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100
The name of the ancient ancestors of the Jewish People.
What are the Hebrews?
100
A set of principles or standards to determine right from wrong.
What are ethics?
100
Term for the learned teacher that leads prayers and worship at a Jewish temple.
What is a rabbi?
100
An eight-day Festival of Light.
What is Hanukkah?
100
"The Law" or the first five books of the Jewish scriptures are called this.
What is the Torah?
200
Often considered the father of Judaism, this prophet first led the nomadic Hebrews to Canaan about 4,000 years ago.
Who was Abraham?
200
Belief in one god.
What is monotheism?
200
He helped win the battle with the Philistines and established a Kingdom with Jerusalem as the capital
Who was David?
200
The weekly day of worship and observance - for Jews, this falls on a Saturday.
What is the Sabbath?
200
The term often used for a Jewish temple.
What is a synagogue?
300
The term often used for the Hebrews escape from slavery and the Pharaoh of Egypt.
What is the Exodus?
300
A sacred agreement or contract; Jews believe God made one with the Jews through Abraham and another through Moses?
What is a covenant?
300
Led his people out of slavery in Egypt.
Who was Moses?
300
The ceremony where a boy becomes a man at age 13 under Jewish law.
What is a bar mitzvah?
300
"The Law" or the first five books of the Jewish scriptures are called this.
What is the Torah?
400
History has many examples of this, a term for prejudice against Jews.
What is anti-Semitism?
400
The holiday celebrating the New Year on the Hebrew Calendar.
What is Rosh Hashana?
400
Jews who believe that many old traditions can be modernized.
What are Reform Jews.
400
A language spoken by many Jews from Eastern Europe that blends Hebrew and Germanic languages.
What is Yiddish?
400
The name the ancient Hebrews used for God?
What is Yahweh?
500
The term for the "scattering" of the Jewish people around the world after being kicked out of the holy land.
What is the diaspora?
500
The remaining part of the great temple in Jerusalem, that most Jews today consider the most holy place on earth?
What is the Western ("Wailing") Wall?
500
Jews that practice their religion in a traditional way, obeying the law in a stricter fashion.
What is Orthodox?
500
The meal on Passover commemorating the liberation from slavery in Egypt.
What is a Seder?
500
A major holiday, this is the name for the "day of atonement".
What is Yom Kippur?
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