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100
What does Reuven want to study in college?
What is mathematics
100
What state does Danny and Reuven live in?
What is New York
100
What sport connects Danny and Reuven?
What is baseball
100
In the 1300s, why did the European Jews move to Poland?
What is Poland was bankrupt and Jews had opportunities to make money.
100
What is Gematriya?
What is Hebrew words with numerical value
200
What are the names of the two people in the hospital with Reuven?
Who are Mr. Tony Save "killer" and Billy
200
Where is Danny's father's synagogue?
What is the 1st floor of his home.
200
Why do Hasidic Jews not speak Hebrew and rather Yiddish?
What is it would be sacrilegious
200
What has the "oral" rules/laws for the Jews?
What is the Talmud
200
What is Tzaddik
What is a righteous figure, rabbi
300
Who does not have a mother - give full name?
Who is Reuven Malter
300
What street does Danny live on?
What is Lee Avenue
300
What language does Danny want to study Freud in?
What is German
300
Who is known to have slandered Ba'ale Shem?
Who is Graetz
300
What does Apikorism mean? Be specific
What is a Jew educated in Judaism who denies basic tenets of the faith
400
What is the name of Reuven's baseball teammate that tells him to look out for the murderers - give full name?
Who is Davey Cantor
400
Where were Mr. Saunders and Reuven when Mr. Saunders asked him about Danny reading books in the Library?
What is the study of the Saunder's home
400
What is used as a symbol of life?
What are eyes, blindness
400
According to Mr. Malter, where specifically did the Jews suffer centuries of horror?
What is Slavic countries of Eastern Europe
400
What is Kabbalah
What is the mystical study of God
500
What is the name of Reuven and Danny's baseball coach?
Who is Mr. Galanter
500
Who was moving to Albany?
Who is Billy
500
What two ways can Rabbinic literature be studied?
What is quantitatively and qualitatively
500
Who is known to have "given birth" to hasidism?
Who is Israel, born around 1700
500
What means "Masters of the Name"
What is Ba'ale Shem