Religion
This is the name of the Hebrews' religion.
What is Judaism?
This is the term used to refer to the belief in one god.
What is monotheism?
She was seen as a model of devotion to one's family.
Who was Ruth?
This is the story of Moses and how he led the Jews out of Egypt.
What is the exodus?
This is the name the Hebrews gave themselves when they returned to Canaan.
What are the Israelites?
Under this King, Jerusalem became the capital of the Israelites.
Who was King David?
This is a joyous Jewish holiday celebrating the salvation of the Jewish people from a planned massacre in ancient Persia.
What is Purim?
This is THE most sacred text in Judaism.
What is the Torah?
This is a Jewish house of worship.
What is a synagogue?
He was the first King of the Jews
Who was Saul?
Moses led the Jews out of this country.
What is Egypt?
Women did not have as many of these as men in Jewish law.
What are rights?
This was one of the Kingdoms formed when Israel first split apart. It starts with a J.
What is Judah?
This is the Jewish New Year, celebrated as a two-day festival beginning in September or October, depending on the Jewish calendar.
What is Rosh Hashanah?
These are people who receive messages from god.
Who are prophets?
These papers helped scholars learn about how the Jews lived around 2,000 years ago.
What are the Dead Sea Scrolls?
This Rabbi helped the Judaic spirit survive the destruction of the temple and the loss of Jerusalem.
Who is Rabbi Ben Zaccai?
A series of these is what prompted the Pharaoh of Egypt to let the Hebrews leave.
What are plagues?
This is the name for a leader of a Jewish community.
What is a Rabbi?
Abraham moved to this land in what is now called Israel. It starts with a C.
What is Canaan?
This is a seven-day Jewish festival, known as the "Festival of Booths" or "Feast of Tabernacles," where you get to build a hut and eat out in the hut.
What is Sukkot?
The first Muslims believed that they were descendants from this Hebrew.
Who was Abraham?
This part of the week comes down to us from the Jews' practice of honoring the Sabbath?
What is the weekend?
This is the first part of the Hebrew Bible.
What is the Torah?
He was the Pharoah at the time of the exodus.
Who was Ramses?
This is a solemn day of commemoration for the approximately six million Jews murdered by the Nazi regime and its collaborators
What is Yom HaShoah?
This King built a great temple in Jerusalem.
Who was Solomon?
This is the Jewish Day of Atonement, the holiest and most solemn day in Judaism
What is Yom Kippur?
This revolt caused the Jews to move all over the world starting with the Mediterranean region.
What is the Revolt of Maccabees?
He is known as the father of the Jews.
Who was Abraham?
She was a Jewish Queen of a Persian King.
Who was Esther?
If Jews placed this over their door-ways then God would pass over their homes and not smite their first born sons.
What was the blood of a lamb?
This is the word to describe food that is prepared according to Jewish dietary laws.
What is kosher?
This king was first a servant to King Saul. He is said to have fought Goliath.
Who was King David?
This is the eight-day Jewish "Festival of Lights" celebrating the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem
What is Chanukah?
The revolt of the Maccabees led to this Jewish holiday.
What is Channukah?
This was the language developed by the Ashkenazim.
What is Yiddish?
This prophet lead the Jews out of Egypt and to freedom.
Who was Moses?
These are said to have given to Moses by God during the escape from Egypt, when he climbed Mount Sinai.
What are the 10 Commandments?
This is the scattering of Jews outside of Israel and Judah. This happened during the time that Jews in Judah were ruled by the Greeks, in the last few centuries of BCE.
What is the diaspora?
She is said to be the wife of Abraham who gave birth to Ishmael, through which the Muslims are said to have descended from.
Who was Hagar?
Also known as Pesach, this is an eight-day Jewish festival (seven days in Israel) celebrated in early spring to commemorate the biblical Exodus, where Israelites were liberated from slavery in Egypt
What is Passover?