No, relax, I’m not having baby #5. But as regular readers of this blog know, I’m a baby name fanatic.
You can imagine how thrilled I was to receive the following assignment from Kveller.com: “Suggest baby names for our editor, Deborah Kolben and her husband, Gal.” (That would be Gal Beckerman, opinion editor of The Jewish Daily Forward.)
Um, name a Jewish baby for two big deal Jewish journalists? SIGN ME UP!
I’m proud of this article, and I hope you’ll check it out. It’s a fun one!
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Nina Badzin hosts the podcast Dear Nina: Conversations About Friendship. She's been writing about friendship since 2014, co-leads the writing groups at ModernWell in Minneapolis, and reviews 30+ books a year on her website.
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I’m a big baby name person too. As in suggesting names for other people, but careful to never put down THEIR choices. 🙂
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