What is the first letter of the Aleph Bet?
Aleph ( now draw it)
Jewish New Year
Rosh Hashana
Who are the first Jews/Isralites in the Torah?
Abraham and Sarah
Unleavened flat bread that we eat during Passover.
Matzoh
The most common language spoken in Israel
Hebrew
This letter
Mem
Celebration of the fall harvest, spend time in outdoor shelter
Sukkot
Their name means “drawn from water," had a special connection with God, and led us from slavery in Egypt
Moses
Potato pancake, often eaten during Hanukkah
Latke
This King of Israel was famous for his harp playing and his slaying of Goliath, a giant Philistine.
King David
What Hebrew letters are on the dreidel
Shin, Nun gimel, Hey
Birthday of the Trees
Tu Bishvat
One of the youngest brothers in a big family who had a special ability to interpret people’s dreams and foretell the future. His brothers despised him so much when they were younger that they sold him as a slave
Joseph
Triangle shape, jelly-filled cookies
Hamantashen
This is the Hebrew word for giving charity.
What is tzedakah?
The name of this letter
What is Yud
When you reach the end of the Torah on Simchat Torah, what do you do next?
You start over from the beginning because our reading of the Torah never ends just like our learning is never over
Jacob is given a new name before he reunites with his twin brother, Esau. In a dream where he sees himself wrestling with an angel, the angel gives him a new name as _____
Israel
Name 3 items on the Passover seder plate
any 3
This holiday we celebrate our freedom from slavery in Egypt
Passover
The name of this letter
What is Lamed?
Celebration of the fall harvest, spend time in outdoor shelter
Sukkot
This prophet symbolically visits us each Passover at our seders and was famous for going up to Heaven alive in a chariot of fire.
Elijah
Hebrew word for jelly donuts
Sufganyot
What is it called when someone is called up to read the blessing for the Torah?
An alliyah. It literally means "going up" because they aren't just physically going up the bimah to the Torah but they are also going up spiritually as they get close to the Torah