Holiday Mash-Up
On this holiday, we dip apples in honey and hope for a sweet new year.
What is Rosh Hashanah?
This Hebrew word means peace, hello, AND goodbye — all at once.
What is Shalom?
The capital city of Israel.
What is Jerusalem?
Hanukkah lasts this many nights.
What is 8?
TRUE or FALSE: A dreidel spun in Israel says something slightly different than one spun in America.
What is TRUE!? Israeli dreidels say 'poh' (here) instead of 'sham' (there) — because the miracle happened in Israel.
The holiest day of the Jewish year — we fast, pray, and ask forgiveness.
What is Yom Kippur?
When Jews raise a glass and say 'L'chaim!' this is what they're toasting to.
What is 'To life!'?
Israel invented this turn-by-turn GPS navigation app that most of your parents have on their phones.
What is Waze?
A bar or bat mitzvah happens when a Jewish kid turns this age.
What is 13?
This Hanukkah food — a jelly-filled fried donut — outsells everything else in Israeli grocery stores during the holiday season.
What are sufganiyot?
During this harvest holiday, we build and eat in outdoor huts called sukkahs.
What is Sukkot?
This Hebrew word technically means 'commandment' — but in everyday use, we often use it to mean a good deed.
What is mitzvah?
This sea on Israel's eastern border is so salty you literally float without trying — no swimming skills needed.
What is the Dead Sea?
The Passover seder plate has a lot going on — but we drink THIS many cups of juice during the seder.
What is 4?
The word 'Kosher' literally means this in Hebrew — it's simpler than you'd think.
What is 'fit' or 'proper'?
On this holiday, we dress in costumes, give gift baskets called mishloach manot, and boo at someone's name during the Megillah reading.
What is Purim?
This is how you say 'Happy Holiday!' in Hebrew — useful for almost every Jewish holiday.
What is Chag Sameach?
Israel is the only country in the world that brought a nearly dead language back to life as an everyday spoken language.
What is Hebrew?
Everyone knows the Ten Commandments — but the Torah actually contains THIS many commandments total.
What is 613?
The four Passover children in the Haggadah are the Wise, the Wicked, the Simple, and this one.
What is the one who doesn't know how to ask?
Shavuot is sometimes called 'the forgotten holiday.' It celebrates receiving THIS at Mount Sinai — which makes it arguably the most important day in Jewish history.
What is the Torah?
The silver pointer used to follow along during a Torah reading — so you never touch the scroll itself — is called this.
What is a yad?
Israel invented this medical technology — a tiny camera you swallow like a pill that takes pictures inside your body.
What is the PillCam?
Shabbat candles are traditionally lit THIS many minutes before sundown on Friday. Hint: it's also a lucky number in Judaism.
What is 18?
This Israeli invention, created in the 1960s, transformed farming in dry climates worldwide — and it all started with a leaky pipe.
What is drip irrigation?