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  • Law Would Prevent Parents From Giving Kids 'Weird Names'

    12/31/2011 2:00:16 PM PST · by Eleutheria5 · 81 replies
    Arutz Sheva ^ | 31/12/11 | David Lev
    A new law proposed by MK Zvulun Orlev (Bayit Yehudi), who is chairman of the Knesset Children's Rights Committee, would prevent parents from giving their children “weird” or strange names that other children were likely to make fun of. The law would forbid parents from naming their children with names that “hurt their welfare or their feelings.” The law, to be presented Sunday for the approval of the Ministerial Law Committee, would establish a “public names committee” which would include experts such as social workers, psychologists, and educators, that would confer with the relevant government ministries on “unacceptable” names that...