Holidays
This holiday happens every week and usually includes Challah, Wine, and Candles.
What is Shabbat?
We sing this song at the end of Havdalah.
What is Eliyahu Hanavei or A Good Week/A Week of Peace?
This Jewish value means that when mom asks you to clean your room, you just do it. You want your home to be a happy place.
What is "Shalom B'Bayit" or Peace in the House?
This man lead the Jews out of slavery in Egypt.
Who is Moses?
In the shape of a triangle, usually has jam or poppy seeds in the middle.
What is hamantaschen?
We honor trees and nature during this holiday.
What is Tu B'Shevat?
During Tfilatah, we sign and sing this song.
What is the Sh'ma?
When we give charity we are using this Jewish value.
What is Tzedakah?
She danced with her tambourine when the Jews go across the sea of Reeds.
Who is Miriam?
Made from chickpeas and mashed into a dip, it is tasty with carrots.
What is hummus?
The four mitzvot or commandments for Purim.
What are "Mishloach Manot" or giving gifts of food to friends and family, "Matanot l’evyonim" or giving money to the poor, hearing the Megillah read, and having a special meal or feast (the Seudah).
The National Anthem of Israel.
What is Hatikvah?
When we invite our parents or our friends over to eat with us, we are practicing this Jewish value.
What is Hachnasat Orachim or Welcoming Guests?
The founder of modern Zionism.
Who is Theodor Herzl?
Flat bread that didn't rise-we can't take more than 18 minutes to make it.
What is matzah?
Traditionally, Jews don't eat any bread or leavened foods for a whole week during this Holiday.
What is Peach or Passover?
This prayer is said silently and also with the whole congregation.
What is the Amidah?
When you decide to speak up for your friend who is being bullied, you are using this Jewish value.
What is "Koach HaDibbur" or the power of speech?
She saved her people when she went to talk to the King without being invited, which could have condemned her to death.
Who is Queen Esther?
This Israeli candy is made from sesame seeds.
What is halvah?
Many people in Israel light bonfires and practice archery during this holiday. It is also a day for weddings.
What is L'ag B'omer?
We say this prayer when we are in mourning.
What is the Kaddish?
You decide to plant trees and clean up your road for Earth Day. You are using this Jewish value.
What is Achrayut or caring for the earth?
He lay on top of the school to look in the skylight and learn because he could not afford to pay for school. He ended up as a great Rabbi.
Who is Rabbi Hillel? (Later, he told a snippy student who demanded the whole Torah while standing on one foot, "That which is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor")
For the holiday of Shavuot, we typically eat foods like this.
What are dairy foods?