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The ancient land promised to the Jewish people in the Torah.
What is the Land of Israel?
The biblical leader who led the Israelites out of Egypt.
Who is Moses?
The biblical escape from slavery in Egypt.
What is the Exodus?
The central sacred text of Judaism.
What is the Torah?
The name for Jewish communities living outside the Land of Israel.
What is the Diaspora?
The city where the First and Second Temples stood.
What is Jerusalem?
The king who built the First Temple in Jerusalem.
Who is King Solomon?
The destruction of the First Temple by Babylon.
What happened in 586 BCE?
The collection of rabbinic discussions forming Jewish oral law.
What is the Talmud?
The Jewish cultural group that developed in Spain and North Africa.
Who are the Sephardi Jews?
The empire that destroyed the Second Temple in 70 CE.
What is the Roman Empire?
The rabbi who helped preserve Jewish law after the Temple’s destruction.
Who is Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai?
The destruction of the Second Temple by Rome.
What happened in 70 CE?
Jewish laws guiding daily life, ethics, and rituals.
What is Halakha?
The Jewish cultural group that developed in Central and Eastern Europe.
Who are the Ashkenazi Jews?
The European region where Yiddish culture flourished.
What is Eastern Europe?
The medieval Jewish philosopher who wrote Guide for the Perplexed.
Who is Maimonides?
The mass murder of six million Jews during World War II.
What is the Holocaust?
The prayer book used for Jewish services
What is a Siddur?
The language that blended Hebrew and German and was spoken by many European Jews.
What is Yiddish?
The death camps located primarily in this country during the Holocaust.
What is Poland?
The Zionist leader who became Israel’s first Prime Minister.
Who is David Ben-Gurion?
The establishment of the modern State of Israel.
What happened in 1948?
The legal document signed at a Jewish wedding.
What is a Ketubah?
The 1492 event that forced Jews to leave Spain, reshaping Jewish life worldwide.
What is the Expulsion from Spain?