most people are unaware that the English names Joshua and Jesus are both derived from the same Hebrew name (similarly James/Yaakov or Elisheva/Betty).

No one would confuse “Yehoshua Eliyahu” for “Jesus Elias”.