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Re: Rivka
Yah, I would think that the person who thinks "I wonder if they have a clue" didn't have a clue that the name is not singularly Jewish.
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it pretty much is ...Linguistically I guess it technically isn't exclusively Jewish, but culturally it pretty much is.
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I just read a book ("The Marrying of Chani Kaufman"), set in an Orthodox Jewish community in London;one of the characters was Rivka, her name was originally Rebecca, and she'd changed it upon her marriage.She was Jewish but not Orthodox until she married. Good book, btw.
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I'm so dumb. I had no idea, lol. :P
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