Ancient Jewish History
described in the Hebrew Bible as king of the United Monarchy of Israel and Judah. In the Books of Samuel, he is a young shepherd who gains fame first as a musician and later by killing the enemy champion Goliath.
David
was a western region of Imperial Russia with varying borders that existed from 1791 to 1917 in which permanent residency by Jews was allowed and beyond which Jewish residency, permanent or temporary, was mostly forbidden
Pale of Settlement
A Jewish fried food eaten with apple sauce or sour cream
Latke
an Austro-Hungarian Jewish journalist, playwright, political activist, and writer who was the father of modern political Zionism.
Theodore Herzl
It means the catastrophe, it is the Arab name for the War of Independence.
Naqba
The Hebrew Bible identifies him as a fabulously wealthy and wise king of the United Kingdom of Israel. He was also the builder of the First Temple in Jerusalem
Solomon
Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich, was a leading Yiddish author and playwright.[1] The 1964 musical Fiddler on the Roof, based on his stories about Tevye the Dairyman, was the first commercially successful English-language stage production about Jewish life in Eastern Europe
Sholem Aleichem
Often served with horseradish, this dish is made by deboning, grinding, and poaching.
Gefilte Fish
a collective community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The first one, established in 1909, was Degania
kibbutz
Who controlled Palestine before Britain?
Ottoman Turks
in 539 BCE, this Persian king permitted exiled Judeans to return to Judah According to the biblical book of Ezra, construction of the Second Temple started at this time
Cyrus the Great
a Hebrew poem written in 1904 by Hayim Nahman Bialik about the 1903 Kishinev pogrom. The poem is considered "the most influential" if not "the finest" "Jewish poem written since medieval times."
"City of Slaughter"
These two foods are eaten together on Rosh Hashanah
apples and honey
a ship that carried 4,500 Jewish immigrants from France to British Mandatory Palestine on July 11, 1947. Most were Holocaust survivors who had no legal immigration certificates for Palestine.
S.S. Exodus
What was the exact date that Israel was established?
May 14, 1948
The sovereignty of the Judean kingdom in the land of Israel came to an abrupt end with the destruction of Jerusalem and the exile of the leading citizens to this city in 586 B.C.E
Babylon
was a Jewish mystic and healer from Poland, who is regarded as the founder of Hasidic Judaism.
Baal Shem Tov
an Eastern European Jewish food made of matzah meal, egg, water, and flour. It is served in chicken broth often accompanied by carrots, celery, and chicken. Often called "Jewish penicillin"
Matzoh Ball Soup
This conflict between Israel and the neighboring states of Jordan, Syria, and Egypt is known as "The Setback". Israel seized the Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip from Egypt, the West Bank and East Jerusalem from Jordan, and the Golan Heights.
Six Day War
was the primary national founder of the State of Israel and the first Prime Minister of Israel. He was the preeminent leader of the Jewish community in British Mandate Palestine from 1935 until the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, which he led until 1963
Ben Gurion
also called the "weeping prophet", was one of the major prophets of the Hebrew Bible. His early messages to the people were condemnations of them for their false worship and social injustice, with summons to repentance.
Jeremiah
was the execution of thirteen Soviet Jews in the Lubyanka Prison in Moscow, Russian, Soviet Union on 12 August 1952.
Night of the Murdered Poets
Play dreidel to win this treat.
gelt
The war began when the Arab coalition launched a joint surprise attack on Israeli positions, during a widely observed day of rest, fasting, and prayer in Judaism
Yom Kippur War
Located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline and with a population of 460,613, it is the economic and technological center of the country.
Tel Aviv