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History I
History II
Customs I
Customs II
Holidays
100
Nebuchadnezzar and the Babylonians destroyed this
What is the First Temple?
100
Belief in one God
What is monotheism?
100
Definition of Bar or Bat Mitzvah
What is Son or Daughter of the Commandments?
100
head covering, shows respect to God
What is a kippa or yarmulke?
100
The Festival of Lights
What is Hanukkah?
200
Total amount of Jews in the world today
What is approximately 14 million?
200
The patriarch of Judaism, Islam, and Christianity
What is Abraham?
200
When the Jewish sabbath occurs
What is Friday at sundown until Saturday at sundown
200
A jewish prayer shawl
What is a tallit?
200
The Day of Atonement
What is Yom Kippur
300
organized massacres of innocent people
What is pogroms?
300
reason Joseph was sold into slavery
What is his brothers were jealous of him?
300
the holiest, most religious Jews
What is Orthodox Jews?
300
What Jewish couples stand under during their wedding
What is a huppah?
300
The Jewish New Year
What is Rosh Hashanah?
400
name of the Spanish uprising against the Jewish people in 1492
What is the Spanish Inquisition?
400
name given to the killing of 6 million Jews by the Nazis
What is the Holocaust?
400
Three important things to do on Shabat
What is light candles, drink wine, and eat challah bread?
400
this is on the doorpost of Jewish people's homes; have two prayers inside of it
What is a mezzuzah?
400
The holiday celebrating the Jews' exodus from Egypt and slavery
What is Passover?
500
name given to the dispersal of Jews to all over the world
What is Diaspora?
500
poor little villages in Eastern Europe in the late 1800's
What is shtetls?
500
The five books of the Bible
What is Genesis, Leviticus, Numbers, Exodus, Deuteronomy
500
The calendar that the Jewish people follow
What is Lunar?
500
Holiday to commemorate Moses receiving the 10 commandments
What is Shavuot?