Fall Holidays
Which holiday is the Jewish New Year?
Rosh Hashanah
Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, is celebrated for how many days?
8
What do we light at the start of Shabbat?
Candles
Which holiday celebrates the victory of the Maccabees and miraculously long-lasting oil?
Hanukkah
During which holiday do Jews eat matzah in the place of leavened bread?
Pesach or Passover
Which major holiday requires Jews to fast?
Yom Kippur
We "boo" every time we hear Haman's name on this holiday.
Purim
What is the name of the special bread eaten on Shabbat?
Challah
Which holiday is a remembrance of the Book of Esther, wherein the Jews were saved from extermination in Persia?
Purim
The shofar is a horn blown on Rosh Hashanah. Traditionally, the shofar is made from the horn of what animal?
ram
Which of holidays is the Jewish "Day of Atonement"?
Yom Kippur
We count the ______ between Pesach and Shavuot.
Omer
When does Shabbat start?
Friday night at sunset
What holiday commemorates the temporary shelters used during the forty years in the desert following the Exodus?
Sukkot
On Sukkot, Jews build a temporary hut called a _______, in which they may eat or sleep.
sukkah
In how many different directions do we shake the lulav and etrog ?
6
Yom Hashoah is the ______ remembrance day.
Holocaust
What is the ceremony called that we do at the end of Shabbat?
Havdalah
Shavuot commemorates the day when Moses received the Torah from God. On what mountain was he when this happened?
Mt Sinai
Children customarily play with these on Lag BaOmer:
Bow and Arrows (since the rainbow didn't appear in the days of Rabbi Shimon bar Yachai)
In which Hebrew month do the High Holidays fall?
Tishrei
What is the name of Israel's independence day?
Yom Haatzmaut
The Torah commands us to _____ Shabbat and _____ .
Remember and Keep it holy
The holiday Simchat Torah marks the completion of what?
The annual cycle of the reading of the Torah
The 9th candle on the menorah (used to light the others) is called:
The Shammash which means "helper"