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 top 1% podcast Dear Nina: Conversations About Friendship. She's been writing about friendship since 2014 and has had friendship advice in NPR, WSJ, Real Simple Magazine, The Daily Skim, The Guardian, The Telegraph UK, Time Magazine, and elsewhere.
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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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