The Basics
The agreement established between God and the ancient Israelites.
covenant
The persecution of Jews by German Nazis from 1933 to 1945, resulting in the murder of some six million.
The Holocaust
The ritual celebration of marking the coming of age a Jewish child.
Bar/Bat mitzvah
A teacher of the Torah and leader of Jewish worship.
Rabbi
Hostility or prejudice towards Jews and Judaism; ranges from attitudes of disfavor to active persecution.
anti-Semitism
A day of religious observance and abstinence from work, from Friday evening to Saturday evening.
Sabbath
The vast depository of the oral Torah following the Misnah.
Talmud
The three most common modern denominations of Judaism are?
Reform, Orthodox, Conservative
The Jewish New Year
Rosh Hashanah
Generally, the revelation of God's will to the people; more specifically, the divine Law, especially in the first five books of the Bible.
Torah
The situation of Jews living away from their ancestral homeland.
Diaspora
The eight-day festival that commemorates the Exodus of the Jews from Egypt.
Passover
The Shema "Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord Alone" is found in what book of the Tanakh?
Deuteronomy
Jewish philosopher who applied the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle to biblical tradition.
Maimonides
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 a day-long fast and intensive prayer, often spending most of the day in synagogue services.
Yom Kippur