Government
First Jewish candidate to win a U.S. presidential primary
Bernie Sanders
American whiskey often abbreviated by the initials shared by the elusive Jewish author of The Catcher in the Rye.
JD (Jack Daniels)
Three-time Oscar-winning film director of E.T. and Jurassic Park
Stephen Spielberg
Born Robert Zimmerman, he became famous with the song, “Blowin’ in the Wind”
Bob Dylan
Hall-of-famer, Hank Greenberg, played for the Major League Baseball team in this city, nicknamed Motown
Detroit
BONUS: Dodgers player who refused to pitch on Yom Kippur
A university in Waltham, Mass is named for this first Jewish Supreme Court justice
Louis Brandeis
Manishewitz makes kosher wine from a grape named after this Massachusetts town
Concord
This actress converted to Judaism at the age of 27, and starred alongside half-Jewish actor, Paul Newman, in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Elizabeth Taylor
Bradley Cooper played this composer/conductor who wrote West Side Story in the 2023 film, Maestro
Leonard Bernstein
Wrongly translated from the Hebrew for “Sea of Reeds”, this body of water is connected to the Mediterranean by the Suez Canal
Red Sea
A king of Judah ~3000 years ago allegedly assassinated his political opponent, Goliath, with this weapon
Sling shot
English translation of “L’Chaim”, Hebrew for “cheers”
To life
Jewish actor, Timothee Chalamet, recently played the magical chocolatier first portrayed on film by this other Jewish actor
Gene Wilder
One of the few multiple inductees to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and the principal songwriter for The Velvet Underground
Lou Reed
Nearly half of New York City’s 1.3 million Jews live in this borough
Brooklyn
Al Gore's running mate in the 2000 presidential election who died in March
Joe Lieberman
JACS is a Jewish alternative to this abstinence-based sobriety fellowship
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)
The highest-grossing box office star of all time, this actress received Academy Award nominations for two different movies in 2019, Marriage Story and Jojo Rabbit
Scarlett Johansson
Noted German-born violinist who also found time to revolutionize modern physics
Albert Einstein
A long-running Broadway show about a Jewish milkman and his family takes place in this country
Russia (Ukraine)
BONUS: The town where they lived
8th and most recently appointed Jewish Supreme Court justice
Elana Kagan
Kiddush is the blessing said on the Sabbath and other holidays over bread and wine, or this alternative beverage
Grape juice
The film, The Gentleman’s Agreement, won the Best Picture Oscar in 1947, starring this Catholic actor portraying a newspaper reporter pretending to be Jewish in order to understand antisemitism
Gregory Peck
Known for her “adventurous hairstyles”, singer Alecia Beth Moore renamed herself for this pastel color
Pink
Egyptian peninsula bordering Israel, and the mountain where Moses purportedly received the Ten Commandments
Sinai