Memoir: Language exchange and finding the best coffee on campus Words by Eve O'Dea and Ofir Weltsch · 7 years, 3 months ago At this year’s Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) celebration at Hillel BC, we were greeting the year 5778 with the traditional apples and honey. I began speaking with a young woman from Israel and I told her how much I wanted to learn Hebrew.