Clothing
Food
Customs
Religon
Holidays
100
A thin, slightly-rounded skullcap traditionally worn at all times by Orthodox Jewish men?
What is a Kippah?
100
A simple dough made of cracker (matzo) meal, eggs, fat, and a little water or broth. They're steamed right in a pot of soup where they soak up all the soup's delicious flavor as they cook?
What is Matzo Ball Soup?
100
The name of the Jewish symbol composed of two overlaid equilateral triangles that form a six-pointed star. It appears on synagogues, Jewish tombstones, and the flag of the State of Israel?
What is the Star of David or Shield of David?
100
The five books of Moses (the first books of the Hebrew Bible)?
What is the Torah?
100
A Jewish festival commemorating the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire. It is also known as the Festival of Lights?
What is Hanukkah?
200
A fringed garment, traditionally worn as a prayer shawl by religious Jews.
What is Tallit?
200
A meat-filled Kreplach are served on Purim. A variety with a sweet cheese filling is served as a starter or main dish in dairy meals, specifically on Shavuot. Fried kreplach are also a popular dish on Chanukah because they are fried in oil, which references the oil miracle of Chanukah?
What is kreplach?
200
The Hebrew word for "east" and the direction that Jews in the Diaspora west of Israel face during prayer. Practically speaking, Jews would face the city of Jerusalem when praying.
What is Mizrah?
200
The Jewish house of prayer?
What is a synagogue?
200
The holiday in the Bible, that marks the Exodus of the Children of Israel from Egyptian slavery, when God "passed over" the houses of the Israelites during the last of the ten plagues?
What is Passover?
300
The traditional ancient Jewish headdress, or what is also called a habit?
What is believed to be thousands of years old and referred to in the Bible as headgear, it can also mean 'cloth' or 'handkerchief'?
What is a Sudra?
300
A baked pudding or casserole, most commonly made from egg noodles or potato. It is a traditional Ashkenazi Jewish dish, often served on Shabbat and Yom Tov?
What is Kugel?
300
The Hebrew word that means “doorpost.” It is to be affixed to the doorpost at the entrance to a Jewish home as well as at the entrance to each of the interior rooms except for bathrooms. It consists of a small scroll of parchment (k’laf ) on which are written two biblical passages
What is a mezuzah?
300
A special ceremony to mark their coming of age, a boy/girl becomes a son/daughter of commandment
What is bar mitzvah?
300
The "head [of] the year", is the Jewish New Year. The biblical name for this holiday is Yom Teruah, literally "day of shouting or blasting". It is the first of the Jewish High Holy Days specified by Leviticus 23:23–32 that occur in the early autumn of the Northern Hemisphere?
What is Rosh Hashanah?
400
The headscarf worn by many married Orthodox Jewish women in compliance with the code of modesty?
What is a Tichel?
400
A dish made from a poached mixture of ground deboned fish, such as carp, whitefish, or pike. It is traditionally served as an appetizer by Ashkenazi Jewish households?
What is Gefilte fish?
400
It literally means 'taking off' the shoe and is the rite by which a widow whose husband has died without issue is released from the bond of Levirate marriage (in which the brother of a childless man is obliged to marry his widow)?
What is Halitzah?
400
The Judaism's day of rest and seventh day of the week. On this day, religious Jews, Samaritans and certain Christians remember the biblical story describing the creation of the heavens and the earth in six days and look forward to a future Messianic Age?
What is the Shabbat, Shabbos, or the Sabbath?
400
It is also known as the Day of Atonement, is the holiest day of the year in Judaism. Its central themes are atonement and repentance. Jews traditionally observe this holy day with an approximate 25-hour period of fasting and intensive prayer, often spending most of the day in synagogue services.
What is Yom Kippur?
500
The side of the head braids worn by some men and boys in the Orthodox Jewish community based on an interpretation of the Biblical injunction against shaving the "sides" of one's head?
What is Payot?
500
A traditional Jewish meal is braised in an aromatic tomato-based chicken broth, and tastes even better the day after you've made it?
What is brisket?
500
The Hebrew word which means 'life'. With this, it is customary to give a gift in the form of a Jewish ritual object or money in increments of $18?
What is Chai?
500
A spiritual leader or religious teacher in Judaism?
What is a rabbi?
500
It is a Jewish holiday which commemorates the saving of the Jewish people from Haman, an Achaemenid Persian Empire official who was planning to kill all the Jews, as recounted in the Book of Esther. Haman was the royal vizier to King Ahasuerus, and he planned to kill all the Jews in the empire?
What is Purim?