Adath Israel Trivia
The Year Adath Israel was Founded
What is 1946?
Name two of Iran's Proxies
Hizbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Huttis...
Year the State of Israel was founded
What is 1948?
The Name of this week's Parasha
Korah
John Kruk played for....
The Phils
What is the next upcoming Jewish holiday?
Name three past Adath Clergy
Can you Do it?
Cantors: Bernie Lowe, Lizzie Shamash
Rabbis: Berkowitz, Chazan, Wernick, Rubin, Yanoff, Rosen, Markowitz
True or False: The Majority of the Population of Iran wants a regime change
True--ish -- most are moderate modern people, but a minority group of Religio-Fascists are in charge of the country currently
First Prime Minister of Israel
Korach and his followers died thusly
By having the earth open up and swallow them whole
Dikembe Mutombo played for...
The Sixers
True or False: Chicken is Neither Meat nor Dairy
FALSE... unfortunately, false. It is absolutely Meat.
Where else has Adath Israel been located?
Where MLRT is now, and somewhere near Lancaster and Haverford Aves in Wynnewood.
This seminal ancient Jewish text was composed/redacted in Iran
What is the Babylonian Talmud?
The internationally recognized capitol of Israel is...
Tel Aviv (but it should be Jerusalem)
Korach was related to whom?
Moses and Aaron -- as he was a Levite... just not a Cohen.
Bernie Parent played for...
The Flyers
The word "Kugel" is related to the German word for this.
What is ball?
Name two Jewish institutions that used to rent space from Adath Israel
Examples: MLRT, Sha'are Orah, Golden Slipper Gems, USY, Akiba Hebrew Academy, Dropsie College
The name of the Supreme Leader of Iran
Ayatollah Ali Khameni
The four holy cities are...
Jerusalem, Hebron, Tiberius, and Tzfat
The tragedy of this week's parasha is doubled when considering about the incident in last week's parasha. What was that incident?
The 10 spies reporting back that they couldn't conquer the land....
Blaze Riordian played for...
The Philadelphia Wings
What food, according to the Talmud, restores memory? (Note -- This is sort of Ironic)
Fish -- as the talmud teaches that "fish never sleep". If only they knew how dumb fish were...
Name three past Adath Israel Congregational Presidents
Can you do it?
This medieval muslim mystic hailed from Persia
Who is Rumi?
Struggling/Striving/Wrestling with God
The names of Korah's Leutenants
Datan and Aviram
Austin Trusty Played for...
The Philadelphia Union
What mythological animal's pelt is said to have been used for the ancient tabernacle in the desert?
The Unicorn -- but the bible we use in the sanctuary translates the word as "dolphin"