Covenant
A lasting attraction between atoms, for example ionic or covalent. (4 letters)
What is a Bond?
This is the pointer that the reader of the Torah uses to help others follow along.
What is the Yad?
In a standard deck of UNO, there are 8 skip cards and 8 of this card.
What is Reverse?
Brangelina
Who are Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie?
This famous gift was filled with Greek soldiers ready to attack Troy.
What is the Trojan Horse?
Besides Shavuot, these two other Jewish holidays are also known as pilgrim festivals. (DD!)
What are Passover and Sukkot?
A heavily Sephardic beach town in NJ. (4 letters)
What is Deal?
These Jews typically do not cover their Torah in a mantle, but rather house them in an ornamental wooden cage called a tik.
What are Mizrahi Jews?
This 'midnight rider' warned the colonists about the approach of the British forces.
Who is Paul Revere?
Kimye
Who are Kim Kardashian and Kanye West?
Designed by Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, this 1884 gift from France to the US took four months to assemble!
What is the Statue of Liberty?
This is the name of Shavuot missing from the list below:
Zman Matan Torahteinu
Shavuot
Chag Hakatzir
Atzeret
What is Chag Habikurim?
A Honda model (6 letters)
What is an Accord?
This is the sash often used to tie the Torah scroll so that the Torah remains closed and secured under its velvet covering in Ashkenazi tradition.
What is the Gartel?
In this 2015 Alejandro Innarritu film starring Leonardo DiCaprio, the main character has a near fatal run in with a bear.
What is The Revenant?
TomKat
Who are Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes?
Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing, gifts to the US to commemorate President Nixon's historic visit to China, were a pair of these.
What are giant pandas?
He was Ruth's great grandson?
Who is King David?
A product that usually includes a mirror, face powder and a powder puff. (7 letters)
What is a Compact?
These are the two wooden shafts attached to either end of the Torah scroll, around which it is rolled.
What are the Atzei Chayim?
The restaurant, "The View" on top of the Marriott Marquis in Times Square is unique because it is the only restaurant in New York that does this.
What is revolves?
TaCo
Who are Taylor Swift and Connor Kennedy?
One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, these were a gift from King Nebuchadnezzar II to his wife Queen Amytis. Though they have been destroyed for nearly 2000 years, legends of their beauty survive in ancient texts.
What are the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
Shavuot is better to known to Christians as this term, from the Greek for fifty. (DD!)
What is Pentecost?
A specific agreement between partners to give an unusual meaning to a bid in the card game Bridge. (10 letters)
What is a Convention?
This is one of the two types of kosher parchment allowed to be used for a Torah.
What is a Gevil or Klaf?
This is defined as the persistence of sound after that sound has been produced.
What is reverberation?
Spederline
Who are Britney Spears and Kevin Federline?
This comically ironic 1905 O. Henry short story tells the tale of a husband and wife who can barely afford Christmas presents for each other. (DD!)
What is the Gift of the Magi?
It is customary to eat dairy on Shavuot. This is the gematria of the word Chalav.
What is 40?