This really grinds my gears. La dee dah HYPHENATED name. Either use your daddy's name or your husband's name, to use both is just affected BS. Does she shovel both names on the kids or will she let them choose which name they want when they turn 18?
I wouldn't want to be named Schejter. Change one letter and it means something nasty in German.
I have to ask: just what the heck was this woman expecting? The U.S.A. is aleggedly 85% Christian. Up in Centre County, it's more like 99% Christian. Even way down here in Delaware County, is not only overwhelmingly Christian, it's overwhelmingly Catholic (there are about as many Catholic schools as public schools, and they tend to be a lot bigger). Did she really think that people would sterilize an afer-hours, 100% voluntary Christmas celebration so her children would be shielded from (ooooooh) Christian influences? I suppose we Christians should just all go out and shoot ourselves while we're at it. She needs to take a chill pill and a tolerance lesson from my (Jewish) uncle and first cousins (though not a political one, since they're flaming libs--wink).
If a woman wants to keep her maiden name, thats great.... Especially after seeing the hassles that my own wife had to deal with in changing hers after we were married. :-) If she wants to change her name, that's fine, too. But a hyphenated name is just plain wishy-washy. It implies, to me at least, that the husband's name isn't good enough, but she still wants all of the benefits that it carries.
Her husband Mr Schejterdoes not rate very well as a prof and I see his wife is a journalist. Typical mainstream liberal - this is not a religious issue - its just yellow journalism.
One can freep that listing.