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They destroyed the first Temple.
Who are the Babylonians?
100
Associated with sharks, dinosaurs, and the Holocaust.
Who is Steven Spielberg?
100
Isaac's children
Who are Esav/Esau and Jacob?
100
Can be eaten by Jews
What is kosher?
100
Head covering worn by men.
What is a Kippa/ yarmelke/ skullcap?
200
First prime minister of Israel.
Who is David Ben Gurion?
200
He developed the polio vaccine.
Who is Jonas Salk?
200
Leader of the Jewish people after Moses dies
Who is Joshua?
200
Jewish audacity
What is chutzpah?
200
Ritual fringes worn
What is Tzitzit?
300
Year that the Jews were expelled from Spain
What is 1492?
300
Marched with Martin Luther King, Jr in Selma, Alabama, and considered one of the leading Jewish thinkers of the 20th century.
Who is Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel?
300
At least four plagues that happened in Egypt.
What are blood, frogs, lice, flies, pestilence, boils, hail, locusts, darkness, and the death of the firstborn?
300
Carrying stuff around and getting sweaty and annoyed
What is to shlep?
300
Wigs sometimes worn by married Jewish women
What is a Sheitel?
400
Where Jews were allowed to live in the Western Russian Empire from 1791 to 1917
What is the Pale of Settlement?
400
Led a revolt against the Romans and was believed to be the messiah by the great sage Rabbi Akiva.
Who is Shimon Bar Kochba?
400
Wives of Jacob.
Who are Rachel, Leah, Zilpah, and Bilhah?
400
What Jews say when they're upset
What is Oy Vey?
400
White robe worn at weddings, on the High Holidays, on Passover, and as a burial shroud.
What is a Kittel?
500
A period/ movement during which Jews began assimilating into European society, teaching their children secular subjects, looking at religion with lenses of science and philosophy, and blending Judaism and modernity. Led to the birth of Reform Judaism and Zionism.
What is The Haskalah, Jewish Enlightenment?
500
Wrote the poem inscribed in the bronze plaque on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.
Who is Emma Lazarus?
500
Jacob's 13 children
Who are Reuven, Shimon, Levi, Yehuda, Dan, Naftali, Gad, Asher, Yissachaer, and Zevulun, and Dina?
500
The Hebrew word for necklace.
What is Sharsheret?
500
Belt worn by Chassidic people during prayer and other ceremonies. It creates a symbolic separation between the upper and lower parts of the body, representing the control of the intellect over the physical body during prayer
What is a gartel?