Jewish Foods
These two items are associated with shabbat dinner and lunch.
What are challah & wine/grape juice?
This is the major Jewish holiday celebrated in spring time.
What is Passover/Pesach?
These are Jacob's parents and paternal grandparents.
Who are Isaac/Rebecca and Avraham/Sarah?
This prayer is said immediately upon waking in the morning.
What is Modeh Ani?
This Jewish philosopher wrote the 13 articles of Jewish faith.
Who is Rabbi Moshe Ben Maimon? (aka Rambam/Maimonides)
Name 4 foods found on a Pesach seder plate
What are the Hard boiled egg/ Charoset/ parsley/ potato/ Maror (bitter herbs)/ shank bone?
The festival of tabernacles or booths
What is Sukkot?
The biggest sin the Israelites committed while traveling in the desert to Israel.
What is the sin of the golden calf ?
This is the first of the Ten Commandments.
What is "I am the Lord your God, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage."
This book is considered the most important text for Jewish ethics.
What is Pirkei Avot (Ethics of the Fathers)?
We eat these triangle shaped cookies on Purim.
What areHamantaschen?
This Jewish holiday marks the beginning of spring in the land of Israel and celebrates the birthday of the trees.
What is Tu'B'shvat
This is the year that the State of Israel was established as an independent country.
What is 1948?
These are the days of a week that we read from the Torah.
What are Mondays, Thursdays and Shabbat?
His “Wild Things” characters are famous for igniting children’s imaginations for decades.
Who is Maurice Sendak?
These are the two foods most commonly eaten on Hanukkah.
What are Latkes/Levivot & doughnuts/sufganiyot?
This is the literal meaning of Rosh Hashanah.
What is "the head of the year"?
This is the name of the last standing wall that surrounded the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem.
What is the Kotel/Western Wall?
We say this brakha on new occasions and at the beginning of holidays.
What is SheHekhianu?
שֶׁהֶחֱיָנוּ
This Social Media commentator and Israeli author became well known after October 7th for her passionate defense of the Jewish state.
Who is Noah Tishby?
What is Matzah?
The Holiest day of the Jewish Calendar
What is Yom Kippur?
The man who popularized the concept of Zionism and the importance of a Jewish country in Israel.
Who is Theodore Herzl?
This prayer is found inside of a mezuzah.
What is the Shema?
A towering story of biblical proportions, this author’s “Exodus” won awards in 1959.
Who is Leon Uris?
These type of foods are traditionally eaten on Shavuot.
What are dairy foods?
This holiday celebrates the giving of the Ten Commandments.
What is Shavuot?
The title of the Israeli/Jewish national anthem
What is Hatikvah (The Hope)?
This is a collection of Rabbinical discussions about the Oral Law, comprised of the Mishnah and the Gemara.
What is the Talmud?
This Jewish American memoirist's book “Inheritance” described her Catholic parents.
Who is Dani Shapiro?