This is the only continent where is no Jewish community.
What is Antarctica?
100
On Purim Jews around the world read from this scroll.
What is the megillah?
100
These two languages are the official languages of the modern State of Israel.
What are Hebrew and Arabic?
100
These three cornered cookies are said to come from the German for poppy seed pockets.
What are Hamantaschen?
100
Her Hebrew name was Hadas but this most famous of all Persian Jews was better known by her Persian name for which a biblical scroll is named.
Who was Esther?
200
Under the gaze of Lady Liberty, this country welcomed more Jewish immigrants from Europe than any other.
What is the United States?
200
The silly performance of the Megillah story takes its name from the Yiddish word to play.
What is the Shpiel?
200
Jews from Eastern Europe spoke this mixture of Hebrew and German.
What is Yiddish?
200
The Hebrew name for Hamantaschen comes from the name for a North African Jewish cookie which means, Haman's ear.
What are Oznei Haman?
200
The name of the city where Esther and Mordechai lived.
What is Shushan?
300
Jews were airlifted from this African country to Israel during Operation Moses in 1984 and Operation Solomon in 1991.
What is Ethiopia?
300
The special mitzvah of giving gifts to the poor on Purim.
What are matanot la'evyonim?
300
Fluent in Hebrew and Arabic Jews from North Africa and the Middle East developed a language that mixed the two.
What is Judeo-Arabic?
300
Jews from this country eat ravioli and other stuffed pasta on Purim.
What is Italy?
300
This is the modern name of ancient Persia.
What is Iran?
400
The four major groups of Jews from this Asian country are Cochin Jews, Baghdadi Jews, Bene Israel, and B’nei Menashe.
What is India?
400
The exchange of gifts of food at Purim that allows friends to share and connect.
What is Mishloach Manot?
400
Ladino is the language spoken by Jews who were forced to leave this country in 1492.
What is Spain?
400
Chinese Jews eat these dumplings filled with a hidden center at Purim.
What are wontons?
400
Jamshid "Jimmy" Delshad, who was born in Shiraz, has twice served as the mayor of this fancy LA town home to Rodeo Drive.
What is Beverly Hills?
500
The Jewish community in this country was founded in Kaifeng, which lies north of Beijing on the Yellow River.
What is China?
500
The special meal eaten to celebrate Purim.
What is Se'udat Purim?
500
The word Purim means lots, because Haman drew lots to see when he would destroy the Jews. The word came into Hebrew from this Persian language.
What is Farsi?
500
At Purim, kreplach, meat filled dumplings take on special meaning as one of many hidden foods. But they were a year round favorite in this region.
What is Eastern Europe?
500
After the Islamic revolution in 1976, so many Persian Jews settled in this large California city that there are many kosher markets and shops that still speak Farsi.