First Landings
1700s
1800s
1900s
Famous Jews
100
Where the first boatload of Jews landed in America
What is New Amsterdam (or modern day NY)
100
Name of America's first synagogue
What is Shearith Israel
100
US Army General that tried to expel the Jews from several US territories
General Grant
100
Name of the holocaust survivor that won the Nobel Peace prize?
Who is Elie Wiesel
100
The first Jewish woman Supreme Court Justice (currently serving)
Who is Ruth Bader Ginsburg
200
Governor of New Amsterdam when the first Jews arrived
Who is Peter Stuyvesant
200
Location of America's first synagogue
What is Lower Manhattan
200
What President Lincoln did to help the Jews
What is he did not sign General Grant's order to expel the Jews from several US territories
200
Year that JTS decided to ordain women rabbis
What is 1983
200
First Jewish US Supreme Court Justice
Who is Louis Brandeis
300
Number of Jews on the first boat to America
23
300
The oldest synagogue in America still in use today is located in this city/state
What is Newport, Rhode Island
300
State in which the "Jew Bill" was passed
What is Maryland
300
Name of the first non-religious Jewish university
What is Brandeis University
300
President Obama's former Chief of Staff
Who is Rahm Emanuel
400
Place where the first boatload of Jews to America were coming from
What is Recife,Brazil
400
This is the year that Jews were first permitted to hold federal office.
What is 1788
400
Year that the Jewish Theological Seminary opened in NY
What is 1887
400
Name of the major league baseball player who refused to play baseball on Yom Kippur?
Who is Hank  Greenberg
400
First Jew nominated for Vice President from a major political party
Who is Senator Joe Lieberman
500
Year that the first Jew settles in Charleston, South Carolina
What is 1695
500
This is the number of Jews in America in 1700
What is 2-3
500
Name of the platform in which the Reform movement rejects Jewish law
What is the Pittsburgh Platform
500
Name of the first Jewish woman to be elected to the US House of Representative
Who is Florence  Prag  Kahn  
500
One of the two first Jewish women senators in the US
Who is Dianne  Feinstein  or  Barbara  Boxer
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