1) Hamway- Syrian Jewish originating with the Biblical area in Israel called Hamath.
2) Nippon Ham eaters- First Japanese baseball team to have a Jewish player.
3) Dove Hiken- a hitch hikeing bear might try to eat the ham.
Others?
On a more serious note-
When I looked it up it was Micah Franklin who was the Jewish player for the Fighters. The Fighters are owned by Nippon Ham. You can call them the Nippon Ham Fighters, but the name is actually just the Fighters.
Micah Franklin has a black father and Jewish mother, was drafted by the Mets in 1997 but played for the saint Louis Cardinals before going to Japan to play for the fighters as I understand it.
1) Hamway- Syrian Jewish originating with the Biblical area in Israel called Hamath.
2) Nippon Ham eaters- First Japanese baseball team to have a Jewish player.
3) Dove Hiken- a hitch hikeing bear might try to eat the ham.
Others?
There is a Reform rabbi who has about as an unkosher name as you
can get- Rabbi Bacon.
1) Hamway- Syrian Jewish originating with the Biblical area in Israel called Hamath.
2) Nippon Ham eaters- First Japanese baseball team to have a Jewish player.
3) Dove Hiken- a hitch hikeing bear might try to eat the ham.
Others?
There is a Reform rabbi who has about as an unkosher name as you
can get- Rabbi Bacon.
More unkosher than you, Chava? Without Y'shua ben-Miryam being your Yeshuat, you're going to be a self-hating Hebrew.
Man! You can't even makes some jokes without people going for the jugular around here!
Man! You can't even makes some jokes without people going for the jugular around here!
Agreed! Some people just don't know when to quit!
I just got a Chabad magazine and it had a Jewish football star who was on the 93 superbowl cowboys. It wasn't actually him with the uncosher sounding name. It was an ad for I think Yeshiva University. The dean of the girls college was named Bacon also!
There might be an interesting history to this. Did they adopt the surname bacon to hide thier jewishness in a time of persecution?
For example, this is not uncosher sounding, but a nonjewish surname, MOron.
Moron is a sephardic name, but was originally Irish and is common among Jews from Cuba who have ancestors originaly from Ireland.
The dean of the girls college was named Bacon also!
There might be an interesting history to this. Did they adopt the surname bacon to hide thier jewishness in a time of persecution?
Jews originally did not have last names; they were later adopted by
Jews and often came either from the location they lived in or the
trade they were involved in. Of course names such of Levy,
Katz, Cohen, etc were given to Jews either who were leviim or
kohanim.
I didn't think "Bacon" actually came from the word meaning "meat
bacon" so I looked it up on line. Here is what it says about the
origin of the name:
Bacon Surname Origin
Bacon, from the Anglo-Saxon bacan, to bake, to dry by heat. Some derive this surname from the Saxon baccen or buccen, a beech-tree. Upon the monument of Thomas Bacon, in Brome Church in Suffolk (England), there is a beechtree engraven in brass, with a man resting under it.
So it is possible for Jews the name came from having a profession
involving baking by the above method; of possibly living on the land
of a person named Bacon or near beech trees. Not sure though,
these are just all guesses...
Look! All of you Billy Grahm juniors need to know how to do small talk like this.
Most of you Billy Grahm juniors probably don't even know what a sheitl is.
Most people think is cool to talk about the origins of thier last name.
Man! You can't even makes some jokes without people going for the jugular around here!
Agreed! Some people just don't know when to quit!
But you talk about unkosher, and you're not even close to kosher, Chava. Also, Jewish folks did have surnames- i.e., ben-David.