Holidays
On this holiday, that happens every week, we light candles, drink grape juice or wine, and eat challah.
What is Shabbat?
This prophet was swallowed by a whale!
Who was Jonah?
We cover our eyes when we say this prayer.
This is the term for keeping meat and dairy separate (and a lot of other rules too).
This is the little cap that Jews wear on their heads.
What is a Kippah/Yammikah?
This is the Jewish new year.
What is Rosh Hashanah?
God gave these to Moses on two stone tablets at the top of Mount Sinai.
What are the Ten Commandments?
This is the prayer said after the Shemah.
What is the v'ahavtah?
This is what we shake on Sukkot.
What are the lulav and the etrog?
She saved the Jews from Haman and now we celebrate Purim in her honor.
Who is Queen Esther?
This is the flat bread that we eat on Passover.
What is Matzah?
We were enslaved in this land for hundreds of years.
What is Egypt?
These three words can be used to summarize most Jewish prayers.
What are the words "wow," "please," and "thanks"?
Reaching this point in life is considered coming of age in Judaism.
What is a Bar or Bat Mitzvah?
Scroll that holds the Jewish history that we read over and over each year.
What is the Torah?
We fast on this day and apologize for our sins.
What is Yom Kippur?
He was the first Jew.
Who was Abraham?
We do this action when saying the Barchu.
What is bending our knees?
This word means charity and we often give it on Friday nights.
What is Tzedakah?
This is what the letters on the dreidel stand for. Translated to English, it means "a great miracle happened there."
What is "Ness gadol haya sham"?
On this Holiday, we light the menorah, play with dreidels, and eat latkes.
What is Hannukah?
This prophet had a multicolored coat. He could also interpret dreams.
This is the "call to prayer" or a wake-up call before we start praying.
What is the Barchu?
This is what we call the leather strips and small black box that bar or bat mitzvah'd Jews wrap around their arms and around their forehead when doing morning prayers. The little black box holds a scroll that says the shemah and v'ahavta.
What is Tefillin?
This famous Jewish scientist came up with the theories of Relativity. He won the nobel prize in physics in 1921.
Who was Albert Einstein?