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If your name is Jones, change it.
Because the Brauns and Yidden and Bnei Torah and Ovdei Hashem whereas the Joneses are pruste shkutzim, baalei aveirah and regular Sunday avodei zorah worshippers.
Rebyidd23! you really are rocking today with the new topics.
Still don’t know whether or not this thread is about electric razors
Yinglish.
Then why are everyone trying to keep up with the Joneses?
BTW>>>>Maternal great grandmother was born a Braun, turned down an offer of marriage from a Jones in 1896 and married a Schwarz. She was quite a colorful character who lived until she was 98. Jones died in the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918 and great grandmother took in his orphan children and raised them as her own. Frum Yekke Joneses in early 20th century NYC. In the Vaterland the name had been Jonas. In America a “jona’ was considered to be cursed and bring bad luck, getting employment proved difficult and changing one letter solved the problem Jakob Jonas from Germany became Jacob Jones of New York.
Jonas from back in Germany may have become Jones in the USA…simple one letter change. Our Braun lineage from Germany became Brown in late 19th century NY.
Read my story later in the thread.
Your words are offensive, not always accurate or true and you owe observant Jewish Joneses an apology.
Does anyone know any Jewish Jones’s?
Yes,
I know members of two families, originally Jonas in Gemany who became Jones in America. There were also a number of Jewish Smith families in New Haven where I grew up.On the other hand, anyone ever hear of Eva Braun?
or maybe food processors
It’s also statistically true that men have higher IQs than women.
RY23:
Quit trying to deny pure facts. It is also true that women live longer than men. Is that offensive? It’s just statistical truth.Most of the things that get people offended are the truth. They just may not be “the whole truth and nothing but the truth”.
You just generalized about statistics which generalize partial truths which statisticize generations
I know a Jewish Jones, but her father is a goy.
I know a Frum Smith.
Any frum Peter, Paul or Christopher?
Smith is a relatively common Jewish name, possibly since many Jews were smiths of one kind or another (goldsmiths, silversmiths, and even blacksmiths). One well-known Jewish Smith is Morris Smith, who ran the world’s largest mutual fund.
I know of a Frum Mary. I’m not sure if she’s American though.
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