Friday Mar 07, 2008
Posted by David Harris
There's the story of the mother determined that her five-year-old wunderkind should be well-educated and one day headed for a top university. She decided to pump him with new vocabulary words each day. When little Charlie came home from school, his mother promptly said, "Charlie, what's the difference between ignorance and indifference?" To which he, totally uninterested in the exercise, shrugged his shoulders and muttered, "I don't know and I don't care."
At times, that's the sense I get from the world about Hamas.
It's as if there is an ignorance, perhaps a willful ignorance, about what Hamas, which rules Gaza, really means.
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michel israel: lula's goverment is a corruption champion even in brazil. lula himself is seeking a one party minded dictartoship in Brazil. don`t trust him. his goverment is partner with the most horrific things in south america, including drug traffickers and terrorists. he is a lier.
Victor Galindo: A delightful story. I have experienced a touch of the same. Growing up in NYC, my family was the only Galindo (in our case it is Sephardic). But since then (80 years ago), I have encountered many Galindos' from Puerto Rico and Mexico and elsewhere. Quite a few with the first name Victor. Some famous like the ice skater. Generally, though, it is a bother when I am mistaken for someone with unpaid debts. Best of luck.
Janet Kasten Friedman Kohav HaShahar Israel: My husband's name is Yehoshua Friedman which is a very common name in Israel. We sometimes get other people's mail, etc. but since he's not famous (or, G-d forbid, infamous,) it makes little difference. Your tale was cute and fun to read. If it really bothers you, you can, as many people suggested, change your name. I recommend NOT changing the name completely. If you did that people would not recognise that your accomplishments were indeed yours. Adding an extra middle name, or even a nickname would do the trick, if you insisted that people use it. (e.g.the M.K. Arieh, Lova Eliav)
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