Jewish Holidays
Islamic Holidays
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This holiday is the Jewish New Year. It is a day of cleansing. Commonly practiced with the dipping of apples in honey and the blowing of a ram’s horn. 

What is Rosh Hashanah

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This period Honors Muhammad’s reception of the Qur’an and is celebrated by fasting from sun-up to sun-down.

What is Ramadan?

100

What is the first thing a baby born into the Islamic faith hears?

What is the Name of Allah?

100

This capital of Israel is a historic location for both the Jewish and Islamic faiths.

What is Jerusalem?

100

This religion has over 100 times more followers than the other.

What is Islam?

200

The Jewish holiday Pesach marks the fleeing from Egypt of the Israelites, and is celebrated with this ritual feast.

What is a Seder Meal?

200

Also known as a Unity Day, Muslims celebrate this holiday by gathering at the foot of the mountain where Muhammad last preached.

What is Arafat?

200

Danny, from The Chosen, was a member of this subgroup of Orthodox Judaism.

What is Hasidism?

200

The ancestry of both Jews and Muslims can be traced back to this historical figure.

Who is Abraham?

200

This religion was founded c. 1800 BC, approximately 2400 years earlier than the other.

What is Judaism?

300

Purim, or “The Feast of Lots”, celebrates the overthrow of this ancient tyrant.

Who is Haman?

300

Eid al-Fitr is celebrated at the end of this other Islamic holiday.

What is Ramadan?

300

These are the two subgroups of the Islamic faith, separated by their opinion on Muhammad’s successor?

What are the Sunni and Shiite?

300

Both the Jewish and Islamic faiths are centered in the belief in one God, also known as this ten letter term.

What is monotheism?

300

The Torah, the Holy Book of Judaism, is written in Hebrew, whereas Islam’s Qur’an is written in this language.

What is Arabic?

400

Also known as “The Feast of Tabernacles”, this holiday commemorates the 40 years spent by the Israelites wandering through the desert.

What is Sukkot?

400

Jummah, a Holy Day in the Islamic faith is celebrated on this beloved day of the week.

What is Friday?

400

This man is often called the father of Zionism.

Who is Theodor Herzl?

400

This prominent figure in the Christian Faith is believed to be only a prophet by both th Jews and Muslims.

Who is Jesus Christ?

400

Muslims trace their lineage through this first son of Abraham and brother of Isaac.

Who is Ishmael?

500

Shavuot celebrates the day that the Israelites received this foundational book.

What is the Torah

500

This holiday is the Islamic New Year.

What is Muharram?

500

In the Progressive sect of Judaism, women are allowed to become this type of religious leader.

What is a rabbi?

500

Both religions reject the concept of this tendency to commit wrongdoings, which in the Catholic Faith is given to humans at birth.

What is original sin?

500

The number of laws in the Jewish faith outnumbers the pillars of Islam by this number, whose digits add up to 14.

What is 608?

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