Shabbat
This is when Shabbat starts every week.
What is "sunset" or "a few minutes before sunset"?
This "Festival of Flatbread" takes place in the spring.
What is Pesach (or Passover)?
This is the central prayer of Judaism.
What is Sh'ma?
Ashkenazi Jews originally come from this part of the world.
What is Germany and Eastern Europe?
There are this many books in the Torah.
What is five?
These are the typical greetings Jews say to each other on Shabbat.
What are "Shabbat Shalom" or "Gut Shabbos"?
This holiday marks the beginning of a new Hebrew year.
What is Rosh Hashanah?
These are the words of the Sh'ma prayer.
What is sh'ma yisrael adonai eloheinu adonai ekhad?
Sephardic Jews originally came from this part of the world.
What is the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal)?
These two countries are where the vast majority of Jews live today.
This ceremony marks the end of Shabbat and the return to the normalcy of life.
What is havdalah?
This Festival of Booths takes place after the High Holidays.
What is Sukkot?
This is what the Sh'ma prayer means in English.
What is "Hear O Israel: HaShem is our G!d, HaShem is one"?
Mizrahi Jews originate from this part of the world.
What is North Africa and the Middle East?
There are approximately this many Jews living today.
What is around 16 million?
This is the correct order of the bread, candle, and wine blessings on Shabbat.
What is candles, wine, then bread?
This wintertime holiday, which comes from the rabbis not the Torah, originally celebrated a military victory but eventually came to also celebrate a miracle.
What is Chanukkah?
This version of a common prayer is used to transition between different parts of the service.
What is the khatzi kaddish?
This language, spoken by Jews hailing from Europe, combines Hebrew and German.
What is Yiddish?
This is the year that the Jewish Congregation of New Paltz was founded.
What is 1964?
There are 36 categories of this thing which are prohibited on Shabbat.
What is work?
This harvest holiday, which also celebrates G!d giving the Torah to the Jewish people, is celebrated over the summer.
What is Shavuot?
Most Jewish prayers are in Hebrew. This is the other language that some of our prayers are written in.
What is Aramaic?
This language, spoken by some few Sephardic Jews, combines Hebrew and Spanish?
What is Ladino?
The majority of Ashkenazi Jews can trace their lineage back to this small number of men and women.
What is seven men and four women?