Jewish History/Tradition
This is the holiday celebrated by not eating bread.
What is Passover/Pesach?
One of the most common Indigenous names for North America (Haudenosaunee and Anishnaabeg).
What is Turtle Island?
This is the city in North America with the highest Jewish population.
What is New York?
This is the percentage of McGill's student body that is Indigenous.
What is .8%?
This is the year that Am McGill started.
What is 2017?
This woman saved the Jews in Persia with the help of her uncle.
Who is Esther?
One of these is not traditional Native food: Pemmican, Moose, Bannock, Maize
What is Bannock?
This man was one of the most influential Jews from Canada and wrote such songs as "Hallelujah."
Who is Leonard Cohen?
The Inuit circumpolar region includes Canada, Alaska, Russia, and this territory.
What is Greenland?
This is the year the Indigenous Student's Alliance started.
What is 2012?
This is the year that the Second Temple was destroyed.
Corn, beans, and squash belong to this indigenous food entity.
What are the "three sisters"?
These are the names of the three largest denominations in Judaism.
What are Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox Judaism?
This city has the largest Indigenous population in Canada.
What is Winnipeg?
This is what both of our communities are in North America.
What are minorities?
This person is the supposed founder of Hasidism.
Who is the Ba'al Shem Tov?
Located on Iroquois territory, Jacques Cartier established Quebec's capital on this indigenous settlement.
What is Stadacona?
Physical Challenge! Each team will form the Star of David with their bodies and we will choose the best one!
And the winner is....
This is the year that the last residential school closed in Canada.
What is 1996?
This is the name of Montreal in Kanienkeha (Mohawk language).
What is Tio:take?
This prayer is to be said three times a day, and is mentioned in the first line of the Mishnah.
What is the Shema?
This is the percentage of landowners that enslaved Indigenous peoples in the neighbourhood of St Paul in Montreal.
What is 50%?
This is the percentage of the world's population that identifies as Jewish.
What is .2%?
This Canadian City has the largest Inuit population outside of the Arctic.
What is Ottawa?
This Montreal Jew wrote The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959).
Who is Mordecai Richler?