Holidays
The game associated with Hanukkah.
What is dreidel?
The person who led the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt.
Who is Moses?
The number of Jewish presidents/vice presidents that America has had.
What is zero?
The person who first described Judaism as an "evolving civilization".
Who is Mordechai Kaplan?
There are three B's in Judaism: behaving, belonging, and believing. In reconstructionist Judaism, this is the most important "B".
What is belonging?
The very ordered meal of Passover.
What is a seder?
The queen who stopped Haman from killing all the Jewish people in Persia.
Who is Queen Esther?
The legendary baseball player who refused to play on Yom Kippur. He was the first Jewish member of the Baseball Hall of Fame and publicly supported Jackie Robinson.
Who is Hank Greenberg?
Jews descended from Central and Eastern Europe.
What is Ashkenazi?
Judy Blume, Ezra Jack Keats, and Maurice Sendak are all __.
What are Jewish children's book authors?
The two Jewish people in the Purim story.
Esther and Mordechai
The leader of the Maccabees.
Who is Judah Maccabee?
In the 20th century, Jewish artists dominated the __ industry.
What is the comic industry?
Jewish people make up __ percent of the world population.
What is 0.2%?
The number of mitzvot in the Torah.
What is 613?
The Jewish holiday that commemorates the birthday of the trees.
What is Tu Bishvat?
This person is considered the "mother of the disability rights movement".
Who is Judy Heumann?
This is the word for when people replace their native culture with the culture they are surrounded by in order to be accepted.
What is assimilation?
Jews descended from Spain or North Africa.
What is Sephardic?
Lane Bryant and Levi Strauss were Jewish people active in this industry.
What is the garment/clothing industry?
The song that Miriam led the Israelites in after successfully entering the land of Israel.
What is Mi Chamocha?
A 20th century rabbi who fought alongside Martin Luther King Jr. during the Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel?
In 1900, 60% percent of all Jews employed in New York City worked in this industry.
What is the garment/clothing industry?
__ percent of Nobel prize winners were Jewish.
What is 22%?
(20% - 29% are acceptable responses)
The first female rabbi was ordained in this decade.
What are the 1930s?
BTW the second wasn't ordained until 1972!