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I work in Corporate America. Let’s see some nice Indian names. They don’t seem to ask if their Hindu names will be hard to pronounce or write, like Yechezkel. Gundaverapu. Not made up, it’s a real name. Shreedevi Gunjati. And you think Robert is better than Reuven?
The Uheler Rov in Hungary, Binyan Dovid, once said in a speech. The Hungarian Jews before WW2 always gave secular names. This upset him. He said, Yakov Oveenu gave us a brocho: Hamaloch hagoel osi, yevoreich es haneorim, v’yikorei bohem shmi v’sheim avosai. The angel who always protected me and redeemed me, should bless the Jewish children. When you send someone a letter, you need the correct name and address. Yakov said, I’m sending you an angel to protect you. But he’ll only know who you are if you call him by my name and the names of my father and grandfather, Yiddishe names, not Robert or Tibor.