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Passed down to Moses and then to Joshua and then so on down the generations
What is the "Oral Torah"?
100
Areas where Jews lived when Christians took over
What are the "ghettos"?
100
Jewish New Year
What is Rosh Hashanah?
100
Most traditionalist form of Judaism
What is Orthodox Judaism?
100
Day of Rest (sundown on Friday to sundown of Saturday)
What is the Sabbath?
200
Both the written and the Oral Torah
What is "Dual Torah"?
200
defended the Jews before WWII began
Who is no one?
200
Period between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur
What are the High Holy Days?
200
form that left the ghetto live to move into the mainstream European culture
What is Reform Judaism?
200
title status of Christian and Jewish Followers
Who are people of the book?
300
The whole Body of Jewish mystical literature
What is the Kabbalah?
300
Greek word for Completely burned
What is the Holocaust?
300
Feast of Lights celebrating the oil lasting eight days
What is Hanukkah?
300
Newest form of Judaism that involves individual interpretations and familiar traditions
What is Reconstructionalist Judaism?
300
Anne Frank's book on her experience in the holocaust
What is The Diary of Anne Frank?
400
Sees the universe as having emerged from a pure boundless, Spiritual reality (most famous book of the kabbalah).
What is the Zohar?
400
Declared by some as the Messiah in 132 C.E.
Who is Bar Kokhba?
400
"Ritually correct" common name for Jewish dietary rules
What is Kosher?
400
Form of Judaism with moderate changes while keeping favored traditions
What is conservative Judaism?
400
The Heart of Jewish Morality
What are The Ten Commandments?
500
a scholarly work written in Hebrew, which is a summary of the Talmud and other rabbinical writing
What is the Mishneh Torah
500
Influenced by the American ideals and democracy and practicality - Founder of the Reconstructionist Judaism
Who is Mordecai Kaplan?
500
Prayer shawl worn during morning prayer
What is the Talit?
500
6 million Jews live here (largest Jewish population country)
What is the US?
500
Follows the Day of Rest, a joyful harvest celebration
What is Sukkot?