Hebrew Alphabet
Holidays
Torah Characters
JEWISH FOODS
Mixed Trivia
100

What is the first letter of the Aleph Bet?

Aleph ( now draw it)

100

Jewish New Year

Rosh Hashana

100

Who are the first Jews/Isralites in the Torah?

Abraham and Sarah

100

Unleavened flat bread that we eat during Passover.

Matzoh

100

The most common language spoken in Israel

Hebrew

200

This letter

Mem

200

Celebration of the fall harvest, spend time in outdoor shelter

Sukkot

200

Their name means “drawn from water," had a special connection with God, and led us from slavery in Egypt

Moses

200

Potato pancake, often eaten during Hanukkah

Latke

200

This King of Israel was famous for his harp playing and his slaying of Goliath, a giant Philistine.

King David

300

What Hebrew letters are on the dreidel

Shin, Nun gimel, Hey

300

Birthday of the Trees

Tu Bishvat

300

One of the youngest brothers in a big family who had a special ability to interpret people’s dreams and foretell the future. His brothers despised him so much when they were younger that they sold him as a slave

Joseph

300

Triangle shape, jelly-filled cookies

Hamantashen

300

This is the Hebrew word for giving charity.

What is tzedakah?

400

The name of this letter

What is Yud

400

When you reach the end of the Torah on Simchat Torah, what do you do next?

You start over from the beginning because our reading of the Torah never ends just like our learning is never over

400

Jacob is given a new name before he reunites with his twin brother, Esau. In a dream where he sees himself wrestling with an angel, the angel gives him a new name as _____

Israel

400

Name 3 items on the Passover seder plate

any 3

400

This holiday we celebrate our freedom from slavery in Egypt

Passover

500

The name of this letter

What is Lamed?

500

Celebration of the fall harvest, spend time in outdoor shelter

Sukkot

500

This prophet symbolically visits us each Passover at our seders and was famous for going up to Heaven alive in a chariot of fire.

Elijah

500

Hebrew word for jelly donuts

Sufganyot

500

What is it called when someone is called up to read the blessing for the Torah?

An alliyah. It literally means "going up" because they aren't just physically going up the bimah to the Torah but they are also going up spiritually as they get close to the Torah