Introduction
A candelabrah with 9 candles used in Jewish worship
What is a menorah?
The first monotheistic religion
What is Judaism?
The first five books of the Bible
What is the Torah?
Another name for the festival of Hanukkah
What is the Festival of Lights?
The document promoting interreligious dialogue between Catholics and other world religions
What is the Nostra Aetate?
Hebrew word for "teacher/master"
What is a rabbi?
The year marking the beginning of Judaism
What was 1800 BCE?
The most sacred city for all Abrahamic religions
What is Jerusalem?
The book of the Bible containing the story of Hanukkah
What is 1 Maccabees?
3 differences between Catholicism and Judaism
What are the concepts of the Messiah, Incarnation, and Scripture?
A collection of commentaries on Jewish scripture
What is the Talmud?
The year that the State of Israel was founded as a response to the Holocaust
What was 1948?
The three purposes of a synagogue
What are houses of worship, study, and assembly?
Some ways to celebrate Shabbat
What are sharing a family meal, songs, prayers, lighting candles, and going to synagogue?
Jews believe that the Torah is this divine being
What is the Incarnation?
An enclosed container with scripture parchment inside placed at the top of the doorpost on any door in a Jewish house or business
What is a Mezuzah?
The three words that summarize Judaism
What are "God," "Torah," and "Israel"?
The Jewish dietary laws
What is kosher?
Potato cakes prepared in oil and eaten on Hanukkah
What are latkes?
The two points of interreligious dialogue between Jews and Catholics
What are Shoah and Human Dignity?
An ultra-orthodox Jewish religious movement focused on piety
1050 BCE
What year was the temple in Jerusalem built?
Torah, Nevi’im, and Ketuvim
What does the Tanakh acronym stand for?
Hebrew for "a great miracle occured there"
What is "Nes gadol haya sham?"
The four covenants made with God that both Jews and Catholics believe in
What are the covenants of Noah, Abraham, Moses, and David?