Jewish Holidays
This is the holiday that we celebrate every week with challah, candles, juice and rest.
What is Shabbat?
He led the Jews out of the desert for 40 years.
Moses
This scroll contains 5 books that tell the story of the Jewish people. It and was given to Moses by God at Mount Sinai.
What is the Torah?
A Jewish potato pancake
What is a latke?
The first and last letters of the aleph bet.
What is aleph and tav?
This is the holiday on which we light the candles on the Menorah to remember the Maccabees triumph and their oil lasting for 8 nights.
What is Chanukah?
This man was married to Sarah. He is the father of all monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. He smashed his father's idols and left his home to go to a new land God would show him.
Who is Abraham?
This plate is used on Passover and contains an egg, a shank bone, parsley, bitter herbs, lettuce and sometimes an orange!
What is a seder plate?
This was one of the most famous scientists in modern history. He came up with the theory of relativity and needed a good haircut.
Who is Albert Einstein?
This holiday celebrates the birthday of the trees.
What is Tu B'Shevat?
This is the sister of Moses who kept him safe during Pharaoh's decree to kill all Jewish babies by hiding him in a basket in the Nile.
Who is Miriam?
It contains the Shema and is found on a doorpost to a Jewish home.
What is a Mezuzah?
This is arguably the greatest Jewish athlete of all time.
Who is Sandy Koufax?
These are the Hebrew letters on the dreidel we spin during Chanukah. They are an acronym for the sentence Nes Gadol Haya Sham, or A Great Miracle Happened There.
This is the holiday that we celebrate the Jewish New Year by listening to the shofar and eating apples dipped in honey.
What is Rosh HaShanah?
He was able to interpret dreams and this (along with his amazing coat) got his brothers very jeaous.
Who is Joseph?
We eat this unleavened bread on Passover.
What is a matzah?
This Israeli actress played Wonder Woman.
Who is Gal Gadot?
This is the Hebrew word for charity.
Tzedakah
During this holiday, we atone for our sins. We say sorry to those we may have harmed. We throw bread or flower into the water to metaphorically cast away our sins in a Tashlich ceremony.
What is Yom Kippur?
These two midwives (women who help mothers deliver babies) helped save Moses and many Jewish boys by refusing Pharaoh's order to kill all the male Hebrew babies.
Who is Shifra and Pua?
This is a ram's horn that we blow on Rosh Hashanah to signify the beginning of a new year.
What is a shofar?
Her poem graces the Statue of Liberty in NYC Harbor with these words: 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses . . '
Emma Lazarus
This is the Hebrew phrase for "Repair the World".
Tikkun Olam