What Is My Hebrew Name? What Is Yours? Published November 19-20, 2021.
November 19, 2021
(Reprised from August 10, 2018) A Hebrew name is chosen, generally by parents, as are other names. A convert to Judaism chooses a Hebrew name, too. Jews have a tradition of naming after someone special who has gone before, as a way of perpetuating that person’s “good name.” Ashkenazi Jews generally do not name after […]