Yiddish Words
What does the word Bubbe mean?
What is Grandma?
This is the first letter of the Hebrew Alphabet.
What is Aleph?
On this holiday, we spin the dreidel, light the menorah, and eat latkes.
What is Hanukkah?
What is the first book of the Torah?
What is Genesis?
What is the name of the blessings we say before and after reading the Torah portion?
What are the Torah Blessings?
What does the word Schvitz mean?
What is sweat?
If you are playing a game of dreidel, you will get NOTHING if your spin lands on this letter.
What is Nun?
We celebrate this holiday once a week and say blessings over candles, wine, and challah.
What is Shabbat?
How many books are in the Torah?
What is 5?
Name the 3 forefathers in Judaism? HINT: We say these names in the Avot V'Imahot prayer.
Who is Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob?
What Yiddish word means to move something or go with difficulty?
What is Shlep?
How many final letters are there?
What is 5?
How many days are there between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur?
What is 10?
Who is the main character in the second book of the Torah?
Who is Moses?
What is the name of the outbreaks of violence that happened in the Pale and caused Jews to move to the USA?
What is pogroms?
What Yiddish word means to talk casually and in a friendly way?
What is Shmooze?
This letter has a final letter that is the only one that does not go below the vowel line.
What is Mem?
What are the two items that we shake on the holiday of Sukkot?
What is lulav and etrog?
What part of the Tanakh do we find the Haftarah portion of the week?
What is Prophets?
What are the 3 sects (movements) in Judaism?
What is Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox?
If you were eating bagels and lox after a Bar Mitzvah service, what would you be doing in Yiddish?
What is noshing?
This final letter has either a T AH vowel or a stop sign inside it.
What is Final Chaf?
What do we celebrate on Simchat Torah?
What is the completion of reading the Torah?
What are the three parts of the Tanakh?
What is the Torah, Prophets (Nevi'im, and Writings (Ketuvim)?
What is the name of the buildings Jews lived in after immigrating to the Lower East Side of New York City in the 1880s-1920s?
What are tenements?