A colleague told me once that when his first son was born he wanted to name him David. However he didn't like the way Americans pronounce Biblical names, so he consulted several sources and discovered that the closest transliteration of the Hebrew name was Daveed. The next day when the nurse entered the hospital room and saw the name on the baby's crib, she said "you sure spell David strangely."
I was thinking about this amusing anecdote when I heard that, after their meeting with Sara Netanyahu, the four leaders of Women Wage Peace were labeled "left wing activists" in two different newspapers. This is another example in which, despite the effort we put into our words and our actions, we have very little control over the way other people perceive us.
Please keep reading in the Times Of Israel
http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/david-or-daveed-the-truth-about-women-wage-peace/
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