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Thread #118681 Message #2568892
Posted By: Ebbie
17-Feb-09 - 01:23 AM
Thread Name: BS: Rahm Emanuel and the census
Subject: RE: BS: Rahm Emanuel and the census
From Wikipedia:
"Emanuel's first name, Rahm means "high" or "lofty" in Hebrew, and is the namesake of one Rahamim (surname unknown), which means "mercy" in Hebrew, killed in the 1940s fighting for the Zionist group Lehi. The surname Emanuel adopted by the family in honor of his father's brother Emanuel Auerbach, killed in Jerusalem during a skirmish with Arabs, means God is with us. Sources conflict as to whether the family changed its name from Auerbach in 1933 or 1938"