Jewish Holidays
What is the Jewish New Year?
What is Rosh Hashanah?
What is the first book of the Torah?
What is Genesis (Bereishit)?
What is the name of the Jewish prayer shawl?
What is a tallit?
Who led the Israelites out of Egypt?
Who is Moses (Moshe)?
What is the name of the mountain where Moses received the Torah?
What is Mount Sinai?
Which holiday celebrates the Exodus from Egypt?
What is Passover (Pesach)?
How many books are in the Torah?
What is five?
What is the centerpiece of the synagogue that houses the Torah scrolls?
What is the ark (aron kodesh)?
Who was the first patriarch of the Jewish people?
Who is Abraham (Avraham)?
In what year was the State of Israel established?
What is 1948?
What holiday is known as the "Festival of Lights"?
What is Hanukkah?
What is the name of the oral law compiled into six orders?
What is the Mishnah?
How many times a day are Jews traditionally required to pray?
What is three?
Who was the Jewish queen who saved her people from Haman?
Who is Esther?
What is the term for the dispersion of Jews outside Israel?
What is the Diaspora?
Which holiday involves fasting and atonement?
What is Yom Kippur?
Who is traditionally credited with writing the Psalms?
Who is King David?
What prayer is recited as a declaration of faith?
What is the Shema?
Which Jewish philosopher wrote "Guide for the Perplexed"?
Who is Maimonides (Rambam)?
What Jewish rebellion against Greek rule is commemorated on Hanukkah?
What is the Maccabean Revolt?
On which holiday do Jews read the Book of Esther?
What is Purim?
What is the name of the commentary on the Mishnah that forms the Talmud?
What is the Gemara?
What is the name of the prayer for the dead?
What is the Kaddish?
Who was the first prime minister of Israel?
Who is David Ben-Gurion?
What year did the Second Temple in Jerusalem get destroyed?
What is 70 CE?