Jews at Bowdoin
This first year brick is named after a notable Jewish alumnus
Osher
The color of Joseph's coat
Multicolored
This dish is known as "Jewish penicillin"
Matzo ball soup
This a cappella group was originally formed in 2007 at Yeshiva University
The Maccabeats
The helper candle's Hebrew name
Shamash
This academic building is named after Bowdoin's only Jewish president
Mills Hall
These two brothers had a conflict over their birthright
Jacob and Esau
One would perform this cooking method to gefilte a fish
Poach
Daveed Diggs wrote and sang this original Hanukkah song
"Puppy for Hanukkah"
The number of prayers you say on the first night of Hanukkah
3
Bowdoin Hillel was established in this year
2002
Moses was on Mount Sinai for this amount of time
40 days and 40 nights
This food group is commonly eaten on Shavuot (a holiday that commemorates the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai)
Dairy
This artist wrote and sang these lyrics: "And smoke your marijuani-khah, if you really really wanna-kah"
Adam Sandler
In Israel, shin is replaced with this letter on the dreidel
Peh
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel marched in the front row of a protest with this political leader (who also came to speak at Bowdoin)
Martin Luther King Jr.
This book of the Torah instructs us on how to deal with leprosy
The Book of Leviticus
This toasted buckwheat grain is often used in Eastern European and Jewish cuisines, for example, to make knishes
Kasha
This actor played the Saxaboom on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon"
Jack Black
Hanukkah originated in this iteration of the temple in Jerusalem
The Second Temple
These two items were donated to Bowdoin Hillel in 2003 and 2005, respectively
A torah and an ark
Lot's wife turned into this when she looked back at the city of Sodom
A pillar of salt
The afikomen is the larger piece of the middle matzo when broken in the Passover seder, which is named after a tribe of Israel
Levi
American composer and songwriter Irving Berlin wrote this classic Christmas song
"White Christmas"
Hanukkah begins on this day of this month in the Jewish calendar
The 25th of Kislev