Holidays
The holiday Jews celebrate every week
What is Shabbat?
The ancestral language of the Jews
What is Hebrew? ...א,ב,ג,ד,ה
Musical about a Jewish family from Eastern Europe
What is Fiddler on the roof?
A very important scroll with the 5 books of Moses in it.
What is the Torah?
A celebration of the transition to Jewish adulthood at age 12.5 or 13 involving the reading of torah for the first time
What is a B'nei (Bat/Bar) mitzvah?
A festival of re-dedication of the ancient temple of Jerusalem. Involves dreidels now.
What is Chanukah?
A good person
what isn a Mensh
A famous Jewish folktale about a clay creature brought to life to be a guardian and how that went badly.
What is the Golem?
Mountain where Torah and 10 commandments were received
What is mount. Sinai
A description of the Jewish afterlife
What is... we don't have a clue but we do have a ton of cool theories and very conflicting opinions?
A holiday that celebrates freedom from slavery in Egypt
What is Pesach / Passover?
Current year in the Jewish calendar
What is 5785?
A set of stories about the most foolish wise men of all...
What are the wise men of Chelm?
Name of famous king who threatened to cut a baby in half
King Solomon
A ceremony in which people sign a fancy paper detailing how their assets should be handled if they divorce. Involving blessings, wine glass crushing, dancing and family.
What is a wedding?
A Jewish holiday of love involving unmarried women wearing white and dancing in viniards.
What is Tu'Bav
Language spoken by Eastern European Jews
What is Yiddish?
Ritualistic immersion in water common for observant married women each month
What is a mikvah?
Names of ancient Jewish kingdoms in the land that is now modern day Israel.
What are Cannan and Judea?
Ceremony for mourning the dead involving mourners sitting on small chairs
What is sitting Shiva?
Holy day for repenting sins and self reflection.
Yom Kippur
Name of any 3 of the twelve sons or tribes of Israel.
Who are the tribes:
or sons Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph, and Benjamin