Celebrities
Comedian and actor from Happy Gilmore
Who is Adam Sandler?
Jewish new year
What is Rosh Hashanah?
Unleavened flat bread that we eat during Passover.
What is Matzah?
Yiddish word for Grandmother
What is Bubbe?
Where Jewish people settled when they came to NYC (1900s)
What is the Lower East Side?
Actor who played Harry Potter
Who is Daniel Radcliff?
Jewish day of atonement
What is Yom Kippur?
Potato pancake, often eaten during Hanukkah
What is a latke?
Yiddish word for drag/carry
What is Schlep?
How old is the Hebrew language
What is 2000 years?
Second woman to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court
Who is Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
Celebration of the fall harvest, spend time in outdoor shelter
What is Sukkot?
Triangle shape, jelly-filled cookies
What is hamentaschen?
Yiddish word for extreme self confidence/audacity
What is Chutzpah?
The name of the boat that G-d helped the animals escape from the flood
What is Noah's Ark?
Actress who starred in the 2017 Wonder Woman movie.
Who is Gal Gadot?
Birthday of the Trees
What is Tu Bishvat?
Name 3 items on the Passover seder plate
What is... (list any 3!)?
Yiddish word for a gossip
What is Yenta?
Percent of Nobel Prize winners who were Jewish
22%
Actor who plays Olaf in Frozen
Who is Josh Gad?
What is Simchat Torah?
Hebrew word for jelly donuts
What is Sufganiyot?
Yiddish word for an upstander
What is mensch?
Amount of Jewish people who live in NYC
1.3 million