Sfarad in English
Spain
Ashkenaz in English
Germany
Beit Hamikdash in English
Holy Temple
Destroyed the Temple
Roman
Where Mizrachi Jews come from
Middle East
Year the Jews got kicked out of Spain
1492
Jews whose ancestors come from Germany are called
Ashkenazim
What replaced sacrifice when the Beit Mikdash was destroyed
Prayer
Who the Maccabees defeated
Greek
Language Mizrachim spoke when they arrived in Israel
Arabic
Sfardim
Important Ashkenazic personality alive or dead
Mila Kunis, Voladimir Zelensky, Einstein, Barbra Streisand, Rashi, Gluckel of Hamelin
70 CE
Where the Purim story took place
Persian
One of the 2 ways Mizrachim have influenced Israeli culture
Music
Religion that was the ruling one when Jews did well in Spain
Islam/Muslims
The "Ashkenazic" country that had most European Jews in the 1600s and later
Poland
The furniture kept in the Holy of Holies in the Beit Mikdash
Ark of the Convenant
Controlled Palestine until WWI
(Ottoman) Turkish
The second of the 2 ways Mizrachim have influenced Israeli culture
Food
Ladino
Special language of Ashkenazic Jews
Yiddish
Yochanan ben Zakai
Priest/scholar/rabbi whose students carried him out of Jerusalem in a coffin, and who saved Judaism once the Beit Mikdash was destroyed.
Took the Jews into exile after Solomon's Temple was destroyed (and was later conquered by the Persian
Babylonian
A country Mizrachi Jews come from
Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Algeria, Morocco