Geography
This is the land the ancient Israelites settled in, a diverse land along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
What is Canaan?
This was Abraham's son.
Who is Isaac?
Who is the pharaoh's daughter?
This is the festival holiday commemorating the recovery of Jerusalem from the Maccabean Revolt and rededication of the Second Temple.
What is Hanukkah?
(Chanukah works, too)
This is the Hebrew name for the first part of the bible, also known as the Old Testament.
What is the Torah?
This sea was why there were wet, fertile plains for farming in the land of Canaan.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
This is how old Abraham was when God told him he would have a son.
What is 99 (or 100) years old?
This is the body of water that Moses parted to let the Israelite people cross and save them from the Egyptians who were chasing them.
What is the Red Sea?
This is a coming of age religious ceremony for Jewish boys and girls, usually determining that they are now a Jewish adult.
What is a bar or bat mitzvah?
This sixth commandment is pretty self-explanatory, but is definitely something we should all follow.
What is "You shall not murder."
(Thou shalt not kill.)
Many people became these instead of farmers, tending to flocks of sheep, goats, cattle, donkeys, and camels and wandering from place to place.
What are herders/nomads?
This is what Abraham was allowed to kill by God instead of his son.
What is a ram?
This is what Moses saw an Egyptian do, leading him to kill the Egyptian and run into the desert.
What is beating a Jewish slave?
What is Passover?
This is the name of the candelabrum used in Jewish worship, typically lit in succession to celebrate eight days of Hanukkah.
What is a menorah?
This is the main sources of fresh water for the people who lived where the ancient Israelites lived.
What is the Jordan River?
The nickname that Abraham received because all Jewish people are descended from him.
What is the "Father of the Jews?"
This is the list of basic moral teachings about the right way to live and treat others that Moses received from God.
What are the Ten Commandments?
This Jewish holiday has a purpose to purify oneself by repenting for sins and practicing forgiveness.
What is Yom Kippur?
This is the name for a religious leader and Jewish teacher (not a bunny).
What is a Rabbi?
What is topography?
The fancy name for the promise that God made to Abraham, promising the land of Canaan.
What is a covenant?
This was the last straw for the pharaoh and led to the pharaoh letting the Israelites in slavery leave Egypt.
What is the tenth plague?
(Plague of the Firstborn)
This is the Jewish New Year, beginning the ten days of repenting for mistakes and ending with a different Jewish holiday.
What is Rosh Hashanah?
This famous Harry Potter actor also voices the Pharaoh in "The Prince of Egypt."
Who is Ralph Fiennes?
(Voldemort also works)