Jewish Holidays
What holiday celebrates the Jewish New Year?
What is Rosh Hashanah?
Who is considered the first patriarch of Judaism?
Who is Abraham?
What bread is braided and eaten on Shabbat?
What is Challah?
What city is considered holy to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam?
What is Jerusalem?
What holiday is known as the Festival of Lights?
What is Hanukkah?
Who led the Israelites out of Egypt?
Who is Moses?
What potato dish is fried and eaten on Hanukkah?
What is Latkes?
In what year was the modern State of Israel founded?
What is 1948?
What holiday commemorates the Exodus from Egypt?
What is Passover (Pesach)?
Which Jewish woman became Queen of Persia and saved her people?
Who is Esther?
What triangular pastry is eaten on Purim?
What is Hamantaschen ?
What sea in Israel is the lowest point on Earth?
What is the Dead Sea?
What holiday involves fasting for 25 hours and asking for forgiveness?
What is Yom Kippur?
Who was the first Prime Minister of Israel?
Who is David Ben-Gurion?
What flatbread is eaten during Passover?
What is Matzah?
What desert covers much of southern Israel?
What is the Negev Desert?
What spring holiday celebrates Jewish survival from Haman’s plot in ancient Persia?
What is Purim?
Who is the medieval Jewish philosopher who wrote The Guide for the Perplexed?
Who is Maimonides (Rambam)?
What is the traditional braided candle lit at the end of Shabbat called?
What is Havdalah candle?
What is the name of the ancient fortress where Jews resisted the Romans?
What is Masada?