Names Archives - Hey Alma

Why Do So Many Fellow Jews Assume I Don’t Know What My Hebrew Name Means?

By Emet Marwell

January 16, 2024

I Want to Leave a Mark with My Jewish Last Name

By Rebecca Gleiberman

September 27, 2023

How Leonard Cohen and the Talmud Helped Me Change My Name

By Benyamin Rumi

August 29, 2023

I Took My Husband’s Last Name — And My Mother’s Jewish Maiden Name, Too

By Isabel Mata

March 13, 2023

A Jew Named Chris

By Chris Blevins

December 23, 2022

Should I Reclaim My Bukharian Jewish Last Name?

By Rachel Pakan

October 19, 2022

Why I Chose to Start Going By My Hebrew Name

By Nesya Lieberman

December 8, 2021

Searching for a New Jewish Family Name

By Rosie Ankhartz

November 16, 2021

I Took My Husband’s Jewish Last Name. Here’s What It Taught Me About Antisemitism.

By Susan Getz

September 27, 2021

The Reason I Kept My Jewish Last Name

By Ali Wunderman

July 21, 2021