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THIS WEEK'S PICTURE
Asher Klaff's barmitzvah
Rhetick Sengupta, Dave Rothschild, Caryn Sengupta, Alex and Tamir Klaff, Amalia, Asher and Oren Klaff, Frankie Klaff
Asher is the grandson of my late cousin Vivian Zelig Klaff and the great great great grandson of Zelig Goldberg. He is also the great grandson of Zelig Klaff, Vivian's grandfather on his father's side. I presume it was after him that Vivian was named, or perhaps both Zeligs.
I got thinking about the name Zelig which was a fairly common Ashkenazi Jewish name. AI tells me that Zelig is derived from the German selig which means "blessed", "happy" or "fortunate".
Our medical centre in Netanya is in Zelig Asher Brodetsky Road. Another Zelig and Asher pairing? Co-incidence? AI to the rescue :
In Ashkenazi Jewish tradition, Yiddish names were frequently paired with a Hebrew equivalent of the same meaning. Zelig serves as the traditional Yiddish companion (or kinnui) to the biblical Hebrew name Asher (אשר), which also means "happy" or "blessed".
Hello Asher Zelig Klaff, may you always be happy, happy.
Click here for a picture of Zelig Klaff and here for postcards written over 100 years ago by Zelig to his daughter (my grandmother) and son-in-law
- Still in Larnaca. We went to see Last Time to See Me Before I Die, a show by John Cleese. We thoroughly enjoyed it. Cleese showed short videos with explanations of some of his works (Fawlty Towers, Life of Brian, A Fish Called Wanda.....) and told many jokes and stories. Lots of laughter.
- Son Aviv sent us a picture of a family birthday dinner in honour of daughter Amit who will celebrate her birthday next week.
- Israel sells and advertises Channukah
items well before Channukah. Similarly Cyprus is
already celebrating Christmas, more than a
month before the holiday. We met Santa Claus
at the Saturday Larnaca market.
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Birthdays (not
sure how and
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related?
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Happy November birthdays to 1 - Ryan Ezra, Benjamin Glogauer, May Haberman 2 - Bernard Spector 3 - Jessica Korbel, Jacob Hock, 4 - Kim Siegel, 6 - Ilan Gotfried, Aaron Schwartz, Hazel Gurland, Erica Leibowitz, 7 - Tiina Drue, 8 - Larry Neiman, Sharlene Klotnick, 10 - Tarryn Klotnick, Romy Klotnick, Saville Stern, 11 - Shira Bacher, Michael Bacher, Tzafrir Poupko, Miriam Ferber, 12 - Louise Eliezer, Damon Galgut 13 - Daniella Amit, Diana Smith 14 - Chana Bolel, Tristan Galp, Philip Shapiro 15 - Isidore Spector, Aharon Bolel 16 - Keren Levin , Valerie Haberman 17 - Amit Levy, Jennifer Taylor, William Kirsh 18 - Aaron Berkowitz 19 - Mia Mulder 20 - James Cleaver 21 - Ron Tal, Rachel Gur, Hilliard Ezra 22 - Rosemary Spector, Brenda Levy, Danielle Bloede, Jarren Bacher, Alan Bacher 24 - Seth Gordon, Simon Glasser 25 - Daphne-Lynne Galgut, Marsha Krengel 27 - Anthony Glogauer, 28 - Natalie Hock, David Eliezer 29 - Eliyahu Skoczylas, 30 - Jesse Weisz.
- November
Anniversaries: Happy
Anniversary
wishes to: 6 -
Naama and Mor
Kadosh, 17 -
Eric and
Avigail
Cotton,
Rebecca and
Yaacov Garbawy
23
- Shulamit (Lama) and Alan
Klotnick , 26 - Limor
and Aviv Levy , 28 -
Richard and
Talia Klotnick
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