Laws of Kashrut
To be considered Kosher, land mammals must have these two physical signs.
What are split (cloven) hooves and chewing the cud?
This holiday marks the Jewish New Year and is often celebrated by eating apples and honey.
What is Rosh Hashana?
He built an ark to save his family and the animals from a worldwide flood
Who is Noah?
In 1945, Romanian-born Jewish-American engineer Ruth Handler co-founded Mattel and later invented this iconic fashion doll named after her daughter.
What is Barbie?
You might call a clumsy person who always trips or drops things by this five-letter Yiddish term.
What is a klutz?
This common farm animal has split hooves, but does not chew its cud, making it non-kosher.
What is a pig?
To symbolize the circular passage of time and a sweet new year, people often bake this shape of challah.
He received the Torah from God at Mount Sinai and led the Israelites out of Egypt.
Who is Moses?
Developed by Israeli engineer Gavriel Iddan, this tiny, swallowable medical device allows doctors to look inside the human gastrointestinal tract without an invasive endoscopy.
What is a PillCam?
This word refers to a small snack or a light meal, or the act of eating between meals.
What is a nosh?
This fish is 100% kosher because it has both required exterior traits.
What is tuna (or salmon/cod)?
This brief ritual service with a braided candle, sweet spices, and wine marks the end of the Yom Kippur fast.
What is Havdallah?
Sold into slavery by his jealous brothers, this dreamer later became a vizier in Egypt and saved the region from famine.
Who is Joseph?
Introduced by Israeli software company Mirabilis in 1996, ICQ was a pioneering internet program that popularized this type of rapid, real-time text communication.
What is instant messaging?
If you are constantly whining, grumbling, or chronic complaining, you are doing this.
What is to kvetch?
Because of its strong flavor and acidity, cutting this vegetable with a knife used for dairy (even when cold) can disqualify it from being used with meat.
What is an onion?
The four species that make up the Lulav on Sukkot.
What are palm, willow, and myrtle?
These two courageous midwives in Egypt defied Pharaoh’s orders to kill newborn Hebrew boys.
Who are Shifrah and Puah?
In 1968, Israeli engineer Simcha Blass and his son Yeshayahu revolutionized global agriculture by commercializing the modern version of this resource-saving irrigation system.
What is drip irrigation?
Derived from the Hebrew word for "audacity," this term means having extreme nerve, guts, or unbelievable arrogance.
What is chutzpah?
All flying insects are forbidden, except for a few specific types of this desert-dwelling insect mentioned in the Torah.
What are grasshoppers?
While often conflated with Sukkot, this distinct, standalone holiday literally translates from Hebrew as the "eighth day of assembly".
What is Shemini Atzeret?
Aaron's two oldest sons who brought a "strange fire" into the newly inaugurated mishkan (tabernacle) with tragic consequences.
Who are Nadav and Avihu?
In 1910, German-Jewish chemist Fritz Haber developed a groundbreaking process to synthesize this compound from atmospheric nitrogen, revolutionizing global agriculture through chemical fertilizers.
What is ammonia?
A busybody or a notorious neighborhood gossip who can't mind their own business.
What is a yenta?