Jewish Holidays
Jewish History
Holocaust
Jewish Texts
Israel
100

The Jewish new year

What is Rosh Hashanah?

100
This was a time of great prosperity in Jewish history in Spain

What is the Golden Age of Spain? 

100

These are the non-Jews who helped save Jews during the Holocaust

What are righteous among the nations

100

This is the amount of books in the Torah.  

What is five?

100

This is the name of the desert in Israel

What is the Negev? 

200

This is the holiday when we sleep in temporary dwellings

What is Sukkot? 

200

The king who rebuilt the second temple

Who is Herod?

200

This is the name of the trials that held Nazis accountable for their actions during the Holocaust

What are the Nuremberg Trials


200

This is the first book of Torah that has the story of creation

What is Bereshit? OR What is Genesis? 

200

This is the kibbutz in the north of Israel that borders Lebanon

What is Kibbutz Hanita? 

300

The book we read on Purim

What is megilat Esther? 

300

These are the small towns in Eastern Europe where Jews lived. 

What are Shtetls? 

300

This is the name of the Holocaust museum in Jerusalem

What is Yad Vashem

300
This is the name of the second book of the Torah, in Hebrew or English

What is Shmot or Exodus? 

300

This is the peace agreement made between Israel and the United Arab Emirates

What is the Abraham Accords? 

400

Yom Hashoa is commemorated on the anniversary of this event

What is the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising? 

400

This is the year the second temple was destroyed.

What is 70 CE? 

400

The years the Nuremberg Trials took place

What is 1945-1946


400

This is what Tanach stands for in Hebrew or in English

Torah, Neviim, ktuvim OR Torah, prophets, writings

400

This is the first prime minister of Israel

Who is David Ben-Gurion? 

500

This is the holiday when we honor the memory of fallen soldiers in Israel and victims of terror

What is Yom Hazikaron? 

500

This word describes means the state of being barred from one's home country. It applies to the Jews being kicked out of Israel after the destruction of the temples.

What is exile? 

500

These are the names of three Holocaust survivors we heard from this year

Who is Eva, Steve, Lou, Lya

500

This is a book of codes, Jewish law, and stories written by rabbis during the first exile

What is the Talmud

500

This Milat Hayom means meeting or encounter

What is Mifgash? 

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