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How do you name a non-Jew for Mi Sheberach?
Ploni is the child of a Jewish mother and a non-Jewish father. The father is ill and Ploni would like to say Mi Sheberach for him in a minyan. How should Ploni form the name for a non-Jewish relative?
"Christopher ben Lisa" would stand out (probably not what Ploni wants). Maybe Ploni should instead emphasize a Jewish connection and say "Christopher av Ploni", or maybe even "av Ploni" since Ploni only has one father.
Maybe Ploni shouldn't use a Hebrew-name construction at all and should just say the father's English name.
Or maybe public Mi Sheberach is for Jews only and Ploni should pray in his heart only.
Are there norms for what Ploni should do? Is this all in the realm of convention, or is there halacha involved?
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