Name
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The Jewish website Kveller reported a few months ago on the top
five most popular Jewish baby names for 2016 so far. For girls, they
were Charlotte, Ava, Sadie, Elizabeth and Abigail. For boys, they
were Ezra, Asher, Levi, Elijah and Ethan.

But the Jewish Exponent birth announcements recently featured
new arrivals with less conventional names: Brody, Kylie, Fiona, Jor-
dyn, Kayden, Presley and Raegan —not exactly shtetl names.

There were two Logans, too.

One of those Logans — Logan Milo Baill, born Aug. 22 —
was named for a relative, but not in the way you might think.

His great-grandfather, Morton Goren, had a deep connection
to the neighborhood where he grew up — the Logan section
of Philadelphia.

“My poppy Morton Goren was very proud of his childhood
in Logan,” explained Liz Baill, Logan’s mother. “He had a group
of childhood friends that called themselves the Logan Boys. In junior
high, they formed a basketball team — the Logan Sparks. They took
a photo of the original five basketball teammates as kids and contin-
ued to take a photo in the same formation, with my poppy crouching
down in the middle of the front row, whenever they were together.

This continued throughout their lives, so we have years of Logan
Boys pictures, and we always knew who Pop’s Logan friends were.”
Goren passed away almost a year ago; Liz and her husband, An-
drew, found out they were having a baby shortly thereafter.

“We like to think of [our son] as the next of the Logan boys,” Baill
said. “The Logan Boys shared a very special, lifelong bond, and we
hope that love lives on through Logan.”
The Logan Boys
Logan Milo Baill
Logan’s middle name, Milo, pays tribute to three
grandparents with M names: Marion, Morris and Mort.

Morton Goren’s daughter, Pam, said the remaining Logan
boys — who have stayed local with one exception — were thrilled by
Liz and Andrew’s decision to name their son after the neighborhood.

“My dad was the first of the group to pass away, but is surely smil-
ing from above,” she said.

And at least one decision was easily made for Liz and Andrew
Baill when they were decorating their home in honor of their new
baby’s arrival: “We have one of the early Logan Boys photos in our
son’s nursery,” Baill said.

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Game MUCH DIFFERENT
THAN THE
TV VERSION
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Bob Eubanks really had no idea.

To the host of The Newlywed Game, being just-married was all fun and games, which was
evident in the questions he asked.

“What’s the most outrageous thing your husband or wife ever said to you in bed? What’s
the most embarrassing thing they’ve ever done in public?”
Well, here’s what viewers never seemed to get: Being a newlywed is anything but a game.

It’s dealing with life’s situations on a daily basis, trying to be supportive of each other
without giving up your individuality.

And when you’re dealing with Jewish couples, that inner circle seems to tighten since
it seems like wherever you go or whoever you meet, they know someone who knows one
of you.

“The joke is that the rest of the world needs six degrees to connect,” laughed Greg Smith,
who married Maxine Barish Smith on Nov. 9, 2014. “Jews need two.”
They’re just one of five couples married within the past two years finding out that once
you say “I do” and break the glass, things are never quite the same.

Here’s a look at their stories.

Engaged IN A PARKING LOT
Things have been a bit crazy since Greg Smith and Maxine Barish Smith tied the knot almost
two years ago after meeting on JDate.com.

Since then, they’ve moved from a Mount Laurel townhouse to a house in Marlton. Greg
Smith left his job building large computers to go out on his own, then got bought out by Dell.

His wife helped him deal with his mother’s sickness around the time of the wedding and her
death eight months later.

And that was all before Natalie was born on Jan. 8.

See Newlyweds, Page 14
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