Torah Portion(s)
What is (one of the) name(s) of this week's torah portion?
Vayakhel-Pekudei
How many days is the holiday of passover?
8 days
אִלוּ הוֹצִיאָנוּ מִמִצְרָיִם
Translation: If He had brought us out of Egypt
What is the name of the women with autism we watched a movie about?
Temple Grandin
Which basketball team plays home games at Madison Square Garden?
The New York Knicks
What are the Jewish people building in this week's torah portion?
The sanctuary/mishkan/tabernacle
What is the name of unleavened (bread that hasn't risen) bread?
Matzah
וְלֹא הָרַג אֶת בְּכוֹרֵיהֶם
Translation: And did not kill the first borns
Who is the only female prime minister in Israeli history?
Golda Meir
What comic book series is the show Riverdale based on?
Archie
What is one of the materials used to build the sanctuary?
Gold, silver, copper, blue/purple/red dyed wool. goat hait, linen, animal skins, wood, olive oil, precious herbs and stones
What is the name of the book we use at the pesach seder?
The hagaddah
אִלוּ הֶעֱבִירָנוּ בְּתוֹכוֹ בֶּחָרָבָה
Translation: If he had taken us through the sea on dry land
What is the name of Moses' sister?
(extra points if you know some of the things she did)
Miriam
(suggested they put Moses afloat in the Nile, encouraged Pharoh's son to let their mother be Moses' midwife, and ultimately led the women and children to freedom)
Which Canadian hockey player is considered the greatest of all time?
Wayne Gretzky?
How many branches does the menorah have?
7
What is the reason for eating matzah every year on passover?
Because that's what the Jews ate when they left Egypt
(also to represent the suffering and eventual freedom of the Jewish people)
וְלֹא סִפֵּק צָרַכֵּנוּ בַּמִדְבָּר אַרְבָּעִים שָׁנָה
Translation: And had not supplied our needs in the desert for forty years
Who is Yocheved?
Moses' mother
What color is a giraffe's tongue?
Purple
What appears over the sanctuary upon it's completion and follows the Jews throughout the rest of their journey through the desert?
A cloud (that represented G-d's presence)
How many glasses of wine/grapejuice do we drink at the Pesach seder?
4
וְלֹא בָּנָה לָנוּ אֶת בֵּית הַמִּקְדָּשׁ
And not built for us the Holy Temple
What country did Golda flee from due to religious persecution?
Russia
Who was the first person to win American Idol?
Kelly Clarkson