The exile of the Jews from the Holy Land.
What was the diaspora?
The god that Jews believe in.
Who is Yahweh or God?
What is the name for a celebration for a boy or girl coming of age?
What is a Bar/Bat Mitzvah?
The leader of a Jewish congregation.
Who is a rabbi?
The first five books of the Old Testament.
What is the Torah?
The name of the Promised Land to which Abraham brought his family.
What is Canaan?
The belief in only one god.
What is monotheism?
The name of the place where Jews go to pray.
What is a synagogue?
The only country where Jews are in the majority.
What is Israel?
There are 613 of these in the Torah.
What are the commandments?
The most important prophet in Judaism.
Who is Moses?
The 10 laws brought to the people by Moses from God.
What are the 10 Commandments?
An ethnic and religious identity given to those who descended from Abraham.
What is Judaism?
A special diet for Jews that follows religious laws.
What is kosher food?
A sacred text that provides an interpretation of the Torah?
What is the Talamud?
He invited his family to Egypt when their was a terrible drought in Canaan.
Who is Joseph?
Two religions that rose out of Judaism.
What are Christianity and Islam?
A day of religious observance and rest that starts at sun down on Friday.
What is the sabbath?
An ancient place of Jewish worship that was finally destroyed for the last time by the Romans.
What is a temple?
The language most often used to recite from the Torah.
What is Hebrew?
He made a covenant with God.
Who is Abraham?
A claim to the promised land and being God's chosen people
What was the Abrahamic Covenant? Or what did God promise Abraham?
Another name traditionally used for Jewish people. (Just for identification, not as insults.)
Who are the Hebrews and/or Israelites?
Three major forms of Judaism.
What are Orthodox, Reform and Conservative Judaism?
A record of Jewish law.
What is the Mishnah?