Many years ago I had a gentile neighbor who had a child that was a bit of a problem. At that time, kindergarten in public school was only a half day program, so she decided to send her son to a Hebrew day school for another half day program in order to occupy his entire day. Shortly after he started Hebrew school she phoned me to say that her son needed to have a Hebrew name and could I suggest one. Well….his given name was Christian, so after a few minutes thought, I told her to tell the teacher that his name was Kalman. And he was know as Kalman at that school for the entire year.
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