Random Jewish Trivia
This sacred scroll lives in the Ark and is read on shabbat
What is the Torah?
This body of water is so salty that nothing lives in it and everyone floats
What is the Dead Sea?
What is the name of the "helper" candle on the Chanukah Menorah?
What is Shamash?
What is Tzedakah?
This word means Peace, Hello, and Goodbye!
Jews celebrate this day of rest from sundown on Friday to sundown on Saturday.
What is Shabbat?
This special part of the Holy Temple is where Jews pray and leaves notes between the stones
What is the Kotel? (or Western Wall, or Wailing Wall)
During which holiday do we ask for forgiveness, and fast (do not eat for the day)
What is Yom Kippur?
What is a Mitzvah?
This phrase means "Good Morning"
What is Boker Tov?
What is Challah?
What are the two colors of the Israeli Flag?
Blue and White
On the holiday of Purim, whose name do we boo?
Who is Hamen?
In this PTBE program, we observe the Jewish value of Feeding the Hungry
What is SSH (or Sunday Sandwich Hevre)?
This word means to Listen, or Hear
What is Shema?
What food do Jews eat for a whole week during the holiday of Passover
What is Matzah?
This metropolitan city is where you can shop, work, go to the beach, see art, and party all night!
This Jewish holiday is called "The Birthday of the Trees"
This is the value of Healing the World
What is Tikkun Olam?
This is how you count, "One, Two, Three, Four, Five..."
What is "Echad, Shtayiim, Shalosh, Arbah, Chamesh..."
Can you name the 7 days of Creation?
1st: Day/Night
2nd day: Heaven/Earth
3rd day: Plants and Trees
4th Day: Sun and Moon (and Stars!)
5th Day: Fins and Wings
6th Day: Peace and Humankind
7th Day: Shabbat Rest
This desert takes up more than half of Israel's landscape
What is the Negev?
Can you name 5 items on the Seder Plate?
Karpas (Parsley), Egg (Beitzah), Marror (Bitter herbs), Charoset (mortar), Shankbone (Z'roah)
Other: Hazeret (vegetable), Orange
In Yiddish, this term describes being a good person
What is a Mensch?
This word from our prayerbook means "And you Shall Love"
What is V'ahavta?