Goldenberg – Jewcy https://jewcy.com Jewcy is what matters now Tue, 06 Sep 2016 16:38:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.5 https://jewcy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/cropped-Screen-Shot-2021-08-13-at-12.43.12-PM-32x32.png Goldenberg – Jewcy https://jewcy.com 32 32 My Life as a Goldenberg in Five Charts https://jewcy.com/sex-and-love/my-life-as-a-goldenberg-in-five-charts?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=my-life-as-a-goldenberg-in-five-charts https://jewcy.com/sex-and-love/my-life-as-a-goldenberg-in-five-charts#comments Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:36:51 +0000 http://www.jewcy.com/?p=130407 Inspired by this week's "Modern Love" column, one Goldenberg set out to discover the statistical likelihood of finding a soulmate who shares her name

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]]> Lately, it seems like the New York Times is speaking right to me. I’ve just started to get used to the endless articles about 20-somethings figuring out what to do with themselves. But last week’s Modern Love column about a romance based on a shared last name—MY last name—pretty much confirmed my suspicion that the New York Times exists solely to communicate with me about my life. The column’s author, Milla Goldenberg, is certainly not lacking in Goldenberg pride, scoffing at the more common Goldberg variation of our name: “Ours was the older, more dignified surname, which translates to “gold mountain” in German. Linguistically intact, Goldenberg conjures up sun-kissed hills that resemble health and bounty.” Hm, not bad.

Milla got me thinking about life as a Goldenberg, and what the are chances that my soul mate does, in fact, have the same last name as me (in my opinion, weird even if we’re not related). So, here is my comprehensive study on life as a Goldenberg:


Source: Census


Source: New York Times


Source: New York Times


Source: Wikipedia


Source: Facebook

(Main image credit: New York Times)

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