OLAM (geography)
CHESED (tzedakah and kindness)
YIBANEH (building)
Curriculum
MS Rules and Regulation
100
These are the 5 boros of NYC.
What are Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island?
100
This is the most common English translation for the Hebrew word Tzedakah.
What is charity?
100
This famous NYC building is 1,776 feet tall.
What is One World Trade Center?
100
In Toshba, we learned about the Hebrew calendar in comparison to the secular calendar which is also called this.
What is the Gregorian calendar?
100
This is the name of the email Jude sends each afternoon with announcements for the following day.
What is the HaYom?
200
This is the smallest of the 7 continents.
What is Australia?
200
This famous phrase was last year’s school theme.
What is Love your neighbor as you love yourself or וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ כָּמוֹךָ?
200
The Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum, NYC’s oldest building, is located in this borough.
What is Brooklyn?
200
This bone is the longest single bone in your body.
What is the Femur?
200
This is the process Heschel uses to know if students are in school each day.
What is swiping in with an ID card?
300
You can fit three United States of America into this massive continent.
What is Africa?
300
This is an organization that provides emergency assistance and disaster relief throughout the United States.
What is the American Red Cross?
300
This word means the art or practice of designing and constructing buildings.
What is architecture?
300
Rashi thinks “the things in the Bible they ain’t necessarily so” when it comes to this new king and his memory issue.
What is “who did not know Joseph” Rashi thinks he is pretending to not know Joseph.
300
This is how students must exit the school on Fridays.
What is, using Stairway B?
400
From about 280-230 million years ago (Late Paleozoic Era until the Late Triassic), the continent we now know as North America was continuous with Africa, South America, and Europe. They all existed as this single continent.
What is Pangea?
400
This is the name for an organization that provides food for people who are hungry.
What is a soup kitchen or food bank?
400
The first modern skyscraper was built in this American city in 1884-1885.
What is Chicago?
400
This line of latitude lies at 23.5°N.
What is the Tropic of Cancer?
400
These foods are potential allergens, and cannot be brought into school under any circumstances.
What are peanuts, tree nuts, and sesame?
500
See picture.
Skiers enjoy this snow capped mountain in Israel.
What is Mt. Hermon
(Har Chermon)?
500
According to Jewish Tradition this is an act of Hesed Shel Emet.
What is burying the dead.
Hesed Shel Emet is non reciprocal loving kindness- since the dead can’t ever pay you back in a favor.
500
The Great Pyramid is located in this Egyptian city.
What is Giza?
500
Bone breaking, unjust, or arrived at through trickery (sofft mouth) describe this curious Hebrew phrase in the Torah’s story about how Bnai Yisrael become slaves in Egypt in the Book of Shmot.
What is B’Pharech?
500
This is how many students are allowed in the bathroom at a time.
What is three?