The Hebrew Word that means righteousness or justice but is often translated as charity
What is Tzedakah?
100
The program of the Roman Catholic Church that found and punished people the church considered heretics--those who held beliefs different than Christians
What is the Inquisition or the Spanish Inquisition
100
Judah P. Benjamin tried establishing a Jewish homeland in Grand Island, New York, near the Niagara Falls (he was sort of a forerunner of the Zionist movement). He called the Jewish homeland Ararat after the mountain in Turkey where Noah's Ark landed. How many Jews eventually settled in Ararat.
What is zero?
100
This European country is where Reform Judaism began.
What is Germany?
100
During the Civil War, those opposed to slavery were called this.
What is abolitionists?
200
Tikun Olam Means This
What is repair the world?
200
In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue. What else happened this year?
What is the Jews got kicked out of Spain?
200
Hatred or discrimination against Jews is most often referred to by this term.
What is anti-semitism?
200
* An American Reform rabbi who helped establish the UAHC (Union of American Hebrew Congregations) and the first Reform movement seminary, the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati (where Rabbi Bob and Rabbi Cosnowsky attended).
Who is Isaac Mayer Wise?
200
This Jewish man, a U.S. Senator for Louisiana, became secretary of war and state under Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy.
What is Judah P. Benjamin?
300
What is the Torah?
What is the first five books of the bible?
300
Many Jews fled to the Netherlands when they got kicked out of Portugal. Who was the most famous Jew who lived in Amsterdam, the capital of The Netherlands during WWII?
Who is Anne Frank?
300
Gated sections of Western European cities where Jews were restricted to live.
What is ghettos?
300
Upon arriving in the United States, many Jews travelled from town to town to sell merchandise door to door. What is this occupation called?
What is a peddler?
300
An area consisting of modern day Russia, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine, and other countries, where Jews were forced to live to present the spreading of the Jewish population throughout the Russian Empire.
What is The Pale?
400
The five books of the Torah
What is Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy?
400
Where did the first Jewish community begin?
What is New Amsterdam or New York?
400
* The French leader who spread religious freedom and opened up the ghetto gates in Europe.
What is Napoleon?
400
This teaching, taken from two different verses in the Book of Leviticus, states that you shall "love your neighbor as yourself" and is known as this.
What is The Golden Rule?
400
Yiddish term for small rural towns where many Jews were restricted to live in Czarist Russia.
What is Shtetls
500
What we call Jews from Spain or the Mediterranean
What is Sephardic?
500
This important American wrote to the Jews of Touro Synagogue (the oldest synagogue in the United States, located in New Port, Rhode Island), "The Government of the United States...gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance..."
Who is George Washington
500
The word used when Jews (or other minority groups) gradually adopts the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture.
What is assimilation?
500
Two of the Ten Commandments found in the Book Of Exodus that discussed Shabbat and coveting another person's property were often quoted by people in the 1800s to support this institution.
What is slavery?
500
* Riots aimed at a particular minority group, destroying property, attacking those who resist even murdering. Many occurred against the Jews in Czarist Russia.