Athletes
The two main athletes we learned about in class participated in these olympic sports.
What are Swimming and Bobsledding?
The first woman to be ordained as a Rabbi in 1935.
Who is Regina Jonas?
The director of our Ocho Kandeslas performance.
Who is Amy?
The actor who debuted his original holiday classic, "The Chanukah Song" on Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update in 1994.
Who is Adam Sandler?
The first Jewish female supreme court justice.
Who is Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
The country that Mark Spitz represented at the 1972 olympics.
What is America?
The first female Prime Minister of Israel who came very close to creating peace in the Middle East.
Who is Golda Meir?
The family of Jews who organized a successful rebellion against the ruler Antiochus and reconsecrated the defiled Temple of Jerusalem.
Who are the Maccabees?
This actress is known for many things, but in this class we know her best for her performance of the National Anthem.
Who is Maya Rudolph?
The Sunday school teacher who doesn't know Hebrew so she takes after care instead.
Who is Paili?
The country that Adam Edelman represented at the 2018 Olympics.
What is Isreal?
The sisters who changed the law of G-d that prohibited women from inheriting their father’s land after his death.
Who were daughters of Zelophehad
The family of Jews who organized a successful rebellion against the Seleucid ruler Antiochus and reconsecrated the defiled Temple of Jerusalem.
Who are the Maccabees?
The Jewish actor who plays Ant-Man in the Marvel Universe
Who is Paul Rudd?
A Jewish music group that consists of 14 members released a parody of the song Dynomite entitled "Candlelight."
Who are The Maccabeats?
Before Michael Phelps became the most successful Olympic swimmer on Team USA, this Jewish swimmer held the title.
Who is Mark Spitz?
These two women in the Torah were Midwives that saved Israelite babies despite direct orders from Pharaoh to kill all male Israelite babies.
Who are Shifra and Puah?
The Biblical Figure who welcomed people into his home, similarly to what we do on Sukkot.
Who is Abraham?
The voice of Marcelle the Shell with Shoes on, and stand up comedian who relayed her memory of going to a Catholic midnight mass as a Jew.
Who is Jenny Slate?
The type of soup we made when we combined with Libby's class.
What is Southern Harvest Soup?
This winter athlete was the first Orthodox Jew to participate in the Olympics.
Who is Adam Edelman
When Jews were forced to convert to Catholicism during the Spanish Inquisition, this woman continued to practice Judaism in secret. She also helped other Jews in hiding escape to the Ottoman Empire where they could freely be Jews.
Who is Dona Gracia Mendes Nasi?
The Holiday that Rabbi called "The Jewish Thanksgiving"
What is Sukkot?
A black woman who learned of her Jewish roots later in life wrote a Netflix special called "Black Mitzvah"
Who is Tiffany Haddish?
The black gay Jewish chef whose soup recipe we made.
Who is Michael Twitty?