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a smaller boat I can sail with one other person and I have more fun with that. Are you still close to the Jewish world? You changed your name from Ephraim Goldberg to Frank Gehry? Have you ever designed a synagogue? I’ve always wanted to design a synagogue because I went to one until I was 13 and was Bar Mitzvahed. When I was growing up we had the Goldberg variations by Bach and I listened to them a lot. At UC there was a lot of anti-Semitism. I was kept out of an architectural fraternity because my name was Goldberg and I was Jewish. People said I should change my name which I refused to do. My ex-wife was pregnant and worried about a child being born Jewish. Under much pressure I agreed to do it. My wife was happy. My original name was Frank Goldberg and I have always been open about that. Have you worked in Israel? We are working on a building – a museum Tel Aviv that celebrates achievements of Jews around the world. I have a design in for that. Every time I was asked to Israel they have always found somebody else. They said they wanted to do a library in Jerusalem but within a month they found someone they thought better than me. The people they picked to do that did a building in China that had problems and my office took care of that. How do you get new work? We don’t do agents or marketing. I don’t get work that way. A lot of architects now seem do it as the way to get work and maybe that is the way to get work. God bless them.