Food
What are you not allowed to eat on passover?
Food that contains leavened grains
What do people wear on Purim to celebrate?
Costumes
In the year, which holiday comes first? Purim or Passover
Purim
Who is the featured queen on Purim?
Queen Esther
What shape is the Jewish symbol
A star
What is the most common food you eat on Purim?
Hamantaschen
What do we shake when we hear Haman's name on Purim?
A Grogger
What country were the Israelites enslaved in?
Egypt
Who is the villain in the Passover story?
The Pharaoh
What is the name of the holy book in Judaism?
The Torah
What do the Bitter herbs represent on Passover?
The bitter times the Israelites had when they were in Egypt
What do kids hunt for during the passover seder?
The Afikoman
What sea did the Israelites cross with Moses?
The Red Sea
Who was the person that wanted to hurt the Jewish people in the Purim story?
Haman
What is the famous sea that you can float in in Israel?
The Dead Sea
What are 3 fillings that you can put on Hamantaschan?
Chocolate, Raspberry Jam, Apricot Jam
What is the book that we read on Passover?
The Haggadah
What did the Red Sea do what the Israelites left the Egypt?
It split
Who is the king during the purim story?
King Achashverosh
Name 5 Jewish Holidays
Answers vary
Name 4 items on the seder plate on Passover?
Maror (Bitter Herbs) Charoset (A sweet fruit/nut mixture), Beitzah (Hard boiled egg), Z'roa (A lamb shank bone)
What is the tradition that we do on Passover to represent the 10 plagues?
We dip our fingers in the wine for each plague and put wine dots on the plate
Name 5 out of the 10 plagues
Water turned to blood, Frogs, Lice (or gnats), Wild animals (or flies), Pestilence (disease on livestock), Boils, Hail, Locusts, Darkness, Death of the firstborn
Who was the cousin who helped Queen Esther and warned the Jewish people?
Mordechai
What is the first book in the Torah?
Genesis